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Feature Story
Haas in New York City and Boston: Haas Alumni Make
Their Mark
Lynne Levesque, MBA 77
Author, Consultant & Research Associate
Harvard Business School
Boston
Raised in Nashua, New Hampshire, Lynne Levesque knows
her seasons. "I miss the mild climate of the Bay
Area, but there's nothing like the colors of a
New England fall," she says. "I love the
fact that here you get to renew your life at every quarter."
Renewal is a key theme for Levesque, who has been writing
and consulting on creativity and innovation in business
for the past several years. Her book, Breakthrough Creativity,
explains how eight basic ways that people make sense
of the world can be used to enhance creative results
in the workplace. The book draws on her 15 years in
various aspects of management, first in San Francisco
with Bank of America and then in Hartford, CT, with
Shawmut Bank (which eventually merged with B of A).
Now a creativity consultant and a researcher at Harvard
Business School, Levesque has served as regional president
of the Haas Alumni Network chapter, helping Berkeley
graduates stay connected with each other and with the
larger business community by planning local professional
and social events. She sees the network as being particularly
valuable in New England, which, she observes, "is
more of a closed society than California. You need to
work a bit harder to get into the business loop here."
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