# Harvard Student Agencies

> Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) is the largest student-run company in the world. Founded at Harvard in 1957 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, it employs more than 900 Harvard undergraduates each year across roughly a dozen businesses - from The Harvard Shop and Trademark Tours to Let's Go travel guides, HSA Tutoring, GroupGear custom apparel, and Campus Insights user research. Students run every division as managers, gaining hands-on business experience while earning wages that help offset the cost of a Harvard education.

- **Founded:** 1957
- **Headquarters:** Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founders:** John Munro (Co-founder (Harvard Dean of Financial Aid)), Dustin M. Burke (Co-founder / original incorporator), Greg Stone (Co-founder / original incorporator), John Giannetti (Co-founder / original incorporator), Theodore Elliot (Co-founder / original incorporator), Harold Rosenwald (Co-founder / original incorporator)
- **Team size:** 900+ Harvard undergraduate employees annually
- **Products:** The Harvard Shop, Trademark Tours, HSA Cleaners & Dorm Essentials, Let's Go, HSA Tutoring
- **Notable:** Recognized as the largest student-run company in the world., Nearly 70 years of continuous operation since its 1957 founding., Has attempted more than 70 businesses and posted over $146 million in revenue across its history.

## Products & services

- **The Harvard Shop** — Retailer of official Harvard merchandise, apparel, and class rings across Harvard Square storefronts and an online store.
- **Trademark Tours** — Visitor services company offering student-guided tours of the Harvard campus and Cambridge area.
- **HSA Cleaners & Dorm Essentials** — Laundry services and dorm supply products - linens, furniture, packing materials and more - for the campus community.
- **Let's Go** — The student-written travel guide series covering destinations worldwide, distributed via books, apps, and web.
- **HSA Tutoring** — Test preparation and academic tutoring, plus summer academic programs, delivered by Harvard students.
- **The Academies by HSA** — Virtual pre-professional enrichment programs for high school students in business, consulting, coding, politics, pre-law and pre-med.
- **GroupGear** — Custom apparel and accessories for student organizations and companies nationwide.
- **Campus Insights** — User research and marketing insights firm running interviews and UX/UI testing for tech and consumer companies.
- **Harvard Distribution** — Campus advertising service offering postering and flyer distribution in Harvard and MIT dormitories.
- **Corporate Marketing / DEV** — Internal marketing, brand strategy, and web/app development teams that support the HSA portfolio.

## Achievements

- Recognized as the largest student-run company in the world.
- Nearly 70 years of continuous operation since its 1957 founding.
- Has attempted more than 70 businesses and posted over $146 million in revenue across its history.
- Paid more than $50 million in student wages over its history (over $2M annually today).
- Let's Go grew into a globally distributed travel guide series produced entirely by students, at its peak publishing dozens of titles a year.
- Alumni include Bill Ackman, Matt Salzberg (Blue Apron), Deval Patrick, Ken Powell (General Mills), and U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith.

## Latest updates

- **2022** — Launched an internal Corporate Marketing team to manage HSA's brand strategy, design, and technology across its businesses.
- **2021** — Trademark Tours brought fully under the HSA portfolio, expanding campus visitor services.
- **2015** — Launched The Academies by HSA, pre-professional virtual programs for high school students.

## Links

- Website: https://www.hsa.net/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvard-student-agencies
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6WmjxLPF8RtXf6KfEgSJVA
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hsacorporate/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HSA/

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