Harvard Innovation Labs: Startups & Entrepreneurship

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  Harvard i-lab | Increasing Your Creative Capacity 06.10.2026 1t 24min

  Creativity is one of the most essential and vital attributes for being a successful entrepreneur. But how exactly does one increase their ability to think and act creatively? Uploaded 05-11-14In this session, award winning educator and artist Art Sherwyn will walk through the creative process and illustrate methods for training the intellect how to gain passage into the world of creative thought; within this world will lie the tools for creative problem solving and invention with focus on using these techniques to drive innovation within your own venture.Art will also share the unique alignment the arts have with the human side of entrepreneurship and connection to the stability and longevity of your venture and quality of life. This workshop will provide very practical information which is easily adaptable. It is designed to be highly participatory and hands-on.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
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  Muhammad Yunus: The Shortcomings of Economic Theories and Systems 06.10.2026 6min

  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 01-06-12Social Business—New Models for Providing Sustainable Services to the PoorMuhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize LaureateProfessor 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Turning Ideas Into Impact: SurgiBox 06.10.2026 4min

  Get inspired by SurgiBox's journey from winning the Harvard President's Innovation Challenge in 2016 to being named a TIME Best Invention in 2023.Uploaded 02-05-24Videography:Aaron James SanchezPatrick FogartySamuel Mironko Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  President's Challenge Presentation Crimson.com 06.10.2026 20min

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  Inside Google’s X, The Moonshot Factory 06.10.2026 35min

  Go behind the scenes of @XTheMoonshotFactory in this powerful conversation with Helen Riley (HBS ’01), COO and CFO, and Ivo Stivoric, VP and Lt. Trouble + Maker. Moderated by HBS Senior Lecturer Allison Mnookin, this fireside chat dives into the innovation philosophy that powers some of the world’s boldest ideas — from self-driving cars to sustainable housing to AI-powered disaster resilience.Uploaded 19-11-25What you’ll learn:1. How X identifies massive global problems2. How “sci-fi” ideas become real-world ventures3. What it takes to balance bold vision with accountability4. The moonshots transforming mobility, connectivity, climate, supply chain, and moreWhether you’re a founder, innovator, or future changemaker, this is a rare look inside a factory where the goal isn’t just to succeed — but to reshape what’s possible.📍 Hosted by Harvard Innovation Labs💬 Share your moonshot in the comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  President's Challenge Presentation Slum Sanitation Solutions 06.10.2026 21min

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  Harvard i-lab | Startup Secrets Part 1: Value Proposition - Michael Skok 06.10.2026 1t 26min

  The sound on this video has been improved and a later version can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pKW-ehL7dU​Uploaded 07-05-12In Part 1 of Michael Skok's Harvard i-lab lecture series, "Startup Secrets: An insiders guide to unfair competitive advantage," Skok laid out one of the first stages of creating a company: defining the value proposition. You can read more about Michael Skok, and his Startup Secrets on his website: http://mjskok.com/ and follow him on twitter at http://twitter.com/mjskokLearn 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 at https://www.facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Startup Myths to Leave Behind in 2025 | Harvard Innovation Labs 06.10.2026 34min

  In our recent Harvard Innovation Labs podcast, i-lab advisor, Phil Green, shares which startup myths are still holding founders back in 2025, and what to do instead.Uploaded 11-08-25Let us know what you think in the comments. Should we add anything to this list?Read more here: https://innovationlabs.harvard.edu/how-to/startup-myths-to-leave-behind-in-2025Follow us:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/harvard-innovation-labs/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@harvardinnovationlabsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/harvardinnovationlabs/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Startup Secrets: Seize Your Story 06.10.2026 1t 22min

