Third Global Leadership Symposium at Questrom School of Business
On Friday, March 3rd, the Fellows joined Professor Sandra Deacon’s undergraduate seminar on leadership, The Leadership Challenge, as surprise guests and examples of emerging global leaders in the third installment of the BU HHHP’s Global Leadership Symposium at the Questrom School of Business. This symposium has become an integrated element of both the BU Humphrey Program Seminar and Professor Deacon’s curriculum on the global dimensions of leadership in the modern world.
In the first half of the three-hour class, HHHP Director Jack McCarthy first delivered a lecture on Global Leadership in Action, concluding with the question, “If you had an opportunity to actually meet with a global leader, what sorts of questions would you ask?”
After a short break, the Fellows joined the class in a dramatic surprise and introduced themselves, their professional backgrounds, their goals for the Fellowship year, and their plans for the future. They then divided into small groups with Professor Deacon’s students for a series of 10-15 minute rotating, small-group discussions. The students themselves have impressive backgrounds and talent in their own right, and there was a great deal of mutual learning during these intimate conversations.
At the end of the period, Professor McCarthy moderated a whole-class debrief in which many resonant lessons on global leadership emerged. Some of the students later told Professors Deacon and McCarthy that this was not only their best class session this semester but among the best of their entire undergraduate experience at Boston University.
This signature event enables Fellows and Questrom students to engage in important cross-cultural dialogue on the challenges and opportunities of global leadership in the modern world.