Commentary
Last night my dining room held 23 students from two graduate business cohorts and five accomplished business leaders who had no obligation to be there. These seasoned entrepreneurs and chief executives came anyway. They stayed for hours, well past the point of polite mentorship, trading questions with my students about hiring, raising capital, and what it really takes to lead. Before the executives left, they asked to stay in touch and to keep helping these students build their careers, including potentially their own firms.
