• Leadership Character and Corporate Governance

    Corporate directors should look for three criteria in executives: competencies, commitment, and character. This article focuses on leadership character, the least understood of the three criteria. The authors met with over 300 business leaders on three continents, who identified character weaknesses or defects — including overconfidence, lack of transparency, and lack of accountability — as central to the Global Financial Crisis. The authors posit 11 dimensions of character — integrity, humility, courage, humanity, drive, accountability, temperance, justice, collaboration, transcendence, and judgment. They examine why character has not been studied extensively, given its relation to the crisis, and point to the lack of resources that the private and public sectors have spent on studying character (in contrast to competencies), as well as the common misperception of character as a “soft,” non-quantifiable construct. Character is revealed by how individuals behave in particular situations, and a full character assessment requires a deep and wide-ranging examination of a person’s life and work history over an extensive time period. Directors can influence character development in their organizations by discussing dimensions of character during appraisal processes, developing formal leadership profiles, and introducing character-focused discussion into their own board assessments.
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  • Craig Kielburger Cases

    This six-part video case series features social entrepreneur Craig Kielburger as he faces pivotal moments in his life and the remarkable evolution of his organization. The primary dilemmas are strategic in nature and their solutions rely on leadership and social entrepreneurship. Students assume the role of Craig Kielburger in each case, which begins with a video set-up, followed by a short one- or two-page case and a discussion, and concludes with Craig describing what happened in a video clip. (This no-fee product consists of five of the six cases. Use product #9B12M031 to order the remaining case.)
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  • Craig Kielburger: A Movement is Born

    This six-part video case series features social entrepreneur Craig Kielburger as he faces pivotal moments in his life and the remarkable evolution of his organization. The primary dilemmas are strategic in nature and their solutions rely on leadership and social entrepreneurship. Students assume the role of Craig Kielburger in each case, which begins with a video set-up, followed by a short one- or two-page case and a discussion, and concludes with Craig describing what happened in a video clip. (This product consists of one of the six cases. Use product #9B12M031B to order the remaining five cases.)
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