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After leaving Soviet-controlled Hungary for London in 1947, Soros fell under the spell of a college professor, the philosopher Karl Popper. It was Popper who coined the term open society--meaning one in which argument and debate are encouraged, the opposite of a dictatorship, which claims an ultimate truth but derives it only through force. Soros' approach to investing, indeed his whole life, is informed by Popper's work...
...guess it's not hard for me to get advisors or people to talk to or mentors or any of that," says Marya L. Hill-Popper '96, who is involved in Radcliffe's Women's Leadership Project. "But the people that I think, 'Oh, I could be them' or 'I want to do what they do' are all men. I'm not really sure what kind of negative effect it has; but I kind of feel it has a vague negative effect...
...There may be a lot of women involved in leadership positions but it's kind of seen as separate, which is not very good," says Hill-Popper...
...think there are certainly going to be a lot of women leaders who come out of Harvard," says Hill-Popper. "But not necessarily who are conscious of themselves as women leaders but [rather] just as leaders...
...couples who had gotten married today and were running together," Hill-Popper said. "They were wearing like a veil and a tuxedo...