Boise State MBA team wins at the 2009 Global Moot Corp Business Plan Competition beating teams from Germany, France and China. Heat 2 Optimize (H2O), the Boise State MBA team competing in the 2009 Global Moot Corp Business Plan Competition, bested teams from Germany, France and China. The team, led by David Rush (MBA candidate Boise State, B.S. MIT) won the Benchmark Capital Challenge, coming out ahead of the other teams. To develop Heat 2 Optimize, David Rush had worked with a local inventor to develop the innovative smart grid energy saving electric water heater that allows utility companies to shift electricity consumption to off-peak periods.
The other teams in the Benchmark Capital Challenge round included: Fluoptics has developed a patented system for intra-operative cancer imaging that simultaneously reduces the risk of remission and increases quality of life post-operation (E.M. Lyon, France), SOVAmed provides a means for assessing vascular diseases in radiological image data by means of computer-aided procedures as a distant service provider (Wissenschaftliche Hochschule fur Untemehmenffuhrung WHU, Germany) and Cee-bot allows people to interactively design robots via the internet and interactively telecontrol the actions of the robots with real-time visual feedback and other hepatic feedbacks (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China).
David’s team came in 3rd in the preliminary round of the 2009 Global Moot Corp Business Plan Competition losing out to a team that was a finalist in the competition. The Global Champion of the competition was Novophage Therapeutics, a team from Boston University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that provides a novel approach to combat antibiotics-resistant infections by combining engineering bacteriophages with antibiotics. The Novophage team was made of an MD/PhD., a PhD and an MBA and took home $135,000 in prizes.
Thirty eight (38) teams from around the world competed in the 2009 Global Moot Corp Business Plan Competition. These included:
USA
- Boise State University
- Boston University
- Brigham Young University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Colorado School of Mines
- Fayetteville State University
- Kennesaw State University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Northwestern University
- San Diego State University
- University of Texas at Austin
- University of Texas at Dallas
- University of Arkansas
- University of California at Berkeley
- University of Chicago
- University of Louisville
- University of Michigan
- University of Oregon
- University of San Francisco
- University of Utah
Australia
- University of Adelaide (Australia)
Canada
- Queen’s University
- University of Manitoba
- University of Waterloo
China
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Columbia
- Pontifica Universidad Javeriana
- Universidad de los Andes
France
- E.M. Lyon
Germany
- Wissenschaftliche Hochschule fur Untemehmenffuhrung (WHU)
Great Britain
- London Business School
- University of Oxford
Mexico
- Centro de Investigacion en Materiales Avanzados
Norway
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Thailand
- Thammasat University