Harvard Innovation Labs: Startups & Entrepreneurship
Harvard Innovation Labs
We're an ecosystem that supports Harvard students and select alumni in their quest to explore the world of game-changing innovation and entrepreneurship. Since our founding in 2011, we’ve helped 5,000+ founders from all 13 Harvard schools create global, lasting change.Links:Website: https://innovationlabs.harvard.edu/Instagram: https://instagram.com/harvardinnovationlabsLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/harvard-innovation-labs/Twitter: https://twitter.com/innovationlabFacebook: http://facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab
Episodes
Almost Married Off at 12. Now She’s Changing Thousands of Lives. | Aria Mustary, Mai Soli Foundation
At 12, Aria Mustary was nearly forced into marriage.Now she’s helping thousands of girls rewrite their futures.Uploaded 07-05-26Aria Mustary (Harvard Graduate School of Education ’24), Co-Founder and President of the Mai Soli Foundation, turned her lived experience into a mission.Mai Soli equips girls with financial literacy, leadership skills, and confidence—already helping prevent over 500 child marriages and scaling that impact globally.A finalist in the 2024 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, Aria is building a future where every girl has agency.“If we save one girl, her entire lineage is changed.”Film by Kieran Kesner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Value Props: Create a Product People Will Actually Buy
One of the top reasons many startups fails is surprisingly simple: Their value proposition isn’t compelling enough to prompt a customer to buy. Maybe they have too many other competing priorities. Or the existing solutions, while imperfect, are “good enough.” Whatever the reason, the product doesn’t provide enough value to spark customer action and sustain a business. Nailing your value prop – the benefit you provide to whom and how you do it uniquely well – can make or break your startup. Uploaded 01-04-23In this workshop, originally presented in-person at the Harvard Innovation Labs, Michael Skok, founding partner of Underscore VC, will guide you through a series of frameworks to articulate and validate your value prop to ensure that it’s highly compelling to customers. About the Speaker: Michael Skok is a founding partner at Underscore VC, a Boston-based firm investing in bold B2B software founders. Since starting his first software business as a teenager, Michael has spent 21 years as an entrepreneur and the past 18 years as a venture investor. During this time, he has founded, worked with, and invested in startups, and created thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of value. As an entrepreneur and an investor, Michael has focused on breakthrough technologies and disruptive business models including Open Source, Cloud, IoT, and emerging domains such as Blockchain, Virtual/Augmented Reality, and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning. He has served on or is active on many private and public boards such as Acquia, Demandware (now a Salesforce company), Mautic (acquired by Acquia in 2019), Salsify, and Zaius. He has also held leadership roles in many industry groups such as the Software Publishers Association, where he served as chairman for many years. In 2015, Michael co-founded Underscore VC to help founders create enduring companies through the power of community. He has a passion for helping the next generation of entrepreneurs succeed by not only backing them with capital but bringing the resources and commitment of an aligned community around them to propel their success. To help achieve this, he has mentored and taught for over 10 years at Harvard University, where he is an Entrepreneur in Residence, and created the Startup Secrets series.Want to dive deeper into Startup Secrets? Explore the interactive Startup Secrets Sandbox for frameworks, insights, and tools to help you build and scale your startup: https://bit.ly/3Cwv0nK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
President's Challenge Presentation Revolving Fund Pharmacy
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Harvard i-lab | 2013 Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge -- TraumaLink
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VC Fundraising Advice for Black Founders
As a capstone to the 2023 NextGen Accelerator, a founder bootcamp for early-stage student founders from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and universities in Sub-Saharan Africa, four leading Black venture capitalists shared their perspectives on the fundraising landscape for Black founders. Uploaded 22-08-23The panel featured Kofi Ampadu, partner at a16z; Daniel Acheampong (Harvard Kennedy School MPA 2020), founder and general partner at Visible Hands; Eunice Ajim, founding partner at Ajim Capital; and Javier Grevely, Boston Chapter co-lead at BLCK VC and an investor at Wellington Management. Their discussion was wide-ranging, from why only one percent of venture capital money goes to Black founders to what they look for as they decide whether to invest in a startup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard President Alan Garber Remarks | 2026 President's Innovation Challenge
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The “Spermpocalypse,” A Problem No One Was Solving | Khaled Kteily, Legacy
