Many of Irving’s stories related to the mythical JFK anecdote: The President was visiting NASA headquarters and stopped to talk to a man who was holding a mop. “And what do you do?” he asked. The man, a janitor, replied, “I’m helping to put a man on the moon, sir.”
Michael Raynor, Author of The Strategy Paradox, visited Ivey some time ago to speak about strategic decision making. Raynor holds an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Harvard College in Cambridge, MA, where he graduated Magna cum Laude.
The Richard Ivey School of business is a world-renowned business school and consistently ranks among the top business schools in the world. Ivey is known for turning out top-notch graduates and for its case-based teaching, however, Ivey has another focus: educating and enabling entrepreneurs.
Stanley Cup Champion hockey player, coach and now extremely successful CBC hockey broadcaster Craig Simpson spoke at Ivey recently about leadership lessons from winning organizations. Craig made it clear that anyone who succeeds at anything has something to teach at Ivey.
In the HBA program, students are exposed to a countless number of successful business owners, and influential entrepreneurs. The second year HBA Managing High Growth Companies class (taught by Simon Parker), hosted Dave Anyon, past CEO of Vintex and current Chairman of the Advisory Council for the Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship.