Many of the issues of the '60s haunt us until today. The tragedy of Vietnam and the resulting social crisis was at the root of many of our problems of today with drug addiction and incarceration as our troops were exposed to a wide variety of drugs and lost precious...

1. Can you briefly describe your personal and professional background?

Mark Levin is an industry leader with more than 25 years of experience building and operating leading biotech companies. Mark co-founded Third Rock Ventures in 2007 and focuses on the formation, development and business strategy...

Everyone has a favorite book. I read The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam over and over again, at least once a year. Sometimes, I will pick it up to touch and feel it, reading just a page or two, knowing by heart whole sections.

It...

One of my favorite entrepreneurs of all time is Jimi Hendrix. That might be a surprising statement at first glance, but studying this rock legend's career is instructive for any aspiring entrepreneur.

Hendrix was a master of branding -- everything from his flamboyant wardrobe to dramatic...

One of the great philanthropists of our time passed away recently. She was my role model and friend, and I miss her already.

Kathryn Wasserman Davis was 106 when she died on April 23. During Kathryn's long, vital life, she gave millions to promote education, scientific research, and peace....

I get plenty of chances to travel and lecture about my experiences within the world of business and education. My recent trip to Harvard to do just that allowed me to hear a young author tell his unexpected story...

Troy CLE took to the front of Professor Fernando Reimers' fully...

Standing in front of 56 unruly students as a newly minted math teacher at one of New York City's toughest, most crime-ridden schools was not part of my master plan in 1982. My dreams ran more along the lines of becoming the CEO of Ford Motor Company (I was from...

I already knew I would never forget him. Myself and 11 NFTE graduates from Newark had been waiting patiently for Louis Kelso at the Grand Hyatt in San Francisco. The lobby bright and clean was like a foreign country to us. And I was delighted to be meeting a legend...

Being mugged in early '80s NYC was a blessing; it stopped me in my tracks and led me to a career change. The teenagers who humiliated me were my neighbors, but their world was filled with poverty, drugs and violent crime, and they saw petty theft as one of their...

The call came in around 5:00 pm. My dear friend Ericka Dunlap, Miss America 2004, was on the phone.

"Can you be my date at the Miss America Alumni Dinner this Saturday, March 18th? It's in honor of Mallory Hagan, the new Miss America, and there will be at least...

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I had never spoken before to a high school prep school so I woke up excited and eager. I was being picked up by Donald Ball and taken to the Webb School one of the top independent schools in the country. Donald,...

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It started with an email from Cody Chang, one of our NFTE-New York 2006 alumnus and a top student-entrepreneur in the country. We had kept in touch since his high school freshman year. He is now an undergraduate senior at Claremont McKenna...

After 25 years these are the 11 things that we have learned about running an effective teacher training in youth entrepreneurship.

1) Finding a balance between teaching entrepreneurship and the strategies for...

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The caliber of teachers had gone to a different level since 20 years ago and sitting near me was Sol Menashi, an MBA with a specialty in manufacturing and holds a master's...

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In that historic retreat on entrepreneurial education, we finalized the NFTE Wall Chart -- see below -- a guide for what each teacher should try and get students to do to graduate...

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In August of 1987, I decided to write to the Forbes 400 to raise money for NFTE, which was now a not-for-profit.

I remember Janet helped me edit the letter...

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What is the key of replicating an idea in youth work? I believe it is teacher training. To start training others you need to get your top teachers to standardize the best...

Just a year after I founded NFTE, The Network for Teaching Youth Entrepreneurship, Newsday sent this imposing man, Paul Wisenthal, to write a story on youth entrepreneurship. It was 1989. At the time, NFTE could barely meet the rent for its rat-infested storefront office on Fulton Street. Paul helped change...

Here's a new challenge: Try explaining intellectual property to young people who have been downloading pirated movies and music since they first encountered computers. For that matter, try explaining intellectual property to kids in other countries where IP rights enforcement is spotty, to say the least.

At...