Harvard Innovation Labs: Startups & Entrepreneurship

Harvard Innovation Labs

We're an ecosystem that supports Harvard students and select alumni in their quest to explore the world of game-changing innovation and entrepreneurship. Since our founding in 2011, we’ve helped 5,000+ founders from all 13 Harvard schools create global, lasting change.Links:Website: https://innovationlabs.harvard.edu/Instagram: https://instagram.com/harvardinnovationlabsLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/harvard-innovation-labs/Twitter: https://twitter.com/innovationlabFacebook: http://facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab

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    Harvard i-lab | Deans' Innovation in Sports Challenge Kickoff Full

    Join keynote speakers Robert and Jonathan Kraft, Founder, Chairman and CEO, and President, respectively, of The Kraft Group, owner of the New England Patriots, in kicking off the 2015 Deans' Innovation in Sports Challenge. The Challenge invites students from across the university to develop ideas to improve the sports industry, the careers of those who work in it, and the lives of those who enjoy sports as practitioners and spectators, both on an amateur and professional level, and both in the United States and around the world.Uploaded 19-12-14Students will have the opportunity at the Kickoff to network with other like-minded folks at Harvard and begin exploring ideas and partnerships to apply to this Challenge in one of five categories:-Athlete and Athletic Performance-Career and Health during and after Sports-Improving the Fan Experience-Re-thinking the Sports Industry-Sport and Social ImpactThe Challenge is co-chaired by Dean Nitin Nohria of Harvard Business School and Bob Scalise, Director of Athletics at Harvard University.A variety of workshops and networking events will offer participants numerous opportunities to strengthen their ideas, teams, and ventures throughout the Challenge timeline. More information on the Challenge and programming can be found here.Learn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu/ and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/innovationlab and like us on Facebook athttps://www.facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Harvard i-lab | Deans' Innovation in Sports Challenge Kickoff Full
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    Harvard i-lab | Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge Kickoff

    Join us to kick off the 2015 Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge Kickoff with Katrine Bosley, CEO of Editas Medicine. She will share her thoughts on the key factors of leading successful companies and advice on how to build effective teams and execute strategies to commercialize technologies that will ultimately impacting patients and their care.Uploaded 03-12-14Also joining us will be Aldatu Biosciences to share exciting updates on their progress since winning the Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge last year and provide advice on how to best take advantage of the i-lab and its resources to take your idea as far as it can go.Students and fellows will also have the opportunity to network with other like-minded folks at Harvard to begin exploring ideas and partnerships to apply to this challenge in one of four categories:Diagnostics and Population Health ManagementDevices and MaterialsHealth IT and WearablesPrevention and SafetyThe Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge is co-chaired by Dean Jeffrey Flier (HMS) and Dean Nitin Nohria (HBS). This initiative provides Harvard students and fellows the opportunity to develop solutions that address unmet needs in health and life sciences.A variety of workshops and networking events will offer participants numerous opportunities to strengthen their idea, team and plan prior to the February application deadline. Finalists are announced in March and awarded $5000. Winners of the Bertarelli Foundation Prizes, totaling up to $60,000, will be presented at Demo Day in May 2015.Katrine Bosley is the CEO of Editas Medicine and has been in the biotechnology industry for over 20 years. She was recently the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Broad Institute and a review committee member for the Translation Fund at the Wellcome Trust. Prior to that, Katrine led Avila Therapeutics as its CEO (acquired by Celgene) and was VP, Business Development at Adnexus Therapeutics (acquired by BMS). Earlier, she held several positions at Biogen Idec in business development, commercial operations and portfolio strategy in the U.S. and Europe.Learn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu/ and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/innovationlab and like us on Facebook athttps://www.facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Harvard i-lab | Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge Kickoff

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We're an ecosystem that supports Harvard students and select alumni in their quest to explore the world of game-changing innovation and entrepreneurship. Since our founding in 2011, we’ve helped 5,000+ founders from all 13 Harvard schools create global, lasting change.Links:Website: https://innovationlabs.harvard.edu/Instagram: https://instagram.com/harvardinnovationlabsLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/harvard-innovation-labs/Twitter: https://twitter.com/innovationlabFacebook: http://facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab