Harvard Innovation Labs: Startups & Entrepreneurship
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
Harvard i-lab | 2013 Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge -- BroadLeaf
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Muhammad Yunus: The Founding of Grameen Bank
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 au...
Why Do We Accept Shoes That Don’t Fit? | Maeve Wang, IAMBIC
Why do we still accept shoes that don’t fit—when everything else is personalized?
That question led Maeve Wang (Harvard College ’11) to build IAMBIC.
Uploaded 07-05-26
As co-founder and CEO, Maeve is rethinking one of the most universal products we use every day: shoes. Today, two out of three people wear shoes that don’t fit. By combining AI and advanced manufacturing, IAMBIC creates shoes made for your body—not a standardized size.
A finalist in the 2024 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, Maeve is part of a community of founders turning bold...
Harvard i-lab | Leveling the Playing Field: Software Changing the Role of Coaches
We are in the midst of a revolution in how athletes train, perform, and heal. Advances in mobile technology, AI, Big Data, sensors, GPS, and more have allowed humans to stretch the limits of their athletic capabilities and have merged the worlds of statistics and sports in manners unimaginable just a decade ago.
Uploaded 10-03-17
With unprecedented teamwork from those who have achieved success in the athletic arena to those whose achievements occur behind the closed doors of research labs, hospitals, and beyond, we are able to use data collected from the human body...
Harvard i-lab | i-lab residents describe their Big Idea
The Harvard Innovation Lab asked some of our student residents about their Big Idea, how it came about, and how the i-lab helped to support their venture. We think the video helps to showcase the activities of students taking advantage of the i-lab's resources. What's your Big Idea?
Uploaded 04-06-12
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Innovation Insights from Megan Smith at Harvard i-lab
Megan Smith is the CEO of shift7 and former U.S. Chief Technology Officer (2014-2017).
Uploaded 09-07-24
In this video, Mitch Weiss (Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice at HBS) interviews Megan Smith about her journey of innovation and impact.
The fireside chat was part of a series of events at Harvard Innovation Labs centered around the story of General Magic (www.generalmagicthemovie.com), the secretive Silicon Valley startup that created the world’s first smartphone, told through an engaging workshop program and award-winning documentary. Although their initial product failed, the te...
President's Challenge Presentation School Yourself
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Uploaded 31-07-12
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President's Challenge Presentation Balanced
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Almost Married Off at 12. Now She’s Changing Thousands of Lives. | Aria Mustary, Mai Soli Foundation
At 12, Aria Mustary was nearly forced into marriage.
Now she’s helping thousands of girls rewrite their futures.
Uploaded 07-05-26
Aria Mustary (Harvard Graduate School of Education ’24), Co-Founder and President of the Mai Soli Foundation, turned her lived experience into a mission.
Mai Soli equips girls with financial literacy, leadership skills, and confidence—already helping prevent over 500 child marriages and scaling that impact globally.
A finalist in the 2024 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, Aria is building a future where every girl has agency.
“If we save one girl, her...
Value Props: Create a Product People Will Actually Buy
One of the top reasons many startups fails is surprisingly simple: Their value proposition isn’t compelling enough to prompt a customer to buy. Maybe they have too many other competing priorities. Or the existing solutions, while imperfect, are “good enough.” Whatever the reason, the product doesn’t provide enough value to spark customer action and sustain a business. Nailing your value prop – the benefit you provide to whom and how you do it uniquely well – can make or break your startup.
Uploaded 01-04-23
In this workshop, originally presented in-person at the Harvard Innovation Labs, Michae...
Harvard i-lab | 2013 Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge -- TraumaLink
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Uploaded 24-06-13
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President's Challenge Presentation Revolving Fund Pharmacy
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VC Fundraising Advice for Black Founders
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...
Harvard President Alan Garber Remarks | 2026 President's Innovation Challenge
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The “Spermpocalypse,” A Problem No One Was Solving | Khaled Kteily, Legacy
Male fertility is declining—but no one was talking about it.
Khaled Kteily (Harvard Kennedy School ’16) decided to change that.
Uploaded 07-05-26
After experiencing the stigma and discomfort of fertility testing firsthand, Khaled saw a problem hiding in plain sight. As founder and CEO of Legacy, he’s helping men better understand their fertility and health—serving tens of thousands of patients.
A finalist in the 2019 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, Legacy is reshaping how we think about reproductive health.
“We helped take the burden off just the female partner—and...
Harvard i-lab | Smaller, Lighter and Ubiquitous: The Next Generation of Fitness Trackers
We are in the midst of a revolution in how athletes train, perform, and heal. Advances in mobile technology, AI, Big Data, sensors, GPS, and more have allowed humans to stretch the limits of their athletic capabilities and have merged the worlds of statistics and sports in manners unimaginable just a decade ago.
