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Finalists named for Thunderbird challengeTen teams from top business schools around the world will compete in the final round of Thunderbird School of Global Management’s Sustainable Innovation Summit November 13-15 at Thunderbird. The Summit is a team competition challenging MBAs and other master’s level students to develop innovative and sustainable business concept plans to address real-life challenges faced by global corporations. The winning student team will receive a cash prize of $20,000 and the title “Global Champions of Sustainable Innovation.”
 
The finalists were selected from a pool of 138 teams representing 47 universities in 11 countries who competed in the first round of the competition. The finalists include three teams from Thunderbird, and one team each from Arizona State University, University of Phoenix, University of Wuppertal in Germany, Queens School of Business in Canada, Northeastern University, DePaul University and Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Johns Hopkins University took the top prize in last year’s challenge.
 
“Thunderbird’s Global Sustainable Innovation Summit builds upon the school’s efforts in global citizenship and its mission to educate global leaders who create sustainable prosperity worldwide,” says Angel Cabrera Ph.D., president of Thunderbird. “We incorporate the principles of professional practice and global citizenship throughout the entire curriculum, and this competition provides students and companies around the world a venue to demonstrate that innovation and sustainability can be integrated in ways that simultaneously create social, environmental and business value.”
 
Current sponsors of the Summit include Johnson and Johnson, Arizona Public Service, ecoverdance, Ecolab Inc., and Bill Matrix.
 
For more information on the summit, visit www.sustainableinnovation.thunderbird.edu.