What is Project Pyramid?
The Project Pyramid Global Poverty Alleviation program is a Vanderbilt University
organization dedicated to alleviating global poverty. Project Pyramid’s mission
is to arm future leaders at all of Vanderbilt University’s schools with the business
tools to produce sustainable solutions that alleviate poverty.
What is the Case
Competition?
Project Pyramid is proud to announce its inaugural case competition, which will
be hosted
by Vanderbilt University in conjunction with the Net Impact Conference.
The case will portray a real life poverty related problem that
must be solved using
a business perspective.
Teams will be competing in two rounds for a total of $15,000 of prize money. The first round will be held online beginning on September 28, 2007 and last for one
week. The top 10 teams will then be invited to Vanderbilt University to participate
in the final round. The final round case question will be distributed on October
21, 2007. The teams will then have 10 days to prepare their solutions, and they
will present these solutions at Vanderbilt University on November 1, 2007. The top
three teams will then showcase their presentations to corporate executives during
the
Net Impact Conference on November 3, 2007.
To learn more about the Project Pyramid Case Competiton click here
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