Male fertility is declining—but no one was talking about it.Khaled Kteily (Harvard Kennedy School ’16) decided to change that.Uploaded 07-05-26After experiencing the stigma and discomfort of fertility testing firsthand, Khaled saw a problem hiding in plain sight. As founder and CEO of Legacy, he’s helping men better understand their fertility and health—serving tens of thousands of patients.A finalist in the 2019 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, Legacy is reshaping how we think about reproductive health.“We helped take the burden off just the female partner—and gave couples more control.”Film by Kieran Kesner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard i-lab | Food Truck Day and Tour of the i-lab
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Harvard i-lab | Why You're Over-Thinking Your UI/UX with Rohan Puri and Cristoforo Magliozzi
In this workshop we take you through the steps in thinking about (and preempting) user interaction and user experience design. Then we outline ways in which we can evaluate, test, and analyze interactions to pivot designs leanly. This session is highly interactive and uses examples from real startups.Uploaded 25-09-13Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard i-lab | Smaller, Lighter and Ubiquitous: The Next Generation of Fitness Trackers
We are in the midst of a revolution in how athletes train, perform, and heal. Advances in mobile technology, AI, Big Data, sensors, GPS, and more have allowed humans to stretch the limits of their athletic capabilities and have merged the worlds of statistics and sports in manners unimaginable just a decade ago.Uploaded 10-03-17With unprecedented teamwork from those who have achieved success in the athletic arena to those whose achievements occur behind the closed doors of research labs, hospitals, and beyond, we are able to use data collected from the human body to monitor, measure, and predict athlete training and performance like never before.During this event, the Harvard Innovation Labs, together with the Sports Innovation Lab and the OneTeam Collective, will explore the future of this dynamic, cross-industry, and fast-growing sector of sports technology.Learn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu/ and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/innovationlab and like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard i-lab | "Green Card Strategies and New Opportunities for Foreign Entrepreneurs"
Jeff Goldman an Immigration Lawyer from Boston taught a workshop entitled "Green Card Strategies and New Opportunities for Foreign Entrepreneurs," in April 2012 at the Harvard innovation lab. Uploaded 04-09-12In his presentation, Goldman discussed how the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced that the H-1B nonimmigrant and National Interest Waiver immigrant visa categories will now be more friendly to foreign national entrepreneurs who are creating jobs in the US. This interactive workshop helped to clarify the viability of this new initiative; offered foreign national entrepreneurs a road-map which may make all the difference when filing immigration petitions; and helped start-up companies understand where they are heading when they have key personnel who have immigration considerations. Goldman shared strategies for documenting "significant impact in the field" required for National Interest Waivers; how an entrepreneur with his/her own start-up can prove a legitimate "employer—employee" relationship that is required for H-1B; and the best timing for filing immigration petitions.You can learn more about Jeff on his website http://jeffgoldmanimmigration.com/jeff-goldman-esq/ and contact him here http://jeffgoldmanimmigration.com/contact-us/Learn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu/ and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/innovationlab and like us on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard i-lab | Startup Secrets Part 5: Wrap Up | Michael Skok and Geoffrey Moore
Presenting to a full house, renowned author, Geoffrey Moore, and Michael Skok took a closer look into gaining an unfair competitive advantage as an entrepreneur. The event commenced with a recap of observations and learning from the previous five workshops, followed by insights from Geoffrey Moore into the secrets of entrepreneurship and business building, including a preview of Moore's latest book, Escape Velocity. The lecture concluded with a book-signing, lunch and networking with fellow entrepreneurs.Uploaded 27-07-12You can read more about Michael Skok, and his Startup Secrets on his website: http://mjskok.com/ and follow him on twitter at http://twitter.com/mjskokLearn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu/ and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/innovationlab and like us on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard i-lab | Startup Secrets Part 3: Business Model - Michael Skok
In Part 3 of Michael Skok's Harvard i-lab lecture series, "Startup Secrets: An insiders guide to unfair competitive advantage," Skok helped students to think thorugh the three aspects of business model creation—identifying your C.O.R.E. value, finding Multipliers for growth and Levers for cost economies. This allows you to have much better odds of building a company that returns value disproportionally to all of its stakeholders. Uploaded 07-05-12You can read more about Michael Skok, and his Startup Secrets on his website: http://mjskok.com/ and follow him on twitter at http://twitter.com/mjskokLearn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu/ and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/innovationlab and like us on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard i-lab | 2013 Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge -- Healthy Motives
