Contests - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2001
News

New Ventures New Gains

waited seven to ten years before setting up their own shops, today’s graduates are taking the plunge much sooner. In 1997, the first-ever HBS Business Plan Contest yielded a formidable number of participants and mobilized a strong... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 2012
News

New Venture Winner an Undercover Success

winner of the Alumni New Venture Contest and its $50,000 grand prize at an April awards ceremony at HBS. “I like to think of our product as the software that protects your hardware,” said Newnam, whose husband, Todd Newnam (MBA 1996)... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

Class of 1997 Graduates with Distinction

June 3 with a special presentation to honor the finalists in the first annual HBS Business Plan Contest. Sponsored by the School's Small Business and Entrepreneurship Club, the contest gives students experience in creating and evaluating... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

Show Me The Money — Or Not

Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship Related Links The Best-Laid Plans A Growing Drumbeat With a total of $150,000 in cash awards and in-kind legal and accounting services up for grabs, the financial upside of participating in the Business Plan View Details

12 Apr 2011
News

Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS

Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS Selected from more than 90 worldwide entries, 12 winning regional teams will travel back to campus on April 25 to compete in the the 2nd annual Alumni New Venture Contest finals. The contest, hosted... View Details

Keywords: Multiple alumni

26 Apr 2011
News

BioMine Strikes Gold

Entrepreneurs Win in Global Competitions BioMine CEO, Privahini Bradoo (MBA '08) Related Links View photos from the contest Meet the 12 regional finalists Listen to the faculty webinar series Learn about the 2011 host clubs Winners of the... View Details

Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

11 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.

statement, in which case shareholders can vote on whether the company should adopt the change; negotiate with the shareholder to come up with a mutually acceptable solution to the beef; or formally contest the shareholder’s proposal by... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Portrait Project

Xiaomu Yu

winning the plant specimens contest in kindergarten, flying for the first time, receiving my first job offer, and kissing the girl I loved – "How could anything on earth be so good!" For me, life is an ongoing journey to the... View Details

29 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

hosting contests to find solutions to problems ranging from automotive design to cleaning up oil spills. Karim R. Lakhani has spent the past five years working with NASA, Harvard Medical School, and TopCoder to determine the most... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

10 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 10

the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual contestant-level data from 2,796 contestants in 774 software algorithm design contests with random assignment. Precisely conforming to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jun 2022
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

Steven Henderson (MBA 2016) and Michael Carter won the Alumni Track for FleetZero. We wanted to highlight the contestants from this year’s competition who are developing a wide range of ventures to address climate change. Winners Tough... View Details

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

Partners, RelayRides, and Birchbox, among others—the Business Plan Contest has grown and evolved from its first iteration in 1997. Back then, 37 teams submitted plans. Last year, a record-breaking 110 teams vied for a total of $170,000 in... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

07 Nov 2018
News

The Results Are (Mostly) In

election day.) US Senate Mitt Romney (MBA 1974), the former governor of Massachusetts and 2012 Republican presidential nominee, won the Utah seat previously held by retiring Senator Orrin Hatch. Businessman Mike Braun (MBA 1978) defeated a Democratic incumbent in... 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

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2010
News

Start-Ups "R" Us

HBS Business Plan Contest. As outgoing Dean Jay Light said at the April awards ceremony, “The Business Plan Contest has become an important part of the HBS curriculum,” and its participants have created an impressive record of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; meta

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

Web

2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

"Images, Identities, and the Space(s) Between," takes up questions and innovations around identity categories, expression, and performance. The 2017 symposium will focus on how identity categories are experienced, interpreted, and View Details

15 May 2019
Research Event

The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History

Lalocracio In thinking about the current contested state of global capitalism, and what to do about it, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Seeking the Unconventional in Forging... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Education

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