Organizational Leadership and Innovation

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Instructed by:

Ethan Mollick

Learn how established companies can compete like startups

What you'll learn

Analyzing business opportunities
Conducting business experiments
Pitching and selling your ideas
Hiring and leading the right team
Negotiating with key stakeholders

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Organizational Leadership and Innovation

About Organizational Leadership and Innovation

In a rapidly changing world, large organizations must adapt to thrive. Business as usual just won’t do. But how can established organizations adapt? By acting like startups.

In the Organizational Leadership and Innovation Course, you and your team have unexpectedly been invited to join the WISE Accelerator, where you'll take the reins of a potentially high-growth venture.

To make this venture a success you’ll need to understand your customer needs, conduct business experiments, manage finances, build out the team you need to launch a product in a competitive market, negotiate, pitch, and land key customers and convince internal stakeholders to back your product.

You’ll be supported on your journey by world-class instruction from Wharton professors and successful CEOs while getting continuous feedback on your performance to help you improve.

Learn how an established company can compete like a startup so that you can take the lead in real life and help your organization adapt, innovate, and thrive.

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We are happy to answer any questions about the experience.

Course instructors

Ethan Mollick Professor of Management View biography

Featuring

Eurie Kim General Partner at Forerunner Ventures

Marc Lore Serial Entrepreneur

Shiv Khemka Vice Chairman, SUN Group; Chairman, The Global Education and Leadership Foundation (tGELF)

Tao Zhang Founding Chairman and CEO of Meituan Dianping.

Learning objectives

Leading a successful team: techniques for leading teams to success
Financing an internal venture: cash flow, sources of capital
Business experiments: data gathering, hypothesis testing, pivoting
Building teams and organizations: organizing and setting up a hiring process to build successful teams
Sales and marketing: analyzing markets and selecting customers to target for new products and services
Negotiations: establishing positions, analyzing bargaining power, conducting high-stakes negotiations
Pitching and persuasion: pitching new ideas and persuading stakeholders of the value of your business concept
Personal leadership ability: inspiring a team, avoiding team pitfalls, and achieving consensus

Practice objectives

Experiencing the types of data that are generated by business experiments: surveys, market tests, and interviews
Leading during a time of uncertainty and change
Engaging with critical stakeholders in high-stakes settings: managers, customers, and employees
Navigating through common points of failure for internal ventures: team conflict, scaling, and process loss

Thinking objectives

Perspective-taking and the ability to analyze multiple viewpoints
Improvisation and bricolage, making do with what you have to solve novel problems
Self-monitoring and metacognition
Self-efficacy and the confidence to accomplish entrepreneurial challenges

Leading a successful team: techniques for leading teams to success
Financing an internal venture: cash flow, sources of capital
Business experiments: data gathering, hypothesis testing, pivoting
Building teams and organizations: organizing and setting up a hiring process to build successful teams
Sales and marketing: analyzing markets and selecting customers to target for new products and services
Negotiations: establishing positions, analyzing bargaining power, conducting high-stakes negotiations
Pitching and persuasion: pitching new ideas and persuading stakeholders of the value of your business concept
Personal leadership ability: inspiring a team, avoiding team pitfalls, and achieving consensus

Experiencing the types of data that are generated by business experiments: surveys, market tests, and interviews
Leading during a time of uncertainty and change
Engaging with critical stakeholders in high-stakes settings: managers, customers, and employees
Navigating through common points of failure for internal ventures: team conflict, scaling, and process loss

Perspective-taking and the ability to analyze multiple viewpoints
Improvisation and bricolage, making do with what you have to solve novel problems
Self-monitoring and metacognition
Self-efficacy and the confidence to accomplish entrepreneurial challenges

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How the live sessions work

Schedule

This course consists of 6 live sessions where you will work with your team for approximately 90 minutes on critical in-game decisions.

These are mandatory, and you can select one of 2 time slots (the same time slot for the entire course):

8 - 9:30 am EST, or
7 -8:30pm EST

Expect to spend 30 minutes between live sessions to review video course lectures and feedback about your in-game performance.

Note: when you commit to a specific course you are committing to every session of the course; you cannot switch between courses once it begins or miss a session. Your team is depending on you to actively participate in each live session.

Should we determine that the team setup isn’t optimal for learning on specific dates due to demand, we will offer you a different date or a refund. We will be regularly updating our scheduled courses.

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