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- 03 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
9 Lessons from the Class of 2019
immediate payments all in one place. Will Ely's groundbreaking idea secured him the winning prize in HBS' 2019 New Venture Competition and we can't wait to see the difference My Toolbox makes on the lives and careers of so many. View... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
managers in any industry, as the Pulitzer Prize - winning historian revealed in a recent conversation with the Bulletin. How did you approach this enormous project? For Inventing the Electronic Century, my basic purpose was to bring the... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
foundations in the hacker culture appears to be a contradiction in terms? O'Mahony: The hacker culture prizes autonomy and self-determination. Eric Raymond defines hackers as those who love programming for the sake of doing it, for the... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 13 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
2021 48th Annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference Honors Black Women Leaders
were selected as finalists and pitched their ventures to the judges on Friday, February 26. The six winners (Sahara, Creative Critique, K’ept Health, Fleri, QuirkChat, and Agapé), received prizes ranging from $15,000 to $75,000 out of the... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
where he endowed the Blum Family Venture Philanthropy Fund to promote discoveries with potential to benefit the Israeli life-sciences economy. Closer to home, Blum established the Tikkun Olam Youth Science Prizes for middle and high... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 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
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/818089-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 919-401 The Reputation of the 'World's Most Prestigious Award': The Nobel Prize Nobel Foundation leadership is addressing a range of issues related to its... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 17 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures
Watch Solara at the 2024 New Venture Competition. 2024 Social Enterprise Track Crowd Favorite: SeaCycle - Hande Ilhan (MBA 2025), Jakob Spiess (MBA 2025) - Pioneering sustainable biopolymer production. 2024 Tough Technology Prize Winner:... View Details
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Advocating for Best Practices on Tech Boards - Blog: RGE Report
in a nice breeze but with solid sand underfoot. She is “someone who is light-hearted and very kind but also unmoving in her expectations and the foundation she sets,” said Banks, who won the $1 million top prize from the nonprofit Black... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
assistant principal of the school she now leads, an institution with a proud, 174-year history that counts a constellation of distinguished professionals, political leaders, judges, philanthropists, and a Pulitzer Prize winner among its... View Details
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
attempt to squelch their demands for independence. Cover photo for Imperial Reckoning, Central Province, Kenya, c. 1954 (Photo credit: Popperfoto/Retrofile.com) The research became the basis for her 2005 book Imperial Reckoning, which won the 2006 Pulitzer View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
Two days after his Nobel Prize was announced, Professor Merton spoke with Bulletin editor Deborah Blagg in his Morgan Hall office, where imposing stacks of scholarly journals had been displaced temporarily by a garland of colorful... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
Choice." The author of three Times columns - "About New York," "Life in the 30s," and "Public and Private" - between 1981 and 1995, Quindlen won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1992. Three years later, she surprised her readers and... View Details
- 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
- 29 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
HBS, A Dream and Trey: How HBS Helped Me Launch My Social Enterprise
to build skills required to succeed as an early stage entrepreneur. Next, we advanced to the semifinal round of the New Venture Competition (NVC), an annual entrepreneurship competition that awards $300,000 in cash prizes to HBS startup... View Details
- 05 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together
chemical recycling technology that is able to remove contamination and reproduce virgin plastic qualities. Earthbond: Digital platform that combines traditional group guarantees with carbon accounting and innovative financing to make solar affordable for urban Africans... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
intriguing. That experience planted the seed for a 50-plus-year career at Stanford exploring new auction designs and formats—work recognized in 2020 with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In this special edition of Skydeck... View Details
- 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