2014赵小兰在哈佛商学院的演讲.docVIP

美国第24任劳工部长赵小兰在哈佛大学商学院新生开学典礼上的讲话：《领导能力和价值观》 Leadership and Values August, 2002 by Elaine Chao It’s great to be back at Harvard Business School. It seems like ages ago that I was sitting where you are. Actually…it was ages ago. 非常高兴回到哈佛商学院。我仿佛回到了多年前-那时的我坐在下面，正如你们今天一样。的确，那是多年前的事情了。 You’re lucky to have a formal Orientation. When I attended HBS, we had a different kind of introduction to the Business School. 你们是幸运的，能有一个正式的入学典礼。想当年我在哈佛商学院读书的时候，我们入学的学生得到的只是另一种对哈佛商学院的介绍。 And, there are other changes as well. As I look out over this incoming class, I see more women and more diversity. 另外，这里还有了些其他的变化。看着你们这届新生，我发现了更多的女同学和不同种族的学生。 I’m particularly pleased that more women are discovering the excitement and challenge of being a business leader. When I was here, women comprised about 19% of the entering first year class. Today, it’s nearly double that. 越来越多的女性逐渐意识到成为一个商业领导者是激动人心和充满挑战的，对此我感到非常高兴。我在这里读书的时候，在哈佛商学院的新生当中，女生数量仅占新生总数的19%。如今，这个数字几乎翻倍。 I understand there are a lot more international students in the class as well. As America is competing in a global marketplace, the increased presence of international students is a welcome addiction to everyone’s learning experience. 同时我也看到现在哈佛商学院里有了更多的来自世界各地的学生。随着美国在全球市场上的竞争，越来越多的来自世界各地的学生来到哈佛求学，对于任何一个学生来说，这都是学习生涯中难得的财富。 First, let me say: all of you are about to embark upon the most exciting two years of your lives, HBS was certainly among the two most rewarding and exciting years of my life. And I’ve had a pretty interesting life! 首先，我要说，你们即将开始的是你们人生中最激动人心的两年生活。对于我来说，在哈佛商学院读书的两年，毫无疑问是我人生中最有意义﹑最充满激情的两年，而且我那两年的生活是相当有趣的。 Since leaving this campus, I have seldom found as exciting an environment as the one I experienced at HBS. There is such electricity in the air here, such an awareness of each individual’s potential and such optimism about future expectations. 从哈佛毕业后，我就很少能找到一个像哈佛这样令人充满激情的地方了。这里的空气充满着如此多的激情，每个人的潜力都受到了如此大的重视，每一个学生对未来都充满着如此乐观的期望。 When I graduated from Harvard Business School, I joine