MIT Sloan announces Finalists for 2002 eBusiness Awards

The finalists have been announced for the 2002 MIT Sloan eBusiness Awards (eBAs). The ceremony will take place on April 17, 2002 in Kresge Auditorium at MIT.

FINALISTS ANNOUNCED FOR 2002 MIT SLOAN eBAs

Most Nominations in Awards' History Received

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., February 19, 2002 - The MIT Sloan eBAs today announced the 70 finalists for its 2002 program. Five finalists were chosen in each of the fourteen award categories. This year's 754 total nominees marked the most in the eBA's four-year history and underscore the Award's growing popularity among eBusiness leaders, technology innovators and their influencers throughout the world. Winners in the primary award categories will be chosen by the MIT Sloan eBA jury, which consists of leaders from industry, academia and media. Winners will be announced at the eBusiness Awards Ceremony on April 17, 2002 at 6:30 p.m. at MIT's Kresge Auditorium.

The eBAs were founded in 1999 to recognize outstanding achievements by companies and individuals that have advanced the state of the art in eBusiness.

New for 2002 are six industry awards categories designed to recognize excellence within vertical segments. Winners in these categories will go through the same rigorous review process of the primary awards and will also be judged by a jury of experts working in each industry. Industry award winners are expected to be announced about two weeks before the awards ceremony.

"The record number and high caliber of this year's nominees and their achievements provide further validation that eBusiness is an integral part of doing business today," said Jay Livens, awards co-producer. "This year's finalists achieved consequential advances in technology innovation and represent true eBusiness success stories."

"The 2002 eBAs are shaping up to be our most exciting year thus far," added Matthew Rhoden, co-producer of this year's awards. "We have six new award categories showcasing vertical industry accomplishments, and are hosting our first annual Business Innovation Conference around the awards ceremony. The Conference will focus on this year's awards themes of Mobile Commerce, Aggregation in Financial Services and B2B in Supply Chain Management so as to showcase the finest examples of bottom-line eBusiness today."

And The 2002 MIT SLOAN eBAs Finalists Are...

Business of the Year:

AOL Time Warner

eBay

General Electric

Microsoft

NTT DoCoMo

Innovator of the Year:

Joseph Atick, Founder and CEO, Visionics

Theresa H. Meng, CTO and Founder, Atheros Communications

Gary Reiner, CIO, General Electric

Greg Reznick, Founder and President, Xros (Nortel Networks)

Anthony Wood, Founder of ReplayTV and Senior Vice President, Engineering, SONICblue

Global Reach:

Cemex

eBay

Schlumberger

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

Vodafone

Enabling Technology:

BEA Systems

NTT DoCoMo

Microsoft .NET

OKENA

SpeechWorks

Social Responsibility:

ApproTEC

Digital Divide Data

Grameen

Outside the Classroom

TechFoundation

Business Transformation:

Covisint

General Motors

IBM

Manugistics Group

Southern Company

Rookie of the Year:

deNovis

Groove Networks

Hyperchip

Orbitz

Unveil

Disruptive Technology of the Year:

Kodak, Digital Cameras

PayPal, Peer to Peer Electronic Billing

SONICblue, ReplyTV, DVRs

Research in Motion, Blackberry, PDAs

Sony Computer Entertainment, PlayStation, Home Gaming

Industry Award Finalists

Communications Technology:

Extreme Networks

Infonet Services

NTT DoCoMo

Research in Motion

SpeechWorks International

Financial Services:

Bradesco

Citigroup

E*Trade

GMAC

Progressive

Health Care:

Cytokinetics

Inhale Therapuetic Systems

Layton BioScience

MD OnLine

XenoPort

Internet Services:

eBay

Google

Monster.com

Orbitz

PayPal

Media / Entertainment:

AOL Time Warner

Industrial Light + Magic

MusicCity Networks' Morpheus

ReplayTV (SONICblue)

Sony Computer Entertainment

Operations:

British Petroleum

FedEx

General Electric

Ingersoll-Rand

UPS

About the Awards

The MIT Sloan eBAs were founded in 1999 to recognize and award successful innovation in eBusiness. The awards, which are entirely student run, have quickly become the premier event recognizing global advances and leadership in the field of eBusiness. This reputation is largely due to the support and sponsorship of leaders in the academic and business communities. Previous sponsors of the Sloan eBAs include Fleet, Scient, Dell, GM, Visteon, Nokia, Microsoft, British Telecom, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Merrill Lynch. Jury members responsible for choosing the winners of past shows have included Michael Dell, Bill Porter, the editors of Newsweek, Red Herring, The Financial Times and Fast Company and the chairmen and CEOs of Nortel, BellSouth and Intel.