Your ability to get from where your venture is to where you want it to be is largely based on the people you surround yourself with and how effectively you manage and motivate them.  Period.  If you want to learn how to be better at all that, attend this session.

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Interested in launching a venture but unsure about your business model and tax structure? Come join Scott Overdyke (i-lab social enterprise lead) and Ben Stone (current lawyer, former social enterprise founder & CEO) for a discussion of common misconceptions and implications of different impact-oriented business models.

Come with questions!

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Creative? Inspired? Yearning for more?

Your opportunity to be a part of the startup world is here. And best of all, you don’t need to have a business plan or the urge to be a founder or CEO to get involved. And if you want to pitch your idea, let us know when you register for this event.

Our annual Pitch, Mix, and Match event is a great opportunity to connect people with ideas with like-minded, et differently skilled individuals from across Harvard and Boston. Don’t miss this chance to meet with more than 40 startup ideas looking to apply for the President’s...

Using time- and science-tested techniques from the arts, we can heighten what we observe and how we listen in perspective-shifting ways that influence what we do.

Aithan founded Making to Think to advise executives of Fortune 500s on leadership strategies by bringing time- and science-tested techniques from the arts to learn to see and listen from new perspectives. At MIT Sloan, his top-rated leadership course stems from 15 years as a professional artist, pioneering research on creative process at the Royal College of Art & Design, and living with Aboriginal Australians to...

Your ability to pitch, to tell a compelling story is everything.  It will get you investors.  Employees.  Dates.  And most importantly it will get you clearer about what you’re selling and why.  The Anatomy of a Pitch is for anyone and everyone interested in how to get what you want.

Join Director Chris Colbert for a lively session on the why, what, and how to craft a story that sings.

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If you have a hankering to make the world work better, have a solid idea and would like to win the President’s Innovation Challenge and the $75,000 that comes with it, you should attend this workshop.

You’ll get a detailed view of the application (due January 2nd) and how the i-lab resources can help you turn your idea into something amazing.  All applicants accepted into the President’s Innovation Challenge are automatically accepted into the Venture Incubation Program, gaining access to the full array of Innovation Labs resources, including a dedicated and brilliant...

Halite is an open source artificial intelligence programming challenge, created by Two Sigma, where players build bots using the coding language of their choice to battle on a two-dimensional virtual board. The last bot standing or the bot with all the territory wins. Victory will require micromanaging of the movement of pieces, optimizing a bot’s combat ability, and braving a branching factor billions of times higher than that of Go.

The grand prize winner wins an all expenses paid trip to NYC to compete in the next level of the game!

Attention: non-techies are...

Want to extend your bike commuting season? Anyone can be a winter bike commuter with the right gear, preparation and mindset. Learn the basics from a knowledgeable year-round cyclist. If you already bike year-round, join in the discussion and share your tips.

Bring your lunch, questions and advice! Click here to learn more and register. 

Want to extend your bike commuting season? Anyone can be a winter bike commuter with the right gear, preparation and mindset. Learn the basics from a knowledgeable year-round cyclist. If you already bike year-round, join in the discussion and share your tips.

Bring your lunch, questions and advice! Click here to learn more and register. 

Henry David Thoreau was a boatman, more than he was a woodsman: a lifelong river rat whose sense of place emerged from boating, walking, and skating the Assabet, Sudbury, and Concord Rivers. As a backyard naturalist and river enthusiast, Henry David Thoreau was keenly aware of the way humans had altered the waterways and meadows of his beloved Concord River Valley. And he recognized that he himself—a land surveyor by trade—was as complicit in these transformations as the bankers, lawyers, builders, landowners, and elected officials who were his clients. Robert Thorson shares a compelling...

Arboretum for Educators monthly explorations are a professional development opportunity for elementary and middle school teachers to introduce the Arboretum landscape as an outdoor classroom. Participants learn about specific hands-on life science topics that may be used or adapted by teachers for their own classrooms and outdoor spaces. Meet and network with other like-minded educators, and engage in life science learning. 

View 2017-2018 schedule. 

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Science and conservation are serious endeavors. But sometimes you just need a laugh. Rosemary Mosco, a nature cartoonist and science communicator with a keen wit, will share some of her science-based comics, sure to make you guffaw. She’ll talk about how you can use art and writing to support conservation and speak about her process of developing a cartoon, from concept through research, wordsmithing, to sketch-up and final design. See her work at Bird and Moon Science and Nature Cartoons. 

Rosemary has created acclaimed...