Join us in person for our biggest annual entrepreneurship celebration, the Harvard Business School New Venture Competition Finale! Feel the energy and excitement and hear pitches from the Finalists in the student business and social enterprise tracks. A total of $225,000 in cash prizes will be awarded and YOU get to vote for the winner of the crowd favorite prizes! Hosted by HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and HBS Social Enterprise Initiative.

This full-day design workshop will kick off with a morning panel discussion between investors, scientists, and business leaders working at the frontier of women’s health. Building on this discussion, in the afternoon, you will then participate in a design sprint focused on identifying where and how new digital tools, increasing amounts of data, and contemporary business models can create value in a space that has been historically overlooked and underserved. The sprint will involve active collaboration and a chance to talk to and get feedback from leaders in women’s health. It will culminate in a pitch session outlining actionable next steps for each scientific, business, or policy idea.

Applications of algorithmic and data-driven technologies in mental health care settings are rapidly expanding. While well-designed digital technologies may be used to promote effective mental health and crisis support, they raise thorny ethical issues. Moreover, the potential for a range of “data harms” is enormous, including algorithmic hiring programs that discriminate against people with histories of mental health treatment, weaponization of mental health data by criminal justice and border agencies, and invasive biometric monitoring and surveillance regimes that dehumanize care. At the same time, the legal and policy frameworks that regulate the use of these technologies in mental health contexts have been underinclusive of the perspectives of people with lived experience of profound psychological distress, mental health conditions, psychosocial disabilities, and other stakeholders.