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ying in bed each morning, listening to the water run as her roommate took a seemingly endless shower, Emily Batt felt a mixture of frustration and exhaustion. She wanted to be able to sleep until the shower was free, but had no way of knowing when her less-than-considerate roommate would vacate the bathroom.
Those frustrating mornings served as motivation during a team project in the Technology Venture Immersion (TVI) program, a unique, two-week course in the University’s new MS/MBA program, jointly offered by the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Harvard Business School.
Image: Teammates Andy Harris, Emily Batt, and Jack Rockaway developed this connected device and app that delays a smartphone alarm from sounding until the shower is empty. (Photo by Eliza Grinnell/SEAS Communications)