  Imagine you are pitching your startup to investors. You open with: "We're an AI-powered platform that leverages machine learning to optimize..."Uploaded 19-12-25Phones out. Eyes glazed. Gone.Everything you've built. The breakthrough, the team, the vision. All of it hanging on a story you aren't telling.After 45 years as a founder, investor, and educator, building many unicorns, Michael Skok has seen tens of thousands of pitches personally and hundreds of thousands have been shared at Harvard. His Startup Secrets sessions have surpassed 11 million YouTube views. His articles in WSJ, Forbes, and HBR have reached millions more. The pattern is unmistakable: The best founders often don't get the attention they deserve. Not because the opportunity isn't compelling. Because the story isn't.But here's what those decades revealed: The same simple structure runs through Aristotle, Pixar, TED stages, and billion-dollar raises. Once you see it, you can use it for every key hire, and in every investor pitch, partner, and customer meeting.You can learn it in minutes and reuse it for life.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⏱️ CHAPTERS:00:00 - Introductions01:43 - The Pitch Falls Flat04:40 - The Real Problem07:00 - STORY Framework - Deliver Forwards12:23 - Meet the Audience - Why are you here?15:58 - Investor’s Perspective - Getting to Yes20:04 - STORY Arc22:37 - ABC Framework - Designing Backwards28:52 - Workshop Activity - Act: Know Your Ask34:09 - Believe: Build a Bridge38:01 - Care: Start with Feeling41:32 - Workshop Activity - Fleshing out the ABC’s48:40 - Interlocking Frameworks - How They Connect54:58 - Reviewing STORY01:00:36 - Workshop Activity - Tell Your STORY01:11:00 - Final Summary - The Transformation━━━━━📚 WHAT YOU'LL MASTER:→ ABC Framework: Design backwards from the YES you want→ STORY Arc: Deliver forwards through what they FEEL→ The 5 mistakes that make investors and customers check out→ Why logic loses to emotion (and what wins instead)→ How to disappear from your own pitch (and why that works)━━━━━🚀 THIS IS FOR YOU IF:→ Raising seed, Series A, or social capital→ Recruiting co-founders or key hires→ Selling to enterprise customers or partners→ Pitching at demo days or investor meetings→ Your product is great but the response isn't━━━━━🔗 RESOURCES:📖 Download the Storytelling Framework:https://coda.io/d/_dqDyOX97fb9/STORYtelling_suo8Lw1t💼 Startup Secrets:https://bit.ly/44FVBcS━━━━━💬 What's the hardest part of your pitch? Drop it in the comments. Michael reads each one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  President's Challenge Presentation Satsuma 06.10.2026 20min

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  2026 Harvard President's Innovation Challenge 06.10.2026 1t 29min

  The Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge celebrates alumni and student founders from all 13 Harvard schools who are turning ideas into impact. On May 6, Harvard’s most innovative ventures won a share of over $500,000 in funding, courtesy of the Bertarelli Foundation.Uploaded 11-05-26Learn more about the President's Innovation Challenge and meet this year's finalists: https://innovationlabs.harvard.edu/presidents-innovation-challenge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Harvard i-lab | 2013 Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge -- BroadLeaf 06.10.2026 20min

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  Muhammad Yunus: The Founding of Grameen Bank 06.10.2026 14min

  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 01-06-12Social Business—New Models for Providing Sustainable Services to the PoorMuhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize LaureateProfessor 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Why Do We Accept Shoes That Don’t Fit? | Maeve Wang, IAMBIC 06.10.2026 5min

  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 07-05-26As 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 questions into real-world ventures.“What moves me is this belief that products we use every day should actually understand us.”Film by Kieran Kesner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Harvard i-lab | Leveling the Playing Field: Software Changing the Role of Coaches 06.10.2026 53min

  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 10-03-17With 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 to monitor, measure, and predict athlete training and performance like never before.During this event, the Harvard Innovation Labs, together with the Sports Innovation Lab and the OneTeam Collective, will explore the future of this dynamic, cross-industry, and fast-growing sector of sports technology.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 at https://www.facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Innovation Insights from Megan Smith at Harvard i-lab 06.10.2026 1t 8min

  Megan Smith is the CEO of shift7 and former U.S. Chief Technology Officer (2014-2017).Uploaded 09-07-24In 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 technologies developed by General Magic have changed the lives of billions. In the conversation, Smith shares her perspective on the role of innovation and technology in government and society, the need for collaboration and inclusivity to drive meaningful change, and the importance of collective intelligence.#generalmagic #megansmith---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------You can learn more about the story of General Magic at https://www.generalmagicthemovie.com/Read the "Five Key Takeaways" from this fireside chat: https://bit.ly/45VQbK8Learn more about Harvard Innovation Labs: https://innovationlabs.harvard.edu/Follow Harvard Innovation Labs on LinkedIn and Instagram: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/harvard-innovation-labs/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harvardinnovationlabs/?hl=en Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  President's Challenge Presentation School Yourself 06.10.2026 19min

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  Harvard i-lab | 2013 Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge -- TraumaLink 06.10.2026 19min

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  Harvard President Alan Garber Remarks | 2026 President's Innovation Challenge 06.10.2026 6min

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  Harvard i-lab | Smaller, Lighter and Ubiquitous: The Next Generation of Fitness Trackers 06.10.2026 52min

  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 10-03-17With 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 to monitor, measure, and predict athlete training and performance like never before.During this event, the Harvard Innovation Labs, together with the Sports Innovation Lab and the OneTeam Collective, will explore the future of this dynamic, cross-industry, and fast-growing sector of sports technology.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 at https://www.facebook.com/harvardinnovationlab. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices