Zum Selbstunterricht, 1885r.

Zum Selbstunterricht, 1885r. - Alexander Elbinger

erzlinger was born Regina Elbinger circa 1944 in Tel Aviv, Israel to Ella and Alexander Elbinger. Her father was a rabbinical scholar who had fled Russia in the 1920s. Herzlinger's parents then fled Nazi-controlled Germany in 1939 and moved to Israel, where she was born. Her mother was a profitable card player and her father a successful businessman. The Elbingers emigrated to the United States when Regina was eight years old. She grew up in a Jewish community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn where she attended a small Orthodoxyeshiva, graduating in 1961. She was the first girl from her school to leave the community.[1] Herzlinger received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965. Herzlinger met her future husband, Dr. George Herzlinger, when they were classmates at MIT. They were married in 1966. After graduating from MIT, Herzlinger obtained her Doctor of Business Administration degree from HBS.[4][5][6] She began teaching at HBS in 1971.[7] Herzlinger and her husband have two children, both of whom attended Harvard College: their daughter is a physician and their son serves in the United States Army.[8]