Passion and Purpose

Stories from the Best and Brightest Young Business Leaders

By: John Coleman, Daniel Gulati, W. Oliver Segovia, Bill George (Foreword by)

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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.

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"Leaders in each generation face several challenges that are quite different from those that confronted leaders in earlier generations and are also quite different from those that leaders in future generations will encounter. It was ever thus and always will be true. That is one of several reasons why I think so highly of this book." -- Blogging about Business (bobmorris.biz) Featured on the J.P. Morgan Summer Reading List for 2012 "wholly infectious", and an "upbeat, enjoyable read--as well as a useful one." -- The Financial Times "...the reader is rewarded with a richness of information and a great view of things to come in the business world, based on the stories of these young leaders. Summing Up: Recommended for students, upper-division undergraduate and up; faculty; practitioners." -- CHOICE "Far from accounts of the stereotypical generation of entitled slackers, the stories in Passion and Purpose demonstrate the innovation, collaboration, efficiency, and independence of rising young leaders." -- Training + Development Magazine "We're introduced to a group of highly impressive MBAs who want to change the world for the better... The result is a surprisingly compelling array of vivid storytelling that reveals this generation's ideas and aspirations." "In the end, Coleman and his two buddies have pulled together a book that is less about mainstream MBA thinking than it is a clarion call to a less-traveled, yet potentially more impactful MBA path." -- John Byrne, Poets & Quants (PoetsandQuants.com)

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Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Convergence: Creating Opportunities Across Sectors	p. 11
Floating Above the Boxes: Business, Nonprofit, and the Age of Falling Boundaries	p. 17
Learning from Kibera: Nonprofit Lessons for Business from East Africa's Largest Slum	p. 23
Commerce and Culture: Combining Business and the Arts	p. 28
Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Business of Peace	p. 34
Business in the World: How Corporations Can Be Change Agents	p. 41
Interview with David Gergen, adviser to four presidents, Director of Harvard's Center for Public Leadership, and senior political analyst for CNN	p. 47
Globalization: Embracing the Global Generation	p. 55
Bridging Two Worlds: An India Story	p. 61
QatarDebate: Education, Civic Engagement, and Leadership in the Arabian Gulf	p. 67
Emerging Social Enterprise: Learning the Business of Agriculture in Tanzania	p. 74
Global Citizen Year: Learning from the World	p. 79
The Business of Reconciliation: How Cows and Co-ops Are Paving the Way for Genuine Reconciliation in Rwanda	p. 85
Interview with Dominic Barton, Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company	p. 91
People: Leading in a Diverse World	p. 99
Nonconforming Culture: How to Feel Comfortable in Who You Are No Matter Where You Are	p. 104
Diversity Day: Whole People, Whole Organizations, and a Whole New Approach to Diversity	p. 110
Women and the Workplace: Tasneem Dohadwala	p. 118
Joyful on the Job: A Generation Pursuing Happiness at Work	p. 124
People Leadership from Baghdad to Boston	p. 130
Interview with Deb Henretta, CEO, P&G Asia	p. 134
Sustainability: Integrating Preservation and Profits	p. 139
A Sustainable Career	p. 145
From Safety Nets to Trampolines	p. 151
The Value of Community Partnerships in Addressing Climate Change	p. 158
Interview with Carter Roberts, CEO, World Wildlife Fund	p. 164
Technology: Competing by Connecting	p. 171
Building an Online Marketplace	p. 175
Technology and Social Good: Loans, Relays and the Power of Community	p. 181
Mobile Millennial	p. 185
Interview with Joe Kennedy, CEO and President of Pandora	p. 191
Learning: Educating Tomorrow's Leaders	p. 197
The Leadership Boot Camp: Training the Next Generation of Corporate Leaders	p. 203
The MBA of Hard Knocks: Why Fast Failure Is the Best Thing for Business Education	p. 210
The New Corporate Classrooms: Training's Tectonic Technological Shift	p. 216
Tackling Financial Illiteracy	p. 223
The Education of a Millennial Leader	p. 228
Interview with Rich Lyons, Dean, Haas Business School University of California-Berkeley	p. 235
Moving Forward	p. 243
Capstone Interview with HBS Dean, Nitin Nohria	p. 246
Appendix: About the Passion and Purpose MBA Student Survey	p. 255
Notes	p. 263
Acknowledgments	p. 273
Index	p. 275
About the Contributors	p. 289
About the Authors	p. 295
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