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Each year the Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) gives a Non-Profit Enterprise Award, and this year’s honor went to Ezaria, a student start-up designed to connect artisans in developing countries with American consumers...
...won’t be the first periodical launched by Kim and acting editor Daniel M. Loss ’00. As undergrads, the duo co-founded Current, now the nation’s largest student-run newsmagazine. Kim and Loss expanded the start-up to 18 campuses and reached a print circulation...
Some projects that Davis has overseen in recent years include the development of a wireless network in dormitories on campus, the creation of the online Harvard College facebook, and the organization of the “fall-term start-up,” which assists incoming students and trains...
EnergyCS and Clean-Tech have launched a start-up called E-Drive Systems, which plans to sell by next year kits to convert the Prius into a plug-in (though the modifications will void the warranty). At speeds below 35 m.p.h., Hanssen's Prius sails along on its 18 lithium batteries for up to 30 miles at a go--well within the range envisioned by Gaffney. The conversion cost isn't cheap: $15,000, which Hanssen hopes to cut to around $10,000. "It won't pay for itself in gas savings," Hanssen admits, "but neither does the Prius. People...
Inspired by Wikipedia, a Silicon Valley start-up called Socialtext has helped set up wikis at a hundred companies, including Nokia and Kodak. Business wikis are being used for project management, mission statements and cross-company collaborations. Instead of e-mailing a vital Word document to your co-workers-and creating confusion about which version is the most up-to-date-you can now literally all be on the same page: as a wiki Web page, the document automatically reflects all changes by team members. Socialtext CEO Ross Mayfield claims that accelerates project cycles 25%. "A lot of people...