The influence and innovation of HSA members are spreading to the greater Harvard community. FY12 Harvard Shop managers Nuseir Yassin ’14 and Christine Chen ’14 were recognized in an article by the Harvard Gazette about this year’s CS50 Fair. The CS50 Fair is an annual showcase of all of the projects created in the introductory computer science course. Nuseir’s project, Kindify, seeks to promote transactions of goodwill by allowing people to see their kind acts spread through a “tree of kindness.” Christine chose to put her coding skills to use in creating a new website for the Chinatown Citizenship Program, a PBHA program that tutors Chinese immigrants preparing for the U.S. citizenship test.

Meanwhile, Chief Technology Officer Scott Crouch was interviewed for a WGBH article about the formal opening for the Harvard Innovation Lab (nicknamed the i-lab). HSA Rover, led by Scott, is one of several groups collaborating with the i-lab. The i-lab hopes to promote entrepreneurship and innovation across all of Harvard’s campuses, from the College to the Business School. It formally opened on November 18, 2011.

Congratulations to all three HSA managers!

The original Harvard Gazette article featuring Nuseir and Christine can be found here. The original WGBH article featuring Scott can be found here.

Congratulations to the newly hired FY13 senior management team. The team is comprised of a chief technology officer, a chief operating officer, director of publishing, director of digital and marketing strategy, and four managing directors that will lead HSA’s management team during the 2013 fiscal year. Each member of senior management is responsible for overseeing the major sectors of HSA and have demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities and performance to earn their respective roles in senior management for FY13. Headed by FY13 president Kirk Benson, we are excited to introduce next year’s senior management team. Their profiles are listed below:

Name: Ali Evans
HSA Position: Managing Director, CCFE
Year: 2013
House: Kirkland
Concentration: Economics
Hometown: Southfield, Michigan

Name: Gorick Ng
HSA Position: Managing Director, Cleaners and Dorm Essentials
Year: 2014
House: Lowell
Concentration: Government, secondary in Economics
Hometown: Toronto, Canada

Name: Sara Plana
HSA Position: Vice President, Let’s Go Director of Publishing
Year: 2012
House: Dunster
Concentration: Government, secondary in English
Hometown: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Name: Caroline Davis
HSA Position: Managing Director, The Harvard Shop
Year: 2014
House: Quincy
Concentration: Computer Science
Hometown: Tampa, Florida

Name: Kirk Benson
HSA Position: President
Year: 2013
House: Adams
Concentration: Applied Math
Hometown: Bethesda, Maryland

Name: Scott Crouch
HSA Position: Chief Technology Officer
Year: 2013
House: Leverett
Concentration: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Hometown: Freeport, Maine

Name: Lauren Xie
HSA Position: Digital and Marketing Director, Let’s Go
Year: 2013
House: Dunster
Concentration: Environmental Science and Public Policy
Hometown: Rohnert Park, California

Name: Emily Lu
HSA Position: Chief Operating Officer
Year: 2014
House: Currier
Concentration: Applied Math
Hometown: Hillsborough, New Jersey

Name: Sarina Patterson
HSA Position: Managing Director, Marketing
Year: 2014
House: Currier
Concentration: Government
Hometown: Williamsburg, Virginia

HSA.tv is bringing full cable television to Harvard! For the first time, both live and recorded shows are available on your computer, over the Harvard network. It’s just like the cable TV you’d get at home, but it works on your computer and is available anywhere on campus. Try our full service free trial today by visiting hsa.tv. Hurry, the trial ends November 14th!

This fall, HSA is excited to announce the release of Harvard OCS for iOS and Android.  These exciting apps, created by Rover, organize and simplify the job search process for Harvard Students.  Look for them in the iTunes App Store and Android Marketplace.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/harvard-ocs/id473041549?mt=8

Congratulations to the newest members of the HSA Board of Directors:
Ali Evans
Andy Harris
Caroline Davis
Kirk Benson
Lauren Xie
Nuseir Yassin
Roland Yang
Rose Wang

Every year the HSA membership elects several student employees to serve as student representatives to the Board of Directors. The student members work alongside experienced business professionals, HBS alumni and professors, and Harvard University administrators to comprise the HSA Board of Directors. The Directors discuss HSA strategy, new initiatives, financials, and opportunities for growth during monthly meetings and in smaller committees. As the student board members receive business advice and mentorship from the senior board members, the opportunity to serve as one of HSA’s Board of Directors is one of the greatest benefits of working at HSA.  Congratulations again to the new student board members!

Four years ago, the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH) and Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) began a partnership to promote, guide, and incubate entrepreneurship at Harvard College.

The Harvard College Innovation Challenge, also known as i3, assists undergraduates during their journey from their initial inspiration to final implementation. Each year we are impressed, not only by the quality of student ideas generated for i3, but also by the ability of hardworking teams to put those ideas into action. Learn more about the i3 competition http://harvardi3.org/

Come to the Queen’s Head on Wednesday, November 2  to celebrate the kickoff of the 2011-2012 Harvard College Innovation Challenge i3. Meet student innovators, learn about the competition, and hear from past participants. The event starts at 7:30PM.

We are pleased to announce that the HSA Board of Directors has elected Kirk Benson as its leader for FY13. Hailing from Washington, D.C., Kirk Benson is currently a junior concentrating in Applied Mathematics. Kirk started as a freshmen at HSA working as the Assistant Manager of Distributions. During his sophomore year, he became the Managing Director of HSA Cleaners and Dorm Essentials, one of HSA’s largest agencies. In those roles, he has improved operations and executed new initiatives that have earned him a reputation as a true leader. He will officially take over on February 1, 2012.

Interagency collaboration fosters innovation at HSA. Our mobile application development agency teamed up with HSA tutoring to create an SAT app that is available for download in the iTunes store. Check it out here: HSA Tutoring App

Congratulations to HSA Tutoring, The Harvard Shop and HSA Cleaners for organizing a tremendously successful move-in weekend. Each agency broke all previously set records, and pulled it off in style!

Checkout our Facebook page for pictures!

http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2011/05/16/general-mills-global-sweet-spot/

Ice cream is a food category worth $74 billion annually worldwide. It’s highly fragmented. But Häagen-Dazs stands out at the premium end. “It’s highly differentiated, beautifully positioned across markets — and with lots of growth opportunities,” says the 57-year-old Powell, who’s worked at General Mills three decades and made his name as a top executive abroad. (He met his future wife in college when he ran Harvard Student Agencies, which puts out the venerable Let’s Go travel guides; she went Europe.) “We can do green tea in Asia, we can do different versions of flavors in Europe — Häagen-Dazs works everywhere.”