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Boston Bombing
Yesterday was my city’s darkest day. I was born in Boston at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where my three children were also born, and where many victims of the bombing were taken yesterday. I grew up at the foot of Heartbreak Hill, and every year would walk down to Comm. Ave and cheer on the runners and hand them cups of water. A close friend finished the race a few minutes before the blasts, and the daughter of someone I’d just met last month was one of the three people murdered in the attack. The day before the Marathon we took two of our kids to the Patriots’ Day Parade in Lexington MA - the 300th anniversary of the town where the revolutionary war was begun. Today armed national guard personnel checked our bags as we got on the T. This is not how it should be.
I’m back from 3 weeks at Harvard Business School for Unit II of OPM45 - an executive education program I’m attending over three years, courtesy of a generous PRX funder. Having never been to business school, I’m finding OPM an amazing source of applicable insights and inspiration, across Strategy, Innovation, Leadership, Marketing, Negotiation, Finance.
But perhaps the most valuable aspect of the program is its participants - a heavily international group of entrepreneurs, mostly CEOs and founders. It’s a diverse group ethnically and geographically, but not in gender (exceedingly small number of women participating), or, as might be expected, income.
Boston Phoenix to close - Boston.com
Very sad to see the Phoenix go. I’ve read it for 25 years (!). I remember how exciting it was to see my first band’s name in the club listings back in 1986. And Ellen Barry’s fantastic feature writing in the 1990s. And thousands of things in between. A real bible of the Boston scene, leaves a gaping hole.
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