
Harvard Business School Association of Northern California (HBSA/NC) Hey HBSANC fans, what was your favorite HBSANC event in 2009?

Harvard Business School Association of Northern California (HBSA/NC) Merry Christmas all! The final winner for 2009 and winner of two tickets to a 2010 HBSANC event is Mariano Garrasino. Congrats Mariano! We hope you enjoy attending our 2010 events!

Harvard Business School Association of Northern California (HBSA/NC) This week's winner is Seema Kumar! Congratulations! Seema wins a copy of "Outliers" - Malcolm Gladwell's latest book. Stay tuned for next week's drawing - two tickets to an HBSANC event in 2010!

Harvard Business School Association of Northern California (HBSA/NC) Next week's prize (Dec 18th) will be a copy of Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers: The Story of Success". Then on our last Friday of the year - Dec 25th, and Christmas Day for those of the Christian tradition - we'll draw for two tickets to any HBSANC event in 2010 (the two big fundraising dinners excepted). So tell your fri...ends, if they want to be included, be sure to become a fan before these two Fridays!!!

Harvard Business School Association of Northern California (HBSA/NC) The winner of our fan page drawing for Friday Dec 11th is Berni Ai-Kuo! Berni wins a stylish HBSANC baseball cap. Congrats Berni!

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HBS team embarks on Red Balloon Project- in the ABC news- if anyone sees a Red Balloon, log it in at: http://www.projectredballoon.com/. 2 HBS and a group of HBS students are leading the coordination for the hunt! The full article is at:
http://www.hbsanc.org/article.html?aid=6 27.
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Raising $40,000 for AIDS research, we just need to find the red balloons as part of the DARPA Network Challenge

Harvard Business School Association of Northern California (HBSA/NC) This week's Friday drawing winner is Sylvia Kainz! Congratulations, Sylvia! This week's prize is in anticipation of an event we're holding next February with professor Ranjay Gulati. The prize is a pre-order of Ranjay's book, "Reorganize for Resilience: Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business" which comes out in January.

Harvard Business School Association of Northern California (HBSA/NC) Congratulations to this week's winner of our Friday drawing - Fran Seegull! Fran wins an HBSANC baseball cap. Yeah, Fran!

Harvard Business School Association of Northern California (HBSA/NC) Does anyone have suggestions for a book prize that's about the climate change issues we're facing? Perhaps a balanced view instead of strongly one way or the other?

Harvard Business School Association of Northern California (HBSA/NC) Oops, I forgot to do our drawing Friday! So here it is. In response to user input, this week we are giving away "The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care" by Clayton Christensen. And the winner is ... Bill Freund!
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Amazon.com: The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care (9780071592086): Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman M.D., Jason Hwang M.D.: Books

Betsy I am the 100th fan! Do I get a baseball cap?

Harvard Business School Association of Northern California (HBSA/NC) In future weeks we'll be giving away more baseball caps and also books by Harvard professors. Any suggestions for which books would be good prizes?

Harvard Business School Association of Northern California (HBSA/NC) Congratulations to Fred Anderson, Jr. Fred is this week's prize winner. This week's prize is a lovely HBS baseball cap. I'm sure it will look great on Fred!

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Want to learn about bootstrapping your venture, then come attend the panel and discussion this Wednesday Nov 11th starting at 6pm at the DLA Piper offices in Palo Alto! More details http://www.hbsanc.org/article.html?aid=5 93
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