HBS’ Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Alumni Relations announce the 2010 Alumni New Venture Contest (NVC).  With over half of HBS alumni classifying themselves as entrepreneurs at some point in their lives, this Contest is designed to shine a spotlight on alumni ventures, give Clubs a keystone event to wrap some educational programming around, support promising new ventures  and award a $25,000 cash prize to the winning team.

For 2010, this contest will be conducted in 8 regions (with 11 HBS alumni clubs: Boston, NY, Chicago, Northern CA - SF and Tech Alumni, Southern CA - Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, London, Brazil and India).  With guidelines established and monitored by the HBS Rock Center, these clubs will conduct first round contests to select one team to send to HBS in April 2010. On April 26, 2010, the final 8 teams (1 from each region) will present their plans to a panel of judges at HBS who will select the 2010 Alumni NVC winner.   That evening, HBS will host a dinner for all contestants, celebrating alumni entrepreneurship.  The winner will be invited to present a brief summary of their plan at a School-wide awards ceremony (in conjunction with the student business and social venture contests) the following day.

For more information, please see http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurship/bplan/alumni-nvc.html