Speed Ventures Case Study
Perform careful analyses, consider the possible outcomes and choose the best path in this case designed to enhance your decision-making skills and help you grow as a leader.
EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
Lead your organization into the future
June 22, 2021
6 months, online
2-4 hours per week
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Today’s organizations are undeniably complex—both difficult to understand and even more challenging to manage. But building your leadership skills from the inside out can help ensure you and your organization are positioned for growth and prepared to manage through change and uncertainty.
Just as an effective 360-degree evaluation can drive your success by assessing your skills and competencies from every angle, the Postgraduate Diploma in Leadership program presents three core pillars of leadership—personal leadership, team leadership and organizational leadership—for a holistic perspective that helps you develop your skills as a coach and team builder and step into the next level of leadership with confidence.
220 Video Lectures
30 Assignments
20 Case Studies
16 Discussions
10 Live Webinars
3 Role Plays
1 Simulation
1 Capstone Project
360° Assessment & Feedback
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Marshall Goldsmith
Late Katherine Phillips
Adam Galinsky
John Van Maanen
Marshall Goldsmith
Faculty at Tuck at Dartmouth
Dr. Goldsmith is a world authority on leadership coaching and one of a select few executive advisors who has worked with over 150 major CEOs and their management teams. He is the author or editor of 35 books, which includes "Triggers," the New York Times bestsellers "MOJO" and "What Got You Here Won't Get You There" – winner of the Harold Longman Award for Business Book of the Year and one of the BookScan top five bestselling management books in the past ten years. Marshall Goldsmith teaches executive education at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, including Tuck Executive Program, Leadership and Strategic Impact, Smith-Tuck Global Leaders Program for Women, Global Leadership 2030, and Custom Engagement.
Late Katherine Phillips
Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics, Senior Vice Dean
Prof. Katherine W. Phillips joined the faculty at Columbia Business School as the Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics in fall of 2011. Prior to this, she was an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and Co-Director and Founder of Northwestern’s Center on the Science of Diversity. She has also been a Visiting Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Visiting Scholar at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences. Professor Phillips received her PhD in Organizational Behavior from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, and her bachelor's degree is in psychology from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
Adam Galinsky
Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Business Chair of Management Division
Adam Galinsky received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and his B.A. from Harvard University. Professor Galinsky has published more than 200 scientific articles, chapters, and teaching cases in the fields of management and social psychology. His research and teaching focus on leadership, power, negotiations, decision-making, diversity, and ethics. In 2012, Professor Galinsky was selected as one of the World’s 50 Best B-School Professors by Poets and Quants. He twice won the Chair’s Core Course teaching award at Kellogg for teaching excellence on the topic of leadership. He also received a teaching award at Princeton University.
John Van Maanen
Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management
John Van Maanen is the Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management and a Professor of Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Van Maanen is an ethnographer of organizations ranging from police organizations to educational institutions, as well as a variety of business firms. In addition, he has worked with numerous public and private organizations in North America, Europe, and Asia, including BP, IBM, BMW, Siemens, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Lafarge, Mars, Warburg Dillon Read, Sabanci University, and the National University of Technology (Singapore). He has served as the faculty chair of the MIT Sloan Fellows Program at MIT and as the head of the Organization Studies Group within the Sloan School. He has been a Visiting Professor at Yale University, University of Surrey in the UK, INSEAD in France, and is an Honorary Fellow at Cambridge University.
Through case studies and industry examples, you’ll see how the theories you are learning have impactful practical applications.
Perform careful analyses, consider the possible outcomes and choose the best path in this case designed to enhance your decision-making skills and help you grow as a leader.
Apply fair and ethical principles of influence, persuasion, and inspiration in this case study focused on how strong leaders allocate scarce resources.
Explore three perspectives on organizations—strategic, political and cultural—and address the leader’s unique role in problem-solving and bringing about change from each perspective.
Learn to effect change in an organization by understanding its power structure—and how to use it to build your own power through networks and relationships.
Examine the power structure of a small company and the ways its varying social networks function—and how evaluating and understanding them can increase your power.
Evaluate organizational change efforts—why they may work in one case but not another, and what to do as a leader when your efforts meet resistance.
Identify the features of organizational culture that allow a team to create processes to get new ideas out on the table, to narrow down and refine a solution, and as a result, allow the team to succeed.
Identify the features of organizational culture that can control the behaviors of employees and consultants and motive them to innovate and continue selling the products.
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