Submitted by Claudon on June 14, 2007 - 12:29pm.
We had a super high-energy gathering at Holly ('80) and Peter Ruhlin's home in Darien, CT last night. Thank you so very much, Holly and Peter for so generously hosting the event!

I received lots of great feedback, constructive criticism and ideas on how best to organize the "boot camp." However, as "Boot Camp" was stomped pretty unanimously, I am only using the term as a marker for now.

Besides some great name suggestions, which I willl get to below, I left with three valuable takeaways:
1) The program still feels like it is trying to accomplish more than is possible in four weeks.

2) As currently described, it feels like it's primarily about starting a new business, even though such is not the case.

3) At its essence, this is really a program about leadership, choices and organizations.

4)And most important of all, an excellent answer to the question, what will students come away with?: Confidence that I can do very well and have a great career with a philosophy, science or sociology major.

Let's just say that the "conversation" about what to call it was spirited. As the dust settled, and in the emails received post-event, two names are rising to the top:

The Art in Business; and

Passages to Business

It's not too late to weigh in......