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 Paul Carlile, a Thinkers50 2022 Radar member, shared his passion for digitally transforming graduate education. He explained how Questrom reimagined the role of teaching and learning by taking playbooks from open innovation and digital transformation to create a learning network at scale. Questrom’s MSMS (MSc in Management Studies) was cited by Poets & Quants as the most innovative business school idea of 2015 and its Online MBA program, lunched in 2020, currently has 1,800 students enrolled.