Accelerator Labs - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2021
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HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures

Since its founding in 2011, the Harvard Innovation Labs (HIL)—a collaboration between HBS and Harvard University—has nurtured some 2,500 ventures founded by students, alumni, and faculty members from all 13 schools at Harvard. Current... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

for tomorrow. The BEI aims to leverage HBS’s unique platform to help move the needle on climate change and accelerate climate solutions. Critical issues such as these are also among the focal points for HBS’s new Institute for the Study... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2022
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Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research

accelerates the process of knowledge creation at HBS and leverages the expertise of the School’s faculty. For the 2022–2023 academic year, the BiGS Visiting Fellows’ work centers on race, diversity, inclusion, and inequality. BUSINESS AS... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2014
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Early Impact

Harvard University Student-centered and faculty-enabled, the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) has become a vibrant, University-wide hub for entrepreneurship since its opening in 2011. The generosity of founding donors — Len Blavatnik (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Mar 2021
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Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education

groundbreaking accelerator promoting financial inclusion and access to capital for early-stage, technology-enabled companies led by women and multicultural entrepreneurs. Young companies accepted to the program receive mentorship, access... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots

player on the fintech scene. Today, the situation could not be more different. Thanks in part to Gotsch’s efforts, which led to the establishment of the FinTech Innovation Lab (FIL)—an über-accelerator jointly run by the Fund and... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

13 Jun 2017
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Finding Common Ground

serial entrepreneur, the New Mexico native ran his first business as an undergrad at George Washington University in Washington, DC, in the early 1990s. Selling medical lab tools from his dorm room and making deals using an old-school,... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Jun 2013
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Lesson Plans

example of what can push the system to a new approach. Another example, which I plan to visit, is Rocketship Education, a charter school system where students spend the first few hours of the morning in a computer learning lab and the... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2013
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Making Change

take to dramatically accelerate our course to reach full equality? The answer was that it would take more straight people standing up for their LGBT friends. That's how Friendfactor was born. We've raised $1.5 million in just over two... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; housing; gay rights; diabesity; disability; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Real Estate

05 Mar 2020
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Green Light

shipping containers—necessitates a white cap and a lab coat. The units feature a double-door protocol that requires the exterior door to be closed before a second internal door can be opened. In the far corner of the building, a... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

Commons Project, a nonprofit that in April launched Common Health, an Android app that allows users to securely download their health information from Electronic Health Records (EHR) and lab sources (similar to Apple Health). The... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick joked in his speech.) Related Links A Blueprint for Patient-Driven Drug Development Gene Williams (MBA 1987) Blavatnik Gift Accelerates Biomedical Advances Oscar Winners Even worse is what... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

Professor of Business Administration and Peter O. Crisp Faculty Chair of Harvard Innovation Labs Currency Why do startups fail? That question caught Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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