Uploaded 10-03-17
With unprecedented teamwork from those who have achieved success in the athletic arena to those whose achievements occur behind the closed doors of research labs, hospitals, and beyond, we are able to use data collected from the human body...
Harvard i-lab | Food Truck Day and Tour of the i-lab
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Harvard i-lab | Startup Secrets Part 5: Wrap Up | Michael Skok and Geoffrey Moore
Presenting to a full house, renowned author, Geoffrey Moore, and Michael Skok took a closer look into gaining an unfair competitive advantage as an entrepreneur. The event commenced with a recap of observations and learning from the previous five workshops, followed by insights from Geoffrey Moore into the secrets of entrepreneurship and business building, including a preview of Moore's latest book, Escape Velocity. The lecture concluded with a book-signing, lunch and networking with fellow entrepreneurs.
Uploaded 27-07-12
You can read more about Michael Skok, and his Startup Secrets on his website: http://mjskok.com...
Harvard i-lab | "Green Card Strategies and New Opportunities for Foreign Entrepreneurs"
Jeff Goldman an Immigration Lawyer from Boston taught a workshop entitled "Green Card Strategies and New Opportunities for Foreign Entrepreneurs," in April 2012 at the Harvard innovation lab.
Uploaded 04-09-12
In his presentation, Goldman discussed how the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced that the H-1B nonimmigrant and National Interest Waiver immigrant visa categories will now be more friendly to foreign national entrepreneurs who are creating jobs in the US. This interactive workshop helped to clarify the viability of this new initiative; offered foreign national entrepreneurs a road-map which may make all...
Harvard i-lab | 2013 Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge -- Healthy Motives
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Harvard i-lab | Startup Secrets Part 3: Business Model - Michael Skok
In Part 3 of Michael Skok's Harvard i-lab lecture series, "Startup Secrets: An insiders guide to unfair competitive advantage," Skok helped students to think thorugh the three aspects of business model creation—identifying your C.O.R.E. value, finding Multipliers for growth and Levers for cost economies. This allows you to have much better odds of building a company that returns value disproportionally to all of its stakeholders.
Uploaded 07-05-12
You can read more about Michael Skok, and his Startup Secrets on his website: http://mjskok.com/ and follow him on twitter at http://tw...
Turning Ideas Into Impact: ArtLifting
Get inspired by ArtLifting's innovation journey since their time at the Harvard Innovation Labs. Founded by Liz Powers '10, ArtLifting is a social enterprise that champions artists impacted by disabilities and housing insecurity. Learn more at artlifting.com.
Uploaded 02-05-24
Videography:
Aaron James Sanchez
Patrick Fogarty
Samuel Mironko
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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab
The Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab is a state-of-the-art wet laboratory and co-working space for high-potential biotech and life science ventures at Harvard.
Uploaded 15-09-25
Learn more here: https://innovationlabs.harvard.edu/labs/pagliuca-harvard-life-lab
Videography by Owen Mack
www.cobrandit.com
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Muhammad Yunus: How to Approach Social Business
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 au...
Harvard Innovation Labs | Imagine
Experience the Harvard Innovation Labs - a unique ecosystem where community and resources lead to serendipitous, transformative ideas.
Uploaded 29-05-25
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Harvard i-lab | Startup Secrets Part 2: Company Formation - Michael Skok
In Part 2 of Michael Skok's Harvard i-lab lecture series, "Startup Secrets: An insiders guide to unfair competitive advantage," Skok argues that ideas aren't worth much without great people to back them up. It's human capital that makes the difference between good and great companies, which is why attracting and retaining the right people and getting them dialed into the right vision is utterly essential for the burgeoning venture.
Uploaded 07-05-12
You can read more about Michael Skok, and his Startup Secrets on his website: http://mjskok.com/ and follow him on twitter at http...
Harvard i-lab | Low-Fidelity Data Mining for Customer Insights
How can we mine survey, sales and customer data to uncover new insights into the lives and needs of our users, without a strong background in statistical analysis or code development?
Uploaded 04-12-14
In this session, Almighty CSO Ian Fitzpatrick will walk through approaches to finding anomalies, commonalities and outliers in data sets — with a focus on using these to drive better qualitative research that shapes a great brand, product or service experience. Particular emphasis will be placed on combining private and public data sets to uncover hidden patterns and opportunities.
The wo...
Harvard i-lab | "A Debate: Business is Essential to Effectively Deliver Public Services to the Poor"
HKS Professor Lant Prichett and HBS Professor Michael Chu debated the most effective mechanisms to alleviate poverty in a debate moderated by The Fletcher School's Nicholas P. Sullivan. The emerging social finance space and other market-based solutions were challenged by more traditional philanthropic approaches to solve poverty. This debate offered a great cross-campus initiative that enhanced a broader understanding of the current "hot topics" around how the Business and the International Development players can work together in addressing services delivery barriers to the poor.
