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.
Frances Frei from Harvard talked about being struck by a deep sense of obligation to democratize education – and to democratize everything she knows. Frei then outlined the big idea in her forthcoming book, Move Fast and Fix Things – co-authored with Anne Morriss – that problems, even the biggest problems, can be fixed fast. The more reasons we have to slow things down, she argued, the more difficult change is going to be. Frei and Morriss are Thinkers50 Ranked Thinkers.