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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
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... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future
went from leading portal to overextended venture incubator in just one year. The founder and owner was removed, and Yu, 36, was left to pick up the pieces. As chairman and CEO, he is now restructuring and refocusing the company to be a... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
HBS Student Battles ALS
people every year, is not a high priority for either the public or pharmaceutical companies. To stimulate novel treatment ideas and to raise the venture funding needed to get those ideas to market, he launched two organizations. One is named Avi Therapeutics, a... View Details
- 10 Dec 2010
- News
Notes from the Trenches
incubation period. If you put a backup plan in place, I guarantee you will quickly fall back on it.” “Just do it,” said Clark. “There will always be a reason not to. And this is the single most risk-free time in your life.” Send us a note... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Excellence At The Intersection Of Disciplines
involving business, science, medicine, law, public policy, design, and ethics. What began with the i-lab, an incubator for students across Harvard, has evolved into an innovation ecosystem that includes the Harvard Launch Lab (for alumni)... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Entrepreneurship flourishes in the Bayou
former managing director of State Street Research to become COO at Idea Village, also located in New Orleans, where he worked with more than 300 startups until 2013. “I’m an entrepreneur at my core,” explains Wilkins. Idea Village works as an View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
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... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy
advisors for systemic change" that imports the philosophy of true incubation and venture capital into the education sector. "This is just a seed fund," he said. "Twenty million dollars won't make a dent, but the entrepreneurs will." Doerr... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- News
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... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
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... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Rebooting Europe
it easier for researchers to settle throughout Europe while also improving job security and pension options. In the speech, Moedas also lauded the newly launched European Fund for Strategic Investments, an effort that will mobilize 315 billion euros to expand the work... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Power of Many
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 incubator which opened in 2014.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Where Innovation Rules
incubators of innovation. Issue Focus: Innovation Innovating in Your Business Will This Alum Change Education? HBS Simulations Go High-Tech A Lesson in Israeli Entrepreneurship In the modern era, beginning after World War II, business’s... View Details
- 06 Sep 2012
- News
Fashion-Forward
disrupted by digital media, for the most part, and they had already figured out how to bring in professional management. In fashion, it wasn’t so simple.” Amed began meeting with young British designers and networking. For nine months, he worked on a start-up View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Global Leadership Initiative's Director Focuses on Technology
incubators at the School experimenting with electronic distance-learning models, the Global Leadership Initiative has already launched a number of key research projects. The first, an interactive Internet survey available on the HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
inefficiencies, as units within them typically performed below stand-alone peers. Divesting assets to focus on core competencies became the accepted wisdom. Applying this logic, multi-industry conglomerates in other nations, such as the chaebol of Korea, were presumed... 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
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
were invaluable in helping Taylor sharpen his vision for the mission. “Lynda encouraged the idea of taking a public company like AmREIT and building an incubator charity alongside it. She felt an entrepreneurial, charitable initiative... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Nurturing Emerging Scholars and Leaders
sale to Rovi Corporation. In 2011, the pair created Accanto Partners to provide seed funding to promising new startups, including Catalant Technologies Inc. (formerly HourlyNerd), which was conceived as a FIELD project and incubated at... View Details