Study Load

Assessment: 100% coursework

Required Reading

Cases:

• Fischer, W. A., & Chung, R. (2007). Learning to Lead in China: Michael Faye Goes to China. IMD.
• George, B., Buhrman, R., & McLean, A. N. (2005). Martin Luther King, Jr: A Young Minister Confronts the Challenges of Montgomery. Harvard Business School.
• George, B., Singh, S., & McLean, A. (2005). Narayana Murthy and compassionate capitalism. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Case. [406, p.15]
• George, W., & Breitfelder, M. D. (2009). David Neeleman: Flight Path of a Servant Leader (A). SSRN.
• Groysberg, B., & Bell, D. (2011). Rebecca S. Halstead: Steadfast Leadership. Harvard Business School Organizational Behavior Unit Case. [411-050]
• Hoopes, J., Mohd Nor, L., & Yusof, M. (2018). How To Use Virtue in Business: Part A. Harvard Business Publishing.
• Kanter, R. S., LaNasa, F. J., & Malone, A. J. (2015). Advanced Leadership Pathways: Paul Lee and Asian Americans Advancing Justice. Harvard Business Publishing Case. [316-040]
• Korotov, K. (2013). Leadership styles. European School of Management and Technology.
• Lee, D. S. (2021). Diversity in a Global Context: Making the Right Hire to Lead Asia. Asia Case Research Centre.
• Lee, D. S. (2021). Leading the Marriott Way. Asia Case Research Centre.
• Lee, D. S., & Lau, J. (2020). What is the Final Grade? Asia Case Research Centre.
• Vuckovic, B., Talbot, R., & Spring, L. (2023). Moral Complexity in Leadership: Hubris and Humility “Dead Men’s Path,” by Chinua Achebe. Northwestern Kellogg School of Management.

Examples of Articles/Reference Readings (reference/background readings): 

• Amar, S. (2023). Why everyone wins with more women in leadership. Forbes. From https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2023/02/07/why-everyone-wins-with-more-women-in-leadership/?sh=2a7e04093cdd
• Bennis, W. G., & Thomas, R. J. (2002). Crucibles of Leadership. Harvard Business Review, 80(9), 39-45.
• Bourke, J., Titus, A., & Espedido, A. (2020). The key to inclusive leadership. Harvard Business Review, 6, p.H05GLB.
• Edmondson, A. C., & Lei, Z. (2014). Psychological Safety: The History, Renaissance, and Future of an Interpersonal Construct. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 1, 23-43.
• Goleman, D. (2001). Leadership That Gets Results (Harvard Business Review Classics). Harvard Business Press.
• Inc. Staff. (2024). 10 CEOs Share their stories about hard choices they’ve made—and how they did it. Inc. From https://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio/from-the-ground-up-sloomoo-institute-karen-robinovitz-sara-schiller-grief-as-startup-fuel.html
• Kim, W. C., & Mauborgne, R. A. (1992). Parables of Leadership. Harvard Business Review, 70(5), 107-114.
• McDonald, P. (2012). Confucian foundations to leadership: A study of Chinese business leaders across Greater China and South-East Asia. Asia Pacific Business Review, 18(4), 465-487.
• Sparrowe, R. T. (2005). Authentic leadership and the narrative self. Leadership Quarterly, 16(3), 419-439.
• Wah, S. S. (2010). Confucianism and Chinese leadership. Chinese Management Studies, 4(3), 280-285.

Book Selections (not all books are required but will serve as a basis for discussion in tutorial and assignments, so a selection have been excerpted here):

• Badaracco, J. (2006). Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership Through Literature.
• Christensen, C. M. (2012). How Will You Measure Your Life?.
• Drucker, P. (2002). The Effective Executive.
• George, B. (2007). True North.
• Joly, H. (2021). The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism.
• Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, Fast and Slow.
• Kidder, T. (2004). Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World.
• Pausch, R. (2008). The Last Lecture.
• Seelig, T. (2009). What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World.
• Willink, J., & Babin, L. (2017). Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win.
• Wood, J. (2007). Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey to Educate the World’s Children.

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