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...impart this knowledge with others.“I was younger than him, so he always tried to teach me,” Fischer says. “He always tried to open people’s eyes to build an environment around them.” After graduating summa cum laude, Brown earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1958 and then studied art in Europe with Bernard Berenson, an expert on Italian art.“He was very earnest and very serious, and I liked him,” says Henri Zerner, a professor of history...
...Erian said he looked forward to working with Parker Feld. “Karen brings to HMC proven strong portfolio management skills in the foreign exchange area, an excellent industry reputation, an outstanding intellect, and impressive academic credentials.” Feld, a Fulbright Scholar, holds a summa cum laude bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and master’s and doctoral degrees from Stanford University. She is the third senior executive to join HMC as chief Mohamed A. El-Erian seeks to “rebuild and reinvent” the company after former CEO Jack...
...must be extraordinary,” says Spillane-Hinks.Martin’s thesis, a study of ancient Greek democracy through an analytical narrative and a combined adaptation of Aristophanes’ “The Birds” and “Lysistrata,” was awarded a summa on its first grade and is also being considered for the Hoopes Prize. It incorporates an analysis of historical government with the modern-day applications of theater as a form of political criticism.“I knew that when I was thinking about writing a thesis, the only...
Nearly 20 years later, the same cannot be said for Jaffe. After graduating from Harvard as a History and Literature concentrator with a summa thesis and a penchant for the past, Jaffe went on to pen a number of steamy historical fiction romances that have captured the minds (and groins) of many sex-deprived students at her alma mater...
...Harvard in the spring of 1989, Yoo’s 128-page thesis—which earned him a summa cum laude distinction—comprised an analysis of the three presidents’ foreign policies, but did not advocate for any one of them. He characterized the diplomacy during the sixteen years that he reviewed as a vacillation between two poles: “re-asserting American leadership, or devolving responsibility for defending Europe to the Europeans...