Real-time Lessons in Leadership: A New Methodology in the MBA Classroom

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Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School arrived at their classroom under an unusual circumstance: they had purposely not read a case prior to class. Professor Tony Mayo dimmed the lights and played a short video clip of AMD CEO Lisa Su—Time magazine’s 2024 CEO of the year—describing a company on the verge of collapse and her early days confronting skepticism from customers, investors, and her own engineers. Mayo asked, “What would you do next?”
Joshua Margolis & Tony Mayo; By: Shona Simkin