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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
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Moir Donelson
creating a youth development program in rural Louisiana while serving in the Army or increasing revenues (by $39 million) as an engineer and administrator at Motorola in Texas (where he also tutored students), Donelson has shown great... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
advantage,” featuring a workforce that will be youthful for decades to come, Chidambaram said, “More and more Indians, especially young Indians, have discovered the virtues of an open polity and open economy. I have faith that the next... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
devoted entirely to manufacturing (and featuring Kim Clark, Steve Wheelwright, Bob Hayes, and Roy Shapiro as youthful professors, along with older hands such as Wick Skinner). After its founding in 1908 (the same year Henry Ford... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Willoughby G. Walling II: A Learning Experience
business. His job titles have included urban youth worker, teacher, White House policy advisor, and fundraiser. He remembers an exercise in John Kotter's class at HBS that required each student to come up with a career plan. "I listed... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Doubts about Applying to HBS
Street, I transitioned to working at Sponsors For Educational Opportunity (SEO) as an Assistant Director of Recruiting and Development. At SEO, I leveraged my experience in financial services and passion for helping underrepresented View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene
population is under 25, and youth unemployment stands at 28 percent. “The human capital is there,” she says. “And they are thinking outside of the box.” In many ways, BulkWhiz, which has now grown to more than 50 employees and could... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
multinational corporations, including Sears Roebuck, Wal-Mart, Bank of America, and American Express. He has also served on the board of Youth Services International, which provides care and developmental services for at-risk youth. He... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
fertilizers, and insecticides, Batcha explains, the average crop yield of corn has increased nearly fivefold in the years between his youth and his retirement from Asgrow, where he worked for 28 years. Batcha took a leap of faith in... View Details
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Gerald Chertavian
ideals—into action, Chertavian followed in the footsteps of his older brother and applied to HBS. In his application essay, he outlined his vision for building an organization that would offer disadvantaged youth a year of training and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
which recruits at-risk youth to work in Ben & Jerry's shops). It monitors employee progress and tries to quantify the costs each represents to society. It then tracks how that cost structure changes due to the nonprofit's intervention.... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
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Benjamin Wells
HBS." He was part of a team tackling a youth job-training program centered on silk production. "It was about something I had no previous understanding of whatsoever," Ben says. "But it showed me that I could do... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Centennial Goes YouTube
never encountered hostility from fellow students. To supplement individual recollections, the project’s steering committee has selected a number of alumni and faculty for oral history interviews. In some, youthful experiences foreshadow... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Taylor R. M. Keen
leader once said, 'Hold your tongue in youth so that someday with age and maturity you might have something worthwhile to say.' That's the philosophy I follow." The new student who has stunned his classmates into silence is Taylor Keen, a... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
David M. Hughes
the $1.5-million student activities budget as vice president of student affairs during his senior year. Signing on as a fundraising campaign manager for the United Way of Toronto at the tender age of 23, he supervised scores of volunteers and full-time personnel and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
optimistic about young people from 18 to 29, citing their high energy and entrepreneurial spirit. Combining those youthful traits with the wisdom of baby boomers is a pairing of forces and generations that the ALI seeks to advance, at... View Details
- 24 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on the Public Sector
why? Under a U.S. government-funded project focused on increasing entrepreneurship in Uganda’s agriculture sector, I supported the creation of economic opportunities for over 350,000 youth and leveraged $13 million in private sector... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
environmentally sound reconstruction of decaying neighborhoods by training at-risk urban youth in construction and putting them in line for good jobs. City Year, an education-focused nonprofit on whose national board I serve, mobilizes... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
More than a Game
grandchild, a testimony to the close ties that have formed around the sport. Although their spirits and most of their bodies are still willing, the alumni group is actively recruiting more youthful teammates to level the playing field.... View Details
- 24 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Growing the Seeds of an Early-Stage Startup
The company aims to transform health food with a lesser known super-seed (Sacha Inchi), which has a superior nutritional profile compared to most conventional nuts and seeds. The mission was to do this not just through its products, but also through its actions such as... View Details