Harvard Innovation Labs: Startups & Entrepreneurship

A disruptive business model is as powerful as a disruptive product or technology. Learn how innovators apply C.O.R.E differentiation, multipliers, and levers to disrupt the market. Find out about "SLIPPERY" products. Connect the dots between building a great product and creating a profitable enterprise.

Uploaded 01-01-13

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The i-lab is proud to host The President's Challenge, a university-wide initiative to develop entrepreneurial solutions to the world's most important social problems.

Uploaded 14-03-12

Sponsored by President Drew Faust, the Challenge aims to demonstrate and develop the University's commitment to social entrepreneurship and the collaboration of students across all its disciplines.

Over the course of the Challenge, $50,000 will be distributed to ten finalists to facilitate the development of their proposals, and up to four winners will be allotted portions of a $100,000 grand prize. The Challenge will give students access to expertise in the form of mentors and experience in the process of bringing great ideas to action.

Learn More: http://ilab.harvard.edu/presidents-challenge



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With US health care expenditures at $2.7 trillion per year, we would be facing significant cost pressures even if our systems were producing health outcomes superior to those of comparable nations. That our outcomes are worse indicates that we are facing a crisis.

Uploaded 24-09-13

Join Maureen Bisognano, President and CEO of the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, as she highlights how innovation can help us navigate out of this crisis. Innovative new models of care are needed to address the Triple Aim -- better care, better health, lower per capita costs. Luckily for us all, new models (and the capacity to create more) are out there. Every day, health systems here in the US and abroad, are designing and testing exciting new ideas and designs. What we're learning is that innovation isn't accidental -- it takes purpose, and effort. Come and learn how to innovate in health care and see the promising results of these new models.

Maureen Bisognano, President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), previously served as IHI's Executive Vice President and COO for 15 years. She is a prominent authority on improving health care systems, whose expertise has been recognized by her elected membership to the Institute of Medicine. Bisognano advises health care leaders around the world on quality improvement, and is a tireless advocate for change. She is also an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a Research Associate in the Brigham and Women's Hospital Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities.

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Uploaded 24-06-13

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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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As a capstone to the 2023 NextGen Accelerator, a founder bootcamp for early-stage student founders from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and universities in Sub-Saharan Africa, four leading Black venture capitalists shared their perspectives on the fundraising landscape for Black founders.

Uploaded 22-08-23

The panel featured Kofi Ampadu, partner at a16z; Daniel Acheampong (Harvard Kennedy School MPA 2020), founder and general partner at Visible Hands; Eunice Ajim, founding partner at Ajim Capital; and Javier Grevely, Boston Chapter co-lead at BLCK VC and an investor at Wellington Management.

Their discussion was wide-ranging, from why only one percent of venture capital money goes to Black founders to what they look for as they decide whether to invest in a startup.



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Scott Kirsner has written for Wired, Fast Company, the New York Times, Variety, and numerous blogs. He also writes the "Innovation Economy" blog and column for the Boston Globe, which covers the local startup and venture capital ecosystem. In this workshop, he shares some pro tips on cultivating a constructive relationship with members of the media...and when it makes sense to work with public relations firms...to help you get coverage when your venture launches.

Uploaded 14-08-13

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Mukti Khaire, Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Marvin Bower Fellow, led a workshop discussing how entrepreneurship can be used as a tool for expanding the role of the arts in society and supporting arts and artists in a sustainable manner. Her talk answered the question: 'what exactly is a cultural entrepreneur' and also gave an overview of how the Deans' Cultural Entrepreneurship Challenge seeks to support entrepreneurial ventures that also serve a cultural purpose. Professor Khaire covered how your proposal will be judged and discussed what elements to address in framing your ideas and hypotheses. She also addressed team composition, implementation, financial and regulatory viability, as well as guidance on how to measure the impact of these projects. Following the workshop, attendees had the opportunity to mingle, network, and form teams based on common interests.

Uploaded 10-02-13

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You might have the greatest product or service in the world, but if you can't get customers, it doesn't matter. How can you be as good at customer acquisition as you are at product? This workshop focuses on on-line customer acquisition techniques: banner ads, paid search, SEO, inbound marketing, "ghetto testing", social media marketing, analytics, etc. Andrew Payne is a Boston-area entrepreneur, executive, inventor, and investor. He's co-founded Open Market, Revenio, and FanSnap, and has been involved with many other technology startups. He is on Hubspot's Board of Directors.

Uploaded 23-03-13

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