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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Ironically, all this is driven by things that we prize and value: competition, with its pressure to perform well, and freedom, as in the ability to move our money around. Unpalatable as it may be, perhaps we need to impose some costs or...
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Garry Emmons
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
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
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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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- 01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air
investor interest is rising in both the public and the private sector: In December, the US Department of Energy announced $3.7 billion worth of programs and prizes meant to further kick-start the industry; In April, payments giant Stripe...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains
presented with the $10,000 Dubilier Prize, which honors the late Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952), cofounder of the prominent LBO firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. (Each of the three runners-up receives $5,000.) While the prize money (and $25,000...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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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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- 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
- 02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
Photo credits: Aaron Sabin; Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. This is the first episode of "Clearing the Air", a three-part series focused on the business of carbon...
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- 26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising
Mitsotakis was awarded the prestigious Alexis de Tocqueville and Hoopes Prizes for the analysis, which opens with a Tocqueville quote and includes a chapter about populism, both of which ring with relevance to this day. After grappling...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 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 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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- 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 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
nonprofit offering a low-cost, point-of-care diagnostic tool that won top honors in the 2008 social venture track in addition to snagging the top prize in the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition. DFA’s six-person team came together in...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
contest. "We hope that what they've learned from the seminar series and the contest will help them be more successful." The plans will be judged by venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and business professionals on the basis of their commercial viability. The View Details
- 15 Jun 2018
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Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) is a Pulitzer- Prize winning journalist and a New York Times best-selling author. His first book, The Power of Habit, focused the science of habit...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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In the Blood
boarding school,” says Clay. “They’ve entrusted you with their prized possession and expect you to manage it properly.” Once the owners have settled on a home for their horse, the farm manages the syndication process for a fee, selling...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground
specifics—a prized oboe player who was recruited and has stayed for years, a famous Israeli violinist who’s made several guest appearances. “Carlos has made it easy for musicians to come to this orchestra,” he says. “But they wouldn’t...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand
orientation, and ability to execute. Irene is a competitor through and through, but that's not what I admire most in her. She is a warm and thoughtful leader who exhibits extraordinary integrity, humanity, and humor every step of the way. Irene's leadership is...
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