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Student Entrepreneurs Tackle COVID-19 Challenges

In the midst of a global pandemic, MBA students team up to launch ventures to help those most in need.

Portrait compilation of MBA students featured in the story. Credit: Cory Hall Placement: top/full/key
Portrait compilation of MBA students featured in the story. Credit: Cory Hall Placement: top/full/key

June 29, 2020

 

They may have been stuck at home and taking virtual classes, but Stanford Graduate School of Business MBA students took action in response to the coronavirus pandemic by creating new businesses, networks, and nonprofits aimed at supporting the people hardest hit by COVID-19.

We reached out to a number of students to hear more about the ventures they built in a matter of weeks. Here are their stories:

 

 

 

 

 

 

— Allison Felt

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