The GenUnity team
This post is part of our “Day in the Life” series, which features HBS students engaged in social enterprise activities on campus. In this post, Jerren Chang (MBA/MPP 2021), a joint degree student and social entrepreneur, describes a typical day that includes academics, community involvement, and working on his startup, GenUnity. [...]
This post is the first in our “Day in the Life” series, which will feature HBS students engaged in social enterprise activities on campus. In this post, Holly Fetter (MBA 2020), co-president of the HBS Social Enterprise Club, describes a typical day that includes academics, club leadership responsibilities, and community involvement. [...]
Ratnika Prasad is exploring solutions to climate change at Harvard
Working to protect the environment has been my passion for as long as I can remember. My father was my earliest inspiration. As an officer in the Indian Forest Service, he devoted his life to balancing day to day realities of economic development with environmental conservation. For me, climate change was a reality we lived with every day – experienced in wildly fluctuating rains that flooded my house, turbulent storms that eroded roads, and increases in sea levels that caused thousands of Maldivians to migrate to my city. [...]
Dan Hall and Education Pioneers colleagues at Teach For America HQ
Prior to Harvard Business School, I spent eight years on active duty military service as an Aviation officer and helicopter pilot in the United States Army. My career took me to three countries, six states, and countless hours of flying high in the sky and low to the ground, over water and below the treeline. I led organizations ranging in size from 17 soldiers to 120, in missions both operational and maintenance support. Yet one consistent theme throughout all of it was my sense of having a mission-driven life, of giving my time and energy to something greater than myself. So when I left the Army to attend HBS, I knew I wanted to try and capture that same sense of purpose. [...]
Prior to HBS my career spanned a kaleidoscopic range of topics. I’ve hopscotched across different sectors, at NASA assisting on a lunar rover mission; a stint in finance performing the usual fiduciary responsibilities; and time at a tech company, helping to build programmatic advertising products. Depending on how you tilt your head and squint at my résumé, I could appear to be an engineer, a financier, or a techie. [...]