ABOUT

The Johns Hopkins University Business Plan Competition provides an exciting opportunity for students to reap rewards by developing their ideas. First launched in the 1998 - 1999 academic year by the W. P. Carey Program in Entrepreneurship and Management (now part of the Center for Leadership Education), the competition was open to undergraduate students on the Homewood campus. It has grown significantly since its inception, and continues to expand as more students take an interest in business.

This is the tenth year and the competition continues to grow. For the first time, the competition is open to full-time and part-time students including post-docs from any of the nine academic divisions of the University.

Also, for the first time offered, mentors will be providing guidance as you develop your business plan. The final event is held in the spring semester. Please check out our calendar for specific dates.

2009


The Johns Hopkins University Business Plan Competition's Finals took
place on Friday, April 3, 3009. We are proud to announce the following
winning teams...

General Business Catergory
1) 1st Place - Tendix ($5,000) - Kreiger School of Arts and Sciences,
undergraduate, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, graduate
Tillemann-Dick, Corban
Tillemann-Dick, Levi
Tillemann, Tomicah

2) 2nd Place - Nimble Notebooks ($3,000) - School of Medicine,
post-doctoral student
Green, Brian

3) 3rd Place - Care-Ease ($1,000) - Carey Business School/School of
Public Health, graduate
Haselkorn, Ateret

4) Runner's-Up -  $250 each team
Biz-Wiz: The Business Helper - Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies, graduates
Hristova, Donika
Hristova, Stefka
Liberman, Sonam
Leeds, Dr. Roger

In Game - Whiting School of Engineering, undergraduates
Lee, Jan
Vadhavkar, Nikhil

The Lumber Market - Carey Business School, graduate fellow
Beresh, Kenneth

Biotechnology & Medical Devices Category
1) 1st Place - SurgyPack ($5,000) - Whiting School of Engineering,
undergraduates
Zhou, Vicki
Murugappan, Gayathree
Yeh, Kevin
Liu, Brian
Manek, Sameer
Gupta, Anshuman

2) 2nd Place - NECO - Intuitive Medical Devices ($3,000) - Whiting
School of Engineering, graduates and undergraduates
Contijoch, Francisco
Gillespie, Aubri
Harran, Michelle
Mohan, Smita
Purington, Carolyn
Chen, Tom
Shah, Rohan
Yamada, Kaori
Parker, Philip

3) 3rd Place - Stem Cell Orthopedics ($1,000) -  Whiting School of
Engineering, undergraduates
Rubashkin, Matt
Charoen,        Kristie
Badrinath, Raghav
D’Souza, Stephanie
Su, Steven

4)  Runner's-Up - $250 per team
Hydrangle - Whiting School of Engineering, undergraduates
Paulsen, Laura
Vadhavkar, Nikhil
Connolly, Allison
Mihlasky, Chris
Li, Peter
Mandava, Teja
Manimala, Neil
Jeong, Mingyoung

Maternal Diagnotics - Whiting School of Engineering, undergraduates
Feng, William
Anderson, Collin
Ng, Annie
Shih, Ting-Yu
Shroff, Neeta
Steinhardt, James
Wang, Jia

Vaxaboost - School of Medicine
Loo, Yihua
Frahm, Marc
Li, Xinmin
Pantuck, Bradford
Weinstein, Daniel

Keep in mind the the Division and Degree Level only represents the
primary contact of the team not all team members.

2010

The Business Plan Competition committee is already looking for new ways to expand for next year. We will be looking into ways to increase student participation in the planning process of the competition. Also, we will be evaluating our current categories and looking into offering more options including the addition of a Social Entrepreneurship category. We are also looking into more sponsorship options to increase the prize money.