Entrepreneurs & Leaders

Roberto Alvarez de Lara is living the dream. After five years working as a programmer with one of the best video-game design studios in Spain, he founded his own Madrid-based company, Over the Top Games. In April, the company came out with its latest creation, The Fancy Pants Adventure, and hopes to continue generating new products every year. While outside experience is very important, says Alvarez de Lara, the best video-game designers begin at home. …

Over the Top: Fancy Pants Adventures and Other Gamer Tales

Jason Schutzbank has been an entrepreneur since he was 14 and building websites for family and friends. He co-founded a social media company while in college at Emory University, balancing the stress of student life with being a top executive at a publicly traded firm. Today, the 23-year-old runs a business that advises companies on how to use Facebook and Twitter in their marketing. Schutzbank recently talked to Knowledge@Wharton High School about his experiences and offered advice to budding entrepreneurs. …

From the Campus Quad to the Boardroom: Jason Schutzbank on Life as a Student and Serial Entrepreneur

Since the first Earth Day in 1970, people have been coming together each year on April 22 to celebrate the environment and advocate for sustainability and protection. But as this year’s theme, “A Billion Acts of Green”, suggests, true environmental change is a full-time effort. High school students around the country are finding ways every day in their schools and communities to raise awareness of environmental issues, inspire change and improve the livability of the planet. …

The Voice of a Green Generation

Developing economies around the world struggle with providing ample, affordable food supplies, which compromises community nutrition and overall health. Five teenage women in Northern Zambia are investing new entrepreneurial skills into their remote fishing community through savvy farming strategies and increased employment to tackle the local food crisis. This case study written by Camfed International, an organization that works toward eradicating poverty in Africa through the empowerment of young women, tells the story of Chitundwa’s Poverty Fighters.…

Northern Zambia’s Poverty Fighters

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