Introducing the i-lab
When Mark Zuckerberg returned to Harvard earlier this month to recruit for Facebook, there was one was stop he added to his schedule — and it wasn’t his old Kirkland House dorm. Rather, Zuckerberg made an unexpected detour to visit the new Harvard Innovation Lab, or i-lab. On Friday, the concept that so intrigued America’s most famous social networker drew a crowd of hundreds to the official public opening of the lab, located at 125 Western Ave. Harvard President Drew Faust, along with Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria, and a host of University deans and administrators involved with the i-lab’s development, welcomed students, faculty, staff, and members of the Allston community for remarks, a ribbon cutting, and an afternoon of self-guided tours. The event was the first communitywide celebration of the new space, which has been buzzing with entrepreneurial activity since September. (The building, previously empty, once housed WGBH.) The...