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.
Harvard’s Francesca Gino, recipient of the Thinkers50 Talent Award, discussed the themes of innovation and creativity, explaining that what lies behind them is curiosity. However, Gino pointed out, data shows that we start to lose our natural sense of curiosity around the age of five or six, when we start to face social barriers to asking questions, and offered strategies to counter these barriers.
