private enterprise

Before their senior year, Scholars participate in a variety of internships in the public and private sectors in fields such as manufacturing, public relations, media, and finance. These eight- to 12-week placements are usually in metropolitan areas--New York, London, Washington, Toronto, Chicago, Cape Town, San Francisco. The Private Enterprise experience is designed to give Scholars an insider's view of the corporate structure. Scholars are placed under the direction of top executives who are leaders in their respective fields. The Private Enterprise summer provides Scholars with an experience that is as close to a "real job" as possible.

Scholars have devised marketing plans, shadowed physicians, assisted in stage-managing Broadway productions, helped produced television shows, interviewed potential employees, and researched investment strategies.

The Private Enterprise experience may or may not directly relate to a Scholar's career aspirations; the goal is to sensitize Scholars to the challenges of organizational management and leadership and to expose them to creative decision making. The Private Enterprise summer allows the Scholar to "try on" a particular career or lifestyle to see whether or not it fits.

Private Enterprise
Prior to Senior Year (Eight to Twelve Weeks)

  • Albright Group, LLC (Washington, DC)
  • AT&T (Washington, DC)
  • BBC Productions NY (New York, NY)
  • Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. (New York, NY)
  • BellSouth Corporation (Atlanta, GA)
  • Brigham & Women's Hospital (Boston, MA)
  • British Council (Washington, DC)
  • British Museum (London, England)
  • Bronx Defenders (Bronx, NY)
  • Brookwood Associates, Inc. (Atlanta, GA)
  • Bureau of Land Management (Fairbanks, AK)
  • Burnes and Clegg, Inc. (New York, NY)
  • Center for Community Self-Help (Durham, NC)
  • Center for the New Economy (Puerto Rico)
  • Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, DC)
  • Charlie Rose Show (New York, NY)
  • Cherokee Investment Partners, LLC (Raleigh, NC)
  • Chicago Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroresearch (Evanston, IL)
  • Children's Medical Center (Denver, CO)
  • CineBLAST (New York, NY)
  • Citigroup Smith Barney (New York, NY)
  • Clayton Utz (Australia)
  • Cleveland Browns (Berea, OH)
  • Clinica Evangelica Morava/Hospital San Pablo (Honduras, Puerto Rico)
  • CNBC (Washington, DC)
  • Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (New York, NY)
  • Conservation Fund (Arlington, VA)
  • Coors Brewing Company (Golden, CO)
  • Corrs Chambers Wesgarth (Australia)
  • Credit Suisse First Boston (New York, NY)
  • CS First Boston (Palo Alto, CA)
  • The Daily Show (New York, NY)
  • David R. Godine Publishing, Inc. (Boston, MA)
  • DeKalb Medical Center (Decatur, GA)
  • Demokratikus Ifjusagert Alapitvany (Hungary)
  • Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI)
  • Deutsche Bank (London, England)
  • diaDexus (San Francisco, CA)
  • Do Something (New York, NY)
  • Don Mar Warehouse (London, England)
  • Edison Schools (New York, NY)
  • Entwistle & Cappucci, LLP (New York, NY)
  • Environmental Defense (Washington, DC)
  • Ermenegildo Zegna (New York, NY)
  • Fast Track 100, Ltd. (Oxford, England)
  • Fellowship of Christian Athletes (Kansas City, MO)
  • Forensic Science Agency of Northern Ireland (Belfast, Ireland)
  • Genzyme (Boston, MA)
  • George Washington University Medical Center (Washington, DC)
  • Glaciological and Arctic Sciences Institute (Alaska)
  • GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals (Belgium, Singapore)
  • Global Learning (Petaluma, CA)
  • Goldman, Sachs & Company (New York, NY, London, England)
  • Granta Books (London, England)
  • Hartford Stage (Hartford, CT)
  • Hill and Company Communications (Oakland, CA)
  • Historic Charleston Foundation (Charleston, SC)
  • Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, Canada)
  • Hospital Puerto Lempira (Honduras)
  • idealab! (Pasadena, CA)
  • Immunex Corporation (Seattle, WA)
  • Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Durham, NC)
  • Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (Czech Republic)
  • Interactive Media Solutions (Boston, MA)
  • International Association for Study of Sexuality, Culture, and Society (San Francisco, CA)
  • International Centre for Sustainable Cities (Vancouver, Canada)
  • International Justice Mission (Washington, DC)
