DeLong: Returned to academia because Wall Street culture avoided substantive conversations
Tom DeLong · Thomas DeLong – Authentic Leadership (Capital Allocators, EP.18) · Jul 24, 2017 · at 9:24
Harvard Business School professor Tom DeLong discusses why he left his executive role at Morgan Stanley to return to academia with host Ted Seides.
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“When I was at Morgan Stanley, and I would have what I would call something other than deeply shallow conversations. We would have substantive conversations with folks, and then when they'd get back in the group, it was back to golf, and it was back to redecorating the kitchen, and I think, by the way, that's one of the reasons that I longed to come back into an academic setting, is the nature of the conversations, and that I felt like folks were more willing, students and faculty, to have The kind of conversations that I thought would nurture them and were certainly nurturing for me.”
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