{"id":5,"date":"2011-09-28T10:11:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T14:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casecomp\/home\/"},"modified":"2018-01-26T15:51:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T20:51:40","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casecomp\/","title":{"rendered":"5th Annual Grand Business Challenge in Digital Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>The Boston University Questrom School of Business\u00a0once again is teaming up with our lead sponsor, Merck, to host the 5th Annual Grand Business Challenge in Digital Health, March 22-23, 2018.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <strong>Grand Business Challenge in Digital Health<\/strong>\u00a0invites participants to weave together different strands of ideas with a call to action in the health sector to create significant value for the world. Participants learn from industry leaders from Merck and the healthcare industry about exciting developments from all over the world. \u00a0<em>Participation in the 2018 competition is by <strong>invitation only<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Teams of <strong>full-time graduate\u00a0students<\/strong> from leading business schools from all over the country are\u00a0invited to Boston University for a two-day challenge to showcase their ideas on how <strong>information technology<\/strong> could influence and transform global healthcare to create value for the world. \u00a0Teams have the opportunity to contribute insights, refine their ideas through collaboration with fellow students and industry leaders, shape <strong>digital health<\/strong> globally, and cultivate professional relationships.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Grand Business Challenge Prizes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Four teams will be selected to compete in the final presentation round on the evening of Friday, March 23rd. \u00a0The final 4 teams\u00a0will be awarded cash prizes as follows (all prize amounts are in USD):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1st Place &#8211; $25,000<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2nd Place &#8211; $15,000<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">3rd Place &#8211; $10,000<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">4th Place &#8211; $7,500 <em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Teams not selected to compete in the final round also had an opportunity to win prize money in the &#8220;Second Day Challenge&#8221;!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Second Day Challenge Prizes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1st Place &#8211;\u00a0TBD<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2nd Place &#8211; TBD<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00a0<a href=\"\/casecomp\/files\/2011\/09\/mrk_ifl_lg_rgb_tl_dkgry.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"636\" height=\"242\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2719 size-medium\" src=\"\/casecomp\/files\/2011\/09\/mrk_ifl_lg_rgb_tl_dkgry-636x242.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casecomp\/files\/2011\/09\/mrk_ifl_lg_rgb_tl_dkgry-636x242.png 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casecomp\/files\/2011\/09\/mrk_ifl_lg_rgb_tl_dkgry-768x292.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casecomp\/files\/2011\/09\/mrk_ifl_lg_rgb_tl_dkgry-1024x389.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casecomp\/files\/2011\/09\/mrk_ifl_lg_rgb_tl_dkgry.png 1506w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston University Questrom School of Business\u00a0once again is teaming up with our lead sponsor, Merck, to host the 5th Annual Grand Business Challenge in Digital Health, March 22-23, 2018.\u00a0 The Grand Business Challenge in Digital Health\u00a0invites participants to weave together different strands of ideas with a call to action in the health sector to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1301,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casecomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casecomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casecomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casecomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casecomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casecomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2720,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casecomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/2720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/casecomp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}