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News Releases and Articles

Collegiate Inventors Competition, November 14, 2002. "Collegiate Inventors Competition Winners Announced." Press release. View Release

Boston Globe , October 14, 2002. "Blinded by the Blight." Written by Scott Kirsner. View Article

On Investing, A Bloomberg Magazine for Schwab Signature Services Clients, Winter 2001. "The Double Bottom Line." Written by William Hester, illustration © Diane Fenster 2001. View PDF Article

Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Magazine, Fall 2001. "HBS Business Plan Contest Introduces Social Enterprise Track." Written by Jack Curtis. View Article

20/20 Magazine, October 2001. "World View -- Efforts to improve eyewear services in developing countries." by Brian P. Dunleavy. View Article

The MIT Technology Review Online, September, 2001. "Spectacles to Spec." [Note to reader: this article confuses two different technologies Saul Griffith and Low Cost Eyeglasses have been using. For clarification, please contact Low Cost Eyeglasses.] View Article

VisionMonday.com, August 27, 2001. Issue 15:15. "Harvard MBAs Pursue Low-Cost Eyewear Market -- Supplying product to developing countries is group's goal" by Andrew Karp. View Article

The Eyes Have It In Business Plan Contest
HBSWK Pub. Date: May 21, 2001

In 1997 Neil Houghton, MBA 2001, noticed a man wearing eyeglasses in Sicuani, Peru. Why was this noteworthy? Houghton started counting. He found that only about 1% of the population was wearing glasses—in fact, there was no place to buy glasses in this provincial capital. On April 30, Low Cost Available Eyeglasses, the enterprise formed by Houghton and his teammates, became the first winner of the Social Enterprise Track of the HBS Business Plan Contest. More... [requires free registration to view]

The Harbus Online, June 26, 2001, Issue: 06/18/01. "Winning Business Plans Address Health Care Issues" by Mason Myers. View Article

Harvard University Gazette, May 10, 2001. "HBS Contest features social enterprise." View Article

Harvard Business School
For Immediate Release: May 1, 2001

Winning Business Plans at Harvard Business School Feature Solutions to Pressing Health-Care Problems
Fifth Annual Business Plan Contest Includes Social Enterprise Ventures
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