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Director of Innovation Lab named
Gordon S. Jones has been named the inaugural director of the Harvard Innovation Lab, a new and innovative initiative set to launch in late 2011 that will foster team-based and entrepreneurial...
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Harvard’s startup upstart
Entrepreneurs often put in long hours, and Gordon Jones, director of the new Harvard Innovation Lab, is no exception. But unlike the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world, Jones won’t be up late hunched over...
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Introducing the i-lab
When Mark Zuckerberg returned to Harvard earlier this month to recruit for Facebook, there was one stop he added to his schedule — and it wasn’t his old Kirkland House dorm. Rather, Zuckerberg made an...
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Early-stage venture fund launches
When the “next big thing” is invented in a dorm room, ruminated over in a late-night café, or discovered in a laboratory, it will now find more support in the Cambridge area, giving its inventors a...
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Notes on music’s lessons
Jazz legend Wynton Marsalis met his audience at a tuneful crossroads at Sanders Theatre Monday night, exploring America’s diverse musical heritage. On Tuesday, the energetic trumpeter and composer met...
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Welcome, entrepreneurs
Peter Boyce ’13 wants you to be an entrepreneur. Well, maybe not you specifically, but certainly his Harvard College classmates. A co-founder of Harvard College Venture Partners, Boyce works to...
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Faust announces $100K President’s Challenge
President Drew Faust announced today the launch of the President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship hosted through the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab). This effort is part of Harvard University’s...
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Challenges to address
The issues selected for the President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship were announced during a special kickoff on Wednesday at the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab), which is hosting the...
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10 finalists in President’s Challenge
Harvard University announced today the selection of 10 teams of finalists in the President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship. President Drew Faust created the challenge to encourage student...
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Business as a force for change
Muhammad Yunus built a multibillion-dollar bank — and won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 — on a simple idea: Poverty need not be permanent. “All human beings are entrepreneurs, with no exceptions...
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Improving the world is a serious business
The premise of the President’s Challenge is simple: You don’t have to wait until graduation — or become a Zuckerbergian dropout — to change the world. The inaugural competition is part of the...
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Harvard makes sure ‘Boston Shines’
Even when sunshine gave way to icy winds and scattered storms, more than 70 Harvard staff and members of the community planted flowers, painted park benches, and picked up trash around the...
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A time was had by all
JUNE 2011 Surgeons at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital perform face transplant surgery. JULY 2011 The city of Boston launches bike-sharing program Hubway, and University officials ink a...
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Harvard entrepreneurs weave silk with science
A business idea born in a Harvard classroom to improve the delivery of vaccines in developing countries has been selected as the grand prize winner of the Harvard University President’s Challenge for...
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Coming back, looking forward
They were old friends last weekend, even those who’d never met. Members of Harvard’s governing boards past and present gathered at Harvard Law School’s (HLS) new Wasserstein Hall Saturday for a...
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Startups, sped up
Entrepreneurs-in-training from across the University gathered at the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) last weekend for the second annual StartUp Scramble, a mad-dash affair designed to take their...
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Return of the President’s Challenge
President Drew Faust today launched the 2013 President’s Challenge, inviting Harvard students and postdoctoral candidates to create entrepreneurial solutions to pressing societal problems and...
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Deans announce new challenge
Thirteen deans from Schools across Harvard today announced $150,000 in new entrepreneurship challenges, expanding Harvard support for student innovation and cross-School collaborations with broad...
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Meeting opportunities at the fair
At the recent Harvard Start-Up Career Fair, first-year M.B.A. student Minh Bui was looking for the next big thing. “I’m looking for a team with a high potential for growth — the next Facebook — but...
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Austin sees Crimson
AUSTIN, Texas — Harvard’s spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship was on full display under the bright late-winter sun of Texas as members of the University’s digital community came together Sunday...
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Finalists selected in President’s Challenge
Harvard University today announced the selection of 10 teams of finalists in the 2013 President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship. “The President’s Challenge encourages students from across the...
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Finalists in health, science challenge
Harvard University today announced the selection of eight finalist teams in the inaugural Deans’ Health and Life Sciences Challenge. Sponsored by deans from across the University and hosted by the...
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Top problem solvers
This week at the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) 10 teams of students from across Harvard demonstrated their projects as finalists in the President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship. The winner...
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Challenge met
MatriTarg Laboratories, a venture created by a team of Harvard fellows seeking new ways to diagnose and treat solid organ fibrosis, claimed the grand prize — and $40,000 in award money — in the...
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One Harvard
Harvard College and the University’s graduate Schools, centers, and institutes have long stood tall in their respective fields. Increasingly, though, they also are coming together to share students,...
