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The Flexible MBA program at Carey offers a few courses in an accelerated format, such as Power & Politics, Strategy Execution, and Innovative Leadership in Uncertain Times. In this format, students will complete most of the two-credit course in person over three days at Carey Business School. Students are required to complete pre-work and attend one to two virtual synchronous sessions prior to the in-person component. Most accelerated courses also require students to complete post-visit online work.
The total amount of work is commensurate with any two-credit course at Carey. These courses allow online students a chance to truly experience the Carey Business School community and network with faculty, staff, and other students.
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This course is an intensive, experiential-learning opportunity focused on honing students’ leadership and decision-making in the kinds of uncertain, dynamic, and complex environments facing modern organizations. Centered around a multi-day “leadership challenge” simulation, students will be thrust into a developing crisis scenario and work in multidisciplinary teams to deliver an innovative solution while experiencing first-hand the challenges of adapting leadership to a dynamic, evolving environment where little is certain. This high-impact experience allows students to focus on developing their empathy, competence, and agility as they are asked to meet the needs of different stakeholders and address tensions and trade-offs that arise during the challenge.
Students reflect on this experience and walk away with strategies for their own leadership in uncertain times.
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The purpose of this course is to immerse you in issues and dynamics related to power and politics within organizations. We seek to make power and politics discussable, recognizable, and usable. In other words, this course is designed to fuel learning of concepts that are useful for understanding, analyzing, and harnessing power and political processes. But beyond discovering ways to extend your own power, influence, and political skill, we will also uncover lessons about ways in which power and influence can blind and deceive you, and how you might better navigate situations in which you are up against relatively more powerful people or forces.
The course will use a range of learning methods including theoretical and business articles, cases, exercises, assessments, and simulations. It will cover a variety of topics ranging from political skills, bases of power and influence, dangers of power, power and change, and leading with power.
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After a strategy is developed and receives the required approvals, what happens next? CEOs often state that strategy execution is critical to the success of the firm, yet this is often an overlooked capability in many organizations. In this course, students address the approaches and skills needed to execute strategies for long-term success. Whether the strategy calls for acquisitions, digital transformation, organic growth, international expansion, or other shifts, the course will cover the essential elements needed for managers at all levels. Learn how theory and research can help you lead through real world challenges in business today.