The Aspen Institute awards courses that have an impact on business and society. They have long recognized the power of business school teaching to influence the culture within capitalism. These awards celebrate visionary faculty and the courses that tackle society’s largest, most embedded challenges of our time. These learning experiences equip leaders of tomorrow with the context, skills and decision-making capabilities needed for a more sustainable, inclusive economy—and world.
See the award announcement including a sample syllabus here.
Why this course
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The 360º Corporation uniquely dives deep into a single corporation, using ethnographic field trips, self-reflections, in-class debates, guest speakers and carefully curated multimedia resources to immerses students in the trade-offs, and opportunities, created by companies’ business models
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Students exercise holistically examining business practice and broadening the lens beyond the walls of the firm. In this intensive course, Professor Kaplan’s creative approach connects MBA core concepts in a way that equips students with the skills needed to more fully assess, challenge and impact the organizations that they will be a part of throughout their career
Course Highlights
Learning outcomes:
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Integrate across multiple functional perspectives to understand complex business problems
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Understand both private and public value creation and capture in the context of one corporation
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Place yourself in the shoes of the senior executive in addressing management challenges for the corporation
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Get practice at seeing the world through multiple lenses and in coping with the paradoxes and tensions implicit in many management issues
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Learn to read like a manager, integrating information from multiple different sources and coming up with your own perspective
At the end of the course, students take the perspective of the leaders of the corporation and seek to understand how they can make important strategic choices for their company in the face of the many challenges and obligations we uncover in the course.
