“The Essential Skills Required of Business Leaders”

1. “The Essential Skills Required of Business Leaders” • A Global Perspective • Leadership Development • Integration • Organizational Realities: Power, Politics, and the Challenge of Implementation • Creative, Innovative Thinking • Oral and Written Communications • Roles, Responsibility, and Purpose of Business • Risk, Regulation, and Restraint: Understanding the Limits of Markets and Models

2. Few courses teach global strategy concepts and tools. • An example is Stanford's global context management, course, which is taught in the first quarter of the first year. According to the syllabus: • “The core centers on the political, economic, financial, and cultural drivers of the global marketplace. • It develops students understanding for both the global and individual markets that comprise the world economy. • By focusing on markets, the course provides students with general and specialized knowledge to help them ask necessary questions and take appropriate actions when entering a new market." • “In summary, a separate course on globalization, particularly if it is scheduled early in the first year provides useful context, structure, and perspective for the functional courses that follow.”

4. Curriculum Change: HBS • Key enhancement to the Harvard curriculum will create a new required first-year course called FIELD, for Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development. • “It will focus on developing substantively meaningful small-group learning experiences that are experiential, immersive, and field-based, • FIELD’s Modular Theory • Module One centers on leadership • Module Two centers on globalization, including a required global immersion experience during the January term. • Module Three integrates learning across the year.