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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
French so well he graduated first in his lycée class). His parents, Suzanne and Robert, were talented chroniclers of Russian culture and history (Robert's Peter the Great won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Biography), and an exciting group...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Case Study: Up in the Air
getting these organizations to pay for the service at full price or a discount and then provide it to the winning startups as an in-kind prize or investment? Assuming this activity will generate a significant amount of publicity, and as...
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- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
intriguing. That experience planted the seed for a 50-plus-year career at Stanford exploring new auction designs and formats—work recognized in 2020 with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In this special edition of Skydeck...
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- 28 Sep 2021
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Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
to a second chance at having a fuller experience at school since at Harvard College, I often felt like I had to have my head down.” Westphal has no regrets about that time, especially as he succeeded academically, winning the Harris Prize...
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Becca Carnahan
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
learn from the past. Looking back at the contributions nonprofits have made is helpful so that we don’t neglect the sector. It’s also inspiring to recognize the level of change that’s possible.” Cautionary Tale The Prize Who’s in Charge...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 16 Jan 2018
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Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
competitions, which will be held in February and March 2018. You never know where the aNVC might take you. Julia Cheek (MBA 2011), winner of the 2016 NVC regional competition in Texas for her company, EverlyWell, went on to earn the $25,000 runner-up View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
to encourage the development of new technologies that focus on clean, renewable, or efficient energy resources. One of our teams developed last year’s winning idea: a polymer-producing bacteria that eats away at microbial scale formation inside industrial water pipes....
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- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
President of the National Assembly came to underline the values of the VDA and personally announce the winner.” The 2019 VDA National Prize was awarded to Gary Anssens, founder of alltricks.com, a kind of “Amazon for sports gear.” A...
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Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
I draw inspiration from the advice of one of our professors at Harvard Kennedy School, Samantha Power: “Shrink the change.” Though anxiety can easily turn into inaction, I find the conviction to move in something that is certain: the importance and urgency of our...
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- 13 Oct 2016
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Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
where he endowed the Blum Family Venture Philanthropy Fund to promote discoveries with potential to benefit the Israeli life-sciences economy. Closer to home, Blum established the Tikkun Olam Youth Science Prizes for middle and high...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
$1,500 he and two MIT friends scraped together from personal funds and a $10,000 prize for winning MIT’s business plan contest. In 1996, the youthful trio sold the company to Artisoft for $13 million. Prior to HBS, Cassidy had earned two...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
been Hamilton's.... An acclaimed and prolific author, Thomas K. McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus, died in November. He won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1985 for Prophets of Regulation. More recently,...
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- 02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
government support as well, with the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act creating new tax credits for carbon capture. And, in December, the Department of Energy announced $3.7 billion worth of prizes and programs meant to further kick-start the...
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- 01 Apr 1997
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HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
Choice." The author of three Times columns - "About New York," "Life in the 30s," and "Public and Private" - between 1981 and 1995, Quindlen won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1992. Three years later, she surprised her readers and...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Q&A - Mark Fields
What have you learned about Japan? It’s a land of clarity and ambiguity. Think of a Japanese painting with a beautifully detailed willow branch against a landscape of fog. Contradictions and paradoxes abound. While it’s a very group-oriented society, it also View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
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The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
that offers a $24 million prize pool for one tournament, bracketed levels of competition, and tournaments that yield almost $17 million in sponsorship revenue? These numbers aren’t referring to golf or tennis, but eSports. ESports...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
when a print byline still carries all the glory, and prized sources would rather see their names on paper? Many writers and editors also don’t buy the cost accounting, or lack thereof, in grand proclamations of online profitability. Do...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Leading Boston and Beyond
Philanthropies, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s (MBA 1966) charitable foundation. At Bloomberg, he co-led and expanded the Mayors Challenge, a $9 million prize competition to inspire American cities to develop bold solutions...
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- 10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
Emeritus, Stanford University 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Gainfully employed: “My first job was at age 7—a paper route that paid $2.45 a week. I always worked: sacking groceries, working at a bottling plant for 75 cents...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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The Plight of the Global Poor
Indeed, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Muhammad Yunus and the microcredit Grameen Bank he founded in Bangladesh more than two decades ago. With interest rates ranging from zero to 20 percent, Grameen’s average loan (no...
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