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Are Today’s Seminarians Tomorrow’s Corporate Leaders?

February 11, 2022
“The skills that ministers bring to their work are the skills that business schools desire to give to their students, and that CEOs want. They want empathy, connectivity with others, active listening,” said Karim Hutson, MDiv '08.
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The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS

February 10, 2022
"The Spiritual Lives of Leaders," co-taught by HBS Professors Derek van Bever, MDiv '11, and John Brown, HDS Practitioner in Residence in Religion, Business Ethics, and the Economic Order, aimed to ignite conversations and an investigation into the deeper motivations of business leaders—the development of their values and sense of purpose, and the role of spirituality and faith in forming their leadership style.
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Are You Living the Life You Are Meant To?

February 9, 2022
"The Spiritual Lives of Leaders" is a masterpiece of a course brought by a collective effort between Harvard Business School, Harvard Divinity School, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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In This Moment: Starting The HDS Responsible Organization Initiative

August 25, 2020

The following essay was written by the Founding Students of The HDS Responsible Organization Initiative.

On June 5, 2020, Jamie Dimon was photographed kneeling in front of a local bank alongside branch employees, posed in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. Dimon is the chief executive of J.P. Morgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States and the world’s most valuable bank by market capitalization; his kneeling was heralded as one of the most radical statements, spoken or unspoken, of #BLM support within the financial community.... Read more about In This Moment: Starting The HDS Responsible Organization Initiative

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Faith and Leadership

April 20, 2020

As dean of Harvard Business School (HBS), Nitin Nohria leads an organization dedicated to educating leaders who make a difference in the world. As a scholar who’s spent over 30 years on the HBS faculty, he studies human motivation, corporate transformation and accountability, and sustainable economic and human performance. Yet one of the most powerful experiences Nohria’s ever had—both personally and professionally—came while co-teaching a course that focused on religion.... Read more about Faith and Leadership

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A Force for Good: A Student Reflection on HDS 3092: Ethical Discernment in Business Contexts

March 31, 2020

The following personal reflection was written by Chloe Merrell, student at the University of Cambridge. Chloe was awarded the Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellowship, allowing her to study at Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2019-20 as a non-degree special student.... Read more about A Force for Good: A Student Reflection on HDS 3092: Ethical Discernment in Business Contexts

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