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2022 Fletcher D-Prize Winners
One of my favorite annual blog posts is the announcement of winners of the Fletcher D-Prize Poverty Venture Solution Competition.
Read MoreFletcher D-Prize Poverty Venture Solutions Competition Launch
One of my favorite extracurricular events at Fletcher has come up on the calendar. As always, I’m happy to share the news about the launch of the annual Fletcher D-Prize competition. This competition in creative poverty solutions highlights the spirit of social entrepreneurship that courses through our student community.
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Mohit and Nitin, your D-Prize winners
The announcement of the annual D-Prize winner is something I look forward to every year. The D-Prize, sponsored by the Institute for Business in the Global Context (IBGC), is a development entrepreneurship competition that awards up to $30,000 to recipients to pilot an anti-poverty venture in the developing world. It’s one of Fletcher’s best showcases of the amazing creativity and innovation in our student community.
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2019 D-Prize winner
Back in October, I mentioned the Fletcher D-Prize (formally the “Fletcher D-Prize Poverty Venture Solutions Competition,” if you’re not into the whole brevity thing). Administered by the Institute for Business in the Global Context (IBGC), the D-Prize awards up to $30,000 for a social entrepreneurship proposal to combat poverty in the developing world. It’s one of the coolest things at Fletcher, in my view.
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Experiential learning at Fletcher
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: graduate school is about much more than taking a handful of classes over a couple years. Fletcher students are of course deep thinkers, but they’re also active doers. It’s been gratifying, then, to see an uptick over the past few years in programming and available funding to help support the various professional and scholarly pursuits of our students.
Read MoreFletcher x 4 at the Tufts $100K
This will be an exciting day for four teams of Fletcher students who are competing in the Tufts $100K New
Read MoreFletcher is at the Arctic Circle Assembly!
I was walking outside the building at about 4:00 yesterday and saw a cluster of students huddled around suitcases. They
Read MoreFor Fletcher entrepreneurs
At the Idealist fair on Monday, I had a nice long chat with a prospective student who is in the
Read MoreConference catch-up
Even if you’ve only been reading the Admissions Blog for a short time, you may have noticed that I have
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