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2010Sponsors: Samsung, Shell and a Mystery Sponsor (3 challenges)   The Innovation Challenge was only open to participants in the United States in 2011. Teams: 143 Universities: 47 Winners: First: Haastile Takeover Second place: Blue Devil Nation (Duke, Fuqua School of Business); John Sadlow (Team Leader), Alison Poole, John Wendel, Dan Flack, Abhinav Arora Third Place: Goizueta Innovators (Emory, Goizueta Business School); Ji Liu (Team Leader), Matt Long, Dan Schoelles, Shobit Arora, Peden Young
  In 2009 the Innovation Challenge partnered with Insper Sao Paulo (formerly IBMEC) to bring the first edition of a Brazilian Innovation Challenge.  BioBunge-Winning Solution: The group drew up an action plan for the multinational agribusiness created the BioBunge, and to produce biodiesel from grains and their ethanol plants already installed. Once produced, the fuel could be replaced with the producers supplying raw material to Bunge, and also buy fertilizer it by grains. Reaction from Dir of Marketing & Sustainability: "As we know the industry, we became addicted to a vision waterproof. Listen to suggestions from qualified people who do not live this everyday is valuable," says Adalgiso Telles, director of marketing and sustainability of Bunge. The company, however, intends to produce biodiesel from grains in large scale.
2008Sponsors: (Navy Federal, Hilton Hotels, American Express - OPEN, Royal Bank of Canada, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) (5 challenges)     Teams: 264 Universities: 55 Countries: 48 Winners: First: Team Wildhoos Joanne Johnson, Katie Wilson, Andrew Hutchinson, Austin Collins, Kathryn Adams  Second: Team Alchemy Michael Mills, Andrew Beasley, Jon Pugh, Doug Hopek Third: n/a
2007Sponsors: Hilton Hotels, American Express - OPEN, Whirlpool, Shell, Harley Davidson, Lexmark    Teams: 287 Universities: 63 Countries: 57 Winner: First: University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) Tyler Mills, Sarajane Sparks, Danvers Fleury, Rachel Kuhn  Second: Indian School of Business – Team 2 Prashant Goel, Pushkar Jain, Meghna Rao, Sushant Bhansali, Nishant Pandey Third: London Business School Jeik Sohn, Gloria Chow, Kitty Lee, Emmanuel Coucke, Daniel Hanna
2006Sponsors: Hilton, DaimlerChrysler, Whirlpool, American Express - OPEN, General Electric Money, M&M's Chocolate Candies   Teams: 440 Universities: 88 Countries: 15 Winners: First: McGill University (Desautels), Canada Stavros Tsokonas, Luc Tran, Heather Powers, Jonathan Powers, and Kanhaiya Sinha  Second: University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) Kapil Pundir, Phaedra Boinodiris, Hirohisa Onome, Sara Sparks, Danvers Fleury Third: MIT, Sloan (Team 1) Kristen Oldenburger and Viara Nedeva, Susan Rogol and Melissa King
2005Sponsors: IBM, Hilton, USPS, American Express - OPEN  Teams: 321 Universities: 83 Countries: 18 Winners: First: Vanderbilt University (Owen) Alejandro Corpeno, Michael Monteforte, Sangram Borkar, Bana Shomal  Second: University of Rochester (Simon) Bhanu Pratap G. Muddagowni, Adwitiya Mal, Adam S. Bates, Niko Smrekar, Michelle Abraham Third: Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead) Elliot Reed, Jannick Thomsen, Esben Lund-Hansen, Heidi Mullett
2004Sponsors: Hilton, Valvoline, Chiquita, Sprint   Teams: 251 Universities: 81 Countries: 17 Winners: First: Instituto de Empresa, Spain Richard Caelius, Alessandro Cappelletti, Claude Heinis, Nicolas Rodriguez, Frederico Tonetti  Second: Vanderbilt University (Owen) Alejandro Corpeno, Justin Miller, Michael Monteforte, Ilka Montross, Bing Tang Third: Michigan State University (Broad) Jennifer Darmanin, Stacey Durham, Scott Lanard, John Layton, Steve Taylor
2003Sponsors: UPS Store, Cold Stone Creamery, Dial Corporation, Hughes Network Systems, Pinnacle West, Dow Jones, Wall Street Journal, U-Haul, Embassy Suites, Sunbeam, BillMatrix, Aramark           Teams: 154 Universities: 52 Countries: 6 Winners: First: Brigham Young University (Marriott) Aaron Hopkinson, Dave Roach, Colin Jones, Geoff Howard, Scott Porter  Second: Duke University (Fuqua) Scott Marcus, Steve Dalton, Katie Lay, Adam Elboim, Paul Orsulak Third: Harvard Business School Dan Stone, Samuel Clemens, Guillermo Silberman, David Tom, Kevin Barhydt |
