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 inspires their research? What gets them out of bed in the morning? How do they translate their passions into purpose and impact for business?
To challenge the thinkers a little further, each one had just 15 minutes to deliver their idea – including questions from the audience.
BU Questrom’s Andrei Hagiu joined the event remotely from Singapore to talk about how platform research has informed and inspired angel investing – and vice versa.
Rather than looking for a winner-takes-all company, Hagiu pointed to the competitive advantage offered by B2B platforms that are not purely digital; platforms that cross the border between digital and physical.