1. 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

2. 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

3. 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...

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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Mechanics of the Course
Resources:
Lead TF: Uche Amaechi TF team: Cortney Evans (A), Kim Frumin (B), Andrea LaRocca (B), Frances-Victoria Olajide (A), Dave Sherer (A)
Assistant: Cindy Floyd
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

8. 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)!