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Choice Points: Thinking about Life and Leadership through Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)

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posted on 2022-07-07, 13:10 authored by Post Discipline AdminPost Discipline Admin
Managerial power and responsibility. Examines conflicts between power and moral responsibility and the contexts for choice in dealing with a number of such problems. Readings are principally "classics" used to illustrate several enduring issues. Restricted to Sloan Fellows in Innovation and Global Leadership. This information has been collected for the Post-Discipline Online Syllabus Database. The database explores the use of literature by schools of professional education in North America. It forms part of a larger project titled Post-Discipline: Literature, Professionalism, and the Crisis of the Humanities, led by Dr Merve Emre with the assistance of Dr Hayley G. Toth. You can find more information about the project at https://postdiscipline.english.ox.ac.uk/. Data was collected and accurate in 2021/22.

History

Subject Area

Business

Geographic Region

New England

University or College

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)

Funding Status

Private

Endowment (according to NACUBO's U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowment Market Value and Change* in Endowment Market Value from FY19 to FY20) ($1,000)

18495905

Annual Tuition and Mandatory Fees 2021-2022 ($) (Resident; Non-resident, where applicable)

81154

Course Title

Choice Points: Thinking about Life and Leadership through Literature

Position of Instructor(s)

Associate Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management

Academic Year(s) Active

2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22

Primary Works on Reading List

Past readings have included works by Robert Bolt, Michael Frayn, Timothy Mo, Wole Soyinka, H.D. Thoreau, and others; films have included Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Hotel Rwanda; The Descendants; Motorcycle Diaries; Three Kings; and others.

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