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Hult Prize Accelerator Preps Competitors for $1m

Published: 15 August 2013

The problem: finding a high-quality source of protein for hundreds of millions of people that can be raised quickly, without consuming a lot of land, water, and other resources....

Crickets for Dinner Anyone? A Crazy, Yet Clever Idea from Students of 91˿Ƶ

Published: 26 April 2013

Five students from the Desautels Faculty of Management at 91˿Ƶ, Canada offered a rather innovative (read bizarre) solution to the challenge of the 2013 Hult Prize, considered by some...

Desautels Students' Concept of Solving Urban Hunger with Diet of Crickets Scores Big Points in Social Entrepreneurship Contest

Published: 6 May 2013

A world without hunger could mean a world with a lot more crickets, according to a team of MBA students at 91˿Ƶ's Desautels Faculty of Management.  ...

MBAs champion social entrepreneurship and compete for $1 million

Published: 29 April 2013

A group of Desautels MBA students beat out over 40 teams and 10,000 applicants, including representatives from Harvard, MIT, and Yale, to win the 2013 Hult Prize Boston Regional Finals....

Carleton Grad among Finalists in Prestigious Hult Prize Competition

Published: 4 April 2013

This fall, Carleton alumnus Gabe Mott and his team will stand before world business leaders and former U.S. President Bill Clinton and ask for $1 million....

Feeding the World's Under-Nourished... With Crickets

Published: 4 April 2013

Insects are not regular fare on Western menus, but a surprising number of people worldwide--perhaps as many as 2.5 billion--eat them happily on a regular basis. High in protein, low in fat, and...

Hult Prize: Ending Hunger, One Cricket at a Time

Published: 26 March 2013

If I broke the news to you that MBA students tend to be highly competitive individuals, you may not be too surprised. The Pope is, also, apparently Catholic, and all politicians are credible and...

91˿Ƶ students use crickets for a business model

Published: 12 March 2013

A group of 91˿Ƶ students (Mohammed Ashour, Gabriel Mott, Shobhita Soor, Jesse Pearlstein and Zev Thompson) hope their plan to breed crickets for use as a viable food source will be a million...

Crickets as food source

Published: 12 March 2013

With his team, Mohammed Ashour, a Master's candidate at 91˿Ƶ, won a regional championship of a special competition to have their proposal of crickets as a food source for impoverished...

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