Accelerator Labs - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

said. Crowdsourcing isn’t exactly new. Lakhani, who is the Principal Investigator of the Crowd Innovation Lab and NASA Tournament Lab at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, pointed out... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

11 Jun 2018
Blog Post

Meet the 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship

Peter Barrett, PhD, senior fellow at HBS and partner at Atlas Venture. Rich Horgan (MBA 2018) Click Here Rich Horgan comes to the Blavatnik Fellowship with a deep passion for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). With a younger brother impacted by the disease, Rich has a... View Details

31 Aug 2017
Blog Post

Why I Spent This Summer Coding

"faster" route, but working with contractors can be a black hole of time and capital. In contrast, technical founders can enhance velocity, an important attribute of successful startups, and accelerate attaining product-market... View Details

Keywords: Technology

10 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

consistently, and providing frequent feedback to employees—grew 28% larger and were 10 percentage points less likely to fail than those who got advice from peers with a passive people-management approach two years after our intervention. Entrepreneurs with MBAs or... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2014
News

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

17 Sep 2020
Blog Post

HBS Grads Launch Cybersecurity Nonprofit to Fight Infodemic

allow us to build a stronger tech backend and developer-console, giving us an edge to compete with Facebook login. We were also regular hustlers at all of the Harvard innovation lab (ilab) activities. For example, we participated in the... View Details

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

methods—and with attention to ecosystems—we are watching “up close and personal” as managers build innovation labs or corporate accelerators to facilitate innovation in their companies. We are interested... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry

Tell us about what you were doing before HBS and what brought you to HBS. Prior to HBS, I spent six years in the oil and gas industry working primarily on taking technologies in the energy space from the lab to the field. Being exposed to... View Details

12 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Why I Spent this Summer Coding

route, but working with contractors can be a black hole of time and capital. In contrast, technical founders can enhance velocity, an important attribute of successful startups, and accelerate attaining product-market fit (which is... View Details

10 Jun 2022
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

products. We also develop next generation type rechargeable battery, fuel cell, solar cell based on our advanced materials. Lydian LabsJoe Rodden, MBA 2022Lydian Labs aims to accelerate the decarbonization... View Details

25 May 2015
Blog Post

RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition

Innovation Lab and Rock Center for Entrepreneurship taught us how to build and organize an agile development team. Meanwhile, we reached out to countless alumni in the technology and telecom space. Again and again, we were blown away by... View Details

Web

2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

be published in April 2020. Rebecca sits on the boards of Amgen and of Idexx Laboratories. Her publications include the books Leading Sustainable Change and Accelerating Energy Innovation: Lessons from multiple sectors. She was named one... View Details

11 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Energy & Environment Club’s Icelandic Adventure!

and the steps Baseload is taking to help us get there. After this introduction, we traveled to Transition Labs, a company focused on accelerating climate startups. We were hosted by Kjartan Örn Ólafsson (MBA 2005), the CEO and co-founder... View Details

25 Feb 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

is attracting are studying digital, says Associate Professor Karim R. Lakhani, a member of D/I'sw faculty who also serves as principal investigator of the Crowd Innovation Lab at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology

23 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 23

are working on the resulting potential breakthrough ideas. In this article, we describe how leaders of Harvard Catalyst, an organization whose mission is to drive therapies from the lab to patients' bedsides faster and to do so by working... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity

Value Lab at the Digital Data and Design Institute at Harvard. The researchers found that PE investors often turn to digital transformation strategies and technology to help revamp portfolio firms, and this investment often View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

24 Mar 2021
News

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
News

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

27 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 27

Jill Avery, and Anat Keinan Abstract—We explore the effect of having a large dominant competitor and show the conditions under which focusing on a competitive threat, rather than hiding it, can actually help a brand. We demonstrate through View Details