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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab
The Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab is a state-of-the-art wet laboratory and co-working space for high-potential biotech and life science ventures at Harvard.Uploaded 15-09-25Learn more here: https://innovationlabs.harvard.edu/labs/pagliuca-harvard-life-labVideography by Owen Mack www.cobrandit.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Turning Ideas Into Impact: ArtLifting
Get inspired by ArtLifting's innovation journey since their time at the Harvard Innovation Labs. Founded by Liz Powers '10, ArtLifting is a social enterprise that champions artists impacted by disabilities and housing insecurity. Learn more at artlifting.com.Uploaded 02-05-24Videography:Aaron James SanchezPatrick FogartySamuel Mironko Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard Innovation Labs | Imagine
Experience the Harvard Innovation Labs - a unique ecosystem where community and resources lead to serendipitous, transformative ideas.Uploaded 29-05-25Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard Venture Stories - Nix Biosensors
A venture funder turned entrepreneur, Meridith Unger has used her experience on both sides of the pitch table to become an expert on selling her company to investors and competition judges alike. Unger's Harvard Launch Lab-based venture, Nix Biosensors, is developing wearable hydration sensors for the consumer and military markets.Uploaded 24-05-18Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Muhammad Yunus: How to Approach Social Business
On April 19, 2012, sponsored by the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, Harvard innovation lab, HBS Healthcare Initiative, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus came to Harvard Business School campus to speak. This is an exerpt.Uploaded 01-06-12Social Business—New Models for Providing Sustainable Services to the PoorMuhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize LaureateProfessor Muhammad Yunus is widely known for his work in establishing the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1983. Join us for a discussion regarding his recent efforts that focus on building social businesses and healthcare initiatives in Bangladesh. Professor Yunus is the author of Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty, Creating a World without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism, and Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard i-lab | Startup Secrets Part 2: Company Formation - Michael Skok
In Part 2 of Michael Skok's Harvard i-lab lecture series, "Startup Secrets: An insiders guide to unfair competitive advantage," Skok argues that ideas aren't worth much without great people to back them up. It's human capital that makes the difference between good and great companies, which is why attracting and retaining the right people and getting them dialed into the right vision is utterly essential for the burgeoning venture.Uploaded 07-05-12You can read more about Michael Skok, and his Startup Secrets on his website: http://mjskok.com/ and follow him on twitter at http://twitter.com/mjskokLearn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu/ and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/innovationlab and like us on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard i-lab | Low-Fidelity Data Mining for Customer Insights
How can we mine survey, sales and customer data to uncover new insights into the lives and needs of our users, without a strong background in statistical analysis or code development?Uploaded 04-12-14In this session, Almighty CSO Ian Fitzpatrick will walk through approaches to finding anomalies, commonalities and outliers in data sets — with a focus on using these to drive better qualitative research that shapes a great brand, product or service experience. Particular emphasis will be placed on combining private and public data sets to uncover hidden patterns and opportunities.The workshop itself is designed to be highly-participatory and hands-on. Participants are encouraged to bring both a laptop or tablet computer and an eagerness to collaborate with others.Learn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu/ and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/innovationlab and like us on Facebook athttps://www.facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard i-lab | "A Debate: Business is Essential to Effectively Deliver Public Services to the Poor"
HKS Professor Lant Prichett and HBS Professor Michael Chu debated the most effective mechanisms to alleviate poverty in a debate moderated by The Fletcher School's Nicholas P. Sullivan. The emerging social finance space and other market-based solutions were challenged by more traditional philanthropic approaches to solve poverty. This debate offered a great cross-campus initiative that enhanced a broader understanding of the current "hot topics" around how the Business and the International Development players can work together in addressing services delivery barriers to the poor.Uploaded 02-05-12Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard i-lab | Startup Secrets: Go to Market Strategies
Find out why it can be twice as important to get your Go-to-Market right, even if you've engineered a great product. Get to understand the strategic and tactical frameworks needed to enter a market and occupy a dominant position. Learn how to develop your "brand essence" and integrate other key marketing assets so that you can pursue an impactful sales and marketing approach.Uploaded 03-01-13Learn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu/ and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/innovationlab and like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard i-lab | Grand Opening
