Rachel Friedman Selected to Participate in Harvard Business School's Young American Leaders Program

Rachel Friedman (BFA ​’92) has been selected to participate in the Harvard Business School Young American Leaders Program (YALP). The weeklong intensive begins June 21^st – June 25^th where Rachel will represent Columbus, OH as female business owner/​entrepreneur, creative, and U‑M alumna.

The realization that better cross-sector collaboration would be key to generating shared prosperity in American cities sparked a Harvard Business School (HBS) initiative with an unlikely acronym: YALP. Launched in 2015 and convening every June, YALP brings together ten leaders from each of fourteen cities across the country, throwing them into a full-on, nonstop HBS experience, from case discussions to speaker presentations to whiteboard sessions that ask participants to collaborate on solutions to a target issue their city is facing.