DBA 8101: Entrepreneurial Leadership
3 credits
Only open to DBA students
The focus of this course will be on Entrepreneurial leadership (EL) with a focus on understanding the scholarly underpinnings of EL and your own entrepreneurial leader development. Thus, this is a course that has both a scholarly focus on the topic but also a practical focus on applying the concepts to yourself. There are four main theoretical underpinnings for the course: a conceptual framework for EL (developed by six faculty at Babson), Intentional Change Theory (applied at the individual level), Self-Determination Theory, and a theory of leader self-awareness. Many other theoretical frameworks will be involved, but these four will be paramount. Students will finish the course with a thorough understanding of each of these four and how they have been “translated” into research and practice. In terms of understanding the practical relevance of these four theoretical underpinnings of the course and to facilitate their own scholarly creativity, the course will enable students to apply these concepts to themselves and their own leader development. This will help students study (1) what additional research questions can be considered to open new frontiers in scholarship and (2) how the practice of the theories/concepts is internalized (in this case by the students experiencing the content for themselves).