The Harvard Innovation Lab was opened on November 18, 2011. During our celebration, Joseph B. Lassiter III, Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, and Faculty Chair, Harvard Innovation Lab, Dean Nitin Nohria, Harvard Business School, President Drew Faust, Harvard University, and Mayor Thomas M. Menino, City of Boston, spoke and welcomed the i-lab as a new and innovative initiative that fosters team-based and entrepreneurial activities and deepens interactions among Harvard students, faculty, entrepreneurs, and members of the Allston and Greater Boston community.Uploaded 28-03-12Learn more about the i-lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
President's Challenge Presentation Zoom
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Harvard i-lab | Harvard Launch Lab Promotional Video
The Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) is excited to continue to grow the resources around entrepreneurship for Harvard students, and Alumni. Following three years of growth, and more than 500 unique ventures, the i-lab is opening a “OneHarvard” inspired prototype co-working space adjacent to the i-lab for high potential Harvard Alumni startup ventures, called the Harvard Innovation Launch Lab.Uploaded 03-12-14Learn more about the Launch Lab from Jodi Goldstein, Director, and hear from the inaugural class of startups in residence at the Launch Lab! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard i-lab | Artist as Entrepreneur: A Conversation with Wynton Marsalis
"Artist as Entrepreneur" A Conversation with Wynton MarsalisUploaded 15-02-12The i-lab hosted a conversation entitled "Artist as Entrepreneur" with Wynton Marsalis, and HBS professors Nancy Koehn, Rohit Deshpande, and Mukti Khaire, moderated by Mihir Desai on February 7, 2012. This conversation was open to the Harvard community and members of the public. Wynton Marsalis, internationally acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader, educator and a leading advocate of American culture. Nancy Koehn, James E. Robison Professor of Business AdministrationHarvard Business School Rohit Deshpande, Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of MarketingHarvard Business School Mukti Khaire, Associate Professor of Business AdministrationMarvin Bower FellowHarvard Business School Mihir A. DesaiSenior Associate Dean for Planning and University AffairsMizuho Financial Group Professor of FinanceHarvard Business School Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard i-lab | A Deep Bench: Elite Athletes and the Expanding Marketplace for Sports Technologies
We are in the midst of a revolution in how athletes train, perform, and heal. Advances in mobile technology, AI, Big Data, sensors, GPS, and more have allowed humans to stretch the limits of their athletic capabilities and have merged the worlds of statistics and sports in manners unimaginable just a decade ago.Uploaded 10-03-17With unprecedented teamwork from those who have achieved success in the athletic arena to those whose achievements occur behind the closed doors of research labs, hospitals, and beyond, we are able to use data collected from the human body to monitor, measure, and predict athlete training and performance like never before.During this event, the Harvard Innovation Labs, together with the Sports Innovation Lab and the OneTeam Collective, will explore the future of this dynamic, cross-industry, and fast-growing sector of sports technology.Learn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu/ and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/innovationlab and like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard i-lab | What: What is Cultural Entrepreneurship? What does the Challenge Entail?
Mukti Khaire, Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Marvin Bower Fellow, led a workshop discussing how entrepreneurship can be used as a tool for expanding the role of the arts in society and supporting arts and artists in a sustainable manner. Her talk answered the question: 'what exactly is a cultural entrepreneur' and also gave an overview of how the Deans' Cultural Entrepreneurship Challenge seeks to support entrepreneurial ventures that also serve a cultural purpose. Professor Khaire covered how your proposal will be judged and discussed what elements to address in framing your ideas and hypotheses. She also addressed team composition, implementation, financial and regulatory viability, as well as guidance on how to measure the impact of these projects. Following the workshop, attendees had the opportunity to mingle, network, and form teams based on common interests.Uploaded 10-02-13Learn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu/ and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/innovationlab and like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
President's Innovation Challenge Takeaways
The Harvard Innovation Labs invites student founders from all 13 Harvard schools to apply for the President's Innovation Challenge (PIC) by December 5 for a chance to win a share of $515,000 in funding for their ventures, thanks to the @BertarelliFoundation.Uploaded 03-12-24This year’s theme, Redefining What’s Possible, celebrates the bold, ambitious work happening across campus as student founders tackle complex problems, build impactful solutions, and create better futures.Learn from previous PIC winners as they share their tips and tricks in this video.Applications close 12/5: https://innovationlabs.harvard.edu/pic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What It Takes: Vision, Mission and Culture
