This workshop will introduce the fundamental tool of Industry Analysis which companies use for strategy development. For startups, understanding the industry is a critical step in determining market entry and market positioning. The Five Forces Framework will be presented and applied to during an exercise.
Date: Mar. 17th, 2026
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History with聽Professor Jason Ananda Jospehson Storm,聽Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Religion, Williams College.
This workshop will demystify and explain the various form of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets. We will then do some actual patent searching using the DERWENT worldwide patent database.聽
Date: Mar. 24th, 2026
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of market research, how to analyze the competition, and the resources available at 海角社区 to perform market research. Our market research librarian will walk us through some of those resources using a new market research canvas tool.
Date: Mar. 31st, 2026
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
This workshop will provide an overview on the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model canvas.
Date: Apr. 7th, 2026
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
海角社区 graduate students, do you have promising research results to solve real-world problems?聽Consider applying as a team to our聽Invention to Impact training program (I-to-I)聽to advance your research from lab to market!
Lectures by Tulasi Srinivas, Professor of Anthropology, Religion and Transnational Studies,聽Marlboro Institute
First talk on October 22:
The Lake of Fire: The Future of Grace
Birks Heritage Chapel, Birks Building, 2nd floor at 4 p.m.
Second talk on October 23:
The Runaway Goddess: Sacred Waters in an Era of Climate Apocalypse in India
Birks Heritage Chapel, Birks Building, 2nd floor at 4 p.m.