ALS 2500

CALS Learning from Leaders

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2026-2027 Catalog.

In CALS Learning from Leaders, a single distinguished practitioner serves as both instructor and primary case study. Over 10 weeks, students examine a real organization — its decisions, tradeoffs, and outcomes — directly with the person who led it, drawing on frameworks from across CALS disciplines to make sense of what they find. This is a credit-bearing course grounded in case-based pedagogy, not a speaker series or networking event. The practitioner-instructor's experience, alongside curated readings and materials, is the curriculum. This is not a speaker series or a networking event. It is a credit-bearing course grounded in case-based pedagogy, in which the practitioner-instructor's experience, alongside curated readings and materials, forms the core of the curriculum.

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Learning Outcomes

• Describe how values, relationships, and decision-making under uncertainty shape long-term organizational outcomes.
• Analyze how a real-world organizational leader navigates the intersection of operations, strategy, and leadership.
• Identify career pathways and skill sets relevant to their field through direct exposure to an industry leader.

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