HSA Agencies
Learn About Our Agencies
With 11 different business operations, Harvard Student Agencies is the world's largest student-run corporations. We invite you to learn more about each agency by navigating through the list on the left of the page.
The Harvard Shop
The Harvard Shop is one of the two only for-profit agencies and has the largest revenue stream of all the agencies. With two store locations in the heart of Harvard, a hip new website, a personalized class ring experience, and an easy-ordering system for custom merchandise, The Harvard Shop is one of the most exciting agencies at HSA.
HSA Cleaners
HSA Cleaners is one of the founding businesses at HSA and is consistently one of its most profitable. Business is concentrated on four key product areas: laundry and linen plans, dry cleaning services, and bulk linen rentals and sales, and freshman linens. Offering its managers the opportunity to direct a staff of workers at the main office and off-site locations, HSA Cleaners operates six separate offices. Due to the high profile of the agency, many people learn about HSA for the first time through the Cleaners.
HSA Dorm Essentials
HSA Dorm Essentials sells and rents dorm goods for Harvard students and program attendants for reunions and summer school. Dorm Essentials offers refrigerators, microfridges, furniture, and Poland Spring water coolers, as well as a variety of care packages. Our business emphasizes convenience - we deliver items directly to students' dorms.
Lets Go Publications
Let's Go Publications, HSA's largest division, started in 1960 when the introduction of affordable flights to Europe prompted a group of enterprising students to put together a 210-page pamphlet of travel tips for a new breed of traveler - the student on a budget. This best-selling budget travel guide series hires over 150 students each year to completely revise and update all 48 titles. Hiring for editors, associate editors, and researchers/writers occurs at the beginning of the second academic semester.
HSA Tutoring
HSA Tutoring provides the SAT SOS Course, a two-day boot camp designed and taught completely by Harvard students. The course, written by Harvard’s top undergraduates, offers insider test strategies and tips on how to master the SAT. HSA Tutoring also offers private tutoring by Harvard students for the SAT I, SAT II Subject Tests, and high school subjects.
HSA Translation
HSA Translation is a nonprofit translation agency whose mission is to provide the most affordable certified translations available. While other agencies have complicated pricing schemes, we charge a flat rate of only $40 per page, making us the most affordable service on the market.
We are committed to offering a level of quality, confidentiality, and affordability that our for-profit competitors are unable to match. We are a member of the American Translators Association. Our translations are legalized, certified, and notarized. We also offer guaranteed USCIS (formerly known as the INS), U.S. State Department, and university acceptance.
HSA Bar Services
HSA Bar Services offers a wide variety of bartending courses including a TIPS (Training in Intervention Procedures by Servers of alcohol) certification course. Additionally, Bar Services offers trained bartending & serving staff for private events throughout the Boston area.
HSA Rover
Rover is a team of mobile application developers that specializes in iOS application programming. As part of Harvard Student Agencies, Rover is a branch of the largest student-run corporation in the world that is committed to producing the highest quality product. Rover believes in shifting the conventional paradigm away from standard user interface designs by creating innovative approaches to functionality that are optimized for the mobile experience. In doing this, Rover hopes to build community through its mobile apps as well as fulfill the needs of its users.
Harvard Distribution
Harvard Distribution Services is the only authorized direct-to-student distribution service on campus, allowing us to have direct access to student dorms, mailboxes, and academic buildings. We place advertisements, announcements, and publications around campus where students are certain to see them.
Cronin Center for Enterprise
Cronin Center for Enterprise was founded to support and foster the creative business initiatives of undergraduates at Harvard. The Center's resources are directed towards planning and funding cutting-edge educational forums and career development programs that will spur undergraduate interest in business. Alumni, faculty, and corporate sponsors all play an integral part in helping fulfill our mission to bridge the gap between education and professional careers.
HSA Marketing
HSA Marketing works to connect outside businesses with Harvard students through The Unofficial Guide Series (Harvard, Boston, Prefrosh, Summer), The Harvard Guide to Summer Opportunities, campus postering, mailbox stuffing, and door-dropping. In addition to combining HSA Publications and Harvard Distribution Services, HSA Marketing has launched new partnership levels for local businesses, giving them access to exclusive free new initatives and marketing ideas.
