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.