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Leaving Microsoft to change the world : an entrepreneur's odyssey to educate the world's children / John Wood.
Van Pelt Library LC5148.S64 W66 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wood, John, 1964 January 29-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Rural--South Asia--Case studies.
- Education, Rural.
- Education, Rural--Southeast Asia--Case studies.
- Room to Read (Organization).
- Wood, John, 1964 January 29-.
- Wood, John.
- Southeast Asia.
- South Asia.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Collins, [2006]
- Summary:
- Wood, the executive who made it his business to bring books and schools to children around the developing world, chronicles his life and work, from the start-up years at Microsoft to his life-changing decision to leave, and includes the methods he uses to manage Room to Read with "the efficiency of General Electric and the compassion of Mother Teresa."
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 006112107X
- OCLC:
- 63705891
- Publisher Number:
- 9780061121074
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