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Successful leaders understand the power of authentic, memorable communication. This course uses the lens of oral communication and presentations, to introduce the essential elements of the strategic communication strategies that make authentic, memorable communication work. Focusing on oral communication and presentation, we introduce the essentials of communication strategy and persuasion: audience analysis, message construction, communicator credibility, and delivery. Deliverables include written documents, focusing on individual and team presentations, with students receiving continuous feedback to improve their communication effectiveness, and to sharpen their authentic leadership voice. This highly interactive, practical course, is focused on feedback to help students at all levels of communication mastery develop confidence in their speaking and writing. Course includes presentations, assignments, lectures, discussions, simulated activities, in-class feedback, and filmed feedback. In this course you will learn to:-Recognize strategically effective communication-Implement the principles of strategic communication across different platforms-Develop clearly organized and effective presentations and documents-Diagnose and expand, your personal authentic communication style.

We will examine selected issues that today's high net worth philanthropists are grappling with. After a brief introduction to strategic, or outcome-oriented philanthropy, we will consider issues including: tensions between philanthropy and democracy; alternative ways of serving marginalized communities; policy advocacy; dealing with uncertainty and long time horizons in philanthropy, including how they are handled in the Effective Altruism movement; whether foundations and donor advised funds should exist in perpetuity or should be required to spend down; the role of intermediary organizations that either advise donors on where to give or regrant their funds in sectors such as climate and poverty; trust-based and participatory philanthropy; the lessons that can and shouldn't be learned from the for-profit business sector in the practice of effective philanthropy; impact and ESG investing. Students will be graded pass/fail, based on contributions to class discussion and the submission of three papers commenting on the assigned readings.

The thrust of this course is on leveraging deep insights into brain-body systems for peak performance in highly demanding environments. These insights will enable you to perform at your peak day in and day out by unraveling the workings of the human brain, leveraging frameworks that essentially capture the way brain-body systems shape our decisions, experiences and behaviors. Featuring mini-case studies and in-class exercises to illustrate the various topics, the course culminates in an individual assignment that will give you an opportunity to design a life filled with passion and focus, navigating potential physiological and psychological curveballs along the way.

Global eCommerce represents a vast market, driven by advances in internet and smartphone penetration, improving supply chains, lower online prices and variety and a growing, aspirational middle class with increasing demand for branded goods. This class will deep dive into the eCommerce industry to understand its competitive dynamics, success factors, business models and strategic dimensions. The class will have a global perspective, focusing on various aspects of eCommerce in the US as well as Asia, including China and India in particular. More broadly, the class will use the industry as a microcosm for how to build and succeed in modern data and technology driven markets. This is important because success in eCommerce requires bringing together in a meaningful way several disparate aspects including efficient supply chains, well functioning product marketplaces, frictionless payment systems, meaningful content, hardware and devices, as well as facilitating advanced search, advertising and marketing technology. Additional factors such as managing vendor and supplier relationships, fraud, user reviews and private labels make the industry complex and provide learnings for several other verticals. For instruction, we will use a mix of cases and lectures, and leverage significant participation from several eCommerce industry leaders.

This course is open only to leaders of GSB Global Study Trips. It is experiential and designed to highlight and support opportunities for developing leadership skills through trip design and execution. Lectures will include best practices from past trips that can inform and speed trip design. Role plays, cases, and exercises will be used to demonstrate and try out skills needed to successfully lead a group of peers as they develop into a learning community that explores an academic topic in locations around the world. Topics covered in the class include creating a high performing team, setting and managing expectations among various stakeholders, creating trip culture, holding peers accountable, managing crises on the ground, and more. In addition to the weekly class, meetings with teammates and coaches and advisors are considered a part of the course time commitment.

