The course will cover, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Entrepreneurial leadership
- Business ethics in a golbal context
- Organizational culture and governance
- Breakdowns in entrepreneurial leaderhip and ethics
ME2074 Entrepreneurial Leadership and Ethics 7.5 credits
This course has been discontinued.
Last planned examination: Spring 2000
Decision to discontinue this course:
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Information per course offering
Course offerings are missing for current or upcoming semesters.
Course syllabus as PDF
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Course syllabus ME2074 (Autumn 2012–)Headings with content from the Course syllabus ME2074 (Autumn 2012–) are denoted with an asterisk ( )
Content and learning outcomes
Course contents
Intended learning outcomes
Upon successfully completing the course, students should be able to:
- Understand the context of entrepreneurial leadership and ethics
- Analyze different approaches to entrepreneurial leadership and ethics
- Apply entrepreneurial leadership and ethics practices to a wide range of situations
- Develop an understanding of the complexity and challenges of entrepreneurial leadership and ethics in a global context
- Identify major risks in leading new ventures
- Understand key skill sets required to lead entrepreneurial ventures successfully and ethically, including innovation, business model innovation and pivots, cognitive ambidexterity (creation logic and prediction logic), sustainability, ideation, business planning, and more.
Literature and preparations
Specific prerequisites
Admitted to a master, or at least 180 hp. Completed course in entrepreneurship or equivalent course.
Recommended prerequisites
Admitted to a master, or at least 180 hp. Completed course in entrepreneurship or equivalent course.
Equipment
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Literature
Preliminär lista:
- Bob och Gregg Vanourek, Triple Crown Leadership: The Quest for Excellent, Ethical, and Enduring Organizations, (McGraw-Hill, 2012, (forthcoming)
- Danna Greenberg, Kate McKone-Sweet, och H. James Wilson, The New Entrepreneurial Leader: Developing Leaders Who Shape Social and Econimic Opportunity (Berrett-Koehler, 2011)
- Christopher Gergen och Gregg Vanourek, Life Entrepreneurs (Jossey-Bass, 2008)
- Bruce Ballinger och R. Duane Ireland, Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures (Pearson, 2010).
Examination and completion
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Grading scale
A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
Examination
- INL1 - Assignments, 2.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
- INL2 - Written Report, 4.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
- SEM1 - Seminars, 1.5 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.
The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination
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Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination
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Examiner
Ethical approach
- All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
- In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
- In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.
Further information
Course room in Canvas
Registered students find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas. A link to the course room can be found under the tab Studies in the Personal menu at the start of the course.
Offered by
Main field of study
Industrial Management
Education cycle
Second cycle
Add-on studies
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Contact
Gregg Vannourek, gregg.vanourek@indek.kth.se, +46 8 790 7699