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Healing the Wounds of History
Simon Xavier Guerrand-Hermès, MTS '93, says that he felt "slightly ridiculous" in 1990 when, at the age of 50, he enrolled in Harvard Divinity School's master of theological studies program.
His friends and colleagues at home in France didn't offer him much comfort.
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Why, they wondered, would the president of the board of Hermès of Paris U.S., one of the world's largest luxury goods firms, step away at the height of his wealth and success?
"In my life, competition was number one," says Guerrand-Hermès, "but I was always interested in spirituality.
When I was young, I wanted to be a priest, but my family decided that I had better things to do. I finally got to a certain point where I decided that I had to make my own mark in life."
Thanks in large part to what he describes as a "transformative experience at HDS," Guerrand-Hermès has indeed made his mark beyond the boundaries of his family's multibillion-dollar company.
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