Duke MBA Leadership and Ethics Curriculum | Extracurricular Programs
Duke Daytime MBA Leadership and Ethics core, concentration and elective curriculum.
Leadership, Ethics and Organizations (LEO)
As part of our innovative approach to the education of future business leaders, Fuqua offers the LEO core course to First Year Students. This experiential course takes MBA students outside the traditional classroom setting to address critical issues and develop vital skills for business leadership and management.
LEO provides a remarkable range of exploration and challenge. It provides a remarkable range of personal leadership development opportunities in settings ranging from the Fuqua campus to the North Carolina forest. The program relects the importance Fuqua places on leadership, values, ethics and team-based work. It is designed to prepare students to be effective leaders and managers of others regardless of career paths; be good analysts of how best to organize people; provide personal insight, provide a foundation for several core classes and electives, and to begin the process of forming effective study teams.
Integrative Leadership Experience I (ILE1)
The Integrative Leadership Experience is an experiential complement to the principles and frameworks taught in Leadership, Ethics, and Organizations (LEO). The course consists of three outside the classroom team activities that are designed to strengthen your leadership skills within your first-year team.
LEO is one of a three-part Global Institute program offered in Term 1 of the Duke Daytime MBA Program. Visit the Duke MBA web site for more information.
Leadership, Ethics and Organization II (LEO II)
Fuqua offers the LEO II core course to Second Year Students. This high impact learning experience continues the journey of self-awareness begun in LEO. With a focus on courageous leadership, this experiential course challenges the thinking of MBA students on issues critical to personal and collective leadership development and extends their understanding of personal ethics to building and sustaining ethical organizational cultures essential for preserving the integrity of organizations.
The Duke MBA offers optional specialized Concentrations in all of the major functional areas (such as accounting, decision sciences, finance, management, marketing, operations, and strategic consulting) and in topical areas (such as entrepreneurship, international business, leadership and ethics, and social entrepreneurship). Each concentration identifies a set of electives from which students will choose six courses.
The Concentration in Leadership and Ethics is designed for students with an interest in deepening and broadening their leadership and ethics training whether in preparation for stepping into leadership positions soon after graduation or in service of longer-term career goals.
In addition to the following electives that are leadership and ethics specific, COLE has developed a recommended leadership and ethics track of courses in other areas that have leadership and ethics components.
Management 423: Leadership
Leadership involves setting a tone, a focus, and a direction for an organization, its members, and other stakeholders. In contrast, effective management involves executing against the direction and tone set by the leadership. Individuals are not either leaders or managers, but a mixture of leadership and management, and the exact mix depends upon the situation, the role and the person. The purpose of this course is to provide opportunities for reflection, study, debate, and practice that provide students with a context within which they can learn about leadership – both their own leadership and more general principles of effective leadership. Thus, this is a course for students who wish to take the time and exert the effort required to confront and reflect on their own leadership strengths and weaknesses.
For more information, see: Fuqua Student Registration.
Management 425: Ethics in Management
Today's business environment has powerfully reinforced the centrality of ethical behavior in business. Over the past several years, we have been bombarded with stories of corporate scandals that have focused sustained attention on the issue of ethics in business and there is much to be learned from them. However, business ethics is not most fundamentally about scandals (or the avoidance scandals). At a much more basic level, it is about clearly discerning the ethical dimensions of managers' everyday business decisions. And it is about being able to make considered, thoughtful judgments in the face of this ethical complexity in an environment where decisions must often be made quickly and under considerable pressure. A manager cannot choose to avoid making ethically difficult decisions. To make that choice is already to have made a choice that is ethically significant and a choice that fails to take into account significant aspects of the situations that managers face everyday. This course helps students develop tools and ways of thinking that will be helpful for when faced with ethically complex decisions.
For more information, see: Fuqua Student Registration.