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The Social Enterprise Accelerator is offered to students in the summer between their first and second year, supporting student founders in the development of their social impact startup. During the summer of 2023, eleven student founders benefitted from social entrepreneurship workshops, as well as the insights and feedback from their cohort. We talked to a few participants in the Accelerator to hear more about their experience: Teresa Danso-Danquah, Rea Savla, Benjamin Schedl, and Sophy Wang, (all MBA 2024). [...]
While Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) was fulfilling her summer internship at NPR, her manager recommended that she read an HBS case study about how the Sesame Workshop CEO, Jeff Dunn (MBA 1981), was changing the institution. “I was blown away,” she says, “by how Jeff and his team were bringing business rigor to the institution.” [...]
Founded by siblings Azeez Gupta (MBA 2019) and Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022), the edtech nonprofit Rocket Learning targets India’s lower-income students—and the teachers and parents who support them. [...]
With the New Venture Competition (NVC) Finale right around the corner and in celebration of the competition’s 25 years at Harvard Business School, we caught up with some of the past participants across the three tracks (Alumni, Student Business, and Social Enterprise) to learn more about how NVC and their time at HBS helped shape their entrepreneurial journey. [...]
Margaret Nyamumbo (MBA 2016) founded Kahawa 1893 in 2017 to shorten the distance between Kenyan coffee farmers and American coffee drinkers and to invest in the women who make the industry run. [...]
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