WHU MSc Virtual Class Visit
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Discover the WHU Master of Science Programs
Join us online and experience a live MSc class - Responsible Leadership with Professor Miriam Müthel
Attend a real-life lecture with our current students from the comfort of your home. Get a glimpse into our dynamic learning environment and get valuable insights into our curriculum.
The open class is the first session of Responsible Leadership, an elective for the Master in Management, Master in International Business, and Master in Business Analytics Programs.
About the Class:
The environmental, economic, and social crises of recent times revealed the threat of so-called societal grand challenges, such as climate change, for our economic and social well-being. At the same time, the breadth and depth of these crises raised people’s expectations about the role of business in solving societal grand challenges resulting in a call for responsible leadership. It is thus important for future leaders to understand societal grand challenges, to know how to tackle them, and to do so with passion and confidence – jointly with others.
Responsible leaders are aware of and understand societal grand challenges and their root causes. They constantly strive to address these grand challenges, using their resources to tackle them through innovation, collaboration, and entrepreneurial thinking. Furthermore, responsible leaders obtain specific leadership skills. These include systems thinking, stakeholder relations, change and innovation, self-awareness, ethics, and values.
In this class, we will introduce you the topic of responsible leadership and its importance for modern businesses. Further, we will tackle each of the five leadership skills distinctively:
- Systems thinking: To nurture your system thinking skills, i.e. your capability to deal with complex issues and understand the consequences of human action, you will analyze current societal grand challenges to understand their underlying root causes and the magnitude of their consequences. Furthermore, you will depict how exemplary startups have started tackling these challenges.
- Stakeholder relations: To further develop your stakeholder relation building skills, you will interview (corporate) sustainability managers on how they are tackling societal grand challenges and what they could do to be more impactful. The outcome will be a short paper summarizing your findings and managerial takeaways. This task will be done individually.
- Change and innovation: To bolster your creative and change confidence, you will identify a role model from the business arena that exemplifies how managers can successfully address societal grand challenges through innovation and change. You will explain why that person impresses you and what you can learn from this person for your career. The outcome will be a short video. This task will be done individually.
- Self-awareness: To foster your self-awareness, we will do reflection exercises during the second seminar. These tasks will be done individually.
- Ethics and values: To increase your confidence in ethical imagination, we will invite startup founders tackling societal grand challenges that have been significantly switching their career plans during their lives and will share their live stories with us. From these role models, you will learn a lot about the crucial role of optimism, confidence, and a growth mindset as enablers of societal change.
Important Information for the Master of Science Programs:
The application deadline for those requiring a visa is April 30, 2025.
The application deadline for all others is May 31, 2025.
Participation in the session pays off twice: by attending, we offer a 100 EUR application fee waiver to applicants for the MSc Programs for the Fall 2025 intake.
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