Globalization. Sustainability. Technology. Diversity. Learning. Convergence of the public and private sectors. These are the big issues on the minds of young leaders today—the challenges they most want to, and must, pursue.
In Passion and Purpose, dozens of recent Harvard Business School MBAs share personal stories on assuming the mantle of leadership in ways unlike any previous generation. In candid accounts of their successes and setbacks—from launching start-ups to taking on the family business to helping kids in the Arabian Gulf to harnessing new technology and developing clean energy—they reveal how the next generation of ideas, aspirations, and practices are shaping business and redefining leadership around the world.
Drawing on insights from a survey of 500 students from top U.S. business schools, Passion and Purpose provides an overview of big, hot-button issues, followed by firsthand accounts from young leaders who are tackling these issues head-on. Their personal stories are rounded out with broader perspectives from established luminaries in business, academia, and the public sector, including Dominic Barton (Managing Director of McKinsey & Company), Nitin Nohria (dean of Harvard Business School), David Gergen (CNN analyst, presidential advisor and director of Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership), Carter Roberts (CEO of World Wildlife Fund), and many others.
Passion and Purpose offers profound insight into the values and vision of tomorrow’s leaders, and inspiration and ideas for all aspiring leaders who hope to lead change in the world.
Yes, Tammy Erickson is right. Millennials are different from Xers and Boomers. But millennial MBAs, particularly those from the first post-recession graduating class, are especially different from their predecessors. Here, for the first time and coming straight from the source 38 young MBAs reflect on business, leadership, and life, offering a rare "behind-the-scenes" look at the way their ideas, aspirations, attitudes, and practices are shaping business as they take on the mantle of leadership.
Approaching the world in bold and innovative ways, this new generation of MBAs explores such questions as: How will we lead in a post-crisis world? How can business be a force for good? What is the meaning of a career in business? As the first generation raised in a truly global and networked world, these young leaders share their visions for the future, how they plan to eliminate boundaries and pursue roles that integrate the public, private, and non-profit sectors, and how they are beginning to lay the foundation for ethical and economic recovery and long-term innovation.
Through provocative and inspirational first-person accounts, ReImagining Leadership explores this generational shift and offers all those in business especially managers who will oversee or work alongside these younger MBAs deeper insight into the needs and expectations, aspirations and values of the next generation of leaders.
Additionally, every chapter will end with senior leader interviews, in order to provide a generational perspective.
