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Business Plan Contest Winners
The 12th annual HBS Business Plan Contest winner in the social enterprise track was Diagnostics-For-All (DFA), a nonprofit launched to develop a disposable, low-cost, paper-based “lab-on-a-chip” for use in diagnosing liver, kidney, and metabolic diseases in the world’s resource-poor areas. The seven-person DFA team, invited to ring the NYSE’s opening bell in honor of its achievement, included Jon Puz and Gilbert Tang (both MBA ’08), Krishna Yeshwant (HBS ’09), and colleagues from Harvard and MIT. The Harvard team members were drawn from a multidisciplinary course on commercializing science and technology taught by HBS professors Vicki Sato and Lee Fleming. DFA also won MIT’s $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, the first nonprofit to do so; it is also the first team to win both the Harvard and the MIT awards.
In the traditional (for-profit) track, Tal Riesenfeld (MBA ’08) was the HBS representative on a five-person team that put together EyeViewDigital.com, an up-and-running firm that enables communications between businesses and customers through cutting-edge video technology.
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