Bobie wins business idea competition

An Organic Farmer, Mr. Osei Bobie Ansah, has won the Business Idea Competition for candidates for the second edition of the MBA in Global Business and Sustainability Social Entrepreneurship Track run by ALTIS- Graduate School of Business and Society of the Catholic University of Millan, Italy and the Catholic Institute of Business and Technology (CIBT), Accra.

The Competition was organised for prospective Students of second barge of the MBA Global Business and Sustainability Social Entrepreneurship Track at CIBT.  

After several hours of presentation, Mr. Ansah emerged winner of the 30 participant in the competition and received a full scholarship of €4,000 to read the programme, while David Mumuni and Mabel Ansah picking the second and third places respectively.

Mr. Joseph Aboagye, Accountant at CIBT, on behalf of the President of CIBT, Rev. Msgr. Thomas Ankrah, presented the award to Mr. Ansah and congratulated him and thanked the other participants for their efforts, urging them to continue to pursue their business ideas.

In a remark, Mr. Ansah recounted how he started developing the idea in 2009, and thanked God for giving him the opportunity and the gift to develop to support people and society.   

He said the award which was his greatest so far would spur him on to scale up his expertise and help him become more efficient in running and developing his project, and promised to work hard to be a worthy ambassador of the programme.

The Master’s programme is an internationally recognized degree that gives entrepreneurs or would be entrepreneurs the opportunity to transform their business ideas into plans for startup, develop business skills and help candidates to receive local and international mentorship support to help the development of their businesses, as well as ensure students exposure to potential investors.

The programme which is built around candidates business ideas, blends classroom work and on-line training, which allows a flexibility for the students to still continue with their current job.

*Mr. Bobie Ansah(right) displaying the award.