Human capital separates great companies from good ones; ideas are worth very little without the right people to drive them forward. That’s why attracting the right people while unifying them behind an inspiring vision and mission is essential to any significant venture. Uploaded 18-03-23In this workshop, originally presented in-person at the Harvard Innovation Labs, Michael Skok, founding partner at Underscore VC, will share how to develop your venture’s mission and vision – while ensuring you can execute on both. About the Speaker: Michael Skok is a founding partner at Underscore VC, a Boston-based firm investing in bold B2B software founders. Since starting his first software business as a teenager, Michael has spent 21 years as an entrepreneur and the past 18 years as a venture investor. During this time, he has founded, worked with, and invested in startups, and created thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of value. As an entrepreneur and an investor, Michael has focused on breakthrough technologies and disruptive business models including Open Source, Cloud, IoT, and emerging domains such as Blockchain, Virtual/Augmented Reality, and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning. He has served on or is active on many private and public boards such as Acquia, Demandware (now a Salesforce company), Mautic (acquired by Acquia in 2019), Salsify, and Zaius. He has also held leadership roles in many industry groups such as the Software Publishers Association, where he served as chairman for many years. In 2015, Michael co-founded Underscore VC to help founders create enduring companies through the power of community. He has a passion for helping the next generation of entrepreneurs succeed by not only backing them with capital but bringing the resources and commitment of an aligned community around them to propel their success. To help achieve this, he has mentored and taught for over 10 years at Harvard University, where he is an Entrepreneur in Residence, and created the Startup Secrets series.Want to dive deeper into Startup Secrets? Explore the interactive Startup Secrets Sandbox for frameworks, insights, and tools to help you build and scale your startup: https://bit.ly/3Cwv0nK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard i-lab | 2013 President's Challenge Presentation -- Sightline Productions
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Harvard i-lab | Deans' Food System Challenge Kickoff
Join HLS Dean Martha Minow and keynote speaker Ayr Muir, founder and CEO of Clover Food Lab, in officially kicking off the 2015 Deans' Food System Challenge. The Challenge invites creative and entrepreneurial students to develop innovative ideas to improve the health, social, and environmental outcomes of the food system in the United States and around the world.Uploaded 03-12-14Students will have the opportunity at the Kickoff to network with other like-minded folks at Harvard and begin exploring ideas and partnerships to apply to this challenge in one of four categories:Producing Sustainable, Nutritious FoodInnovating in Food Distribution and MarketsImproving Our DietReducing Food WasteThe Challenge is co-sponsored by Dean Martha Minow of Harvard Law School and Dean Julio Frenk of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.A variety of workshops and networking events will offer participants numerous opportunities to strengthen their idea, team, and ventures throughout the Challenge timeline. More information on the Challenge and programming can be found here.Learn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu/ and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/innovationlab and like us on Facebook athttps://www.facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
President's Challenge Presentation SPOUTS of Water
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Harvard i-lab | Entrepreneurship 101 with Gordon Jones
Did you know about the multi-million dollar facility for students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation? Want to learn about the Harvard innovation lab? Interested in entrepreneurship and want to know about programs and resources available to you? Hear Gordon Jones, the Managing Director of the Harvard Innovation lab, and Jodi Goldstein, the Director of the Harvard Innovation Lab, describe all the ways the i-lab can help students take their ideas as far as they can go.Uploaded 11-02-13Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard University President's Innovation Awards Ceremony - May 2, 2018
The seventh annual President's Innovation Challenge Awards Ceremony was a memorable evening. We celebrated innovation and entrepreneurship. We said farewell to President Drew Faust and thanked her for creating the Challenge and the One Harvard spirit of cross-disciplinary collaboration that inspired the creation of Harvard Innovation Labs. We heard pitches from 15 remarkable venture teams. And, of course, we handed out some big checks.Uploaded 17-05-18Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Turning Ideas into Impact: Chaku Foods
Get inspired by the impact @ChakuFoodsis having on farmers in Africa since winning the Harvard President's Innovation Challenge in 2021.Uploaded 02-05-24Videography:Aaron James SanchezPatrick FogartySamuel MironkoMisper Apawu (Ghana)Dennis Nipah (Ghana) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard i-lab | Keynote: Why Should Society Care About the Quantified Athlete?
