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Carla Ann Harris (MBA 1987) is a managing director at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, in charge of the marketing and execution of new-issue equity financing in the technology, media, telecommunications, transportation, industrial, and health-care sectors. With a workload like that, most people might find it hard to break into song at the end of the day, but it's not a problem for Harris: "I've been singing all of my life, primarily R&B and gospel," she told the New York Times (October 22, 2000).
Singing gigs helped Harris work her way through Harvard College and HBS. Out in the real world, she has performed in theater productions, at weddings and parties, and, for the last five years, in a gospel choir. "It's important to have balance in one's life," she observed.
That balance also includes community service — Harris serves on several nonprofit boards and has funded scholarships both at her Florida high school and at Harvard College. And now her music is furthering her academic outreach efforts. Last fall, Harris released a holiday CD, "Carla's First Christmas." All proceeds from its sale are benefiting not only her high-school scholarship fund but also a new scholarship she has established at a New York City parochial school.
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