Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey to Educate the World’s Children
Author: John Wood
John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life’s work not at business school or helping lead Microsoft’s charge into Asia in the 1990s but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. He made the difficult decision to walk away from his lucrative career to create Room to Read, a nonprofit organization that promotes education across the developing world…..Read More
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