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Strategy & Innovation

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Entrepreneurship

My Big Idea: Camping Gear Made for Kids, and Their Parents

November 8, 2023

Photo: Jennifer Yen, an Asian woman with long black hair wearing a pink top, stands in front of a generic photo drop and smiles for the camera.

Business & Economics

My Big Idea: Combining Asian Wisdom with Modern Beauty Routines

May 30, 2023

Strategy & Innovation

My Big Idea: a Web- and App-Based Tool to Plan a Meaningful Life

February 14, 2023

Elizabeth Alexander (GRS’87) (clockwise from top left), Shari Redstone (LAW’71,’81), Manjusha Kulkarni (LAW’95), Adrienne Pitts (LAW’95), and Nadine Chakar (CAS’87). Photos courtesy of BU Photography, AP/Evan Agostini, Kulkarni, Pitts, and Chakar.

Alumni

Five Alums Named to Forbes “50 over 50” List

February 10, 2023

Business

My Big Idea: Anti-Bullying Software for the Classroom

October 12, 2022

Innovation

My Big Idea: Clean Body Care Products

September 20, 2022

Husband-and-wife team Arsh Kakar (CAS’15) and Jannat Kakar (COM’23) started Tishwish, a company that makes compostable packaging for e-retailers, during summer 2020, prompted by the pandemic. Photo courtesy of Tishwish

Entrepreneurship

My Big Idea: Compostable E-Commerce Packaging

February 1, 2022

photo of BU’s new 19-story Center for Computing & Data Sciences during construction. A crane is atop the structure. It serves as a looming figure during a scenic orange sunset. Cars are seen in the horizon.

Data Science

Data Science Jobs Are Hot—and with a State-of-the-Art Building, New Faculty, and a New Major, BU Is Ready

November 19, 2021

Paretta Autosport founder and CEO Beth Paretta standing in front of the Paretta Autosport pagoda with the Paretta Autosport sign in the background.

Motorsport

Paretta Autosport Head Beth Paretta’s Drive to Boost the Number of Women in Motorsport

November 18, 2021

Portrait of Questrom alum David R. Jones in New York City. He stands and looks to the left in front of a large patch of pink flowers. He is surrounded by NYC traffic and looming building as backdrop.

Finance

Opening Doors: David R. Jones (CGS’84, Questrom’86), cofounder, president, CEO, CastleOak Securities

November 2, 2021

Photo of Aaron Rasmussen (COM’06, CAS’06), with a spherical keyboard he made for himself because of a repetitive strain injury, at home in Washington State. He wears a gray suit jacket, glasses, in stands in the bushes which are illuminated by the lights of his keyboard.

Innovation

BU Alum Aaron Rasmussen: Serial Entrepreneur, Inventor, Perpetual Student

July 28, 2021

Photo of Daisy Figueroa (LAW’21) in a black t-shirt and jeans ripped at the knee standing if front of a larger mural with the virgin mary and graffiti painted all over it. The photo has been edited so Figueroa is in black and white and the mural is brightly colored.

Student Activism

Student Activism Today Is Leaving a Mark on Climate Change, Antiracism, Housing, and More

March 26, 2021

A photo of Shironda White holding a tray of cupcakes.

Entrepreneurship

My Big Idea(s): Financial Planning for Students and Families—and Cupcakes

March 2, 2021

A portrait photo of Minal Anand

Entrepreneurship

My Big Idea: A Digital Platform in India That Connects Students with Tutors

November 17, 2020

Two Amber Vittoria illustrations on a white background. In the images, women’s contorted limbs stretch the limits of the composition, like Nothing Is Private (left) and one she created for Dope Girls magazine (right). The women's bodies are in pink.

Visual Arts

Designing Women

August 7, 2020

A portrait photo of Paul Francisco in his office.

Business & Economics

Working to Change the Way corporations Hire

February 19, 2020

Taylor Cain (GRS’20), director of the Housing Innovation Lab, meets members of the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corp. Housing Innovation Lab intern Rebecca Christner pictured at right.

Housing

Boston, You’re Our Home. Taylor Cain Wants to Keep It That Way

February 13, 2020

Bags of Cotton Candy Grapes on display in a groccery store

Food

Why Kara Nielsen Sees Cotton Candy Grapes in Your Future

January 24, 2020

David R. Jones

Finance

Investing in Good

March 15, 2019

Science & Technology

Taking His Time

February 19, 2019

Taking His Time