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Shifting to a New Understanding

CHRISTINE DUPREE was twenty-eight years old and a second-year student at the Harvard Business School when I first met her. She is someone who injects warmth and intensity into any conversation, but even more so when talking about her twin passions: the arts and community service organizations.

“Music was important to me from an early age,” she told me in our first meeting. “What I wanted to do when I grew up was to both sing and teach voice. I went to a performing-arts high school half a day as well as a college-prep high school half a day, and performed on the side.

“It is also important to know that I grew up in the church,” she continued. “My father is a Methodist minister and a professor of the New Testament, ...

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