Harvard Innovation Labs: Startups & Entrepreneurship

On International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we had the opportunity to learn stories of inclusive innovation from artists, entrepreneurs, and operators. Featuring @ArtLifting, @Google, @HarvardHBS, and @Harvardilab.

Uploaded 06-12-22

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Are you seeking a mentor but not sure of how best to leverage that relationship? Have you ever been in a mentor relationship and wondered how best to serve the mentee? In this workshop Michael Skok, a serial entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, shows you how to develop best practices and get the most out of mentorship.

Uploaded 07-11-14

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This is an invaluable orientation on the local startup scene from venture capitalist Jeff Bussgang of Flybridge Capital. Jeff also serves as a senior lecturer at HBS and teaches the popular EC class Launching Technology Ventures. The session lays out the local ecosystem, walks through the popular micro-clusters and helps you navigate possible internships, field studies and jobs.

Uploaded 23-09-13

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Over the last 15 years, a new class of "venture philanthropy" organizations has brought the tools and approaches of venture capital to the social sector, with a goal of catalyzing transformative ideas by providing growth capital for the social entrepreneurs behind them. In this session, Kelly Cutler and Leah Staub-DeLong, who lead the Investment Selection team at the pioneering venture philanthropy fund New Profit, will discuss their organization's evolution, sophisticated approach to due diligence, and decision-making process behind choosing which grantees will become part of the New Profit portfolio. Cutler and Staub-DeLong will also discuss the broader landscape of venture philanthropy organizations and give insight into the diverse funding approaches and portfolios of others in the field.

Uploaded 15-12-14

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This educational and career-focused event allowed students to network with representatives from entrepreneurial and start-up organizations, learn about jobs and internships, and discover exciting opportunities available in the start-up field. Over 100 participating organizations took part in the fair, and over 1000 students from across all the Harvard schools attended the event.

Uploaded 20-02-13

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We welcome Isaiah Kacyvenski, former 8-year NFL veteran and Head of the Consumer Business and Chairman of the Sports Advisory Board at MC10, to the i-lab to discuss the opportunities new and emerging technology provide to the Innovate in Sports. Isaiah will be giving his perspective about how electronics and their interactions with the human body can change the way athletes prepare to perform as well as how fans consume sports content. In other words - how can we use technology to take the guesswork out of preparation and performance and create even more engaging, truly unique content?

Uploaded 11-03-16

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Creativity is one of the most essential and vital attributes for being a successful entrepreneur. But how exactly does one increase their ability to think and act creatively?

Uploaded 05-11-14

In this session, award winning educator and artist Art Sherwyn will walk through the creative process and illustrate methods for training the intellect how to gain passage into the world of creative thought; within this world will lie the tools for creative problem solving and invention with focus on using these techniques to drive innovation within your own venture.

Art will also share the unique alignment the arts have with the human side of entrepreneurship and connection to the stability and longevity of your venture and quality of life. This workshop will provide very practical information which is easily adaptable. It is designed to be highly participatory and hands-on.

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In this panel discussion we hear from DJ Dionna, founder of Entrepreneurial Finance Lab (EFL), and Lissy Hu, founder of Careport Health, on their experiences transitioning from students to successful social entrepreneurs. Both were applicants in the 2012 HBS New Venture Competition and although only Careport Health won the competition, both ventures are still operating and growing by the day. Each shares his/her perspective on the process of developing, and amending, a social enterprise business plan, as well as what it takes to manage the bumps in the road as one's venture gets off the ground.

Uploaded 01-05-13

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“Build it, and they will come” is a dangerous mindset in the startup world. Even if you create a great product, building a successful company around it can be nuanced and challenging. In addition to product development, you need to find and prove product-market fit—then repeat and scale through sales and marketing.

Uploaded 05-04-23

About the Speaker:

Chris Gardner is a partner at Underscore VC, a Boston-based firm investing in bold B2B software founders.

Chris is a resident builder, happiest when he’s hands-on with a project. At Underscore VC, that means identifying and investing in uniquely qualified founders, and then helping to build their company in any way needed: networker, salesperson, mentor, coach, psychotherapist, even drinking buddy.

His tinkering and building extend to his personal life, where you’ll find him getting hands-on in any manner of project. Car maintenance? He has a lift in his garage. Music? He’s recording an album in his barn studio. Cooking? His BBQ ribs are the stuff of legend. In short, if he can get his hands on it, he can master it (except golf; don’t ever ask Chris to play golf).

Though he’s known as a FinTech entrepreneur, Chris is a self-professed nerd and technology omnivore who, prior to Underscore VC, spent nearly three decades at companies focused on speech recognition, video streaming, mobile marketing, mobile messaging, e-billing, and document management. His last five roles all resulted in exits that created good outcomes for employees and investors.

Most recently, Chris was an executive at PayPal and led their P2P, PayPal Here, and In-Store payments products after Paydiant, the company he co-founded and built, was acquired by PayPal in 2015. Prior to that, Chris was CMO and head of products at ExtendMedia, a video content delivery and commerce platform software company that was acquired by Cisco in 2010; SVP of Products and Marketing at m-Qube, North America’s leading premium SMS mobile payments provider that was acquired by Verisign in 2006; and VP of Products and Marketing at edocs, Inc., an e-billing, payments, and customer self-service company that was acquired by Siebel Systems in 2004.

Chris earned a BA in Communications from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst a really long time ago.

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On April 19, 2012, sponsored by the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, Harvard innovation lab, HBS Healthcare Initiative, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus came to Harvard Business School campus to speak. This is an exerpt.

Uploaded 01-06-12

Social Business—New Models for Providing Sustainable Services to the Poor
Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Professor Muhammad Yunus is widely known for his work in establishing the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1983. Join us for a discussion regarding his recent efforts that focus on building social businesses and healthcare initiatives in Bangladesh. Professor Yunus is the author of Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty, Creating a World without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism, and Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs.



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