Teaching
Teaching
Course Description:
This course is about getting things done in the real world, where power and politics might be obstacles in your way. This course aims to build your intuition for understanding power dynamics and for using them effectively to analyze your organizational environment and achieve your goals. Both power and politics profoundly impact how you perceive problems and opportunities and, subsequently, how you decide upon courses of action.
Power & Politics in Organizations,
Questrom School of Business
SPRING 2024
Course Description:
This course is about understanding, analyzing, and navigating the complexities of contemporary organizational life.
The Dynamics of Leading
Organizations and People,
Questrom School of Business
SPRING 2019, FALL 2019, FALL 2020, FALL 2021, FALL 2022
Head Graduate Student Instructor,
Haas School of Business
FALL 2016 - SPRING 2018
Course Description:
This course is about teaching in a business school. Given that most top business school programs recruit an exceptionally diverse student body—who vary greatly in their previous work experiences, learning objectives, and future career goals—professors at business schools face the unique challenge of developing courses that meet these needs. This is one of the features that distinguishes the business school classroom from other classroom environments.
Women's 21st Century Leadership,
with Professor Laura Kray
SUMMERS 2017 - 2020
Course Description:
Growing scientific consensus has emerged to understand why women’s and men’s career paths continue to diverge in the modern workplace in both predictable and surprising ways. This module examines the state of gender equality, identify the unique approaches that women use to solve pressing social problems, and equip women with the leadership tools needed to achieve their highest potential. This course is designed by women for women.
Power and Politics, GSI
Professors Sameer Srivastava
and Cameron Anderson
SPRING 2014, SPRING 2015, FALL 2015, SPRING 2016, FALL 2016, FALL 2017
Course Description:
This course is about the art and science of influence in organizations. Many people are ambivalent, if not disdainful, of those who seek to wield power and influence at work. Yet organizations are fundamentally political entities, and the ability to diagnose and navigate organizational politics is critical for personal and organizational success. Even those who consider themselves “apolitical” can sometimes get drawn into a political vortex. All aspiring leaders therefore stand to benefit from developing greater political acumen.
The Social, Political, and Ethical Environment of Business, GSI
Professor Alan Ross
SPRING 2011, FALL 2011, SPRING 2012
Course Description:
This is a survey course on the political, social, and ethical environment of business. It is designed to give students insight into complex and controversial social issues and public policy problems that complicate the task of managing American business. Topics covered include the historical development of American business, America’s competitiveness problems, and the debates over business ethics, corporate social responsibility, corporate governance and government regulation of business. We will study and consider the implications of several of the most perplexing paradoxes facing American business managers today: the conflict between our faith in a free market and our desire for regulations providing consumer and environmental protection; the contradiction between the historical success of American business and our growing competitiveness problems; and our confusion over how best to manage business given the conflicting demand from shareholder and stakeholder groups with incompatible short- and long-term interests.