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

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. What did you expect? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    These are MBA students.

    1. Re:What did you expect? by Anonymous Coward · · 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?

  2. Group of MBAs won a prize for innovation... by aralin · · 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 · · 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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  3. Re:Execution not ideas. Get it in writing. by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 4, Funny

    I did an MBA a couple of years ago.

    Strange . . . usually, MBAs do you.

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  4. S.O.P. by GameboyRMH · · 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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    "When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
  5. Comments should not be written in the subject fiel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    d.

  6. Re:Philosophy of selfishness = anything goes. by WWJohnBrowningDo · · Score: 3, Funny

    So MBA programs are basically goatse in real life?