Uploaded 02-05-12
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Harvard i-lab | Startup Secrets: Go to Market Strategies
Find out why it can be twice as important to get your Go-to-Market right, even if you've engineered a great product. Get to understand the strategic and tactical frameworks needed to enter a market and occupy a dominant position. Learn how to develop your "brand essence" and integrate other key marketing assets so that you can pursue an impactful sales and marketing approach.
Uploaded 03-01-13
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Harvard i-lab | Grand Opening
The Harvard Innovation Lab was opened on November 18, 2011. During our celebration, Joseph B. Lassiter III, Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, and Faculty Chair, Harvard Innovation Lab, Dean Nitin Nohria, Harvard Business School, President Drew Faust, Harvard University, and Mayor Thomas M. Menino, City of Boston, spoke and welcomed the i-lab as a new and innovative initiative that fosters team-based and entrepreneurial activities and deepens interactions among Harvard students, faculty, entrepreneurs, and members of the Allston and Greater Boston community.
Uploaded 28-03-12
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Harvard i-lab | Harvard Launch Lab Promotional Video
The Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) is excited to continue to grow the resources around entrepreneurship for Harvard students, and Alumni. Following three years of growth, and more than 500 unique ventures, the i-lab is opening a “OneHarvard” inspired prototype co-working space adjacent to the i-lab for high potential Harvard Alumni startup ventures, called the Harvard Innovation Launch Lab.
Uploaded 03-12-14
Learn more about the Launch Lab from Jodi Goldstein, Director, and hear from the inaugural class of startups in residence at the Launch Lab!
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President's Challenge Presentation Zoom
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Harvard i-lab | What: What is Cultural Entrepreneurship? What does the Challenge Entail?
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...
Harvard i-lab | A Deep Bench: Elite Athletes and the Expanding Marketplace for Sports Technologies
We are in the midst of a revolution in how athletes train, perform, and heal. Advances in mobile technology, AI, Big Data, sensors, GPS, and more have allowed humans to stretch the limits of their athletic capabilities and have merged the worlds of statistics and sports in manners unimaginable just a decade ago.
Uploaded 10-03-17
With unprecedented teamwork from those who have achieved success in the athletic arena to those whose achievements occur behind the closed doors of research labs, hospitals, and beyond, we are able to use data collected from the human body...
What It Takes: Vision, Mission and Culture
Human capital separates great companies from good ones; ideas are worth very little without the right people to drive them forward. That’s why attracting the right people while unifying them behind an inspiring vision and mission is essential to any significant venture.
Uploaded 18-03-23
In this workshop, originally presented in-person at the Harvard Innovation Labs, Michael Skok, founding partner at Underscore VC, will share how to develop your venture’s mission and vision – while ensuring you can execute on both.
About the Speaker:
Michael Skok is a founding partner at Und...
President's Innovation Challenge Takeaways
The Harvard Innovation Labs invites student founders from all 13 Harvard schools to apply for the President's Innovation Challenge (PIC) by December 5 for a chance to win a share of $515,000 in funding for their ventures, thanks to the @BertarelliFoundation.
Uploaded 03-12-24
This year’s theme, Redefining What’s Possible, celebrates the bold, ambitious work happening across campus as student founders tackle complex problems, build impactful solutions, and create better futures.
Learn from previous PIC winners as they share their tips and tricks in this video.
Applications close 12/5: https://innovationlabs.harvard.edu/pic
Harvard i-lab | Deans' Food System Challenge Kickoff
Join HLS Dean Martha Minow and keynote speaker Ayr Muir, founder and CEO of Clover Food Lab, in officially kicking off the 2015 Deans' Food System Challenge. The Challenge invites creative and entrepreneurial students to develop innovative ideas to improve the health, social, and environmental outcomes of the food system in the United States and around the world.
Uploaded 03-12-14
Students 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 four categories:
Producing Sustainable...
Harvard i-lab | 2013 President's Challenge Presentation -- Sightline Productions
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Harvard i-lab | Entrepreneurship 101 with Gordon Jones
Did you know about the multi-million dollar facility for students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation? Want to learn about the Harvard innovation lab? Interested in entrepreneurship and want to know about programs and resources available to you? Hear Gordon Jones, the Managing Director of the Harvard Innovation lab, and Jodi Goldstein, the Director of the Harvard Innovation Lab, describe all the ways the i-lab can help students take their ideas as far as they can go.
Uploaded 11-02-13
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President's Challenge Presentation SPOUTS of Water
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