know, you say, "Hey, here's exactly how you start a business." Or I say, "Hey, here's the the route that you go through undergrad and grad school to become a neuroscientist." And that's great. I mean, there's just there's so much more uh of a talent window now that thateveryone gets exposed to. So, I think that makes a better brain.
So I would love to do that. undergrad , as well-- can play in those students' lives.
The Harvard Grant study is-- in the 1930s, Harvard researchers decided to start collecting millions of data points from hundreds of Bostonian men, Harvard grads, or Harvard undergrads , but also men from underprivileged neighborhoods.They didn't really have a strong objective back then.
advertising markets and this was back in 1978 I came here to complete my undergraduate education and that's for the most part the story I told my parents but what I really came here to do was to meet gay people and that was the purpose of my destination now most
Ken is a roboticist, is a computer scientist, is really a true Renaissance man with broad multidisciplinary interests. Undergraduate degrees in EE and economics. So, I guess, triple E at UPenn.
But still, not just the obvious candidates. Undergrads and grads-- They heard about MMM, and they were all like, we need more of that.
not our normal way of doing things in academia. And one of the things that I recognized when I finished graduate school is that we needed an entity that didn't just churn, in and out, undergrads and grad students for one year. That we needed an entity with a life, that had its own internal capacity, its own internal learning, that stayed with people. And sothat was one of the reasons for creating Innovations for Poverty Action. And what we found very quickly was once we created it, and people came. I mean, the researchers really saw the
well as you see your own companies listed here certainly google is one of the dream jobs for many millennials both undergraduates and business school students now while millennials do want to have this flexible work life i was surprised that so many of them still are interested in careers in consulting banking accounting where the hours can
back now this is a list from universum for this year of the ideal employers for undergraduates in the united states and your company google is number one again this year um in the undergraduate list you see a fair number of government agencies and some non-profits
started it started I go out and collect all the state-of-the-art you know uh when I reviewed literature When I Was An undergraduate an undergraduate thesis on how perception in one sense will affect another sense I went and collected all the journal articles and then I wrote down sort of the bottom line of each study on slips of paper and I pinned
Lori describes herself as an intellectual omnivore. Her undergrad degrees from Swarthmore are in biology and religion. She got her master's from Harvard Divinity School in theological studies, and her Ph.D. from Boston University was in American Studies.
and professionally. But that's not how Dayamrita Chaitanya thought his life would go. During undergrad days he studied physics and he was very interested in film, so he enrolled or a master's in film technology in the prestigious Film and Television Institute of India, and he thought he would end up becoming a documentary filmmaker, or maybe even
And so I felt like, OK, I love race, class, and culture and examining fashion from that end. My undergraduate degree was in race, class, and culture. I had started off wanting to be a history teacher.
Well, I find that yes, I am a very creative person. My undergraduate degree is actually in business. So I am also using that side of my brain as well.
And I decided I would just sign up with a temp agency for the summer. My undergraduate degree was in business, so I got assigned to work for a transportation agency in their finance department. And it opened my eyes to this world that I was not familiar with.
I'll give you one example. for undergraduates. So it's gone up 20% a year for the last five years.
Berkeley undergraduates, but possibly not as smart as four-year-olds because
the undergraduates coming out of there are fantastic ?
Yale undergraduate with a degree in history uh and then spent a couple years
We were friends as undergrads at Cambridge, and we had been discussing it since our undergrad ,
I studied design in undergrad and then went on to move overseas to study organizational behavior.
And just like old undergrad days, always modestly waiting for others to have their say before speaking himself.
So my undergrad is actually in microbiology and global health.
In my undergrad when I was in Princeton, I studied African-American History, and I did African Studies.
Lisa did her undergrad at Boston College and received her PhD at the University of Texas at Austin.
so as an undergrad , I was really worried that--
Went to MIT undergrad many years ago and did some-- my thesis at the Media Lab on using gameification for learning.
I went through undergrad and grad, so just how much you know how foolish I am to go to public school twice.
Did my undergrad and my two master's degrees there.
As an undergrad , I was a guinea pig for psych experiments-- physiological psych experiments.
I was an undergrad at Dartmouth in the 90s-- we had this vibrant computing culture of email.
I was an engineer undergrad then I ended up leaving engineering because it wasn't that fun for me-- no offense to an engineers in the room--
So as an undergrad , I did field geology.
But an undergrad -- I think I was a senior-- an undergrad had turned in an article.
So for the particular undergrad , you're like, oh, this is an Ivy League school, versus this is-- So we have three categories.
And that's my undergrad , so it does have a special place in my heart.
both in undergrad and then grad school, studied philosophy.
It was an undergrad course.
know my undergrad in in college was in chemistry and so you might think well how did how did you end up here as a
We got a Berkeley undergrad , and he stood right at the edge of a pedestrian zone, which is that series of white stripes.
So our poor Berkeley undergrad stopped and looked at oncoming traffic.
This was an undergrad at MIT.
I did my undergrad in CS and a master's in Artificial Intelligence.
And I did my undergrad in computer engineering.
starting as an undergrad .
I did my undergrad at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona, where I modeled planetary atmospheres, which is a whole lot of fun.
I went to Stanford undergrad , I went to Stanford Business School, I took a class with Zimbardo, Phil Zimbardo, Phillip Zimbardo.
I started the undergrad writing program. I love it. It's a great thing. But it's a hundred
l'oreal and a few other companies have these major online game events for students both undergrad and mba level and not only is it an interesting experience for the students and uh sort of fun but it allows l'oreal to spot talent in marketing and strategy
I went to undergrad at the University of Michigan. Yeah. Right here. I actually