Youth - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2016
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HBS Alumni Contribute to Business and Society

over $10 trillion. Board Service HBS Community Partners of Northern California alumni volunteers participate in a brainstorming session with leaders of a nonprofit organization that helps low-income youth in San Francisco succeed in... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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Answering the Call

right," says Brooks, who went home that night and began discussing with his family the calling he felt he could no longer ignore. He then spent several years examining his life, working with his church's youth group, and praying, before... View Details

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Christopher Maloney

wherever I go-I just need to work to find it. Nonetheless, embracing that realization may take a lifetime. I work primarily on African development issues. My affinity for Africa started in high school, working with disadvantaged youth in... View Details

13 Sep 2022
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Video Perspectives: Magashe Ngoepe

the misfortune is that a lot of those people who were all of those things are sitting as unemployed youth in South Africa. And I think I want to dedicate my life to finding ways to solve that those kind of problems, and to ensure that... View Details

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Riding the WAVE | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

graduation, returning to her hometown of Lagos, Nigeria, to make good on the organization’s mission to combat youth unemployment by identifying, training, and placing graduates of the program’s 3-week training program in entry-level jobs.... View Details

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Teams | New Venture Competition

the trans community that addresses clinicians’ barriers around learning and advocacy. 2024 Semifinalists AccessEquity M M Zimran Khan (MPA 2024) Ujjwal Kumar (MPA 2024) Sayid Abdullaev (MPA 2024) Empowering Bangladesh's youth with digital... View Details

15 Dec 2024
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Editor's Letter

Illustration by Antonio Giovanni Pinna Illustration by Antonio Giovanni Pinna Change is hard. I am reminded of this every time I get a new laptop and there are new, generational expectations that require me to hunt down videos of overly caffeinated View Details

28 May 2017
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HBS on the Road: Ghana, Nigeria, and Côte d'Ivoire

company and social entrepreneurship focused on youth unemployment to name just two), investors, government ministers, and executives of pan-African companies. And, they were so close knit, and welcomed me warmly into their gatherings. In... View Details

25 Sep 2017
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Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge

her WAVE cofounders, Karan Chopra and Bryan Mezue. The three shared the experience of having grown up in Africa and the desire to help solve youth unemployment. Another classmate, Navid Rahimi, joined the team along with two classmates... View Details

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Tomiwa Igun

I want to light up West Africa! Dark nights, paper fans, candlelight, kerosene lanterns, and aching backs from fetching well water — seems like medieval times! But these were the days of my youth growing up in Nigeria's most vibrant city,... View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

of Non-Profit Leadership in a Post-Pandemic World Chekemma J. Fulmore-Townsend 10 Aug 2021 Chekemma J. Fulmore-Townsend is President and CEO of the Philadelphia Youth Network. Chekemma att... Investing in Education to Help Meet the Needs... View Details

01 Feb 2000
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OPM Honors Marty Marshall with Professorship

comprehensively," said Hindman, the founder of Jiffy Lube and retired chairman of Youth Services International. "Marty has given his students not only the confidence but also the skills to take on challenges they never would have... View Details

01 May 2013
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Thompson Dean, MBA 1984

Growing up as the son of a foreign service officer, Tom Dean spent much of his youth in Asia and developed a curiosity about American business. After graduating from the University of Virginia and working at Irving Trust Company in New... View Details

01 Dec 2001
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Film School

in school programs and real-world job skills," Seder observed. "It is meant to lure them into filmmaking. Kids discuss the films and have to think of a way that is real and mature to get out of bad situations." Since BPA was formed, more than five hundred View Details

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Heather McLetchie-Leader

means providing at-risk youth with the educational tools to lift themselves and their families out of poverty, giving them the chance that someone made sure I had. Personally it means serving wherever I see need, whether it be running a... View Details

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Tech Power at HBS: Faculty Boost Technology Ecosystem

Education, she is part of the teaching team for the Advanced Management Program and Leading as an LGBTQ+ Executive. Moon's research covers strategy, branding innovation, and culture, focusing on youth and the digital economy. A... View Details

08 Sep 2021
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Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

philanthropic consulting portfolio Mbanusi led at MDC, along with his experience founding and leading a city-wide youth organizing initiative focused on educational completion and connection to living wage work opportunities, pointed him... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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For African farmers looking to escape poverty, honey brings sweet success

for exemplary service, Keshavjee says, “I’d like to play my small part in reducing the inequalities of income on this new-frontier continent. I’d like to inspire youthful entrepreneurs and the creation of social enterprises.” Keshavjee... View Details

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Scott Daubin

day." Worth ten times the tuition For his summer internship, Scott rejoined Bain, but in the Bronx, not in Times Square. "They sponsored my work with a youth group called 'First Tee,' that teaches golf to underprivileged... View Details

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Raghu Yarlagadda

Most electronic devices come with cautionary labels warning users against the dangers of opening the box. Fortunately, as a youth growing up in India, fascinated by televisions, Raghu Yarlagadda ignored the warnings and looked inside. He... View Details

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