We are in the midst of a revolution in how athletes train, perform, and heal. Advances in mobile technology, AI, Big Data, sensors, GPS, and more have allowed humans to stretch the limits of their athletic capabilities and have merged the worlds of statistics and sports in manners unimaginable just a decade ago.Uploaded 10-03-17With unprecedented teamwork from those who have achieved success in the athletic arena to those whose achievements occur behind the closed doors of research labs, hospitals, and beyond, we are able to use data collected from the human body to monitor, measure, and predict athlete training and performance like never before.During this event, the Harvard Innovation Labs, together with the Sports Innovation Lab and the OneTeam Collective, will explore the future of this dynamic, cross-industry, and fast-growing sector of sports technology.Learn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu/ and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/innovationlab and like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How to Come up With a Startup Idea
Coming up with a startup idea isn’t about waiting for lightning to strike — it’s about tuning into the world, and your own reactions to it, with greater clarity. Rebekah Emanuel, Senior Advisor for Social Impact and Climate at the Harvard Innovation Labs, shares practical strategies you can use to spark meaningful, viable ventures and turn ideas into impact.Uploaded 01-10-25Follow us:LinkedIn: /harvard-innovation-labsTikTok: /harvardinnovationlabsInstagram: /harvardinnovationlabs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard i-lab | Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge Kickoff
Join us to kick off the 2015 Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge Kickoff with Katrine Bosley, CEO of Editas Medicine. She will share her thoughts on the key factors of leading successful companies and advice on how to build effective teams and execute strategies to commercialize technologies that will ultimately impacting patients and their care.Uploaded 03-12-14Also joining us will be Aldatu Biosciences to share exciting updates on their progress since winning the Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge last year and provide advice on how to best take advantage of the i-lab and its resources to take your idea as far as it can go.Students and fellows will also have the opportunity to network with other like-minded folks at Harvard to begin exploring ideas and partnerships to apply to this challenge in one of four categories:Diagnostics and Population Health ManagementDevices and MaterialsHealth IT and WearablesPrevention and SafetyThe Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge is co-chaired by Dean Jeffrey Flier (HMS) and Dean Nitin Nohria (HBS). This initiative provides Harvard students and fellows the opportunity to develop solutions that address unmet needs in health and life sciences.A variety of workshops and networking events will offer participants numerous opportunities to strengthen their idea, team and plan prior to the February application deadline. Finalists are announced in March and awarded $5000. Winners of the Bertarelli Foundation Prizes, totaling up to $60,000, will be presented at Demo Day in May 2015.Katrine Bosley is the CEO of Editas Medicine and has been in the biotechnology industry for over 20 years. She was recently the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Broad Institute and a review committee member for the Translation Fund at the Wellcome Trust. Prior to that, Katrine led Avila Therapeutics as its CEO (acquired by Celgene) and was VP, Business Development at Adnexus Therapeutics (acquired by BMS). Earlier, she held several positions at Biogen Idec in business development, commercial operations and portfolio strategy in the U.S. and Europe.Learn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu/ and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/innovationlab and like us on Facebook athttps://www.facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Muhammad Yunus: Social Business
On April 19, 2012, sponsored by the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, Harvard innovation lab, HBS Healthcare Initiative, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus came to Harvard Business School campus to speak. This is an exerpt.Uploaded 01-06-12Social Business—New Models for Providing Sustainable Services to the PoorMuhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize LaureateProfessor Muhammad Yunus is widely known for his work in establishing the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1983. Join us for a discussion regarding his recent efforts that focus on building social businesses and healthcare initiatives in Bangladesh. Professor Yunus is the author of Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty, Creating a World without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism, and Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Muhammad Yunus: Microfinance vs. Conventional Banking
On April 19, 2012, sponsored by the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, Harvard innovation lab, HBS Healthcare Initiative, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus came to Harvard Business School campus to speak. This is an exerpt.Uploaded 01-06-12Social Business—New Models for Providing Sustainable Services to the PoorMuhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize LaureateProfessor Muhammad Yunus is widely known for his work in establishing the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1983. Join us for a discussion regarding his recent efforts that focus on building social businesses and healthcare initiatives in Bangladesh. Professor Yunus is the author of Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty, Creating a World without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism, and Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023 Harvard President's Innovation Challenge Awards Ceremony
