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- 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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Local Customs
“We want to be the Sam Adams of the auto world.” Rogers launched his Massachusetts-based company, Local Motors, with $4 million in start-up capital; its online contest (LocalMotors.com/competition.php) invites the public in various cities... 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 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
its entrepreneurial culture. "This is the sort of learning we could never replicate in class," says Bhide. Calling All Business Planners! Whether they submit the top entry or not, all participants in the first annual HBS Business Plan View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
The Oxford Handbook of Business History edited by Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin (Oxford University Press) This handbook surveys research in business history, a broad area of study generating empirical data that have sometimes confirmed and sometimes View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
Cathedral. Even the design of the HBS campus began as an architecture competition. Contests work well when we don't know what the right approach may be to a problem. Today they're used in a variety of situations, from creating logos to... View Details
- 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
- 09 Aug 2011
- News
A Toast to Macchu Pisco
Business Plan Contest, I did a marketing independent study on how to launch a premium pisco brand in the United States. We entered a plan in the contest and were semi-finalists. The alumni I contacted during my second year were extremely... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Delivering the Power to Dream Big
2011 HBS Business Plan Contest. Competing with 62 other teams, they earned one of three runner-up slots and gained the confidence to launch the business, thanks also to positive feedback from their HBS adviser and the judges. "The Business Plan View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
industry to the production of mechanical (“dumb”) and electronic (“smart”) beds. Eventually, he expects to develop an entire suite of compact hospital room furnishings. The Alumni New Venture Contest was created with two goals in mind: to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
Business Plan Contest winner in 2008. With plenty of war stories (literally) and powerful personalities to draw on, Senor and Singer craft an engaging study on the rise of one of the most powerful innovation economies in the 21st century. View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
Winners the HBS New Venture Competition don’t rest on their laurels for long—the ink is hardly dry on those prizewinning checks before it’s time to shift to a higher gear. (This year’s cash prizes in the alumni competition totaled more than $75,000.) Much like its... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 18 Mar 2008
- News
Election ’08, HBS Style
voter turnout has been quite high, although no specific figures were given. In the two days following the debate, voting was held until one presidential pair received 50 percent of the vote. “After a hotly contested final round, Fred... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
More than a Game
Serious fun: Old Boys returned from around the world for their annual match with the HBS Rugby Club Photography by Ben Staples It is said that soccer is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians, whereas rugby — a grueling physical View Details
- 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
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Starting Off on the Right Foot
within particular departments? Did one of your new colleagues apply for your job? You need to be in an information-gathering mode.” Waldroop’s advice may sound like a primer for contestants on the hit television show Survivor, but it in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 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