2008 Woodie Awards
Student Perspective - Rye Barcott (NB)
Issue date: 4/7/08 Section: Features
One of our section's first professors cautioned us that maximizing profits must never come at the expense of the profit of the soul. I am in debt to this school, literally and figuratively, HBS has proven to me running a profitable business need not be at odds with constructive social engagement.
All of us here will help chart the future of HBS. We should honor and extend the history of the school, but not allow it to rest on past contributions alone. Our charge is clear. As business people, as government officials and military officers, and as nonprofit executives and social entrepreneurs, let us help shape the next century of HBS so that it produces hope as well as prosperity, not only to those of us fortunate enough to learn or teach here, but to the greatest possible number of citizens of the world. And let's make it a better world, a world where, to quote a famous movie, we are not what we are born, but what we have it in ourselves to be.
Happy Birthday Harvard Business School.
All of us here will help chart the future of HBS. We should honor and extend the history of the school, but not allow it to rest on past contributions alone. Our charge is clear. As business people, as government officials and military officers, and as nonprofit executives and social entrepreneurs, let us help shape the next century of HBS so that it produces hope as well as prosperity, not only to those of us fortunate enough to learn or teach here, but to the greatest possible number of citizens of the world. And let's make it a better world, a world where, to quote a famous movie, we are not what we are born, but what we have it in ourselves to be.
Happy Birthday Harvard Business School.
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