Cricket Reactor Inventor Says $1mil Prize Winners Stole His Work

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Cricket Reactor Inventor Says $1mil Prize Winners Stole His Work

Posted by timothy on Friday September 27, 2013 @07:50PM from the now-that's-just-not-cricket dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A group of Montreal MBA students took home this year's million-dollar Hult Prize, winning a competition for socially innovative business ideas that calls itself 'one of the planet's leading forces for good.' But now the ethics of the winners and the prize committee are being called into question. McGill PhD researcher Jakub Dzamba says that after he supplied the idea and design behind their pitch, products of years of development work, the team reneged on its promises to make him a partner and is instead taking credit for his work. Apparently, Hult knew about the issue before it awarded the prize." Yes, these are the students whose win garnered $1 million awarded by Bill Clinton.

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What did you expect? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-27 20:21 · Score: 4, Funny

These are MBA students.
1. Re:What did you expect? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-27 20:41 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  You mean, an MBA is really like a mechanical engineer, just that the ultimate graduation goal is the ability to screw someone rather than something?
Group of MBAs won a prize for innovation... by aralin · 2013-09-27 21:24 · Score: 5, Funny

and nobody was at all suspicious? Right!

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1. Re:Group of MBAs won a prize for innovation... by Gryle · 2013-09-27 22:27 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Considering their project is essentially a way to get poor people to eat bugs, I'd say that's right on par with the average MBA's view of humanity.
  
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Re:Execution not ideas. Get it in writing. by PolygamousRanchKid+ · 2013-09-27 21:30 · Score: 4, Funny

I did an MBA a couple of years ago.
Strange . . . usually, MBAs do you.

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S.O.P. by GameboyRMH · 2013-09-27 22:11 · Score: 5, Funny

Get a nerd to do all the work, greedheads reap all the rewards. Same stuff he'd be facing on the job market.

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Re:Insightful, informed discussion by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-27 22:43 · Score: 0, Funny

It was a sight I tell you. First this guy gets up in a fit of jealousy and fingers the winners as having taken his idea and no one would give him any attention.
Then Bill was getting drunk and had his hand up the servers skirt, something about running to get a cigar for ol' uncle Bill. No one was getting his joke about Lobsters being bugs so he downed a couple more Singapore Slings and threw up on the winners. This caused a chain reaction and soon there were bug parts in stomach acid all over the room. What the press doesn't mention when they want to protect a Democrat, jeez! Well, I was there , so now you know...
Comments should not be written in the subject fiel by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-27 23:44 · Score: 4, Funny

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Re:Philosophy of selfishness = anything goes. by WWJohnBrowningDo · 2013-09-28 10:21 · Score: 3, Funny

So MBA programs are basically goatse in real life?