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A year of change, month by month
JUNE 2012 The Harvard Alumni Association elects Scott A. Abell ’82; James E. Johnson ’83, J.D. ’86; Tracy P. Palandjian ’93, M.B.A. ’97; Swati Piramal, M.P.H. ’92; and Kathryn A. Taylor ’80 to serve...
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Fueling the entrepreneurial spirit
“We’re not businesspeople, but we are entrepreneurs.” In a simple sentence, Harvard Professor Gary King both described the gulf that separates university faculty members from the business world and...
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Meeting the challenges
Harvard University announced 18 student-led teams today as finalists in three deans’ innovation competitions focused on cultural entrepreneurship, health and life sciences, and urban design. Sponsored...
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Healing outside the box
What if health care workers in under-resourced countries could administer a prognostic test on patients in the field, miles from any hospital, simply with a smartphone app? This is the kind of...
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Taking stock of sustainability efforts
After years of toiling to increase the efficiency and lessen the environmental impact of campus operations, it’s time for university sustainability workers to step back, examine broader goals, and...
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Making hay while sun shines
Summer is typically a cherished quiet time for educators. Classrooms are dark, there are no papers to grade, and there are few, if any, meetings to sit through. But students from Harvard Graduate...
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Art for artists’ sake
In 2009, Scott Benner’s life started to unravel. After 17 years as a supervisor at a steel supply company, new owners shut the business down. It was Friday, Feb. 13, recalled Benner, “just to make it...
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From farm to table and everything in between
Individuals and communities can improve the food system, according to members of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, which has launched a yearlong, University-wide focus on how to make...
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Major boost for computer science
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made the case today that advances in computer science will be a key driver of global innovation, and that an enhanced computer science program will ensure that...
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Innovation Lab appoints new managing director
Jodi Goldstein will become the Evans Family Foundation Managing Director of the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab). The i-lab is a University-wide facility that fosters team-based and entrepreneurial...
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Twenty team finalists named in Deans’ Challenges
Harvard University announced 20 student-led teams today as finalists in four Deans’ Challenges focused on cultural entrepreneurship, health and life sciences, the food system, and innovation in...
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Smart response
When Michael Martin’s father slipped while clearing snow and fell from the roof of the family’s home, he lay on the ground for two hours with a shattered hip and broken wrist, trying the whole time to...
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Futuristic PIVOT app serves up Harvard history
Harvard University formally launched its official interactive online tour app last week. The free app features innovative augmented reality technology and allows visitors to visually experience the...
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President’s Challenge narrows field to 10 finalists
Ten teams have been selected as finalists for the 2016 President’s Challenge, President Drew Faust announced today. The President’s Challenge gives Harvard students an opportunity to take their ideas...
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Two Deans’ Challenges garner 90 proposals
Today, Harvard University announced the 10 student-led teams that will be finalists for the Deans’ Cultural Entrepreneurship Challenge and the Deans’ Health and Life Sciences Challenge. The two...
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Envisioning Allston’s enterprise research campus
Harvard University has announced the hiring of Steven D. Fessler as head of enterprise real estate. Fessler brings to Harvard more than 30 years of national real estate development experience,...
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SurgiBox wins $70,000 President’s Challenge
Although its eye-catching prototype on display at the President’s Challenge Demo Day at the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) attracted a lot of interest Monday night, the team representing SurgiBox — a...
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Harvard licenses genotyping platform
Harvard University has granted a license to Aldatu Biosciences Inc., an early-stage diagnostics development company, for a novel qPCR genotyping platform that may help clinicians treating HIV more...
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Taking care of their own
As an undergraduate in Los Angeles, Nestor Pimienta was often asked by university workers if he could tutor their children to steer them toward the road he took. Driven by a passion for social justice...
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Hundreds of people from across the University and its surrounding communities attended the grand opening of the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab in Allston last week. The Life Lab is the newest addition to...
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Harvard-based program gives teen entrepreneurs winning chance
The American Dream came within closer reach for a group of Boston high school students recently when they got an insider’s look at entrepreneurship. Nearly four dozen students from Brighton High...
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Harvard-backed HUBweek to showcase Boston arts, science innovation
This fall, Harvard will help lead the third annual HUBweek festival celebrating the region’s commitment to innovation in the arts and sciences. The University, along with The Boston Globe, MIT, and...
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This October, Harvard hosts events during the third annual HUBweek
From genetic engineering and medicine to entrepreneurship and archaeology to art history and education, HUBweek, which kicks off on Tuesday, celebrates the Boston area’s commitment to innovation in the...
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Harvard technology provides early boost to Mass. COVID testing
This is part of our Coronavirus Update series in which Harvard specialists in epidemiology, infectious disease, economics, politics, and other disciplines offer insights into what the latest...
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Harvard president looks back on the last year — and what’s ahead
A year after making the difficult and somewhat disputed decision to de-densify Harvard’s campus, and a year after recovering from COVID-19 himself, Harvard President Larry Bacow sat down with the...
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