HBS gift establishes entrepreneurship fund
Harvard Business School (HBS) Dean Nitin Nohria has announced that the Bertarelli Foundation of Switzerland, co-chaired by Ernesto Bertarelli, M.B.A. ’93, has established the Bertarelli Foundation Health and Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Fund with a generous gift to HBS. The fund will support activities at the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab), which leverages entrepreneurial spirit throughout the University and shows the unlimited possibilities unleashed when individuals from a wide range of fields but with a shared passion are brought together. In particular, the fund will support the Deans’ Health and Life Sciences Challenge, launched in 2012 and chaired by Nohria and Jeffrey S. Flier, dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (HMS). In recognition of the donor’s generosity, the Deans’ Challenge prize will be named the Bertarelli Prize. “Our Deans’ Challenge was created to accelerate the development of innovative solutions and help position Harvard University as the pre-eminent institution in health care...