My time at Tuck is coming to an end - and one of my last memories will be dinner last night with Debbie Brooks, co-founder of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. Debbie had almost 10 years as an investment banker for Goldman Sachs under her belt before being tapped to start- from scratch- one of the most influential and powerful scientific research organizations.
Over dinner she shared some war stories about how she landed the job - and what she did on Monday, Day one. One of the most important things I took away was how powerful a business mindset could be in the non-profit world, and importance of "high impact philanthropy". Very inspiring!
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