  • International Rescue Committee (Croatia)
  • J. P. Morgan Chase & Co. (New York, NY)
  • Juvenile Probation Office of Suffolk County (Boston, MA)
  • King & Spaulding (London, England)
  • Knowledge Exchange Institute (Moscow, Russia)
  • Lakeland Volunteers in Medicine (Lakeland, FL)
  • Lara Grylls PR, Ltd. (London, England)
  • Larry King Live! (Washington, DC)
  • LasalleHolland, Inc. (New York, NY)
  • Leo Burnett (Chicago, IL)
  • Los Alamos National Laboratories (Los Alamos, NM)
  • McColl Partners (Charlotte, NC)
  • McKinsey & Co. (Atlanta, GA)
  • McLean Psychiatric Hospital (Boston, MA)
  • Merrill Lynch (Capitola, CA)
  • Monitor Company (Cambridge, MA)
  • Morgan Stanley (New York, NY)
  • Motley Fool, Inc. (Alexandria, VA)
  • MTV Networks (New York, NY; London, England)
  • Museum of International Folk Art (Santa Fe, NM)
  • National Broadcasting Company (London, England)
  • National Center for Rural Education (Chapel Hill, NC)
  • National Geographic Channel (Washington, DC)
  • National Geographic Magazine (Washington, DC)
  • National Geographic Society (Washington, DC)
  • National Geographic Television (Washington, DC)
  • National Public Radio (Washington, DC)
  • National Trust for Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland)
  • Neville McCarthy Associates (London, England)
  • New Schools Venture Fund (San Francisco, CA)
  • New York City Department of Education (New York, NY)
  • New York Shakespeare Festival (New York, NY)
  • Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Croatia)
  • Orphanage Outreach (Dominican Republic)
  • Peruvian-American Medical Society (Peru)
  • Philadelphia Phillies (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Phoenix Indian Medical Center (Phoenix, AZ)
  • Piedmont Health Services (Moncure, NC)
  • Progressive Policy Institute (Washington, DC)
  • Project Renewal (New York, NY)
  • Public Defender Service (Washington, DC)
  • Raleigh Court United Methodist Church (Roanoke, VA)
  • Red Hat, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, NC)
  • Reef Environmental Education Foundation (Key Largo, FL)
  • Rejoice Urban Development Project (Thailand)
  • Resources for the Future (Washington, DC)
  • RF Binder Partners, Inc. (New York, NY)
  • Rhodopi International Theatre Collective (Smolyan and Sofia, Bulgaria)
  • Richard Frankel Productions (New York, NY)
  • Saint Joseph's Hospital (Atlanta, GA)
  • Salud Community Health Care (Denver, CO; Charlottesville, VA)
  • Samaritan's Purse (Boone, NC)
  • San Francisco Giants (San Francisco, CA)
  • Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM)
  • Screenwriting (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Siberian Institute for Ecological Initiatives (Novosibirsk)
  • Slate.com (New York, NY)
  • Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (Washington, DC; Croatia, Poland, Uzbekistan)
  • Sony Television (Culver City, CA)
  • Sotheby's Auctioneers (London, England)
  • Special Olympics International (Washington, DC)
  • The Sports Network (Scarborough, Canada)
  • St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
  • Steadman-Hawkins Foundation and Clinic (Vail, CO)
  • Teaching for Change (Washington, DC)
  • TransAfrica (Washington, DC)
  • U.S. Chamber of Commerce (Washington, DC)
  • U.S. Embassy Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)
  • U.S. Fund for UNICEF (New York, NY)
  • U.S. Geological Survey (Anchorage, AK)
  • U.S. Olympic Committee (Colorado Springs, CO)
  • U.S. State Department (Africa; Barcelona, Spain; Guatemala; Washington, DC)
  • UNITE (New York, NY)
  • United Nations Environment Programme (Nairobi, Kenya)
  • United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Switzerland)
  • United Nations Office on Children and Armed Conflict (New York, NY)
  • United Nations Population Fund (Geneva, Switzerland)
  • United States Association of Blind Athletes (Colorado Springs, CO)
  • United States Tennis Association (Key Biscayne, FL)
  • University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC)
  • W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. (New York, NY)
  • Wachovia Bank (Instanbul and Moscow, Russia)
  • Wang Center for the Performing Arts (Boston, MA)
  • The Wall Street Journal (Washington, DC)
  • Washington Office on Latin America (Washington, DC)
  • Washington Opera (Washington, DC)
  • The White House (Washington, DC)
  • Wilderness Society (Atlanta, GA)