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- 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
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
Contrast that real-life vulnerability and storytelling with a two-hour, mandatory, computer-based training, say the Equitas founders, and there’s no contest in terms of efficacy. “In fact,” says Harmeling, “we’ve found that some of those... 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 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
In 1926, C.P. Biddle, an assistant dean at Harvard Business School, provided one framing of what was, at the time, the highly contested question of whether and why business schools belonged in universities: The interests of the... 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 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
out with Nextel? One person knew a career not to be taken: Jim Stern decided against retail. His rejection letter from J.C. Penney won a Harbus contest and was published in the paper. The future banking mogul did, however, win the stock... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
businesses. The excitement surrounding the annual student Business Plan Contest also illustrates the enormous amount of interest and motivation in that field. In response to this interest, our Career Services group has been helping... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
Jeopardy! contestants to compete against Watson, its “brain” the compendium of 100 algorithms working in parallel against 200 million pages of text in 500 gigabytes of data. When it finally played master Jeopardy! winner Ken Jennings in... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
Potentia Pharmaceuticals, winner of this year's HBS Business Plan Contest (see pages 6-7). When creating a successful venture, said Hart, basics such as scalability, sustainability, adaptability, and profitability are key components of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
of strategic space configurations, is an illustration of the value of face time. “This project would very much not exist were we not literally next door to each other,” says Wu, an associate professor. In the following conversation with the Bulletin, Roche and Wu talk... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 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
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
company. So I announced that I would give free hosting for a year and a little capital, to anyone that had something really cool. I came back with some other tech people. We did a contest and I started picking companies. That little View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
are also proactively looking for founders who are older, rather than people in their 20s or 30s, who tend to be the more typical denizens of the world of venture capital. Later this year, they’re planning to launch a pitch contest to that... 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 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
Art by Craig Frazier Related Links Alumni New Venture Contest Opens Webinar series (ongoing) Entrepreneurship at HBS (video) Harvard Launches Innovation Incubator Why is it that even when smart, educated, well-networked people launch new... 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 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
entrepreneurial way — she cofounded New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS), a national nonprofit that is helping to develop the next generation of urban school principals. NLNS was launched from a business plan submitted to the 2000 HBS Business Plan View Details