The influential, often in-your-face pop megastar and her mother, plus several Harvard-based charities, are teaming up on a broad effort to make the world more ... sensitive.READ»
The Kilobot, a little robot that can coordinate with other Kilobots to perform simple tasks, is now available for purchase by anyone, from curious computer programmers to evil geniuses.READ»
Harvard or Yale? The high-school overachievers’ nagging existential dilemma suddenly got a whole lot easier thanks to the taste-prediction startup Hunch.
Hunch enlisted Column Five Media to design an infographic that ranks the ...READ»
It's been an enlightening morning at the World Innovation Forum in New York, listening to Harvard's Clayton Christensen talk about his theory of "disruption."READ»
Harvard Innovation Center's new director, Gordon Jones, wants to broaden the definition of entrepreneurialism to include not just tech startups, but all fields: lawyers, business people, Kennedy School bureaucrats-in-training, computer scientists, and so on.READ»
Harvard's Business Plan Contest--an annual event since 1997--has spawned hundreds of business plans. Winners and non-winners alike have gone on to implement their plans and start successful enterprises.READ»
It's down to the final four in the U.S. nationals of the Microsoft Imagine Cup, in which student entrepreneurs develop apps and other products using Microsoft software. They all got there with a little help from what Microsoft called "academic evangelism."READ»
Academic librarians, led by Harvard's, are positioning themselves as the successors to Google's scuttled vision for a massive digital library. But do they lack a coherent vision?READ»
If there's something aflame in your neighborhood, you may soon call for firemen toting backpacks blasting bursts of electricity to snuff out the firey problem. You listening, Bill Murray?READ»
Two Boston-based entrepreneurs have started one of the world's leading publicly-accessible, crowdsourced websites and smartphone apps to track the spread of disease as outbreaks hit.READ»
The government has almost certainly made secret requests for WikiLeaks-related material from other companies. But only Twitter (successfully, at least) fought to have to have those orders brought into the open. Here’s why.READ»
Robot appendages are increasingly hot-topic research as our androids and prosthetic limbs get better. Now Harvard and Yale roboticists have invented a better robot finger based on one heck of an unusual source: cockroach legs.READ»
The authors of "The Innovator's DNA" have spent six years interviewing thousands of innovative businesspeople and concluded there are five key traits innovators share. Their conclusions suggest some interesting New Year's resolutions for those wishing to make 2011 a more innovative year.READ»
The class is taught jointly by Harvard's Business School, Law School, School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Kennedy School. The diverse disciplines makes the course so significant. In the "real world", successful commercialization efforts require effective alignment of many corporate functions.READ»
"A wandering mind is an unhappy mind," the researchers conclude. In other news: having sex makes people happy. It was the one activity where people reported mind-wandering less than 30% of the time.READ»
