Hack4Ideas

Organizations looking to find answers to future industry and market problems, sponsor a Solve4M competitions.

Key premises

Some of the best future business solutions and innovation come from unconstrained perspective of youth who will shape labor and consumption markets. The best method for understanding those solutions is to go to the source: colleges and universities around the globe. Subsequently, providing frameworks for analysis, decision support, and execution ensure well grounded and insightful perspectives.

Sponsors are encouraged to provide specific industry problems for a group of competitive teams to solve. Teams are comprised of high-performing, undergraduate and graduate students from relevant areas of study, in acclaimed institutions of higher learning across multiple disciplines. Teams then compete in a protracted decision sciences driven strategic analysis of market dynamics , solution framing and recommendations, with periodic review and guidance from industry experts. Teams who produce the most viable and marketable solutions will be invited to present to media, sponsors, industry experts and faculty at an event hosted by Solve4M. More strategic engagements will be delivered directly to stakeholders.

  • Align brand with critical thinking and innovative approaches to solving next generation problems

  • Cost effective method for generating material to support content marketing and digital marketing strategy around brand as a thought

  • Drive ongoing discussion on topics of interest in social media environments

  • Exposure to a proven talent pool as well as best in breed thinking and ideas

  • Recognition and speaking opportunities as topic expert and stakeholder before, during, and after an event or online publicity

  • Facilitated working relationship with colleges, expert networks, centers of excellence, students, alumni, entrepreneurships, and executives

  • Build brand on college campuses with next generation of cross disciplinary multicultural consumers, learn from their hot buttons on key topics and identify potential interns and employees

Solve4M is a unique medium through which experienced corporate leaders, vertical market experts and future innovators can come together to find creative answers to future market questions.