Remember Who You Are: 15 Harvard Professors Tell Life Stories That Inspire the Heart and Mind

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H. Kent Bowen

KENT BOWEN joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 1992 as part of the technology and operations management unit. For more than twenty years he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he cofounded Leaders for Manufacturing, a collaborative education and research effort between the schools of engineering and management. He holds both a bachelor’s degree and a doctorate in engineering, the former from the University of Utah and the latter from MIT.

He speaks in a deliberate manner, each unhurried phrase underscoring the careful thought behind it. Yet his quintessentially professorial demeanor ...