10 finalists in President’s Challenge
Harvard University announced today the selection of 10 teams of 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. “The world’s most pressing challenges are borderless, and so solutions must transcend boundaries as well,” said Faust. “It is gratifying to see how fully these finalists have embraced the spirit of collaboration, of innovation, and of curiosity that is the hallmark of the i-lab. I am impressed with both their engagement with new ideas and their novel ways of enabling those ideas to reach the wider world.” The finalists, selected from a pool of more than 170 teams, will each receive a $5,000 grant, dedicated space in the i-lab, which is more formally known as the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab), and mentoring from experts to further develop...