Redefining Success: A Conversation with Rutger Bregman on Moral Ambition @ Harvard
Let’s be honest: every year, thousands of brilliant students enter Harvard determined to change the world—and a few years later, nearly half of them vanish into the Bermuda Triangle of Talent: consulting, finance, and corporate law.
This isn’t just a waste of time. It’s a waste of potential on a historic scale.
Rutger Bregman, 2x New York Times bestselling author and CEO of The School for Moral Ambition, is coming to campus with a challenge: stop climbing the ladder of success if it’s leaning against the wrong wall. In an age of disillusionment and burnout, he offers a bold alternative—moral ambition.
Drawing on the stories of history’s greatest disruptors from the abolitionists to the suffragettes, Bregman will make the case for redefining success and reclaiming your career as a force for good.
📅 Thursday, November 14 | 🕔 4:30-5:30pm | 📍Harvard Science Center Room 309A
Harvard and MIT students welcome.
This event also marks the launch of the Harvard Moral Ambition Fellowship, a $15,000 summer program for Harvard juniors ready to spend their talent tackling the world’s most urgent problems instead of just maximizing shareholder value.
Be among the first 20 to arrive and get a signed, pre-release copy of Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference.
Co-sponsored by Harvard Undergraduate Women in Entrepreneurship, Harvard Undergraduate Effective Altruism and Harvard Undergraduate Plant-Based.