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Leadership Specialization

The MBA curriculum in the Leadership specialization teaches the best ways to set long-term goals, facilitate change across large organizations, and assess the ethical implications of business policies.

The MBA curriculum in this specialization includes the following courses:

• LEA 512 Leading Change

  Major topics in this course include barriers to implementing organizational change; chaos, anxiety and political sources of employee resistance to change; using Dissatisfaction, Vision and Process tools to implement change; applying different leadership styles to supporting change; and balancing change for dynamic stability using different implementation approaches and pacing of different kinds of changes. (3 credits)

• LEA 551 Leadership

  This course explores the definitions and philosophies of leadership in the corporate environment. Topics include how leadership is instilled through leadership education and training, the role of values and ethics in leadership, the role of power and influence and an exploration of successful leadership traits. (3 credits)

• LEA 550 Creating the Visionary Organization

  This course explores the importance of corporate visionary as a source of long-term business success, as well as the practical guidelines for how to move one's organization toward that status. This course elaborates on the visionary frameworks identified in book Built to Last. The material emphasizes the organizational change principles necessary to implement the Built to Last vision framework. (3 credits)

• ETH 513 Business Ethics

  This course is intended to help students make ethical choices in a business context. Students analyze case studies dealing with such topics as employee rights and responsibilities, consumer issues and product liability, community and environmental issues and ethical norms in different cultures. In each area, an analytic framework is used to identify stakeholder rights and interests, and relevant moral duties and virtues. (3 credits)