We’re incredibly proud of all our ventures who are chasing dreams and blueprinting a better tomorrow. The participants in the Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge are a prime example of the perseverance and agility required to do this work. Our awards ceremony was attended in-person and virtually by over 2,000 innovators from across the globe. With the generous support of the Bertarelli Foundation, winning teams took home a share of $515,000 in prize funding to propel their ventures even further, faster. Watch it all unfold here.Uploaded 08-05-23WINNERS- RockFix, Penguin.ai, InConfidence, PatientFirst.ai, and InGel Therapeutics, Inc. took home $75,000 each.- MelaninDoc, Stochastic, BonePixel, Thermaband, and Aperture Bio took home $25,000 each.- Pacto Medical, Webquity, Halo Braid, and S.A.L.Tech took home $2,700 in Ingenuity Awards for early-stage ventures.https://innovationlabs.harvard.edu/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Designing a Customer-Centric Business Model
Simply defined, a business model is how you deliver value to customers and how you make money in return. The most successful business models capture value in concert with the customer. In this session, originally presented in-person at the Harvard Innovation Labs, you’ll learn how to do just that. Michael Skok, founding partner at Underscore VC, will share how to identify your core business value and align your business model to your customer’s success. Uploaded 25-03-23About the Speaker: Michael Skok is a founding partner at Underscore VC, a Boston-based firm investing in bold B2B software founders. Since starting his first software business as a teenager, Michael has spent 21 years as an entrepreneur and the past 18 years as a venture investor. During this time, he has founded, worked with, and invested in startups, and created thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of value. As an entrepreneur and an investor, Michael has focused on breakthrough technologies and disruptive business models including Open Source, Cloud, IoT, and emerging domains such as Blockchain, Virtual/Augmented Reality, and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning. He has served on or is active on many private and public boards such as Acquia, Demandware (now a Salesforce company), Mautic (acquired by Acquia in 2019), Salsify, and Zaius. He has also held leadership roles in many industry groups such as the Software Publishers Association, where he served as chairman for many years. In 2015, Michael co-founded Underscore VC to help founders create enduring companies through the power of community. He has a passion for helping the next generation of entrepreneurs succeed by not only backing them with capital but bringing the resources and commitment of an aligned community around them to propel their success. To help achieve this, he has mentored and taught for over 10 years at Harvard University, where he is an Entrepreneur in Residence, and created the Startup Secrets series.Want to dive deeper into Startup Secrets? Explore the interactive Startup Secrets Sandbox for frameworks, insights, and tools to help you build and scale your startup: https://bit.ly/3Cwv0nK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard i-lab | Entrepreneurial Ventures in Silicon Valley
The Harvard Innovation Lab led a student trip to Silicon Valley in January 2012. This field-based program provided an opportunity for students to immerse themselves in the entrepreneurial environment of Silicon Valley, with a focus on the consumer internet sector. 36 students from across Harvard participated, with faculty from HBS and SEAS leading the trip.Uploaded 15-02-12Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard i-lab | What Makes Boston's Start-Up Scene Special? with Jeff Bussgang
HBS Senior Lecturer and Flybridge General Partner Jeff Bussgang joined us to deliver a "What Makes Boston's Start-Up Scene Special?" Uploaded 11-02-13Jeff is a former entrepreneur (cofounder/president of Upromise and VP at Open Market), author (Mastering the VC Game - www.jeffbussgang.com), blogger (www.SeeingBothSides.com) and teaches the popular EC class, 'Launching Technology Ventures.' He was Harvard'91 computer science and HBS '95.Learn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu/ and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/innovationlab and like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Turning Ideas into Impact: Myspeech
Videography:Aaron James SanchezPatrick FogartySamuel MironkoUploaded 02-05-24Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard i-lab | Building your Startup Team: Novel Approaches for an Agile World
Building your startup team is different from team building in a large organization. Hint, it's not about titles, roles and experience. Jeffrey Beir will share some tips from awesome entrepreneurs, and some difficult lessons learned as well.Uploaded 03-12-14Learn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu/ and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/innovationlab and like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/harvardinnov Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvard i-lab | 2013 President's Challenge Presentation -- PlenOptika
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Harvard i-lab | Dividing The Founder Pie with Jeffrey Beir of seed2A
It's not an easy conversation to have, but you need to have it. Jeffrey presented an approach for having the discussion with your co-founders and suggests a methodology for dividing up the pie. He also spent some time on capitalization and dilution, and what to expect to happen to your ownership as you raise capital.Uploaded 11-02-13Learn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu/ and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/innovationlab and like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices