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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
Rumi Spice, a venture they incubated at the Harvard Innovation Labs in 2015, which brings saffron and other spices from Afghanistan to market in the United States and provides jobs for more than 1,500 farmers and other workers in the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 16 Aug 2018
- News
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... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
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 Jun 2023
- News
From Big Pharma to Startup
officer. It is based at LabCentral, an incubator space in Cambridge’s Kendall Square, which is also an operating partner for the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab. The company is currently in the process of raising a seed round to double the size... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
From the Classroom to Casablanca
To put what they have learned in the classroom to the test in the field, more than 900 HBS first-year students embarked in May on the FIELD Global Immersion (FGI), a cornerstone of the MBA Program since 2012. This experiential learning opportunity dispatches students... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
different in this sprawling city of 20 million than it is in Silicon Valley or any other entrepreneurial hot spot. Yet, 10 or 11 years ago, incubators and accelerators were only emerging concepts in Egypt. An Arabic word for entrepreneur... View Details
- 13 Jul 2018
- News
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... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
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... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
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... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
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
- 06 Nov 2014
- News
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
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
gate, currently working with all incubators in New Orleans as well as many high-growth companies," Wilkins notes. "I am also working with several organizations undergoing change management exercises that require a new way of thinking... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
entrepreneurship, global business, and information technology. In entrepreneurship, the HBS California Research Center had a tremendously successful year. Nearly two dozen cases on issues ranging from incubating new businesses to angel... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
finance, product, policy, or legal, there is a way to tackle part of this big problem,” he says. Caroline Quazzo (MBA 2017), a founder within Exelorate Growth, the internal incubator of Exelon, the leading provider of zero-carbon energy... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
process and convince companies to consider the human cloud? The Answers: Seems like a good mix of broad PR and market education, together with high-value customer selling, will be required. The incubators and startup competitions are... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
DeBere, who worked previously in international development in Nairobi, Kenya, and consulting in his native London, incubated the idea for Afya Pamoja—which means “health together” in Swahili—at HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS),... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
sending nonprofit leaders from all over the world to HBS. In the last 16 years, HBSASNE has sent 33 local nonprofit leaders to the SPNM program, representing a wide range of social action, from addressing homelessness and improving community health systems to View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
investment bank Bpifrance’s incubator space “Le Hub,” where the three teams pitched their concepts before a panel of 11 HBS alumni judges and a crowd of more than 100 alumni, family and friends. In the end, Benoit Dupont (PLDA 20, 2016)... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
in deep discussion—is no different in this sprawling city of 20 million than it is in Silicon Valley or any other entrepreneurial hot spot. Yet, 10 or 11 years ago, incubators and accelerators were only emerging concepts in Egypt. An... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
the home of Ana and Dr. Juan Gershanik, a local neonatal specialist. Gershanik gained national attention in the aftermath of Katrina for helping to safely evacuate all the premature babies at his hospital, which was underwater and—critically—without the electricity... View Details