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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)

  • Women in Leadership: Inspiring Positive Change

    This course aims to inspire and empower women and men across the world to engage in purposeful career development and take on leadership for important causes—to learn the skills of leadership and lead change with more conviction and confidence—and improve our workplaces and communities for all. By offering more complex understandings of issues related to professional women and work, the course will help you increase self-knowledge about your own values and vision, as well as enhance your capabilities as a leader, manager, and team contributor. We will examine the opportunities, challenges, trade-offs, and organizational dynamics experienced by women in work organizations, as well as reflect on and practice effective individual behaviors.

Management Education

  • Executive Leadership (ORBH 450)

    The purpose of this course is to help you understand the current theories and effective practices of executive leadership, and through this understanding, to help you enhance your own leadership practices and capabilities. We will examine the methods, challenges, trade-offs, and frontiers of executive leadership through application of leadership concepts to actual case studies. Student teams will identify and conduct at-a-distance and in-depth projects studying an executive leader. View Syllabus

  • Women in Organizations (ORBH 460)

    The purpose of this course is to help you understand the leadership and managerial issues surrounding women in organizations. Offering more complex understandings of issues related to professional women and work, the course will help you increase self-knowledge about your own values and practices, as well as enhance your capabilities as a leader and manager. We will examine the opportunities, challenges, trade-offs, and organizational dynamics experienced by women in work organizations, as well as study examples of effective individual behaviors and organizational practices. Through application of concepts to case studies and a project requiring interviews with practicing women managers, you will gain greater awareness of the key issues and concerns influencing women's effective participation in organizations. View Syllabus

  • Organizational Systems (ORBH 541)

    Organizational systems are ubiquitous, dynamic, complex, paradoxical human institutions, among several other things. Understanding how they work—and don't work—often exceeds our mental processes, metaphors, language, and science. But theory, like practice, is not a destination, it is a process. The purpose of this course is for you to enjoy becoming familiar with various approaches that are currently employed to understand organizational systems. I hope that our journey will open some doors, provide some insights and skills, and exercise creativity in integrating and extending our current repertoire of perspectives for organizing collective action. View Syllabus

  • Inclusive Leadership (MPOD 440)

    The purpose of this course is to help students understand the organizational development and change issues relevant to the effective practice of inclusive leadership, and through this understanding, to help them enhance their own self-knowledge, practices, and capabilities. The course examines the methods, challenges, and frontiers of organizational diversity, equity, and inclusion through application of concepts to contemporary examples and case studies. Student teams will conduct an in-depth project studying an individual, organization, or societal issue relevant to inclusive leadership. View Syllabus

Diana Bilimoria, PhD

Diana Bilimoria

  • KeyBank Professor
  • Chair of the Department of Organizational Behavior
  • Professor of Organizational Behavior