Curriculum

Entrepreneurial Leadership


Course Objectives

This course uses case studies of an entrepreneur, businessperson, politician, and adventurer to achieve its primary objective of having students develop a “feel” for how he should think and act when they begin to pursue change and creativity. Students will think deeply about their personal qualities, ambitions, philosophy, vision, and mission as businesspeople and aim to ultimately identify their own missions.

Course Details

Programs: Full-time MBA, Part-time MBA
Discipline: Management Philosophy
Course Level: Applied Course
Required/Elective Course: Required Course
Number of Credits: 1.5
Report: Day 6*
Hours Per Class: 3 hours
Class Capacity: 35 (Part-time MBA)

*To complete this course, participants are required to give a presentation entitled “My Personal Mission Statement” on Day 6.

Recommended Preliminary Courses


Theme/Case

Day 1
THEME Leadership in Crisis
READING Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance

Day 2
THEME Leadership in a State of National Change
READING Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation


Day 3
THEME The Japanese Spirit
READINGS ・Representative Men of Japan
・Bushido
Day 4
THEME The Entrepreneur’s Vision and Management Philosophy
READING Matsushita Leadership




Day 5
THEME Options of Creation and Innovation
READING My Personal Mission Statement

Day 6
THEME Presentation Session - "My Personal Mission Statement"




Textbook (Please purchase the following textbook before the course starts.)

Representative Men of Japan

Representative Men of Japan (bilingual version)

Kanzo Uchimura (Kodansha International)

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't

Jim Collins (HarperBusiness)




Faculty


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