Anthony Mayo
Thomas S. Murphy Distinguished Research Fellow
Director, Leadership Initiative
Tel: (617) 496-7381
tmayo@hbs.edu
Career Focus
This course is designed for students who want to learn more about business history and historically significant business leadership and/or students who aspire to be great business leaders. It will enable students to develop a better understanding of the role that context plays in shaping great business leaders.
Educational Objectives
To analyze the role that contextual factors (specifically government intervention, global affairs, demography, social mores, technology, and labor) played in shaping leadership opportunities in the 20th century and how these factors will shape leadership in the future. The course is also designed to provide insight into the legacies of great business leaders over time providing a foundation for students to understand the role that business has played in shaping the way individuals live, interact, and work. Through the course, students will develop their own sense of contextual intelligence and how their decisions/choices are influenced by and influence the contextual landscape in which they live and work.
Course Content and Organization
The course content is organized to provide students with an historical view of the evolution of leadership over the course of the 20th century. Each decade of the 20th century is explored to uncover the salient contextual factors that were at play and how businesses were developed, managed, or transformed to seize the zeitgeist of the times. The course will include biographical interpretations and case studies of business leaders within the context of their time. We will explore the different ways in which leaders were able to forge business opportunities presented by their context. In addition to case studies, the course will include videos, discussions, and supplemental readings to place key leaders within the context of their times. Finally, the course will include some assessment exercises for students to better understand their own personal leadership style and approach.
The book, In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders of the 20th Century will be used to provide additional conceptual frameworks for much of the first part of the course. The course is organized into three main modules: (1) context-based leadership (U.S.-based); (2) leadership archetypes - exploring ways in which leaders created, maximized or reshaped businesses and industries; and (3) global leadership legacies. In concluding the course, we will explore the manner in which one company's leadership approach evolved with the changing contextual landscape of the 20th century.
Evaluation Information
Final Paper: There is no final exam for this course. Instead, students are required to write a paper which analyzes a Great Business Leader based on the principles and concepts discussed during the course.
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