Business Plan Contest

Previous Winners

2008 Contest General Information

On Tuesday, April 29, 2008 Harvard Business School held the Business Plan Contest Finals. The winner of the Traditional Track was: EyeViewDigital.com (team members: Tal Riesenfeld, HBS; Yaniv Fain, MIT; Oren Harnevo, EyeView; Yaniv Nitzan, EyeView; Gal Barnea, EyeView) and the runners-up were Good Start Genetics (team member: Paris Wallace, HBS), MyHappyPlanet.com (team members: Karen Ong, HBS; Steve Davis, HBS; Ethan Laub, HBS; Todd Pinkerton, MyHappyPlanet.com; Francois Gagnon, MyHappyPlanet.com), Physica Solutions (team members: Carlos Jaramillo, HBS; Jeremy Friese, HBS) and Supply Solutions (team members: Kevin Sousa, HBS; Jun Wang, HBS).

The winner of the Social Enterprise Track was Diagnostics For All (team members: Hayat Sindi, Harvard; Roozbeh Ghaffari, MIT; Carol Waghorne, Partners; Kyra Bobinet, HSPH, Jon Puz, HBS; Gilbert Tang, HBS; Krishna Yeshwant, HBS) and the runner-up was Ghonsla (team members: Emmanuel Arnaud, Ghonsla; Zehra Ali, Ghonsla; Monica Hau Le, Ghonsla; Mubarik Imam, Ghonsla).

Handouts, Slides, etc.
  • 2008 Kick-off with Prof. Bill Sahlman overview flyer
  • HELP Session: Using Baker Library Resources slides
  • HELP Session: The Entrepreneur's Legal Workshop slides
  • HELP Session: Pitching your Plan slides
Videos and News

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2007 Contest General Information

On Monday, April 23, 2007 the Harvard Business School held the Business Plan Contest Finals, where presentations were made and the winners chosen. The winner of the Traditional Track was Judicial Intelligence (team members: Sandra Nudelman, HBS; Michele Nudelman, Washington University at St. Louis School of Law) and the runners-up were C3 BioEnergy (team members: Tracy Mathews, HBS; Curt Fischer, MIT; Andrew Peterson, MIT), Clear Suppliers (team members: Alex Zhang, HBS; Paul Morgenthaler, HBS) and Katherine Kwei (team members: Elenor Mak, HBS; Ying Soong, HBS).

The winner of the Social Enterprise Track was Unite for Health! (team members: Onil Bhattacharyya, HSPH; Lingling Zhang, HSPH; Anna Chodos, HSPH) and the runner-up was Charitable Donations Group (team members: Matt Scherrer, HBS; Paris Wallace, HBS).

Handouts, Slides, etc.
  • 2007 Kick-off with Prof. Bill Sahlman overview flyer and video
  • HELP Session: Using Baker Library Resources slides
  • HELP Session: The Entrepreneur's Legal Workshop slides
Photos and Videos
  • View photos of the winners and runners-up or watch the video from the Finals.

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2006 Contest General Information

On Tuesday, April 25, 2006 Harvard Business School held the Business Plan Contest Finals. The winner of the Traditional Track was 8baorice and the runners-up were Acillix, Elective Medical Lending, Hepa Wash and ONTV.

The winners of the Social Enterprise Track were Yashmere ('Concept' phase) and Mountains for Miracles ('Pilot' phase) and the runner-up was SoukTel ('Concept' phase).

Read more about the participating teams.

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2005 Contest General Information

On Monday, May 2, 2005 Harvard Business School held the Business Plan Contest Finals. The winner of the Traditional Track was Uplift and the runners-up were HeroesNow, Owl, Sikara & Co., and Travelguru.com. The winner of the Social Enterprise Track was India Info Village and the runner-up was Liberty Health - the SmartBroker.

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2004 Contest General Information

On Monday, April 26, 2004 the Harvard Business School held the Contest Finals, where presentations were made and the winners chosen. The winner of the Social Enterprise Track was SunEdison and the runner-up was Poli-Clinicus.  The winner of the Traditional Track was Extend Fertility and the runners-up were Fortify Systems, Lean Forward Media and Sapphire.

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Past Winners and Runners-Up

2003
  • Traditional Track
    FBC (winner)
    Brontes Technologies
    Jadoo Power Systems
    TrialBridge

    Social Enterprise Track
    Gyaana (winner)
    FoodSTOP
2002
  • Traditional Track
    FishLogic (winner)
    Aprendo
    Empower
    Music Games, Int.

    Social Enterprise Track
    BEST Education Partners (winner)
    The Unison Project
2001
  • Traditional Track
    Potentia Pharmaceuticals (winner)
    Bluesolid
    Realtime Ops
    Twin Photon

    Social Enterprise Track
    Low Cost Eyeglasses (winner)
    Modulo
2000
  • Bang (winner)
    3Plex (formerly Truck-it-now)
    Knumi
    Sound Micro
1999
  • Local Rewards.com (winner)
    eBricks.com
    OurWellness.com
    Suppliermarket.com
1998
  • Zefer (winner)
    Crimson Solutions
    InnerVue
    So Clean
1997
  • Omnicon Technologies (winner)
    American Veterinary Specialists
    Chemdex.com
    MST Group, LLC