Jessica Barrett
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To help us choose last year's 30 Under 30, we sent each candidate a series of questions to see what made them tick. Here's how Stephanie Yu, who is Co-founder and CEO of Bole Education Services, responded.What motivational quote gets you...
To help us choose last year's 30 Under 30, we sent each candidate a series of questions to see what made them tick. Here's how Angela Wang, who Co-founded Culitech Tableware Co., responded.What motivational quote gets you going?“I don’t remember the...
To help us choose last year's 30 Under 30, we sent each candidate a series of questions to see what made them tick. Here's how Kasondra Cohen-Herrendorf, who launched the Face of Today Foundation in 2009, responded.What motivational quote gets you...
To help us choose last year's 30 Under 30, we sent each candidate a series of questions to see what made them tick. Here's how Madeleine Liu, Co-Founder of Culitech Tableware Co., responded.What motivational quote gets you going? “I am motivated...
To help us choose last year’s 30 Under 30, we sent each candidate a series of questions to see what made them tick. Here’s how Andrew Hall, who co-founded the MealShare Aid Society, responded. What motivational quote gets you going?"'As a...
To help us choose last year's 30 Under 30, we sent each candidate a series of questions to see what made them tick. Here's how Miguel Kudry, founder and CEO of HelpHub Services Inc., responded.What motivational quote gets you going?“'You...
After nearly three decades with some of North America’s largest publicly traded lighting companies, Tim Berman found himself feeling limited. “You reach a point when you’re very high up that you become more of a politician than a doer.” That didn’t sit well with Berman, who realized something needed to be...
For Jean-Pierre and Kate Ross LeBlanc, the old adage of keeping business and personal separate has never applied. In fact, it was an intensely personal experience that led the married couple to begin Saje Natural Business Inc. After a car accident that left him with serious soft-tissue damage, Jean-Pierre began investigating...
When Dave Shumka and Graham Clark decided to start dabbling in podcasting back in 2008, the medium seemed an unlikely candidate for mainstream appeal. Just a few years earlier, the new digital audio product had been met by an initial surge of excitement–with former MTV VJ Adam Curry launching what’s...
A few years into her career as a software engineer, Vivienne Wang began to wonder if she was on the right path. After obtaining a master’s degree in software engineering from McMaster University, Wang landed jobs at tech heavyweights GE and IBM. But the work, while promising, was limited in...
After a sluggish few years, business schools are back, with a majority of MBA programs globally reporting an uptick in applications in 2015, according to a survey by the Graduate Management Admissions Council. Still, given diminished financial support from employers for executive education, part-time and executive MBA programs remain a tough sell—and with...