In congratulating the MBA Class of 2005, commencement speaker and Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy encouraged graduates to “Keep It Simple” and offered five principles to hold onto:
• Embrace change willingly and with a sense of wonder and excitement.
• Have fun. Enjoy life. Choose a career that gives you pleasure and fulfillment.
• Be true to yourself.
• Set your sights on changing the world—in leaving this planet we call earth a little better than you found it.
• Cherish and nurture your human connections—your friends and family.
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CEO, Interface |
President, Network Appliance, Inc. |
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Chairman & CEO, Hudson Center for high perfomance |
CEO, Xerox Corporation |
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Group Chief Executive of Allied Irish Banks |
Chairman & CEO, Qwest Communications International, Inc. |
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President, Majestic Wear Limited |
Chairman & CEO, Office Depot Inc. |
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Chairman & CEO, KeySpan Corporation |
President & CEO, GE Infrastructure Water & Process Technologies |
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United States Congressman, Former CEO, CTB |
Chairman & CEO, Holding OCB Inc. and Ouimet-Tomasso Inc. |
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CEO, Domini Social Investments |
Associate Director, Whidbey Institute |
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Chair, Justice and Peace Commission, South Africa |
Senior Vice President, The Center for Strategic and International Studies |
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Senior Managing Principal, Sandler-O’Neill & Partners, L.P. |
President, BP of America |
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VP, Corporate Governance & Secretary, Pfizer |
Former CEO & Chairman Emeritus, ServiceMaster |
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CEO, (ret.), Medtronic |
President & CEO, Costco Wholesale Corporation |
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Senior Director, Research, Catalyst, Inc. |
The Futurist Magazine |
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Director, The Millennium Project, American Council for the United Nations University |
President & CEO, SRM Holdings Corporation |
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Executive VP & CFO, FedEx Kinko’s Corporation |
Anwar Sadat Professor of Peace & Development, BSOS Government and Politics
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CEO & former president, Blistex, Inc. |
Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, U.S. Department of State |
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General Counsel, General Electric Supply |
President & CEO, National Hispanic Scholarship Fund |
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CEO, Local Telecommunications Division, Sprint Nextel |
Former Chief Accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission |
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President, Fairman Schmidt & Hurley Advertising Agency |
Chairman, Biocrossroads & Former President, Lilly Research Laboratories |
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Chairman, President & CEO, Ethan Allen Interiors, Inc. |
Former CEO, General Electric |
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Harris Alternatives, LLC |
Chairman, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners |
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President & CEO, Boulder Quantum Ventures |
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