2007 Headlines
Two teams of Johnson School students selected as finalists in JPMorgan's Good Venture Competition
December 3, 2007 | Ithaca, NY - Two teams of Johnson School students will head to JPMorgan's New York headquarters on December 6-7, 2007 for the final round of the graduate-level Good Venture Competition. Good Venture is a socially responsible competition for graduate and undergraduate students that launched in the U.S. in fall 2006, and is now an international competition for socially-responsible students around the world.
The Johnson School teams will present their cases to a panel of senior JPMorgan Investment Banking executives for why the philanthropic non-profit organization they're representing should receive funding. The winning team's organization will receive direct funding of $25,000 from JPMorgan and will be announced at an awards ceremony following the competition on December 7.
Shaun Mathews (MBA '08), Susan Ngo (MBA '08) and Pierre LeVeaux from the University of Virginia will present the Riordan Scholars Program, an initiative that encourages high school students to apply to top colleges and consider careers in business. These students come from under-served communities and are typically the first in their families to consider a college education.
Kate Capossela, Nara Kim, Charles Polet, and Bailey Stoler (all MBA '08) comprise the second Johnson School team and will present Women in Progress, an organization which works to achieve economic independence of women in Ghana through the sustainable growth of small women-owned businesses.
The two Johnson School teams competed against 77 socially-conscious teams from 48 schools. Prior to being selected, each team of up to four members submitted funding proposals for their chosen organization. To select this year's winner, the JPMorgan panel of judges will look for the team that can most aptly demonstrate how the financial investment will yield discernible social returns.
The Johnson School teams will compete against graduate teams from the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Hamline University, Harvard Business School, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Institute de Empresa, New York University, Stanford University, and Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
