FIELD Foundations

FIELD Foundations is a course for first-year MBA students in the Required Curriculum. As a complement to case method courses that students take in the first year of the MBA program, FIELD Foundations offers hands-on leadership practice and immersive team experiences. Students are divided into small teams to complete interactive workshops. These team simulations, feedback, and self-reflection exercises help them develop self-awareness and answer key questions like: How can you engage in difficult conversations? How self-aware are you about your own biases? How can you make diverse teams better? Can you be more emotionally intelligent? What kind of leader do you want to be?

Taught alongside the case method, FIELD Foundations provides students with a more comprehensive cycle of learning by thinking, doing, and reflecting, and prepares them to take the FIELD Global Immersion course in the spring semester, when they will put their leadership ideas into practice in the real world.