Five teams made up of EGADE Business School students were recognized among the 76 finalists for the 2019 Flourish Prize, announced through the global platform AIM2Flourish.

This achievement was the outcome of the stories they had written to highlight five business innovations, in Peru and Mexico, that are contributing to the fulfillment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The stories are:

• Financial Support for Family Business Growth: about Grupo Genera (Peru) and written by Yamil Adum, José Luis Velásquez Relayze and Daniel Dibos.
• Sanitation in Lima: about X-Runner (Perú) and written by Liliana Oyola, Lourdes Guerra and Claudia Suárez.
• Improving the Education in Peru: about Directv Perú and written by Eduardo Galdo, Diego Pizarro Aquino and Luzamérica Calderón.
• Contruyo Contigo: about CEMEX (Mexico) and written by Jessica Narváez, Bárbara Elizondo, Ricardo Cortázar, Sofia Ledezma, Yajaira Martínez and Diego Nájera.
• Producing Cement with RDF: about CEMEX (Mexico) and written by María Bojórquez, Roberto Chapa and Héctor Alanís.

To write the stories, the students had to interview the business innovation leaders. They worked under the guidance of EGADE Business School faculty: Consuelo García de la Torre in the first four cases, and Ezequiel Reficco in the last one.

These five stories are eligible to win one of the 17 Flourish Prizes. The winners will be announced in March and honored virtually in May this year to celebrate each one of the 17 SDGs.

The 2019 Flourish Prize finalists include 76 stories from 30 business schools in 16 countries, completed under the guidance of 35 professors. The business innovations described come from 27 countries and over 19 industries. The finalist stories were selected by a jury from among more than 800 stories posted on the site AIM2Flourish.com.

"It is a privilege to read and be inspired by these stories. The students who discover positive, profitable business innovations are the heart of the AIM2Flourish initiative. Our objective is to prepare a generations of SDG leaders who will use business innovation as a tool to ‘do good and do it well’ in their lives and careers, ” commented the director of AIM2Flourish, Claire Sommer, during the announcement of the finalists.

The AIM2Flourish platform, which promotes the Flourish Prizes, is an initiative of the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit at the Weatherhead School of Management — Case Western Reserve University.