"Moral Ambition" & Measuring Success with Rutger Bregman & Adam Grant

In early April 2025, Rutger Bregman joined Wharton School professor Adam Grant as part of the McNulty Leadership Program's Authors@Wharton Speaker Series. The two exchanged ideas and thoughts on what is meant by moral ambition, improving society, and aiming higher. This event was hosted on April 9, 2025.

Founded in 2012 by Professor Grant, Authors@Wharton was designed to foster deeper intellectual exchange and spark dynamic conversations among students, faculty, staff, and alumni—beyond the classroom. Hosted by the McNulty Leadership Program, this series continues to inspire dialogue and exploration at the intersection of ideas and leadership.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist, best-selling author, and the Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management at the Wharton School.

Rutger Bregman is a Dutch historian, author, and co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition, an organization that helps ambitious people work on the most important global problems. His books Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There (2017) and Humankind: A Hopeful History (2020) have been translated into 46 languages and have sold over 2 million copies worldwide. The Guardian described him as “the Dutch wunderkind of new ideas,” while TED named him one of “Europe's most prominent young thinkers.”

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