What drives the work of the world’s leading management thinkers?
That was the question posed at Thinkers50@BUQuestrom: Passion & Purpose, a live virtual event held at Boston University Questrom School of Business on 20th April 2023. Co-sponsored by Thinkers50, Passion & Purpose sought to uncover the motivation behind top management thinkers: what directs their research? What keeps them awake at night and gets them out of bed in the morning? In a fast-paced ideas jam, 14 thinkers each had 15 minutes to present their passion and purpose.
BU Questrom’s Andrei Hagiu joined remotely from Singapore to talk about how platform research has informed and inspired angel investing – and vice versa. Rather than looking for a winner-takes-all company, Hagiu pointed to the competitive advantage offered by B2B platforms that are not purely digital; platforms that cross the border between digital and physical. Hagiu was listed in the Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2020.