Global Social Venture Competition

2006 Winners

1st Place:

Mobile Medics

Columbia Business School and BITS Pilani team

Mobile Medics is a private healthcare service company specializing in providing medical treatment to rural villages in India. The Company provides private sector, high quality, and affordable medical care to paying villagers. The Company is targeting the 80 -100 million middle-income Indian villagers who are in dire need of quality medical treatment. Mobile Medics employs trained medical professionals on a full time basis to provide a quality of care that would meet highest standards of primary care provided in the private sector.

2nd Place:

Advanced Transit Enterprises

Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College

Advanced Transit Enterprises (ATE) commercializes heavy truckaerodynamics technology to reduce global oil consumption by over 200 million barrels annually. The US trucking industry spends over $25billion per year on fuel. ATE's patented drag reduction technology improves fuel efficiency of trucks by 8% and has the potential to save fleet vehicle operators hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

3rd Place:

The Highland Tea Company

Columbia Business School

The Highland Tea Company is an importer, manufacturer and distributor of Kenyan specialty teas. Our goal is to contribute to the economic growth of Kenya by creating a Fair Trade for Tea program.

Social Impact Assessment (SIA) Winner:

OneWorld Medical Devices

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

OneWorld Medical Devices (OneWorldMD) is introducing a vital and innovative solution to save the lives of 4.3M people each year, primarily in developing countries and during natural disasters, which can be largely prevented by a safe vaccine supply. The Vaccine Pac is a portable, self-contained, and strict temperature controlled transport and storage unit that addresses the large vaccine wastage problem due to improper temperature control.