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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
the prospects of video game competition as a spectator sport—“for two mind-numbing hours, contestants stared at their screens and manipulated laser guns”—but Warner Communications was elated by all the attention it received, and the View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
industrial wage workers; and the production of knowledge, including the idea of the economy, among other topics. Together, they suggest emerging themes in the field: a fascination with capitalism as it is made by political authority, how it is claimed and View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Giving New Ventures a Boost
Some $80,000 in cash and in-kind legal and accounting services were awarded to winners and runners-up in the 11th annual HBS Business Plan Contest last April. Traditional track winner Sandra Nudelman (MBA ’07) and her sister Michele, a... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
short scene where a real Terra Chips truck can be seen picking up potatoes—Simon says the team devised several other ways to promote its chips along with marketing the film. The premieres of the film at each of the independent film festivals were advertised on Terra... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Going Green at HBS
47,500-square-foot residence hall is due for completion next fall. Last spring, HBS student Alex Goodwin (MBA ’05) teamed with four other students from several Harvard graduate schools to win a $125,000 environmental business-plan contest... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and cooperation between the traditional forces of religion and the emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
platform, Lakhani developed the NASA Tournament Lab to create contests that improve computer codes and data analytics solutions. With Harvard Medical School researchers, he designed a competition to break data bottlenecks and speed up DNA... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Editor's Note
closely connected. Thank you, one and all! Update Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts; Class Day and Commencement; Reunion Roundup; HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive. Network HBS Alumni Association Board of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Start-Up Success
surprised everyone (including itself) by walking away with the hotly contested championship trophy. At the event, held at the University of Texas in Austin, the HBS alumni squad dispatched teams from Texas A&M, Kellogg, Chicago, Yale,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Club Flourishes in London
The British have never been known to shrink from a challenge, and the intrepid members of the United Kingdom's HBS Club of London are no exception. When the club was bested by alumni of INSEAD in a winetasting contest last year, club... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Faculty Books
who conceived and promoted the multilateral, liberal rules comprising the international financial architecture. Whereas U.S. policymakers have tended to embrace unilateral, ad hoc globalization, European policymakers have promoted a rules-based, “managed”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Innovation has a New Home: The Harvard Innovation Lab
Contest will be among the many to benefit from the i-lab. Inaugural i-lab director Gordon Jones thinks there’s no shortage of opportunity, noting: “I am excited by the level of desire I am witnessing within Harvard for the i-lab to become... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Is the Auction House of the Future Online?
of the new art collector, someone who looks a lot like Julka and Khan: new to collecting, with a budget north of eBay but south of Sotheby’s, and a comfort with technology. This long overlooked middle market—pieces from about $1,000 to $100,000—has suddenly become a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
In 1926, C.P. Biddle, an assistant dean at Harvard Business School, provided one framing of what was, at the time, the highly contested question of whether and why business schools belonged in universities: The interests of the... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- News
Where Are They Now?
Mahesh checks in from the factory floor. Courtesy Krishna Mahesh Related Links Alum startup wins HBS contest New Venture Contest: Call for entries Upcoming webinars for entrepreneurs HBS New Ventures group on LinkedIn “I am still amazed... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
Jeopardy! contestants to compete against Watson, its “brain” the compendium of 100 algorithms working in parallel against 200 million pages of text in 500 gigabytes of data. When it finally played master Jeopardy! winner Ken Jennings in... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Shari P. Hubert
It's impossible to talk for long with Shari Hubert without hearing her mention the importance of "giving back." In fact, when she is asked to reflect on her most significant accomplishments to date, she doesn't at first mention that she won a city-wide college... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 10 Dec 2010
- News
Notes from the Trenches
Last week’s post by Roger Thompson featured “Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs”. To build on that, I thought I’d include some of the more quotable moments and insights from a recent panel featuring past participants of the HBS Business Plan View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Jennifer L. Scott
design one of the most innovative student-driven initiatives to hit the HBS campus in years. The contest provided students with the opportunity to develop a business idea from concept through execution - an experience, Scott notes, that... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
Contestants fidgeted, going over their pitches one last time in their heads as they waited to take the stage. The digital clock in the corner of the big screen on the stage kept time—90 seconds, diving into the red for some as they rushed... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers