Alumni News and Profiles

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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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Meet Harvard’s 2022 Beijing Olympians

February 3, 2022
The heroes of the Marvel Universe have nothing on Dan Cnossen, MTS '18, MPA '16. The 2002 Annapolis graduate and Navy Seal platoon commander can claim a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star with Valor, and six Paralympic medals. He has earned two graduate degrees and, at age 41, is competing in his third Paralympic Games.
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For Black LGBTQ Christians, Storytelling Is a Tool of Resilience

January 27, 2022
In the year since starting Pride in the Pews, Don Abram, MDiv '19, has interviewed people from across the country, ages 22 to 85, each with a unique relationship with the Black church. Driven by a deep love for both the Gospel and the Black church’s legacy of social justice, Mr. Abram aims to mine their stories for insights that can help congregations become more welcoming toward LGBTQ members. 
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Martin Luther King Jr. Remembered as Twelfth Baptist Church Honors Wu with MLK Legacy Award

January 9, 2022

The Rev. Willie Bodrick II, MDiv '14, senior pastor at the Twelfth Baptist Church in Roxbury, stood at the pulpit Sunday and recalled the first time he met Michelle Wu a decade ago. The two were graduate students at Harvard—Wu in law school and Bodrick at the divinity school—when they took a class with renowned Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree. One day after class, Ogletree introduced Bodrick to Wu, telling them, “You all should get to know each other.”

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