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...made up of human beings who have a lot in common. We are all moved by our love of learning and see ourselves as works in progress. We all experience love and loss, joy and sorrow. We all take our world—both inside and outside our gates??very seriously. And we are all motivated to contribute to making these four years as meaningful as possible...
...Class of 2008 has sentiments like Gates??s on their minds as they prepare to embark on their post-collegiate lives, and the pressures seem almost impossible to balance. Forget figuring out what we’re going to do with our own lives; now we have to save the planet as well. The thorny questions of morality raised in speeches like Gates??s are most readily accessible through the concern at the forefront of every senior’s mind: Where will I be working next year...
...years at Morgan Stanley as a training ground for me to understand all the financial aspects of real estate so I can go and build my beautiful buildings. I don’t feel like I’m selling out.” As far as Mr. Gates??s challenge to give back to the world? “One day, I’d like to be able to combine doing well financially with making beautiful spaces to live in. That’s what I’d like to contribute...
...service as well as in word lingers. “I had a conversation with a few seniors after I graduated, and there was a split,” says John Z. Fang ’07, now working in the fixed-income department at Merrill Lynch. After Bill Gates??s speech, some seniors found it difficult to listen to a billionaire demand that they embark on careers that almost universally result in economic privation. Others admired the bold sentiment and were empowered by the call to action. “It?...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are also represented on the list, and four Harvard alumni on the list attended more than one of Harvard’s schools. The highest ranked Harvard graduate on the list is Steven A. Ballmer ’77—Gates?? business partner at Microsoft. Gates and Ballmer—who are worth $59 billion and $15 billion respectively—donated $25 million in 1996 to build Maxwell Dworkin, the computer science building near the Law School campus...