Rose Marie Bravo, former chief executive officer of Burberry, credits the Bronx High School of Science with laying the groundwork for her success in business.
“Whatever I’ve been able to accomplish in my life is because of my parents and Bronx Science,” said the 72-year-old Bravo in a telephone interview Tuesday from her home in East Moriches, New York.
She recalled after first year algebra she was put into honors geometry. “I remember the first six weeks I was absolutely lost, and went to the dean and said ‘This was a mistake. I really have to go into the regular class.’ And he said, ‘No, you’re going to get through it,’ and you know what, I figured it out and it became my favorite subject,” Bravo said. “In the end, it was the tenacity and the stick-to-it [nature] and not being defeated, and I think I got that from those years.
At Fordham, Bravo majored in English. “I was burnt out on science. I pushed at such an extreme, I couldn’t wait to get into liberal arts. I became equally as fascinated in literature,” she said. Bravo believes today’s graduates should follow their passions and seek a career that involves doing what they love so it never feels like work. “Every day in my career, I never worked a day in my life,” Bravo said.
Discussing how she went about turning around Burberry, Bravo explained that it was a British luxury, cross-generational brand. “We saw in the roots of the company the ability to compete on the luxury scale. They were a series of licensees, and some were super profitable and others not so.
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