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Tag: President’s Challenge
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Campus & Community
SurgiBox wins $70,000 President’s Challenge
SurgiBox, a collapsible, safe, and aseptic surgery device, won this year’s $70,000 grand prize in the President’s Challenge.
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Campus & Community
Two Deans’ Challenges garner 90 proposals
Ten student-led teams have been named finalists in the Deans’ Cultural Entrepreneurship Challenge and the Deans’ Health and Life Sciences Challenge. Grand prize winners will be named on May 4.
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Campus & Community
Smart response
The emergency communications startup RapidSOS was awarded $70,000 as the winner of the fourth President’s Challenge.
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Campus & Community
Twenty team finalists named in Deans’ Challenges
Harvard University announced 20 student-led teams on Monday as finalists in four Deans’ Challenges focused on cultural entrepreneurship, health and life sciences, the food system, and innovation in sports.
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Campus & Community
Into the finals
Ten student teams have been named finalists for the 2015 President’s Challenge, Harvard President Drew Faust announced.
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Campus & Community
Healing outside the box
VACU Scan, an initiative to boost health care in developing countries, is the winner of the 2014 President’s Challenge.
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Campus & Community
Meeting the challenges
Harvard University has announced 18 student-led teams as finalists in three deans’ innovation competitions focused on cultural entrepreneurship, health and life sciences, and design.
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Campus & Community
President’s Challenge finalists announced
Ten student-led teams were announced as finalists in the third President’s Challenge at Harvard University, a competition created to foster cross-disciplinary entrepreneurial ventures that will have profound social impacts.
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Campus & Community
Let the challenges begin
President Drew Faust and Provost Alan M. Garber today announced the third President’s Challenge for entrepreneurship, renewing an invitation to all Harvard students and postdoctoral fellows to develop innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing social problems.
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Campus & Community
A year of change, month by month
2012-13 was a year of inventions and ascensions, elections and projections, digitizing and prioritizing. The University also launched HarvardX, the wildly popular web learning platform.
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Campus & Community
Top problem solvers
This week at the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) 10 teams of students from across Harvard demonstrated their projects as finalists in the President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship.
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Campus & Community
Finalists selected in President’s Challenge
Harvard University today announced the selection of 10 teams of finalists in the 2013 President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship.
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Campus & Community
Deans announce new challenge
Thirteen deans from Schools across Harvard today announced $150,000 in new entrepreneurship challenges, expanding Harvard support for student innovation and cross-School collaborations with broad social and cultural impact.
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Campus & Community
Return of the President’s Challenge
President Drew Faust today launched the second year of the President’s Challenge, inviting Harvard students and postdoctoral candidates to create entrepreneurial solutions to pressing societal problems and introducing a new category, the arts.
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Science & Tech
President’s Challenge
A business idea born in a Harvard classroom to improve the delivery of vaccines in developing countries has been selected as the grand prize winner of the Harvard University President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship.
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Campus & Community
Harvard entrepreneurs weave silk with science
Harvard University President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship has selected Vaxess Technologies, a company founded by Harvard students, to receive its grand prize. Vaxess Technologies will share the $100,000 to advance social ventures with SPOUTS of Water, Revolving Fund Pharmacy, and School Yourself.
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Science & Tech
Meticulous design
A recent SEAS workshop emphasized comprehensive planning, cultural awareness, and a holistic approach to design in developing solutions to global problems.
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Nation & World
Improving the world is a serious business
The finalist teams in the first-ever President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship are tackling the problems of nonprofits with the playbook of for-profits.
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Nation & World
Business as a force for change
Business can be an engine for solving social problems — especially poverty — said Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus in a talk at Harvard Business School.
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Nation & World
10 finalists in President’s Challenge
Harvard University has chosen 10 teams as finalists in the President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship. President Drew Faust created the challenge to encourage student teams from across the University to develop entrepreneurial solutions to five of the world’s most important social issues.
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Science & Tech
Nurturing the seeds of innovation
The bond between Harvard and Silicon Valley is a close one. The region is home to a powerful network of alumni willing to offer mentorship to students and recent graduates who are dreaming big. Taking advantage of that network, SEAS and HBS recently came together to organize the trip to Palo Alto.
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Campus & Community
Faust announces $100K President’s Challenge
President Drew Faust announced today the launch of the President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship hosted through the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab). This effort is part of Harvard University’s commitment to social entrepreneurship and cross-School initiatives. President Faust is sponsoring this University-wide challenge seeking entrepreneurial solutions to the world’s most important social problems.
