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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters
gradually became clear that the contest needed a different set of criteria for evaluating plans with socially oriented agendas. Entries in the new track will submit to the same timetable and demands as traditional plans but will compete... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
Lakhani said the question comes down to this: Do we have the right labor force? His research team recently held a three-weeklong contest that looked to improve the accuracy and processing speed of an algorithm designed to analyze genomic... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
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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 Histories of Capitalism, which... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Deborah A. Farrington, MBA 1976
marketing. Farrington's business success is matched by her enthusiasm for HBS: she currently serves on the Visiting Committee and the HBS Club of New York board and has been an Alumni Board vice president, business plan contest judge, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Capitalizing Poetry
Lawrence. Barr told the New York Times (October 7, 2004) that the foundation intends to launch “the biggest and baddest Web site for poetry out there,” sponsor regional contests (patterned after the National Spelling Bee), and undertake... View Details