Cambridge Innovation Center - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Apr 2014
News

Bertarelli Foundation Gift Names Deans' Health & Life Sciences Challenge Prize

Harvard Innovation lab (i-lab), which leverages the entrepreneurial spirit throughout the university and shows the unlimited possibilities unleashed when individuals from a wide range of fields but with a shared passion are brought... View Details

Keywords: i-Lab; Harvard Medical School; Scientific Research and Development Services

Arjun Goyal

Dr. Arjun Goyal is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Vida Ventures, a leading US-based life sciences venture capital firm with a ~$1.8 billion in AUM. Arjun focuses on creating and investing in companies that translate groundbreaking science into View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Jun 2017
News

Developing Insight that Has Power in Practice

has led faculty members to explore research questions in innovative ways using data mining, people analytics, crowdsourced solutions, and other modes of investigation. Additionally, more than 30 faculty members are engaged in ambitious... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Preparing Our Students for a Changing World

Harvard Innovation Labs Students at the i-lab facilities in Batten Hall (photo by Rose Lincoln) The Harvard Innovation Labs are an ecosystem that bring entrepreneurial ventures to life. Successful ventures... View Details

06 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2023-24 Leadership Fellows

GAYLORD, Boston Ballet NINA HARSTAD, Equal Justice Initiative VI MAI, MBTA ALEJANDRO MOLINA, the White House National Economic Council RACHEL OROL, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts SAMI PAL, Coney Island Prep BRITTANY PECK, The... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise

01 Mar 2014
News

Everything Old Is a New Opportunity

global organization whose mission is accelerating innovation to improve the lives of older adults. Much of their early work has been nurturing promising entrepreneurs through the aptly named Aging2.0 GENerator—which provides strategic... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Health, Social Assistance; Personal Services

01 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Sometimes Success Begins at Failure

discovered these negative results, some firms might have thrown in the towel and moved on to other projects. But Pfizer's scientists picked up on—and decided to pursue—what they thought might be an interesting side effect. That side effect led the process of View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough; Health; Pharmaceutical

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Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020

student life was half academic, half ramen chef,” says Sasago, who interned at a popular Cambridge ramen eatery to fine-tune his cooking skills. Senior Lecturer Lena Goldberg’s elective course Challenges and Opportunities in the... View Details

15 Dec 2024
News

Forward Thinking

You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details

Keywords: Janine White; Illustrations by Richard Borge; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

13 Jun 2017
Blog Post

7 Reasons Why the New MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program at Harvard is Next Level

citation] E.g. Professors VC’s The Rock Center and iLab Classmates: in your program sure, but also pure MBA’s, pure engineers, HKS, HLS, and HMS - and they’re the best of the best Other top schools (I c u, MIT 👀) Space to work on... View Details

01 Mar 2006
News

Entrepreneur's Notebook with Paul Conforti and Kim Moore (both MBA '97)

Names: Paul Conforti and Kim Moore (both MBA ’97) Company: Finale Dessert Company (established 1998) Locations: Park Plaza, Boston & Harvard Square, Cambridge Web: www.finaledesserts.com With vision, fortitude, and a whole lot of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; desserteries; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Dec 1997
News

A Piece of the Action

Seattle, for example—are also centers of technological advancement, none has been able to duplicate the accelerated pace, the technical expertise, the outrageous dollar figures, the continued double-digit growth, or the extensive... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

October 1995 (Revised January 1998)
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Cybersmith

Cybersmith is a new company that has created a new retailing concept. This particular store has been reported in over 250 newspapers, and by every major American television network. Some would classify it as an on-line cafe, but management has positioned the store as... View Details

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Joint Ventures; Consumer Behavior; Product Marketing; Innovation and Invention; Retail Industry; Cambridge

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01 Jun 2022
News

Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

students, such as the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, which launched in 2003, followed by the Harvard Innovation Labs in 2011. We’re now 25 years into the annual New Venture Competition sponsored by the... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Virtual Campus Tour | MBA

the annual New Venture Competition and the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence program where accomplished entrepreneurs spend a year at the School counseling MBA students. Rock Center for Entrepreneurship Batten Hall Home of the Harvard View Details

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

How Technological Disruption Changes Everything

HBS Professor Clayton Christensen sees disruptive innovation as a threat to everything from Microsoft to Japan—and even to a certain prominent business school. But through that disruption comes improved quality of life—and major... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow

founder of the Victors & Spoils ad agency in Colorado, who noted that when his agency sold its majority stake to global communications firm Havas in 2012, he was faced with trying to innovate within a larger, more bureaucratic... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education; Advertising

01 Dec 2012
News

Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources

Henderson What would you do if you had the Dalai Lama's complete attention for 10 minutes? That's the situation Professor Rebecca Henderson faced in front of 1,000 people during a panel discussion with the religious leader, part of his three-day visit to View Details

Keywords: Dalai Lama

01 Dec 2005
News

The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money

corporations, and fake transactions. The practice bolsters international crime and terrorism and contributes to global inequality and poverty, he writes. A guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a senior fellow at the Center for... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Finance

01 Dec 2003
News

The Next Big Thing

center recently established in Cambridge to advance genetics-based medicine. Summers, Vest, and Lander all remarked on the promise the genomic revolution holds for society, the need to facilitate its... View Details

Keywords: life sciences; Scientific Research and Development Services

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