Indian School of Business team enters Hult Prize 2014

Invited to Clinton Global Initiative Summit

A group of students from the Indian School of Business (ISB) who have designed a social enterprise, NanoHealth, have been invited to present their idea at the Clinton Global Initiative Summit to be held in September in New York.

NanoHealth uses innovative technology to create local health networks for urban slum dwellers, bringing cost-effective healthcare to their doorstep. The students entered their business idea at the Hult Prize 2014, known to be the largest student competition in the world.

Former US President Bill Clinton had set up the Healthcare Challenge in association with the Hult Prize  to tackle non-communicable diseases in urban slums.

Over 11,000 teams from more than 300 global universities participated in the competition. After rigorous screening, 170 teams were invited to the regional finals held in six cities – London, Dubai, Sao Paulo, Boston, Shanghai and San Francisco. Healthcare leaders, public policy experts and global business leaders further narrowed down the field to six teams, one from each city to move onto the global finals, ISB stated in a press release on Friday.

The ISB team, comprising Ashish Bondia, Manish Ranjan, Ramanathan Lakshmanan, Adit Vaish and Praveen Kumar Maranganty,  won the regional finals at Sao Paulo.

According to ISB, this is the first time an Indian team has entered the finals in the Hult Prize 2014 competition. The other six finalist teams are from France, Spain, USA and Canada. All the teams will go through an accelerator programme that provides mentorship and support with up to 7 weeks of stay in Boston.