COURSE NUMBER: MBA257.1B

This course is cross-listed with the EWMBA program

COURSE TITLE: Leadership

UNITS OF CREDIT: 2 units

INSTRUCTOR: Jennifer Chatman

E-MAIL ADDRESS: chatman@haas.berkeley.edu

CLASS WEB PAGE LOCATION: http://bspace.berkeley.edu

MEETING DAY(S)/TIME: Tuesday/Thursday 4:00 – 6:00PM during Fall B (10/11 – 11/29)

PREREQUISITE(S): MBA 205

CLASS FORMAT: Visiting executives running live cases, experiential exercises, leadership self- and cross-evaluation assessment, cases and some lecture/discussion

REQUIRED READINGS: Course reader

BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE:  Grade is based on a mixture of Leadership Self- Analysis and Aspiration Project (LSAAP), Leadership Consulting Case Project, class participation, and short analyses of assessment feedback.

ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES:  The objective of this course is to accelerate your ability to develop into an influential organizational member and ultimately, a successful leader. The best leaders are diagnostic and deliberate about leadership; they think about and plan how they can add value on a situation-by-situation basis. Since situations can vary rather dramatically, the best leaders develop a broad behavioral repertoire, rather than relying reflexively on one or two leadership styles that come naturally. Thus, the course provides guidance in how to be a diagnostic and deliberate leader as well as opportunities to expand your behavioral repertoire so that you can be maximally effective across a broader range of situations. To do this, we will meet frequently with organizational leaders who will discuss live cases in class helping you learn how they think about, anticipate, and react to various organizational and business problems), undertake a rich assessment approach gathering data about your own self-perceptions as well as the perceptions of those who have worked with you, and we will use these data to analyze your current strengths as well as your opportunities for development as a high impact leader.  There will be two culminating projects in this course: One will be to develop your own Leadership Self Analysis and Aspiration Plan which will help you plot out your action plan for achieving your leadership goals. The second will be a consulting analysis of a practicing leader and your team’s observations and analysis of the approach that leader used to handle a difficult leadership situation.  The course will be discussion based and class participation will constitute a part of your grade.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:  Professor Jenny Chatman is the Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management at Haas.  She has also been on the faculty at Kellogg’s Graduate School of Business at Northwestern and the Harvard Business School.  She is the faculty director of Haas’ Center for Executive Education (CEE), Berkeley Executive Leader Program (BeXL) our flagship program for senior executives.  Professor Chatman is an expert in the areas of leadership and organizational culture.  Her recent research focuses on the financial advantages of cultivating an innovation-based culture within large high technology firms.  Professor Chatman's research and consulting have focused on the business advantages of developing leaders, leveraging organizational culture, and leading strategic change, and she has worked with a variety of organizations including Adobe, British Telecom, Chiron, Cisco Systems, The Coca-Cola Company, ConocoPhillips, eBay, Fannie Mae, First Data, Franklin Templeton, Freddie Mac, Gallo Winery, Genentech, Intel, Kaiser-Permanente, Microsoft, New York Life, the Portland Trailblazers, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Qualcomm, Statoil, the U.S. Postal Service, and the U.S. Treasury. She has won the Cheit teaching at Haas. She is a director of Simpson Manufacturing as well as a Trustee of Prospect Sierra School.  See http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/chatman/chatman.html for more information.