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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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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
finding, funding and supporting exceptional... Congratulations to the HBS New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track Finalists! Margot Dushin Shelby Longland 05 Apr 2018 In February, the New Venture Competition’s Social Enterprise... View Details
- 27 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Opportunity Abounds
voice in our global economy. One small example: with 92 million Facebook users, India is on track to become the largest Facebook user market by 2016, outgrowing the US with 152 million users. The scale of India’s challenges is also... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 05 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Taking Learning Beyond the Classroom
the time of writing. Discussion expanded beyond the case to include the current landscape of emissions tracking and the range of regulatory and ratings agencies involved. Students discussed if car manufacturers should be held accountable... View Details
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Neil Band | MBA
track in tech entrepreneurship. Tech areas of interest: I’m fascinated by the application of machine learning, distributed systems, and cryptography to economics and biology. I currently research memory optimization in deep neural network... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni Connections
was the grand prize winner in the alumni track for her on-demand jobs platform, Apli. View a video of Makarov's ninety-second pitch. 6 (L to R) Professor William Sahlman (MBA 1975) interviewed founders of the New Venture Competition:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Turning Point: One Step at a Time
school for the arts, where I could take ballet instead of gym class. Sports, and running in particular, were just not a thing I was meant to do. This was a fact. An incredulous college roommate tried to coax me around the track one warm... View Details
Keywords: Christina Wallace (MBA 2010)
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
is happening that makes these tools less effective today? A: Companies have always spent a great deal of money on marketing, but data have not always been available to determine whether this money has been spent wisely. Companies may have been able to View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 23 Aug 2011
- News
New Kid in School
math, and coached the track team, which he founded, to multiple Division III New England prep school championships. Ellison, who spent five years in the Marine Corps — he finished first in his class at Officers Candidate School — before... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
women-owned—with zero defaults. The company’s track record is especially impressive given that most of its customers themselves don’t have track records: The vast majority of Good Tree’s clients have never... View Details
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The Female Executive's Perspective: A conversation with HBS AMP Women on Applying
have a lot to say about the benefits to their careers and personal growth. We asked five women to share their experience as they weighed the options. Would their team stay on track without them? How would their families manage without... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Students Start-Ups Tap New HBS Fund
women to keep track of health data. Rewardly (Aleem Mawani, MBA ’11, and Jasen Kimis): A rewards program that works with customers’ existing credit cards wherever they make purchases. UpStart (Sarah Dillard, Jevan Soo, and Shiyan Koh, all... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 03 Jun 2014
- Blog Post
Springing Forward on Social Enterprise Career Paths
the opportunity for feedback from panels of expert judges, to test their ideas in a rigorous and supportive environment. Within the Social Enterprise Track specifically, teams focused on ventures that generate significant social value,... View Details
- 20 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
My Journey to Working with At Night Management / PRMD Music
world: names like Avicii, Calvin Harris, Skrillex, and Tiesto. After a trip with friends to Stockholm, Sweden last summer, the company that stood out to me was the one supporting Avicii, owner of one of the most-streamed tracks on Spotify... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
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Database Best Practices - Research Computing Services
a balance between the efficiency of relational data and the usability of your database for analysis. Fully document the preparation and building of the database Draft up a design plan. You may find it helpful to create an entity-relationship diagram. As you construct... View Details
- 05 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
fashion and consumer products, and tough tech. The NVC truly captures the spirit of entrepreneurship at HBS.” “In a world crying out for solutions to environmental, health, racial equity, and other social problems, the Social Enterprise View Details
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Demo Day | New Venture Competition
Demo Day Semifinalists from both tracks deliver pitches to early-stage investors. New Venture Competition (NVC) Demo Day is a showcase event hosted by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and the Social Enterprise Initiative . NVC Demo... View Details