MIT Leadership Center

SFMBA Students

Leadership is integrated into your entire SFMBA experience at MIT from day one. Starting from the core Leadership and Teams Lab class that spans your first summer, you’ll be introduced to our approach to leadership. The course will help you develop your skills in navigating and leveraging difference more constructively. Your experience on teams during the summer acts as a practice space to develop these conflict management skills.

Throughout the course and SFMBA program, you’ll work with your executive leadership coach in both individual and team settings to help transform and translate classroom content into tangible actions. To maximize the chance that it is a positive, developmental experience, throughout the summer you will work on a learning team. Your learning team will meet regularly to explore your leadership development throughout your first year.

Executive leadership coaching spans your entire 12-month program, supporting your ongoing leadership development. Leadership coaching helps cultivate a greater sense of self-awareness, creates space to practice leadership capabilities, and can transform how you present yourself as a leader.

The Leadership Center's unique approach integrates science-based frameworks, executive leadership coaching, and practice, creating the ideal environment for your transformative leadership development.

—SFMBA Leadership Courses

	Course Title	Filter by Term Fall Spring Summer
15.325	Seminar in Leadership	Fall	3 Cr.
	The business landscape is rapidly evolving so strong leaders are needed to adapt to change at a pace far greater than ever experienced in the history of global markets. The most valuable companies in today’s market are dramatically different from those of just several years ago as successful companies leverage technology, partnerships, M&A and global expansion to enhance sustainable value. All companies must deal with the powerful disruptive forces transforming their industries. In response, strong leaders are needed to reorient their companies, start new lines of business, and innovate to promote future growth. This leadership seminar aims to expose the Fellows to accomplished leaders in industries facing disruptive challenges. Each of these leaders has a story to tell, mistakes made, challenges overcome, successful tactics and strategies—all of which are related to his or her leadership approach.
15.326	Seminar in Leadership II	Spring	3 Cr.
	Continuation of 15.325, providing students opportunities to meet senior executives of private and public institutions, including current or former policymakers, and discuss challenges associated with the management of country and global affairs. Restricted to Sloan Fellow MBAs.
15.338	Leadership and Teams Lab	Summer	6 Cr.
	This is the first required course for the Sloan Fellows Program, in which all Sloan Fellows students are automatically enrolled. Leadership and Teams Lab is designed to help you cultivate the skills necessary to meet the major challenges that will inevitably confront the organization(s) that you lead. The course builds on two ideas: First, combining conflicting ideas and perspectives is a critical component of creating innovation (and therefore the solutions to significant challenges); and, second, both individuals and organizations are often conflict-averse. The course will help you develop your skills in navigating and leveraging differences in two pieces.

SFMBA students are eligible to take certain MBA leadership electives.

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SFMBA students are eligible to take certain MBA leadership electives.