The Internet's Brightest Shine at MIT Sloans 2nd annual eBusiness awards.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 13, 2000 If there was any doubt as to who todays eBusiness elite are, the 2nd annual Sloan eBusiness awards made it all disappear. The event-held last evening at the filled-to-the-brim MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tang Centersingled out seven leading-edge organizations who have distanced themselves from the pack with models and technologies executed through eBusiness. More than 400 industry movers and shakers collaborated to recognize innovative business models and technologies executed through eBusiness. Lou Dobbs Lou Dobbs (born September 24 1945), is the CNN anchor and managing editor for Lou Dobbs Tonight. He is also an editorial columnist and syndicated radio show host. Lou Dobbs Tonight attracts CNN's second-largest audience after Larry King Live , Founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Space.com, one-time president of CNNfn, and host of Moneyline, served as the Master of Ceremonies. Dobbs promised the audience of cutting-edge business leaders and esteemed faculty that while the eBusiness awards would rival the Academy Awards in excitement and splendor, he would make the show much shorter than the Oscars. Speaking to the role ebusiness has had in reshaping the landscape of commerce, Dobbs declared, The future aint what it was. Its changing almost daily, and were fortunate to be participants in it. The most distinguishing attribute of the ceremony was the cross-section of winners. While some companies were recognized for revolutionizing the way we do business, others were honored for executing innovative eBusiness models. Among the members of this years star-studded jury were eBusiness pioneers Michael Dell Michael Saul Dell (born February 23, 1965, in Houston, Texas) is the founder and CEO of Dell, Inc. Biography Early life and education The son of an orthodontist, Dell was born in to an upper-class Jewish family and attended Herod Elementary School in Houston, , Founder and CEO of Dell Computer Corporation (company) Dell Computer Corporation - One of the biggest US manufacturers of IBM PC compatibles. "From notebooks to networks", their slogan says. http://us.dell.com. ; Bill Porter Bill Porter may refer to:
Palm, Inc. (www.palm.com), based in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. , won the Disruptive Technology A new technology that has a serious impact on the status quo and changes the way people have been dealing with something, perhaps for decades. Music CDs all but wiped out the phonograph industry within a few years, and digital cameras are destined to eliminate the film industry. Award. Palms products disrupt our view of what computing and e-business is making them truly mobile. The company has potentially changed the way we do business with their series of Palm III The Palm III was the first PDA in the Palm III lineup and is also Palm Computing's first handheld to support infrared file transfer and a Flash ROM capable operating system. The first Palm IIIs went on sale in 1998. , Palm V and Palm VII The Palm VII product family consisted of two products, the Palm VII and the Palm VIIx Palm Pilots. These were produced by Palm, Inc., before it was split into PalmOne and PalmSource. They had antennas for wireless data communication on the Mobitex network under the now defunct Palm. handheld computing devices. This innovative business concept has been around since the late 80s, but Palms implementation enabled this technology to cross the chasm and establish them as a definite eBusiness leader. United Parcel Service United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS), commonly referred to as UPS, is the world's largest package delivery company, delivering more than 15 million packages[1] a day to 6.1 million customers in over 200 countries and territories around the world. (www.ups.com) was the recipient of the Clicks & Mortar Award. The Atlanta-based company has successfully transformed itself from a traditional Brick & Mortar business by integrating both physical and online business practices. The Global Reach Award went to San Jose, California-based eBay (www.ebay.com) for successfully leveraging the Internet as a channel for extending global reach. eBay is the leading person-to-person trading site, providing over 3.5 million new auctions and 400,000 new items every day. The award for Industry Transformation went to Atlantas Healtheon/WebMD (www.webmd.com). Healthon/WebMD was recognized for creating new areas of opportunity and new benefits to consumers. They are the only company connecting all parties in healthcare organizations by bringing together their strategic partnerstechnology, content and serviceswhich enable a more efficient and people-oriented healthcare system. Handspring (www.handspring.com), an innovator in the handheld computing industry, captured the Rookie of the Year Award Rookie of the Year award is newly established in 1985 that third season in K-League. Many star palyers were received this award such as Lee Dong-Gook, Lee Chun-Soo, and so on. for showing the greatest potential to revolutionize eBusiness. Founded in 1998, this Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. startup develops, manufactures and markets a family of expandable handheld computers for a broad range of markets and customers. Keeping in mind that e-Business can be a vehicle for social changeand not just a way to make moneythe ceremony honored San Jose, California-based TRUSTe (www.truste.com ) with the Web Responsibility Award for its dedication for building users trust and confidence on the Internet and accelerating growth of the Internet industry. Although eBusiness originating in the United States is receiving the lions share of attention right now, Internet-based business revolutions are occurring abroad. NTTDoCoMo (www.nttdocomo.com), based in Japan, took home the International Power Play Award. NTTDoCoMo is Japans leading wireless service provider. In 1999, DoCoMo released their new I-mode phone, which allows users to both make phone calls and surf the Internet. The eBusiness awards developed after Sloan became the first top-ten business school to launch an eBusiness track. Some MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration students soon proposed a way to recognize standout ebusinesses, and the rest is history. Today dozens of industry-leading corporate sponsors have signed on to the event and hundreds of Sloan students are engaged in creating this unique ceremony. Massachusetts Governor Paul Celluccia staunch supporter and promoter of business done over the Internetacknowledged the growing importance of the awards prior to the start of the awards ceremony. It is fitting and appropriate that MIT Sloan is honoring these top-flight business organizations on eBusiness Day since the Commonwealth of Massachusetts represents the best in both eBusiness and academia. MIT Sloan is in an ideal position to recognize these eBusiness innovators because we have been at the forefront of understanding and practicing the interactions between technology and management, said Sloan Dean Richard Schmalensee. Here on campus, we bring together the expertise of MIT with students and industry partners to advance both the promotion and practice of eBusiness, added Schmalensee. This is always an exciting event for us, said Phil Regnault, Co-Executive Producer of the awards. Since Sloan has created the Center for eBusiness@MIT, its amazing to see the impact eBusiness has had on the Institute and the international business community. This program is just one of many where Sloan brings industry and academia together to collaborate and shape this new realm of business. For nearly a half-century, the MIT Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. It is one of the world's leading business schools, conducting research and teaching in finance, entrepreneurship, marketing, , based in Cambridge, Mass., has been one of the world's leading academic sources of innovation in management theory and practice. With students from more than 60 countries, it develops effective, innovative, and principled leaders who advance the global economy. |
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