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Mr. Speaker

May-June 2014 [1]

Michael R. Bloomberg

Michael R. Bloomberg

Photograph courtesy of Michael R. Bloomberg

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Entrepreneur (Bloomberg L.P., the financial-information and news company), civic leader (three-time mayor of New York City), and philanthropist (including gifts of $1.1 billion to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins) Michael R. Bloomberg, M.B.A. ’66 [5], will be the principal speaker at the 363rd Commencement, on May 29 [6]. Born in Boston and raised in nearby Medford, Bloomberg returned to the area for his business degree—and has supported the Business School with a professorship and a gift for the renovated Baker Library|Bloomberg Center, both named in honor of his father, William Henry Bloomberg. He has spoken out nationally on issues such as gun control and public health; during his commencement address at Stanford last year (“no other university in the world has so profoundly shaped our modern age”), he advocated immigration reform, as a linchpin of economic growth, and same-sex marriage, as a basic civil right. Bloomberg will speak that afternoon, during Harvard Alumni Association’s annual meeting, following the Morning Exercises.


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[1] https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2014/05
[2] https://www.harvardmagazine.com/print/44857?page=all
[3] https://www.harvardmagazine.com/sites/default/files/pdf/2014/05-pdfs/0514-26.pdf
[4] https://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300
[5] http://harvardmagazine.com/2014/03/michael-r-bloomberg-named-2014-commencement-speaker
[6] http://harvardmagazine.com/tags/commencement-2014