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Nightly Business Report and Knowledge@Wharton Select
30 Most Important Innovations from Last 30 Years
Miami, FL and Philadelphia, PA, July 31, 2008 -- In 1979, the first spreadsheet software was introduced, Sony rolled out the Walkman, ESPN began broadcasting sporting events to cable TV companies, and on public television, Nightly Business Report made its debut. To celebrate three decades on the air, PBS’ Nightly Business Report has teamed up with Knowledge@Wharton, the online research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, to select the 30 most important innovations from the last 30 years.
Until September 15th, anyone can go to www.pbs.org/nbr and submit nominees for consideration. The list of nominees will then be judged by a panel from Knowledge@Wharton, and will be announced on Nightly Business Report, in a special half hour program, date Monday, February 16, 2009.
“We’re looking for breakthroughs that changed and improved the world—and while we expect many submissions will focus on technological innovations—we’re also looking for social, political, artistic, and other types of innovations,” explained Mukul Pandya, Executive Director/Editor-in-Chief, Knowledge@Wharton.
Each nomination will be judged according to seven different criteria determined by senior Wharton School faculty serving as judges:
1. Did it have a direct and/or material effect on quality of life?
2. Did it address a compelling need? Did it solve a compelling problem?
3. Was it a fresh, new breakthrough? Was there a "WOW" factor?
4. Did it change the way business is conducted?
5. Did it increase the efficiency of how resources are used?
6. Did it spark an ongoing stream of new innovations on top of the original innovation?
7. Did it lead to the creation of a vast, new industry?
“In our 30 years of broadcasting we’ve seen incredible changes in the world,” said Nightly Business Report Executive Editor Rodney Ward. “I could not think of a better way to celebrate our 30th anniversary than to recognize the ingenuity and the ideas which have made our world so dynamic and exciting.”
Nightly Business Report will officially mark its 30th anniversary January 22nd, 2009, by ringing the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange.
About Nightly Business Report
For almost three decades, the award-winning Nightly Business Report has provided business news in a fast-paced format. Timely investment information helps viewers manage their money and stay abreast of the news that affects their portfolios. Nightly Business Report premiered as a Miami regional program on January 22, 1979, with national distribution beginning in 1981. Nationally underwritten by Franklin Templeton Investments, Nightly Business Report is distributed live to public television stations at 6:30pm EST every weeknight. Local broadcast times vary.
About Knowledge@Wharton and the Wharton School
Knowledge@Wharton, is a free biweekly online resource that captures knowledge generated at Wharton and beyond through such channels as research papers, conferences, books, and interviews with faculty on current business topics, and distributes that knowledge online to a global business audience. The Knowledge@Wharton network includes more than 1.2 million subscribers and contains more than 2,000 articles and research papers in its database, with more added every week.
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania -- founded in 1881 as the first collegiate business school -- is recognized globally for intellectual leadership and ongoing innovation across every major discipline of business education. The most comprehensive source of business knowledge in the world, Wharton bridges research and practice through its broad engagement with the global business community. The school has more than 4,700 undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and doctoral students; more than 10,000 annual participants in executive education programs; and an alumni network of more than 82,000 graduates.
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