MBA Experience
MBA Experience
First Year (Required Curriculum)
Leadership & Organizational Behavior (LEAD)
This course focuses on how managers become effective leaders by addressing the human side of enterprise. The first modules examine teams, individuals, and networks in the context of:
- The determinants of group culture.
- Managing the performance of individual subordinates.
- Establishing productive relationships with peers and seniors over whom the manager has no formal authority.
The intermediate modules look at successful leaders in action to see how they:
- Develop a vision of the future.
- Align the organization behind that vision.
- Motivate people to achieve the vision.
- Design effective organizations and change them to achieve superior performance.
- The final module introduces a model for strategic career management.
Leadership & Corporate Accountability
In this course, students learn about the complex responsibilities facing business leaders today. Through cases about difficult managerial decisions, the course examines the legal, ethical, and economic responsibilities of corporate leaders. It also teaches students about management and governance systems leaders can use to promote responsible conduct by companies and their employees, and shows how personal values can play a critical role in effective leadership.
Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD)
FIELD is a year-long, two-part course that gives first-year students meaningful and numerous opportunities to act like leaders, while translating their ideas into practice.
Second Year (Elective Curriculum)
Corporate Governance & Boards of Directors
- Spring
Leadership Execution & Action Planning
- Fall & Spring