Year Up - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Jun 2018
News

My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

year we set up a recording tent on Spangler lawn and asked alumni returning for reunions a simple question. What was your first job and what did it teach you? The first collection of these that we ran last... View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

Hall, who expects to commit up to $250 million over the next five years to create about 500 new charter schools. The Fund typically targets operators that run one or two successful charter schools and want... View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

25 Aug 2014
News

Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992

Founder and CEO, Year Up Download Gerald Chertavian profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1965 Born, Lowell, Massachusetts 1987 Earns BA, Economics, Bowdoin College 1987 Joins... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

04 Feb 2008
News

After Twenty Years, Rankings Remain Controversial

The School’s Centennial year just happens to coincide with another important anniversary, one many business schools would like to forget: the debut of BusinessWeek’s school rankings in 1988. Talk about disruptive. View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Oct 2000
News

Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace

Lydia Marshall is more comfortable talking about the impact that CARE -- the international relief and development organization -- has had on her than what she has done for it. If pressed, however, Marshall, a CARE board member for fourteen View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

19 Jun 2013
News

Ann Moore, MBA 1978

30 years, they wanted to give me a gift, and I thought it appropriate to set up a fellowship to help women at HBS. On my desk for 30 years was a single sheet of paper that was from a women's organization in... View Details

Alumni WDYDWYD

Joanna Barsh

Since I turned 50, I've been on a journey of discovery. It turned into Centered Leadership and my first book, How Remarkable Women Lead. Now I dream of helping women step up to lead. But I took my own biggest step forward in my 58th year.... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

3-Minute Briefing: Wick Moorman (MBA 1989)

I’m on a train right now. Obviously, I look at the experience in a slightly different way than I used to. I now spend almost all the time talking to people who are working on the train and to our customers. The story I tell, which is apocryphal, is that my mother was... View Details

Keywords: April White

06 Dec 2021
News

In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean

Twenty years ago, when a broker called to tell Jon Simon (MBA 1980) about the possibility of acquiring Parkway Custom Drycleaning, the broker didn’t initially reveal what it was—a high-end dry-cleaning business founded in 1926. Convinced... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; career; life experiences; dry cleaning; leadership; music; Personal and Laundry Services; Personal Services

18 Apr 2022
News

Home Grown

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes With InMobi and now Glance, Naveen Tewari (MBA 2005) is at the forefront of a growing trend of global consumer technology companies created in Asia from the ground up. Growing View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

Sea of Dreams

Illustration by Shutterstock I've always loved boats. When I was just a few years old, my grandfather set me up in a small sailing dinghy and sent me on my way. I have no recollection of the instruction that... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2011
News

Walking the TalkTalk

challenges.” She embraced a formidable task in 2010 when, with years of experience at supermarket chains Sainsbury’s and Tesco but none in telecom, she became CEO of TalkTalk, which supplies telephone and broadband services to more than 4... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

Amadeo Peter Giannini

Giannini grew Bank of America into the world’s largest bank. Three years after surviving the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, Giannini’s banking operations expanded by opening its first branch in San Jose. He continued to open banks... View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Jun 2016
News

In My Humble Opinion: Julie Bishop (AMP 151, 1996)

Julie Bishop (AMP 151, 1996) was 18 years into a successful legal career at a law firm in Perth, Western Australia, when she came to HBS. Bishop, who describes the AMP program as a time of “reflection, learning, and inspiration” graduated... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photography by X99/Zuma

Portrait Project

Emilka Valentova

The driver admitted: "I was afraid I was picking up a patient!" Hiding the truth behind my tailored suit aggravated my despair. During the first year at HBS, I found the courage to share my story... View Details

22 Oct 2014
News

Closing the opportunity divide for low-income young adults

Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) founded Year Up to offer technical and professional skills training to arm economically disadvantaged young people with the professional skills they need to contribute to... View Details

01 Sep 2009
News

We Did It!

MBA Class of 2009 graduates whoop it up at last June’s Harvard Commencement ceremonies at the University’s Tercentenary Theatre. Some students flash MBA Oath cards, indicating their backing for an initiative, inspired by HBS students,... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends

Capital Partners. "A lot of noise has been eliminated. The people I deal with are true believers." His company is "not looking for quick flips. We're willing to roll up our sleeves." The growing field of photonics will... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

25 Feb 2020
News

Action Plan: Just Breathe

executives would find out that I was meditating,” Burton admits. Today, he wants everyone to know about the workplace benefits of meditation and other stress-management techniques. Six years ago, Burton founded Whil, a digital training... View Details