This course examines business models and opportunities related to an emerging industry that is now commonly referred to as 'Climate Tech'. We examine emerging trends for this sector in the context of technological change, business opportunities and the parameters set by public policy. Specific topics to be examined include: Climate Change and Carbon Emissions; Corporate Carbon Reduction Pledges; Advances in Renewable Energy; Financing Climate Tech Ventures and Infrastructure; Energy Storage; Electric Vehicle Transportation; Industrial Decarbonization; The Circular Carbon Economy

This course addresses the distinctive challenges and opportunities of launching high-potential new ventures in developing economies. Developing economies are attractive targets for entrepreneurs because many are just starting to move up the growth curve, and they offer low-cost operating environments that can be great development labs for potentially disruptive innovations. They increase in attractiveness when their political institutions stabilize and they become more market-friendly. At the same time, developing economies pose serious challenges. Pioneering entrepreneurs take on significant risks to gain early mover advantages. Specifically, entrepreneurs will not be able to count on the same kind of supportive operating environments that we take for granted in the developed world. They often face cumbersome permit and licensing processes, poorly developed financial and labor markets, problematic import and export procedures, unreliable local supply chains, weak infrastructure, corruption, currency risks, limited investment capital, lack of financial exits and more. This course is designed to help would-be entrepreneurs - both founders and members of entrepreneurial teams - better understand and prepare for these issues as they pursue the opportunities and address the challenges to start, grow, and harvest their ventures in these environments. GSB534 uses a team-based project to learn about and develop solutions to the key challenges described above and potential solutions. A framework based on the recently published World Economic Forum (WEF) report on "Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Around the Globe and Company Growth Dynamics" will be used to structure the course along with a few lectures and guests who describe their own startup and investing experiences in developing economies and answer questions. The team-based projects are based on students' ideas; classmates will form teams of their choosing to explore a specific country and investigate an idea's viability. Students must come in willing to be team players and do the work necessary to complete this exercise over the full quarter. Teams of AT LEAST 3 STUDENTS EACH will be formed before the start of class or on the first day of class at the latest so students can decide if they want to enroll. The team will describe, in a final presentation, the challenges and opportunities in their country using the WEF framework. The final presentation will also include the team's thoughts on the viability of their proposed venture and how it capitalizes on their country's assets and addresses its challenges. A detailed business plan is not required; however, specific recommendations and plans for next steps that would be carried out during a 3 to 6-month field and market research study in the country will be part of the final presentation. Students who would prefer to learn more about this subject in a lecture/case discussion format should also enroll in GSB514, offered in Winter term.

This course is open only to leaders of Global Study Trips. It is designed to support GST leaders as they design and deliver a new version of GSTs that accommodate current pandemic limitations on travel. The course will support leaders in emergent design as well as leadership team considerations over Autumn and Winter quarters. A seminar format will enable cross-fertilization of approaches among trips. Some combination of lectures, role plays, cases, and exercises will be used to demonstrate and practice skills needed.

What is sustainability? It is not just about air travel, ocean health or reducing plastic waste. It is about rethinking our role as humans and leaders in this ever-changing world and developing a mindset that leads to positive habits and creates strong relationships to nurture our planet. In a world where success is frequently regarded as a stopping point rather than a stepping stone to future endeavors, this mindset is critical to leading a life of purpose and meaning. In this class we invite you to rethink: - a sustainable self, by moving away from focusing on the short-run win associated with attaining a goal to the longer-term benefits associated with continued improvement after the goal has been achieved thereby sustaining healthy habits. - sustainable connections, by helping people feel they are valued members of a winning team on an inspired mission.n- sustainable planet, in small ways that ripple out small communities and the planet; the hope is to create a culture of shared prosperity. The goal of the class is to facilitate dialogue, knowledge exchange, and collaboration among students and guests to create a sustainable toolkit to cultivate positive habits for our future based on a sense of shared prosperity. Lastly, we'll map out how to use time in ways that will help build sustainable lives (calm mind and healthy body), impactful teams and a beautiful planet, so each of our lives will have meaningful, lasting impact in the world.