Prizes - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2013
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Prizes, Publicity, and Patents: Non-Monetary Awards as a Mechanism to Encourage Innovation

By: Petra Moser and Tom Nicholas

This paper exploits the selection of prize-winning technologies among exhibitors at the Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1851 to examine whether—and how—ex post prizes that are awarded to high-quality innovations may encourage future innovation. U.S. patent data... View Details

Keywords: Prizes; Innovation; Motivation and Incentives; Patents; Innovation and Invention

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Prizes & Benefits - Alumni

New Venture Competition Prizes & Benefits 6ms Cash Prizes Winner $75,000 Runner-Up $25,000 Crowd Favorite $5,000 Sponsors Baker Library is a lifetime resource for alumni, offering research help and access to... View Details

07 Jul 2015
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Harvard Business School Historian Wins Best Book Prize

01 May 2015
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HBS Professor Linda Hill Wins Warren Bennis Prize

01 Feb 2002
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New Porter Prize Awarded in Japan

Inc. and the Eye Care Company of Hoya Corporation placed first in the multibusiness company business-unit category. Established by the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Hitotsubashi University and sponsored by the Daiwa Institute of Research and... View Details

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08 May 2008
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Professor Thomas McCraw Wins the Hagley Prize in Business History

16 Oct 2012
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Economist from Harvard shares Nobel Prize

01 Dec 1997
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Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial... View Details

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Prizes & Benefits | New Venture Competition

Prizes & Benefits Social Enterprise Track Cash Prizes $ 75,000 Winner (in cash, plus in-kind services) $ 25,000 Runner-Up (in cash, plus in-kind services) Peter M. Sacerdote Grand-Prize & Runner-Up View Details

17 May 2022
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Robert F. Lanzillotti Prize for Assistant Professor Alex MacKay

22 May 2011
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Change the World, and Win Fabulous Prizes

08 Sep 2020
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The 2020 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize

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Porter Prize Japan - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Honors & Awards Honors & Awards Porter Prize Japan... View Details

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Porter Prize India - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Honors & Awards Honors & Awards Porter Prize Japan... View Details

08 Apr 2025
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“Leaders Must React” Wins 2024 HBR Prize

23 Jan 2017
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HBS Ups the Ante for Its Annual New Venture Competition: $300,000 in Prizes to Be Won

09 Apr 2024
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“Reskilling in the Age of AI” Wins 2023 HBR Prize

29 Feb 2012
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Prizes With an Eye Toward the Future

2016
Working Paper

Markets for Ideas: Prize Structure, Entry Limits, and the Design of Ideation Contests

By: Pavel Kireyev

Contests are a popular mechanism for the procurement of innovation. In marketing, design, and other creative industries, firms use freelance marketplaces to organize contests and obtain high-quality ideas for ads, new products, and even business strategies from... View Details

Keywords: Idea Generation; Crowdsourcing; Contest Design; Structural Estimation; Motivation and Incentives; Competition; Innovation and Invention