2005 Headlines

MBA Charity Challenge Raises Nearly $17,000

The MBA Charity Challenge, an "Apprentice-style" business competition that raises money for St. Jude's Children's Hospital, collected $16,426.22 in its inaugural year. Eleven top business schools competed to raise the most money by selling one thousand pink and blue bracelets embossed with the phrase "Helping Kids See Tomorrow." For ten days, from September 21-30, 2005, students from these MBA programs put their business savvy to the test as they competed to see who could raise the most money for St. Jude's.

Final dollars raised are:: The Johnson School, Cornell: $6069.87; University of Chicago: $2230; Wharton, UPenn: $2100; Columbia: $2067; Tuck, Dartmouth: $1001; Sloan, MIT: $904; Yale: $800; Kellogg, Northwestern: $368; Darden, UVa: $350; Fuqua, Duke: $339.35; Ross, U of Michigan: $197

All of the money raised will be donated to the hospital in order to help in its continued fight against childhood cancer.

For more information on St. Jude's, visit their website at www.stjude.org.