"I really think that the whole business school experience — and now I'm talking about both years — taught me to think in a way I hadn't before. Taught me to solve problems, be willing to be analytic, solve problems, and then take action. So it was a question of really learning how to think in a new way that has stuck with me, and has been very important to my career."
Barbara Hackman Franklin created the first White House effort to recruit women into government, was one of the original commissioners of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and was US Secretary of Commerce (1992-93). She is currently President and CEO of Barbara Franklin Enterprises, an international trade consulting firm.
Before HBS
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Interview by Jeff Cruikshank, January 9, 2008. HBS Archives. Baker Library Historical Collections. Harvard Business School.