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The University That Had to Fire Its First Idea to Build Toronto's Research Machine
U of T began as an Anglican college that took 16 years to open and lasted only seven years in the classroom. Its secular reboot became a three-campus platform serving 103,140 students - and a case study in how institutions turn breadth into an advantage without pretending complexity is free.
Northwestern Started With $9.92. Here’s the Flywheel Institution Builders Can Steal
A lakefront land bet, $100 perpetual scholarships and an obsession with crossing disciplines turned nine founders’ “wind work” into a $3.46 billion-a-year institution. The trick is copyable. The conditions are not.
Junior Enterprises Turn Classrooms Into Client Work
Across Europe, student-run nonprofits are doing what lectures cannot: putting young people in charge of real clients, real decisions and real consequences.
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.
Michael Mauro
Michael Mauro is a Harvard undergraduate economics student from Long Island who has turned campus life into a business education. He helps run marketing at Harvard Student Agencies, the world's largest student-run company, works as a consulting manager for its summer Academies, and co-presides over the Harvard Undergraduate Economics Association. He plays club ice hockey, is aiming for law school, and has collected passport stamps from two dozen countries along the way.