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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
Harvard's most distinguished professorial posts. "Bob Merton has done seminal work in enlarging our theoretical and practical understanding of financial markets and how to manage risk," said Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine in announcing the appointment. Merton, a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Focal Point
Launched in 2002 by Tony Deifell (MBA 2002), shown here with Ali Nuger (MBA 2012), the Portrait Project asks graduating HBS students to respond to these final lines from “The Summer Day” by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Mary Oliver: “Tell... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
produces great results in some cases is that when there’s a winner-take-all or a winner-take-most market, the first company to achieve critical scale becomes the enduring market leader. It ends up becoming what we call a Glengarry Glen Ross market, where first View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Lerner Honored for Research
Lerner The most esteemed international prize in entrepreneurship research was awarded in February to HBS professor Josh Lerner, author or coauthor of five books, including most recently Boulevard of Broken Dreams, the first in-depth... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Post-Soviet Purpose
HBS assistant professor Rawi Abdelal’s 2001 book National Purpose in the World Economy: Post-Soviet States in Comparative Perspective (Cornell University Press) was awarded the 2002 Shulman Prize for Outstanding Book on International... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard
leaders an opportunity to explore social entrepreneurship and test ideas for social innovation in a rigorous yet supportive environment.” This year, the $75,000 Peter M. Sacerdote Grand Prize was awarded to Mosaic, a health care data... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters
member), and developed into a business plan from which Montage emerged shortly after graduation in 1997. Although other business plans took the top prizes that year, Stone was more than satisfied with Montage’s results. “One of the people... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
managers in any industry, as the Pulitzer Prize - winning historian revealed in a recent conversation with the Bulletin. How did you approach this enormous project? For Inventing the Electronic Century, my basic purpose was to bring the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Start-Up Contest for Alumni
Got an idea for a start-up? You could win a $25,000 cash prize from HBS. The inaugural Alumni New Venture Contest aims to draw attention to the fact that over half of HBS graduates describe themselves as entrepreneurs at some point in... View Details
Keywords: Contests
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
You Have to Save to Win
Playing off the popularity of lottery games, HBS professor Peter Tufano has designed a savings program called “Save to Win,” now being tested at eight credit unions in Michigan. To participate, individuals open a one-year certificate of deposit, earning a chance to win... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
More Faculty Honors
Long Run, has received the 2006 Berry-AMA Book Prize from the American Marketing Association as the best marketing book reviewed last year. For details and more faculty awards, visit www.hbs.edu/news/releases/022107_awards.html. View Details
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
its Seal of Distinction, along with a $30,000 prize and access to restricted grants that average more than $500,000 annually. “One of the few textbooks I kept after HBS was from a performance-measurement course taught by Professor Robert... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Acing Reality
The Amazing Race. Dubbed Team Chippendales by their rivals, the openly gay couple won the television audience’s favor and took the top prize in a 44,000-mile race across four continents. “In the last leg, the two overcame Arndt’s reckless... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Business Plan Contest
which took the top prize in the social enterprise track, seeks to eliminate functional illiteracy in India by enabling poor children to stay in school for several years beyond the fifth grade â¹ a time when many drop out to help support... View Details
- 21 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Evelyne White (MBA 2010)
in my kitchen, it's great to have more space in a great location where the team can collaborate. Other milestones include taking home the runner-up prize at HBS's New Venture Competition in 2013 and closing our first seed round in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Respond to a Worthy Cause
runner-up in the social enterprise category of the HBS Business Plan Contest. They used the $5,000 cash prize and the same amount in services from The Bridgespan Group to turn their business plan into a reality. They garnered support from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Thomas K. McCraw, 1940–2012
Thomas K. McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus, and winner of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in History for his book Prophets of Regulation, died in November. He was 72 years old. "Tom was an extraordinarily... View Details
Keywords: obituary
- 30 May 2017
- News
At Home with History
Jenrette’s many preservation awards also include the Garden Club of America’s Historic Preservation Medal. Announcing the prize in May 2017, president Ann Copenhaver praised his efforts to preserve “the exterior historic context” of his... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
positive change to South Africa. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start,” he says. “Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa and 1993 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, said,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Science Buddy
extensive information and guidance about developing their topics of choice. Last April, Science magazine awarded ScienceBuddies.org its Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE). Said Hess, “During 2010, around 10 million... View Details