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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Business Plan Contest Has Many Winners
With its ninth annual competition last May, the HBS Business Plan Contest has become a well-established start-up that hits “home runs” every year. This year’s traditional track winner was Karen Grajwer (MBA ’05), founder of Uplift, an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Meg's World
full-fledged powerhouse, with revenue on track to top $2 billion this year. With more than 28 million active users, eBay dominates the online auction marketplace. Whitman came straight to HBS after graduating from Princeton with a degree... 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 Prize The Sacerdote Prizes were... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
IQ from IP: Simplifying Search in Portfolio Choice By: Chen, Huaizhi, Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun, Dong Lou, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract— Using a novel database that tracks web traffic on the SEC’s EDGAR servers between 2004 and 2015,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Oct 2021
- News
Launch Signals
tech startup producing stylish bracelets with an inobtrusive control button that can send text messages and GPS tracking to friends, a pre-recorded call to a specific phone number, or a direct connection to the police. “Flare gives you... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
proceeded when faced with multiple options. Those options — from mergers and acquisitions to leveraged buyouts and asset divestitures to "vulture" investing and tracking stock — are also explored. Gilson reminds readers that the devil is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Jun 2011
- News
Back to the Future
on an automated mail-flow system for the postal service when he started thinking about a people-moving system based on cars that could drive over roads but also attach to computer-controlled track networks. A version of his idea was... View Details
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
The track record is well known and sobering for any entrepreneur: 90 percent of all new ventures fail. It's not hard to see why. Start-ups often lack vital resources, must compete against established companies, and have little or no View Details
- 20 May 2016
- Op-Ed
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
greater role in WHO governance and if there are guarantees of purchase contracts for new drugs and vaccines at sensible prices. Both seem unlikely, as the WHO's culture has always winced at cooperation with the private sector. WHO's track... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
long-running stories, it is often the episodes that take place off the beaten track that most capture the imagination. Some classmates may check in only once or twice in their careers, while other reports might appear only because a class... View Details
- Fast Answer
Workplace Diversity: Data Sources
Gender Equality. Associations & Organizations AllRaise.org An organization supporting non-binary and women founders and funders in the technology space. They create an annual report tracking diversity in venture capital and as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
responsibility of selecting and compensating leaders to each hospital board. This system has led to many of the same CEOs heading different hospitals within the system, making it easier to track whether an individual has an impact on... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 16 Nov 2020
- News
Moderna Announces Promising Vaccine Trial Results
hospitals, the impact on people’s psyche and the impact on deaths.” "These are obviously very exciting results," Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN. "It's just as good as it gets—94.5% is truly outstanding." A December HBS Alumni Bulletin article View Details
- 12 Sep 2018
- News
Game-Changing Analytics
the NBA’s Philadelphia ’76ers benefit from the analytic approach and technology platform Gelman helped develop to build the Kraft organization’s enviable connection with New England Patriots’ fans. “We help organizations develop a holistic view of customers and... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
each category—met in mid-April at the Rock Center to give one last 90-second pitch to the judges and audience. In each category, the Grand Prize winner took home $75,000; the Runner-up $25,000; and the Crowd Favorite $5,000. Applications for this year’s alumni View Details
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
WeMaintain Student Business Track Winners Dubilier $75,000 grand prize: Hour 72+ Satchu-Burgstone $25,000 runner-up: Alpha Vantage Crowd Favorite: Hour 72+ Student Social Enterprise Track Winners Peter M.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street
makes the US economy the envy of the world.” Nohria also defended the track record of business schools, which have been criticized for turning out too many graduates who go into the financial industry. “Despite populist criticisms,” he... View Details
Frederick D. Underwood
When Underwood took over management of the Erie Railroad in 1901, it was barely surviving. Though its owner, JP Morgan had brought the company’s debt within a manageable range, the road itself had suffered much deterioration. Undertaking such innovative improvements as... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Averting Crisis
practitioners, and the public. Researchers have found that financial instability often follows periods when institutions, policymakers, and investors have underestimated risks—errors in perception that are visible in the run-up to past financial crises. But if those... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
social-enterprise track to complement its traditional business competition. Houghton was joined by Ashley Magargee and Naomi Weinberg (both MBA '01), along with Marcel Acosta, a Loeb Fellow at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, and... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses