PAL-119: Organizational Leadership and Governance

Semester: Not Offered

Credit: 1.0

Faculty: Andy Zelleke

Schedule

Day Time Location
First Day
Meet Day
Review

Description

Organization is about getting things done largely through other people for the benefit of one or more constituencies. Successful organizations require high-caliber leadership, as well as governance mechanisms — such as boards of directors — designed to ensure the leadership’s accountability to those constituencies. While we all have an intuitive sense of what leadership is, many of us — whether as aspiring leaders ourselves or as colleagues, consultants, investors, benefactors, industry analysts, pundits, or citizen voters — would benefit from an enhanced capacity to more rigorously evaluate the quality of organizational leadership. This case-based course will focus on top-level leadership in a variety of organizational settings across the private and public sectors — from the Fortune 100 to the foreign policymaking apparatus to universities. Its objective will be to explore the elements of successful leadership and governance in these diverse contexts and the extent to which these elements are consistent from one context to another. Students will be evaluated based on their classroom contributions to the collective learning enterprise, a short midterm paper, and a final exam.

Not offered in 2008–09.