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The $300 House: Go, Go, Go!

Harvard Business Review

Winners will be selected by the community and a panel of judges and will receive a scholarship to a June "prototyping workshop" led by COMMON , a social business incubator. At the end of the prototyping workshop, we hope to have a model or two to test in the field, as part of a pilot project.

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Six Ways to Befriend Future Tech Billionaires

Harvard Business Review

New business incubators are becoming increasingly common in the U.S. New business incubators are becoming increasingly common in the U.S. Mentors can be at the cutting-edge while sharing the benefits of experience — and perhaps getting a new business tool. They love mentors and thrive when they have them.

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Helping Bring World Leading Education To Refugees

The Horizons Tracker

It’s a base that a new venture, emanating from MIT’s business incubator and idea marketplace MIT Solve, aims to build upon. The project was chosen by MIT Solve as one of the most promising solutions in its Community-Driven Innovation Challenge, which came with a prize fund of over $1.5 Systemic hurdles.

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Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo

Harvard Business Review

Now rebranded as the Dryline and projected to cost anywhere between $1 billion and $3 billion to complete, the wall would protect the city against the ravages of storm the size of Sandy, but likely not much larger. They help shape both the physical elements of the solution and the social and economic projects that they support.