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- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
laboratory for examining the effectiveness of complementary mechanisms to patents. Patents were introduced in 1885, and by 1911, 1.2 million mostly non-pecuniary prizes were awarded at 8,503 competitions. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
public clearinghouse for information about hackathons around the world, including participants, prize winners, and sponsors. They then combined that with data from GitHub, an online service in which developers upload code for ongoing... View Details
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
paper was written by Nikhil Naik, a Prize Fellow at Harvard University; Scott Duke Kominers, the Harvard Business School MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor; Edward L. Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at... View Details
- Web
Contemporary Black Artists and Public Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Europe, and their respective economic and political histories. In 2004, he was nominated for the Turner Prize and in 2010, his first public art commission, Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle , was displayed on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
What have you learned about Japan? It’s a land of clarity and ambiguity. Think of a Japanese painting with a beautifully detailed willow branch against a landscape of fog. Contradictions and paradoxes abound. While it’s a very group-oriented society, it also View Details
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
its Seal of Distinction, along with a $30,000 prize and access to restricted grants that average more than $500,000 annually. “One of the few textbooks I kept after HBS was from a performance-measurement course taught by Professor Robert... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 18 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Symposium 2023: Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale
Arbon, and Macrocycle. This year the grand prize winner was awarded to MacroCycle. Rounding out the day was an interview with Dr. Eric Toone, Managing Partner at Breakthrough Energy Ventures, by Jim Matheson, Special Advisor at BEV and... View Details
- 19 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures
entrants, and we wanted to highlight the contestants from this year’s competition who are developing a wide range of ventures to address climate change. WINNER: Tough Tech: Most Promising Climate Tech Venture $5,000 Prize Grensol - Rajiv... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Heroines and Helping Hands
secret is that joining a larger cause makes us happier. We truly can make a difference in the lives of so many girls — and in our own lives as well. — A former New York Times correspondent and editor, Sheryl WuDunn won a Pulitzer Prize in... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
and corporate partners—tell of the organization’s success, Chertavian’s most prized metric shows the outcomes for the 18- through 24-year-olds that Year Up has served: Some 10,000 young people have participated in the one-year training... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
competition results. The analysis showed a significant relationship between an entrepreneur's gender and whether a pitch had been successful. Male entrepreneurs were 60 percent likelier to receive a funding prize than were female... View Details
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
across contestants of different abilities, most respond negatively to competition, and highest-skilled contestants respond positively. In counterfactual simulations, we interpret a number of tournament design policies (number of competitors, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
proposals but invested in only a small percentage of them. The firm's prized portfolio companies included Circo Products (automobile tools); High Voltage Engineering Corp (high-powered generators and nuclear particle accelerators);... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
when a print byline still carries all the glory, and prized sources would rather see their names on paper? Many writers and editors also don’t buy the cost accounting, or lack thereof, in grand proclamations of online profitability. Do... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
Staying Curious with the Harvard Innovation Labs Ahead of the 2021 Virtual President’s Innovation Challenge
Challenge Launch Event that took place in December 2020. What role does the PIC play at the i-lab? The PIC is our marquee event of the year. It’s a time for the entire i-lab community to come together to celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit and our culture of... View Details
- 22 Mar 2022
- News
Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year
as well as door prizes and a surprise video greeting from HBS Dean Srikant Datar. “We’ve been here since 1947, which is pretty amazing,” says the club’s president, Megan Stidman (MBA 1999). “It was a lot of fun to celebrate being here for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
engaging 2,500 commentators, ultimately selecting four finalists who will benefit from an advisory network of health care industry leaders (including many HBS alumni), be the subject of a teaching case, and receive a cash prize of over... View Details
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
their areas." Stuart, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration, was recently awarded the 2007 Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship, an award given every two years to... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
positive change to South Africa. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start,” he says. “Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa and 1993 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, said,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
very difficult to measure quality, this ceteris paribus proviso often precludes convincing empirical assessments of the magnitude of status effects. We address this problem by examining the impact of a major status-conferring prize that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne