After having completed my first year of the Harvard Business School (HBS) MBA program, I will spend my summer as an intern in the company’s Strategy Department. It reports directly to the Management Board and works on projects that will steer the future of the company. [...]

The Entrepreneurship Club at the Harvard Business School is dedicated to creating a thriving entrepreneurial community that lasts beyond HBS. We provide high quality events and interactions to help aspiring, joining, and founding entrepreneurs “find their people” and demystify what it takes to begin a successful business. [...]

Nanako Yano grew up in Tokyo, Japan and attended Pomona College in California. After graduating, she worked with Oliver Wyman in New York City and then moved to Swaziland to work with the Clinton Health Access Inititiative (CHAI) until two years later she was admitted into the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program. We caught up with Nanako to learn more about her experience with the HBS/HKS joint degree program and her plans to make an impact on the world. [...]

How do you balance between being a mission-driven organization and a financially profitable company? That was the central question we posed to participants and speakers of this year’s Social Enterprise Conference (SECON). [...]

Sesame Workshop (SW) is the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street and much more. SW’s mission is to help kids grow smarter, stronger, and kinder. Since I’ve been here, I’ve seen firsthand how that mission suffuses everyone’s work – I’ve never worked in an organization where every employee is truly united and motivated by a singular goal. SW combines fun media with enriching, meticulously crafted curriculum to address children’s critical developmental needs in the U.S. and across the world. My role for the Fellowship year is Director of Strategy – I sit on the strategic planning and venture capital team. [...]