BUSINESS MANAGEMENTMASTER 2 - 2011/2012

STRATEGIC LEADERSHIPBusiness Management Track

SEMESTRE 2 – 15 hours

Professors Valérie Petit, professor of Management

valerie.petit@edhec.edu

Isabelle Mari, professor of strategyisabelle.mari@edhec.edu

COURSE OVERVIEW

This course explores the nature, the conditions and the practice of power and leadership at the top of companies

Building on a multidisciplinary perspective which brings together strategic management, leadership and corporate governance, the course offers a solid introduction to the emerging field of strategic leadership and opens the black box of the C-suite.

This course builds on a blended pedagogy (lectures, case-studies, research based discussion, self-assessment, speech contest) and ends up with a special conference with a panel of European CEOs.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Providing a theoretical and practical introduction to strategic leadership and CEO studies Discovering emerging issues in leadership and strategic leadership Providing inspiration for future leadership development

LEARNING OUTCOMES

After the course, the participants will be able to:

- Describe the diversity of Leadership styles at the top and its impact on firm strategy, performance, culture, ethics and management (Lecture 1)

- Understand the patterns and the challenges of Top executive environment (Lecture 2)- Discover end explore emerging issues in strategic Leadership (Lectures 3 & 4

- Design a suitable governance structure to support strategic leadership (tutorial 1)- Develop their personal leadership and charisma (tutorial 2 – speech contest)

- Get inspiration from authentic and transformational business Leaders ( cases studies & final conference)

PREREQUISITES

Compulsory reading Group work (tutorials 1 & 2)

BUSINESS MANAGEMENTMASTER 2 - 2011/2012

Important: The participants are supposed to be familiar with the definition of leadership (Bachelor course, comportements & Organisation) and the corporate governance structures (Master 1 course, corporate Governance and CSR)

COURSE CONTENT

The course includes 2 plenary sessions (all the Msc students) and 2 tutorials (7 groups of Msc students). Each tutorial has been designed in order to echo the professional purpose and culture of each Msc.

The course is structured as follow:

I. Plenary session #1 (6h): four lectures on emerging issues in Strategic LeadershipWith Prof. Isabelle Mari and Valérie Petit

Introduction. Do top executives matter ? strategic leadership, a new field of research, Lecture 1. Changing the tapestry of the C-suite: diversity and global leadership at the top Lecture 2. Who’s (really) the boss? Beyond shareholder value in corporate governance Lecture 3. It’s all about them: destructive leaders at the top Lecture 4. Beyond the corporate savior: Leading change in times of crisis

II. Tutorial # 1 (3h): Creating a strategic corporate governance structure With Prof. Isabelle Mari

III. Tutorial # 2 (3h): Developing charismatic and transformational leadership With Prof. Valérie Petit

IV. Plenary session #2 (3h): speech contest and “Meet the CEOs conference”With Prof. Valérie Petit

TEACHING & LEARNING METHODS

The course will use multiple instructive methods such as: Lectures Case Studies Research presentations Discussions Discourses analysis Speech contest Self-learning exercises and self-assessment Conference with a panel of CEOs

ASSESSMENT METHODS

50% Final Exam : short questions and MCQ 15% Active class participation during the tutorials 35% Group work

COMPULSORY READING

Participants are asked to read the papers before attending the session. The final exam will include questions taken from these articles.

Introduction

BUSINESS MANAGEMENTMASTER 2 - 2011/2012

Finkelstein, S., Hambrick, D.C. & Canella Jr, A.A. 2008. Strategic Leadership. Theory and Research on Executives, Top Management Teams and Boards, strategic management series, Oxford University Press: introduction

Lecture 1Terjesen, S., Sealy, R. & Singh, V. 2009, Women Directors on Corporate Boards: A Review and Research Agenda, Corporate Governance: An International Review, 17(3): 320–337Jokinen, T. (2005). Global leadership competencies: a review and discussion, Journal of European In-dustrial Training, Vol. 29 No. 3: 199-216.

Lecture 2Daily, C.M., Dalton, D.R. and Cannella, A.A. Jr (2003). Corporate governance: decades of dialogue and data, Academy of Management Review, Vol. 28 No. 3, pp. 371-82.

Lecture 3Petit, V & Bollaert, H. (2012), Flying too close the sun: Hubris among CEOs and how to prevent it, Journal of Business Ethics.

Lecture 4McKinsey, (2009). Women leaders, a competitive edge in and after the crisis http://www.mckinsey.de/downloads/publikation/women_matter/women_matter_3_brochure.pdf

Tutorial 1To define

Tutorial 2Northouse, P.G. (2010). Leadership: Theory and practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, chapter on transformational leadershipAntonakis, J., Fenley, M & Liechti, S. (2011).Can charisma be taught? Test of two interventions, Academy of Management Learning and Education, V 10 (3): 374-397.

Speech contest

Inspired by TedX as well as classical speech contests, the participants will be asked to write a 10’ speech using the charismatic tactics described by Antonakis (2011) and discussed during the tutorial 2. The 5 best teams will be invited to offer their speech on stage during the final conference.The winner will receive a gift and a bonus.The participants will receive detailed information on this contest during the first plenary session.

Final Conference

This 2012 year edition will be dedicated to Women in leadership.A panel of European top executives will be interviewed on stage by a team of 4 EDHEC students. The invited CEOs will share their experience of the CEO position as well as their practice of leadership.