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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
Kimberly Jung, pictured in a field of crocuses, returned to Afghanistan to understand how she and her cofounders could import saffron to the United States. Photo courtesy of Kimberly Jung During their first semester at HBS, former United States Army engineer officers...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2024
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Unlocking the Power of Community
When Tara Fung (MBA 2016) explains Co:Create, the company she cofounded in 2022 and now leads as CEO, she doesn’t mention Web3 first. “We help innovative brands and creators unlock the power of community,” she explains. Co:Create does this with a new, gamified approach...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2023
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Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next
an open culture," she says. "We want to be younger and free-thinking." To create that movement, though—a project whose spirit can spread throughout the company—Nisa had to build a rather unorthodox catalyst. The "Space office" is the View Details
- 16 Aug 2018
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Working with a Giver’s Spirit
Philippine tech incubator behind a number of remarkable companies, including Ayannah, which uses social media and mobile platforms to provide digital commerce and payment services to the world’s unbanked; PawnHero, an online pawnshop that...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2016
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The Evolving HBS Campus
(photo by Susan Young) The Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab is the newest addition to the growing portfolio of facilities to support innovation and entrepreneurship, joining the Harvard i-lab, which opened in 2011, and the Harvard Launch Lab, a start-up View Details
- 14 Apr 2014
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The Puzzle of Life
partner with Silicon Valley–based InCube Ventures and Venture Health. "When I came to HBS, I didn't know what venture capital meant," says Farquharson, a native of Jamaica who moved to the United States with his family at age 10. "People...
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- 01 Jan 2017
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Sphere of Influence
incubators that offer training, education, and networking opportunities to women of all backgrounds and social classes. “For a program to succeed, it needs to be integrated—through partnerships—into local communities and within...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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3-Minute Briefing: Burunda Prince (MBA 1987)
estate and construction business in Atlanta 70 years ago. He was an incubator and accelerator before the terms were even coined. Our Big IDEAS curriculum helps develop a step-by-step plan for creating a sustainable business. The process...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Addressing the housing needs of India’s poor
community engagement, design, and affordability as the key elements of improving housing conditions for the poor. It provides an alternative to traditional models of mass-housing developments that lead to social exclusion. “We envisioned mHS as an action-research...
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- 13 Jul 2018
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Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
slow, I Create recently set up a business incubation center in partnership with a division of the Federal Ministry of Entrepreneurship. Meanwhile, the jobs situation in India remains dire, with 17.8 million of the nation’s 1.34 billion...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Innovation as Antidote
ails the industry ("Curing Health Care"), including Halle Tecco's (MBA 2011) focus on incubating new ideas and Gregory Stock's (MBA 1987) push to make medicine more personalized. WILLIAMS The energy behind these ideas originates in the...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2018
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Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
ventures have been incubated at the Harvard Innovation Labs,” says Executive Director Jodi Goldstein (MBA 1996). “Collectively, they have worked on an incredible breadth and diversity of ideas.” 83% of Harvard University students engage...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY
hangover — when people were working under great pressure, their creativity went down on that day and the next two days as well. Time pressure stifles creativity because people can’t deeply engage with the problem. Generally, creativity requires an View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
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Escape Hatch
build one and stick it in the woods outside Boston—far enough away that I could escape stress and the city, but near enough that I could get there easily,” he recalls. That impulse became the inspiration for Getaway, a startup incubated...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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The HBS Fund
emergency personnel—potentially saving more than 10,000 lives annually. RapidSOS participated in the Harvard Innovation Labs’ Venture Incubation Program while co-founder Michael Martin (MBA 2015) was a student at HBS. The startup...
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- 02 May 2016
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Building Startup Skills for Business and Life
business plan competition that awards funding to the most promising ventures. E360 has inspired hundreds of student-led startups and is now based at the Met School’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, founded in 2012 as the nation’s first dedicated business...
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- 22 Feb 2016
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Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
the Miami Culinary Institute. He sits on the board of Northeast Organic Farming Association in New Jersey, which incubates artisanal food production businesses. And he indulges the would-have-been academic in him by regularly attending...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2013
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Revitalizing America
entrepreneurs to places with unmet needs, where their imaginations can be stimulated to find new solutions—for example, the cloth incubators for premature babies who lack hospital access, developed by Embrace in San Francisco, or Khan...
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- 06 Nov 2014
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Building a Startup Community Beyond Commencement
became a “pain point” for her. “That’s when they need us the most,” says Goldstein, a 20-year vet of the Boston startup scene. Click here for a behind-the-scenes look at the Launch Lab. (Video) In early 2013, Goldstein took the idea for an alumni View Details