A-608: Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Learning Themes Building Effective Teams Organizational Culture Organizational Change Organizational Alignment Changing organizations from within (intrapreneurship) Building organizations (entrepreneurship) Organizational Learning Learning to Lead Leadership Entrepreneurship Learning

Why a course on Leadership, Entrepreneurship & Learning? Goal: to inspire you to become thoughtful, reflective, entrepreneurial leaders Do-it-yourself — not a counseling course Why? Indecision yet drawn toward leadership roles and intrigued by entrepreneurship Understand past motivations Assess skills/biases held Remove you from “the herd” Attention is your most precious resource…yet we live in a world that is biased toward action (vs. reflection) Structured reflection

Leadership, Entrepreneurship, & Learning Many kinds of issues & dilemmas demand this kind of attention: I want to lead others, but I want to be independent & self-sufficient I want to follow my heart and do what really gives me joy, but I want to be successful in society’s terms I want to help others, but I want to have my own life with a lot of personal control & autonomy I want to be an entrepreneur, but I don’t know what that means I want to be certain of everything, but now I am not so sure...

Leadership, Entrepreneurship, & Learning Three Modules I. Leadership Entrepreneurship From the Inside (intrapreneurship) From the Outside (entrepreneurship) Learning Organizational Personal

Adjacent Work What this course is not: A how-to course on starting an organization Designed to complement other courses such as those taught by the following faculty: HGSE: Fernando Reimers, Jim Honan, John Richards, among others HBS: John Kim Designed to complement other activities such as the following: HIVE– HGSE student led organization on entrepreneurship ILab – Cross-university resource for student eship Contests: HGSE Pitch Competition (HGSE); Business Plan Contest (social enterprise, HBS); President’s Challenge

Pedagogy Paper Cases Prepare assignment q’s for each case Priorities: cases, readings, optional readings Multimedia Cases In-class videos Prepare assignment q’s Harvard Ed Cases Alumni entrepreneurs, international context Activities Team exercises/role plays

Mechanics of the Course Resources: Lead TF: Uche Amaechi (amaechi@me.com); TF team: Cortney Evans (A), Kim Frumin (B), Andrea LaRocca (B), Frances-Victoria Olajide (A), Dave Sherer (A) Assistant: Cindy Floyd (cindy_floyd@gse.harvard.edu) Appointments: Office Hours: on course isite Grading (details in syllabus): Class Participation 40% Mid Term Exam 25%, due by 10/14 at noon Final Paper 35%, due by 12/4 at noon Expectations: Presence, Preparation, Participation More than one unexcused absence will negatively affect your grade (see syllabus online); no make ups; screens strongly discouraged/other electronics off

For Thursday 9/3! Read the syllabus – front end in particular Check out the course isite “Syllabus” on the isite has your assignments/day; check this before you do an assignment (no changes will be made <48 hrs before class and an announcement will be posted to the isite front page IF there is a change) Prepare the Erik Peterson cases (A & B)!