04/12/11 -
The MIT Clean Energy Prize is excited to announce the MIT Clean Energy Showcase on Tuesday, May 3rd from 2:30-4:30pm, at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston.
The Energy Innovation Showcase will include poster presentations from the MIT Clean Energy Prize top 25 semi-finalists, MIT Clean Energy Prize alumni teams, and other successful energy start-ups in the area. Attendees will include students, successful and aspiring entrepreneurs, MIT Clean Energy Prize judges and mentors...
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04/12/11 -
Registration is open for the MIT Enterprise Forum and the Clean Energy Prize Award Ceremony. The event on May 3rd from 4:30-6:30pm, at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, follows the free MIT Clean Energy Showcase (2:30-4:30pm). The forum will feature a keynote from Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO of GE. After the keynote, Immelt will then lead an interactive discussion and audience Q&A with the editor-in-chief of Technology Review, Jason Pontin.
Tickets are required for...
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04/12/11 -
The next edition of Building Bridges is this Friday, April 15th at 8:30am with the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1-114.
In case you haven't heard, Building Bridges works to create informal opportunities to meet and talk with students across campus in an informal coffee/donuts format. There's no agenda, no specific goals, just an opportunity to meet some interesting people and start the morning off right!
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04/11/11 -
Whether or not you support the use of nuclear power, there is no debate over the need for safe storage of nuclear waste, and a startup with an MIT alumnus on its founding teamis devoted to tackling that challenge in an efficient and cost-effective way.
Gaëtan Bonhomme, who received his MBA from MIT Sloan in 2008, is now the vice president of strategic planning and initiatives for Kurion, which has developed a scalable and low-cost method of nuclear waste vitrification, in...
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03/31/11 -
Get ready to join the biggest and best brainstorming session ever! The MIT Sloan Entrepreneurship & Innovation Club and Cambridge Innovation Center is looking forward to a great new event on Tuesday, April 12th at Cambridge Innovation Center. Tickets are limited, so if you plan on attending, please register here.
IdeaStorm is a fast-paced, lightly moderated, high energy brainstorming session. Bring your startup idea for others to help build on, or just bring your creativity and...
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03/28/11 -
Siemens Technology-to-Business (TTB) Center in Berkeley, CA will be hosting the New Ventures Workshop, an all expenses paid seminar this June that is focused on teaching startups how to interact effectively with large companies.
The New Ventures Workshop is an opportunity for recent business plan competitors and startups to learn how to engage successfully with large companies and give participants insights into working effectively with large organizations like Siemens, and...
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03/25/11 -
Ed Park the Chief Operating Officer of athenahealth will be coming to MIT on April 7th to discuss Hacking Medicine in the context of athenahealth's own hack on the healthcare industry, how they achieved it, and what impact it had. Along with Zen Chu, Entrepreneur in Residence at MIT, they will layout a visual landscape for the Healthcare Industry and discuss the areas that have the highest hackability potential. Ed and Zen will also discuss several case studies of other venture backed...
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03/17/11 -
Excerpt from a blog post by MIT Sloan Prof. Howard Anderson; full blog post located here.
In the 15th century, British noblemen decided that they needed brighter colors for their coats of arms to help their armies more easily distinguish them on muddy battlefields. They naturally approached suppliers in their own nation. But when British tradesmen refused to accept this innovative approach to their traditional ways, the noblemen turned to Germany, where tradesmen were more than willing...
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03/16/11 -
CleanTechies blog recently published a list of the Top Ten University Cleantech Initiatives Around the Globe and placed the MIT Clean Energy Prize at number one! Crediting the ideas, research, and resources that are found in Universities, they highlight the prize's success at launching several companies and as well as opportunities for learning and innovation.
Sponsored by NStar and the Department of Energy, the MIT Clean Energy Prize is a venture creation and innovation...
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03/10/11 -
Organized by student groups at Harvard Kennedy School, the China Energy and Environment Conference (CEEC) is the only conference hosted by Harvard and MIT students dedicated solely to China’s energy and environment issues. Their mission is to discern the critical challenges China faces and searching for solutions, enhance U.S.-China collaboration on energy and environmental issues, and offer meaningful opportunities for networking and career development.
The event...
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