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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
Winners the HBS New Venture Competition don’t rest on their laurels for long—the ink is hardly dry on those prizewinning checks before it’s time to shift to a higher gear. (This year’s cash prizes in the alumni competition totaled more... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
capital and risk. But the trade-off is that the manufacturer frequently runs short on its medium and especially its high-variability items. That means lost sales and maybe a canceled contract with a prized customer. In the third test, the... View Details
- Profile
Gerald Chertavian
United States, employs 400, and has an annual budget of $70 million. While those numbers—as well as rave reviews from the media and corporate partners—tell of the organization’s success, Chertavian’s most prized metric shows the outcomes... View Details
- Web
Events - Advancing Racial Equity
with Isabel Wilkerson, Author of Caste By: Isabel Wilkerson & Caroline Elkins 05 NOV 2020 | Harvard Business School Isabel Wilkerson, an American journalist and the first woman of African American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Growing Drumbeat
activity among HBS graduates and connects alumni with faculty, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and angel investors. This year, Privahini Bradoo won the $25,000 cash prize for BioMine, a novel solution to the millions of tons of... View Details
Keywords: Contests
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum
club, he met monthly to discuss the work of Nobel Prize winners, including Herta Müller and Kenzaburō Ōe, as well as more mainstream authors such as Michael Chabon and James Michener. In a novel, that would be the perfect setup for what... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
point for social enterprise legitimacy arrived in 2006 with the confluence of two events, said Rottenberg. First, Bono morphed from rock star to social entrepreneur, making it cool to care and get involved. Second, Muhammad Yunus received the Nobel Peace View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
to understand the identity of the Nobel Prize as a corporate heritage brand and its management challenges. Design/methodology/approach—An in-depth case study analysed within a heritage brand model and a corporate brand identity framework.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
way to garner solutions to major problems. It's also relatively inexpensive, he said, citing cases in which a $30,000 prize garnered better solutions in a matter of weeks than major contractors (with multimillion-dollar contracts)... View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
Front Row: NYU Prof. and CNN Presidential Scholar Tim Naftali, Business Executive Katherine Gehl, Harvard Prof. Michael Porter, Pulitizer Prize Winner HBS Alumna Sheryl WuDunn (Panel Moderator) Back Row: HBS Club NY President Andy... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
Middle East & North Africa - Global Activities 2021
Professor Victoria Ivashina, faculty chair of the Middle East and North Africa Region, interviewed Madame Ouided Bouchamaoui, the co-laureate of the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize and a board member of Hédi Bouchamaoui Group, who is also active... View Details
- 24 Feb 2015
- Blog Post
Finding Unity in our Diversity: The Second Annual LGBTQ Conference at Harvard
when it comes to our diversity – namely, “How hard have I tried in life not to be seen? And at what cost?” Jonathan Capehart, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist at the Washington Post and MSNBC, spoke about the conference theme as a... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52164 forthcoming Explorations in Economic History Prizes, Patents and the Search for Longitude By: Burton, M. Diane, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—The 1714 Longitude Act created the Board of Longitude to administer a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
problems and how people are coming up with solutions,” WuDunn says. “We invite everyone to learn and act in some way.” WuDunn, also a former New York Times reporter, and Kristof won a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on China’s... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
compete for a $50,000 grand prize and a $25,000 second prize—plus meet this year's Social Entrepreneurship Fellow. The contest, designed to support promising alumni ventures, is hosted by HBS’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and... View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
years. It analyzes the effects of patent laws and innovation prizes that were designed to promote technical progress. It explores the challenge associated with the changing organizational structure of innovation and the shift from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
Harvard's most distinguished professorial posts. "Bob Merton has done seminal work in enlarging our theoretical and practical understanding of financial markets and how to manage risk," said Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine in announcing the appointment. Merton, a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Tradition and Outreach at HBS Club de France
monthly luncheons, guided visits to major art shows, and the annual Management Prize award ceremony. Since the late 1980s, notes Executive Director Marie-Hélène de Rancher, the club has been instrumental in securing loans for French... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
that "will revolutionize the Web," according to the start-up's four founders, Robert Rosin, Sarah Boatman, Robert Dreyer (all MBA '00), and Tim Tuttle, an MIT Ph.D. The first-place team received the Dubilier Prize -- established in honor... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Start Me Up
media attention, and more than $10 million of in-kind support. At the conclusion of each program, a panel of startup CEO judges awards $1 million in cash prizes to as many as 20 startups selected for their global-impact potential. To... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons