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25 Mar 2016
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Curtis Keith, Harvard University, Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator

29 May 2023
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Nurturing Breakthrough Ideas

As a center for creativity where innovation and entrepreneurship are intertwined, the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem encourages the development of novel ideas, approaches, and technologies that inspire new ventures or ways of thinking that keep companies relevant.... View Details

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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

In the first step toward entrepreneurship, career seekers face a fundamental choice that affects every subsequent action: do you see yourself as a startup founder or joiner? The Path of the Founder Founders are typically driven by one of... View Details

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

the reduced carbon footprint. The Entrepreneurial Manager Ofo Key concepts: Infrastructure, Bicycles, Transportation, Ride Share Dai Wei and his co-founders grew Beijing-based ofo from a school-based startup to a bike-share behemoth in a... View Details

14 Jul 2023
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Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows

mathematical biology from the University of Pennsylvania. Luca Giani (MPP 2022) is the co-founder and CEO of Ilios Therapeutics, a platform chemistry startup developing first-in-class small molecules modulating multiple complementary... View Details

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Bobby Tuohy

the VC side of the startup world. “I’m surprised by how much I’ve learned here,” Bobby says of HBS. “There’s a large volume of challenging work. But the MS/MBA cohort is like my second family; they are the single most impressive, genuine,... View Details

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

Entrepreneurs rarely consider who will ultimately own their startups—and what that means for founders—when they court venture capitalists. New research suggests they should. A startup funded by VCs who tend to work with the same group of... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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For Alumni - Entrepreneurship

their ventures. Harvard Life Lab Offering a fully equipped wet lab environment and other resources for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups that are founded by Harvard faculty, alumni, students, and postdoctoral scholars.... View Details

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Taylor Walden

classroom moment? Undoubtedly, my most memorable classroom moment was when I took the leap and pitched my startup idea to my section mates during the second day of The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) this semester. It was a defining moment... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details

October 2023 (Revised March 2024)
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KOKO Networks: Bridging Energy Transition and Affordability with Carbon Financing

By: George Serafeim, Siko Sikochi and Namrata Arora

The problem was massive: two million hectares of African forests were lost annually to charcoal production for cooking, an area equivalent to 13 times Greater London, resulting in one billion tons of carbon emissions yearly. At the same time, an estimated 700,000... View Details

Keywords: Clean Tech; Digital; Carbon Credits; Carbon Offsetting; Climate Change; Entrepreneurship; Energy Sources; Environmental Sustainability; Health; Market Design; Business Startups; Transition; Environmental Regulation; Policy; Energy Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Africa; Kenya; Rwanda

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20 Dec 2011
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PublicationsUnconscious Thought Works Bottom-up and Conscious Thought Works Top-down When Forming an Impression Authors:Maarten W. Bos and Ap Dijksterhuis Publication:Social Cognition 29, no. 6 (2011) Abstract We tested and found supportive evidence for one of the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Mar 2023
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Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition

Alumni-founded startups M7 Health and Hue came out victorious in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition on Thursday, winning the Grand Prize and Runner Up awards respectively in an impressive field of eight global regional winners. During the virtual, live... View Details

09 Nov 2022
In Practice

COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost

22 Sep 2023
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Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

Photo provided by Harvard University Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Who was the most important person you met at HBS? And why? This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and when my colleagues set up on Spangler Lawn during Spring Reunions... View Details

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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Track (for ventures that drive social change using nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid models). ( deadlines in December and February ) President’s Innovation Challenge : The President’s Innovation Challenge (PIC) is the Harvard Innovation Labs’ annual View Details

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Courses - Private Capital Project

Robert F. White FALL; Q1Q2 Entrepreneurial Finance (EF) is a course that serves as a guide for managers in the investment and financing sectors of entrepreneurial environments. The curriculum covers the lifecycle of a startup from... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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An Engine of Innovation

Startup life can often feel like a solo sport, says Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs: “What the three labs in our ecosystem do is to make building a venture something... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

October 2020
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Israelis, Palestinians and the Technology Bridge Between Them: A Work in Progress

By: Elie Ofek and Lia Weiner

In Israel of 2020 the demand for software engineers was endless. Meanwhile just miles away, Palestinian universities were graduating 3,000 engineers a year, and many of them could not find jobs in the still nascent Palestinian tech sector. Could these dots be... View Details

Keywords: Geopolitics; Technology Ecosystem; Software Engineers; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Business Startups; International Relations; Cooperation; Opportunities; Problems and Challenges; Technology Industry; Israel; Palestinian state