Entrepreneurs & Leaders

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

When was the last time you scarfed down a Big Mac at McDonald’s? For some high school students, fast food is a way of life — and not a very healthy one. Christopher Bolden-Newsome, community farm director and educator with Seeds for Learning-Beyond the Farm, a program that helps inner-city kids at Philadelphia high schools plant their own urban gardens and learn about nutrition and business, is a leader in the food-justice movement. He talks about his Seeds for Learning work and why the food justice community, which advocates access for all to good, healthy foods, is growing. …

Christopher Bolden-Newsome: The Fight for Food Justice

Powerhouse companies like GE invest in tomorrow’s leaders by running extensive internal training programs to groom employees to become corporate superstars. An area of enormous strength for GE is the way the company identifies and builds leaders, as the large number of CEOs who once worked for GE testifies. Knowledge@Wharton talked with Susan Peters, GE’s chief learning officer, about GE and leadership. …

How GE Builds Global Leaders: A Conversation with Chief Learning Officer Susan Peters

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