EMBA Students

Provides the tools to better understand an individual's unique way of leading, i.e., one's leadership signature. Involves intensive self-assessment and interactive exercises aimed to identify the leadership patterns that help and hinder one's ability to make change happen. Focuses on identifying core leadership strengths and weaknesses, immunity to change, and developing one's leadership signature. Explores alternative leadership approaches in order to determine capabilities to emulate and plan changes in behavior moving forward. Readings from psychology, family systems, developmental psychology, and leadership literature augment analyses.

Leading with Impact is the final module for the Executive MBA curriculum. In the course the students are asked to synthesize what they have learned over the previous 20 months and connect those insights with the values that they hold most deeply. To facilitate this integration, during the module week student teams will work with the leadership of local not-for-profits to solve a pressing problem faced by that organization. The problems will vary with the organization in question and students are free to draw on any skills and capabilities that might be appropriate. The only requirement for the course is that the student teams make a positive difference in their focal organization. On the module’s final day, we will all reflect on what it means to be a principled innovative leader who improves the world.

Helps students discover and develop new and effective ways of managing and working together across national borders; also helps accelerate development of the context awareness and integrative management skills needed to lead in a globalized world. Involves intensive team engagement with a firm where students integrate their understanding of the relevant global and national economic and institutional contexts, industry dynamics, the firm's strategic position and capabilities, and its management organization and processes to provide the management sponsor with insight and effective recommendations.