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December 7, 2022

Women-Led Wednesdays: Imaginations Running Free

Lex Schroeder, Senior Writer

Women-Led Wednesdays: Imaginations Running Free As entrepreneurs, imagination is one of our greatest resources. Engaging our imaginations on a daily basis is not childish work; it’s critical to leadership, it’s a way to challenge assumptions, and it can be a vehicle for change. In thinking about the future of our ideas, it’s important to leave […]

May 11, 2022

Women-Led Wednesdays: Women-Led Venture Teams Shaping Better Futures for All of Us

Lex Schroeder, Senior Writer

Every day, we are learning more and more about how to solve problems collectively. But what does this look like in our teams and communities? As we continue our interview series with women founders in the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem this Women’s History Month, we look toward the future and ask founders to tell us not only about their ventures, but what kind of collective leadership they think is needed now.

October 6, 2021

Women-Led Wednesdays: Leadership Lessons and Venture Turning Points

Lex Schroeder, Senior Writer

As we continue our interview series on women founders in the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem and across Harvard’s 13 schools, we take a look at the winding, sometimes unpredictable paths of entrepreneurship.

May 26, 2021

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.

February 24, 2021

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.

October 1, 2020

Women-Led Wednesdays: Surfing the Highs and Lows of Entrepreneurship

Lex Schroeder, Senior Writer

Here, we chat with more women founders across the Harvard Innovation Labs about how they are navigating a global pandemic and what challenges and surprises them about entrepreneurship.

July 1, 2020

Women-Led Wednesdays: Equity and Justice in Venture Creation

Lex Schroeder, Senior Writer

We've continued to have conversations with women founders, this time about their core values and their perspectives on equity and justice.

May 1, 2020

Women-Led Wednesdays: Women Founders Lead the Way at Harvard

Lex Schroeder, Senior Writer

In May 2020, we asked some of the women founders in our ecosystem to tell us how they believe women are changing the game. Read some answers below and learn even more about them on our social channels under the hashtag #womenledwednesdays.