More than 200 members of the Harker community headed to the upper school’s Rothschild Performing Arts Center on Nov. 20 for this year’s TEDxHarker School, organized each year by students in Harker’s business and entrepreneurship program.
Business and Entrepreneurship
CareerConnect hosts alumni speakers, attends conference
In early Novebmer, CareerConnect, Harker’s student-run networking and career preparation program, led a leadership workshop hosting Helen Zhu ’21, who discussed journalism leadership and clubs at Harker, and Avi Gulati ‘20, who talked about the student council and volunteering in high school.
Incoming upper school students learn business at DECA launch event
On Aug. 14 and 15, the Harker DECA chapter hosted their eighth annual Harker DECA Launch event.
Harker DECA has history-making showing at annual conference
With 46 competitors and two first place champions, Harker DECA had the best ICDC results in chapter history. An exceptional 12 finalists placed in the top 20 for the preliminary round. Out of those 12, eight finalists were in the top 10 final round.
Business and entrepreneurship students stage virtual BEcon
On April 16, students from various high schools attended Harker BEcon, Harker’s annual business and economics conference.
Harker DECA performs well at SCDC
From Feb. 22-25, 139 students from The Harker School DECA Chapter attended the 2021 State Career Development Conference (SCDC). This conference was held virtually…
Major success for Harker DECA at Silicon Valley conference
From Jan. 11-14 135 students from the Harker DECA chapter attended the 2021 Silicon Valley Career Development Conference (SVCDC).
Harker team makes top 50 in Wharton Investment Competition
Four ninth graders have been named regional finalists in the 2021 Wharton Global High School Investment Competition, making them one of the top 50 teams worldwide out of nearly 1,000 entries.
Harker team takes second place in DECA pitch challenge
This story was submitted by Gianna Chan, grade 11. From Oct. 19-23, five teams participated in California DECA’s business pitch challenge, an entrepreneurship video…
Alumnus speaks to students on venture capital career, shares advice
On Thurs., Nov. 5, the Harker Investment Club and Harker DECA co-hosted alumnus Amit Mukherjee ‘06 to speak to students over Zoom about his journey from Harker to venture capital and his job as an investment partner at New Enterprise Associates.
