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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.
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.