Hult International Business School

Hult International Business School (formerly known as the Arthur D. Little School of Management) is a business school with 7 campuses. In 2012 , it graduated 2,000 students from its MBA, Executive MBA, Master and Bachelor degree programs.[3] The school is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges[4] and the Association of MBAs.[5] The school has also been accredited by the British Accreditation Council of Independent Further and Higher Education.[6] Hult is a member of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).[7] Hult is affiliated with the privately held company, EF Education First and is named after EF's founder, Bertil Hult.The school is incorporated as Hult International Business School, Inc., a non-profit organization under Massachusetts law.[8] Rankings Hult is ranked 31st in the world and 21st in the U.S. by The Economist[15] and 57th by The Financial Times.[16] The Economist has also ranked it 1st in Percentage Increase in Salary[17] Hult also recently ranks in the Financial Times top 10 for international business, international experience, and international mobility. Hult Prize Hult International Business School is the lead sponsor of the Hult Prize (formerly Hult Global Case Challenge), an annual international case competition launched in 2010 that asks students to find solutions to global social challenges.[34] The organization is a member of the Clinton Global Initiative.[35] Teams from business schools around the world compete at one of five regional events to develop the best solutions to that year's social challenge.[36] The best teams from each regional event advance to a global final, at which a single winning team is chosen. Bertil Hult provided a $1 million cash grant to the partner NGO to help fund the winning solution in 2010, 2011 and 2012. In 2013 he will instead provide the same cash grant for the winning team to establish a new social enterprise.[37] In 2010, the competition focused on education in partnership with One Laptop per Child.[38] The 2011 event partnered with Matt Damon's water.org to focus on provision of clean water.[39] [40] In 2012, Hult Prize partnered with Habitat for Humanity, One Laptop Per Child and SolarAid to address global poverty through the provision of education, housing and energy.[41] The 2013 event addresses the global food crisis.[42] Former U.S. President Bill Clinton was the keynote speaker at the 2011 and 2012 final events.[43] Business Professor of the Year Award The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), supported by Hult International Business School, launched the Business Professor of the Year Award in 2012.[44] The award recognises professors who have challenged, influenced, and inspired students in business education. The judging panel is composed of William Ridgers, Business Education Editor, The Economist; Peter Felix, President, The Association of Executive Search Consultants; Astrid Tuminez,
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former Vice-Dean of Executive Education, National University of Singapore; John Beck, Managing Director, Hult Labs; and Adrian Wooldridge, Management Editor, The Economist. [45]