About Teaching The Moral Leader

About the Guide

This book is a comprehensive, practical manual to help instructors integrate moral leadership in their own courses, drawing from the experience and resources of the Harvard Business School course "The Moral Leader," an innovative leadership course taken by thousands of HBS students over nearly twenty years. Through the close study of literature, including novels, plays, and historical accounts, followed by rigorous classroom discussion, students to confront fundamental moral challenges, develop skills in moral analysis and judgment, and come to terms with their own definition of moral leadership and how it can be translated into action.

The detailed and hands-on nature of the guide makes it possible for instructors, with or without a specialized background, to replicate the Harvard Business School course or to integrate moral leadership into an existing course. The manual presents flexible class plans, easily adaptable to a wide variety of business and academic topics. It suggests how to adapt the course to other settings, provides supporting materials, and reviews the approach to teaching "The Moral Leader," enabling instructors who are intrigued by teaching through literature to build confidence in their ability to adopt this uniquely powerful pedagogy.