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Women-Led Wednesdays: Building New Entrepreneurial Futures

Lex Schroeder, Senior Writer

As the Harvard community recognizes Women’s History Month, there is much to celebrate and much more work to do. We pick up our Women-Led Wednesdays series this spring with appreciation for new resources from the Harvard Office for DIB and new work from the HBS Gender Initiative and a continued commitment to centering equity in our storytelling at the Harvard Innovation Labs.

Announcing the Inaugural Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle and a New Season of Climate Rising Podcast focused on Entrepreneurship

Today, the Harvard Innovation Labs introduced the inaugural participants selected for the university innovation center’s Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle, a selective incubation program for high-potential ventures working to address climate change. The program is spearheaded by the Harvard Innovation Labs and the Harvard Alumni for Climate and the Environment (HACE), a 1,200-member strong community, with […]

Harvard Innovation Labs Announces 25 Finalists of 2021 President’s Innovation Challenge

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Making public transportation more accessible to commuters across Africa, enabling children to break cycles of intergenerational poverty, and using technology to design zero-waste apparel, are just a few of the 25 venture initiatives that will be showcased in the 2021 President’s Innovation Challenge Virtual Award’s Ceremony.  Now in its tenth year, the President’s Innovation Challenge is a competition designed to […]

How 5 Harvard i-lab Startups Are Rethinking Education

Elaine Johanson, Senior Writer

While educators are starting to recognize the importance of social-emotional learning (SEL), incorporating it into curricula is not a one-size-fits-all task. SEL curricula needs to be sensitive to the culture and community around a school. Fortunately, a handful of i-lab ventures are finding ways to help schools incorporate SEL in ways that are tailored to their students’ needs.

Harvard Innovation Labs Announces Programming and Administration Leaders

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Managing director of programs and senior director of administration to guide university innovation center’s second decade of growth The Harvard Innovation Labs today announced two new additions to the university innovation center’s leadership team: Dr. Rebecca Xiong, managing director of programs and engagement; and Meagan Hall, senior director of administration. “Over the last decade, the […]

Startup Lessons from Harvard Innovation Labs “Unicorns”

Founders of two ventures that were incubated at the Harvard Innovation Labs (HIL) recently participated in a panel discussion about how their entrepreneurial journeys led them to a significant 2020 milestone: achieving billion-dollar valuations. In any other year, this milestone would have likely been cause for an in-person celebration. But Will Ahmed (AB 2012), founder […]

Women-Led Wednesdays: Black Founders’ Voices and Perspectives

Adrian Gill and Lex Schroeder

This month, we’re celebrating Black History Month by featuring Black women founders’ voices and perspectives. Read on for short interviews with founders at all stages of the entrepreneurial process. We will continue to update this edition of #womenledwednesdays throughout February.

Introducing the Harvard Innovation Labs 2021 Spring Venture Program Cohort

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Today, the Harvard Innovation Labs announced that more than 420 ventures are joining the 2021 Spring Venture Program. “Last spring, soon after welcoming hundreds of students to the Harvard Innovation Labs at our in-person Venture Program orientation, we transitioned to entirely virtual programming,” said Matt Segneri, Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard […]

Harvard Innovation Labs: 2020 Year in Review

Since the Harvard Innovation Labs opened its doors in 2011, we’ve brought together thousands of students, alumni, and faculty from across disciplines to learn from each other, and work on solutions to some of the world’s most challenging problems. During a year that has been defined by some of the greatest challenges we’ve ever faced, […]

Harvard Innovation Labs Kicks Off 10th Annual President’s Innovation Challenge

The Harvard Innovation Labs today kicked off the 10th Annual President’s Innovation Challenge, a competition designed to bring together the Harvard community to work on compelling solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems. For the 2021 Challenge, winning teams will receive $510,000 in prizes, made possible by a generous gift from the Bertarelli Foundation, co-founded by Ernesto Bertarelli (MBA ’93).  “As we kick […]