Revisiting Jeffrey Pfeffer’s “Leadership BS” a decade later, Dan LeClair discusses the common gaps in how we conceptualize leadership and the importance of considering not only individual leaders, but the systems they work in.
Dan LeClair
Romania as a Living Case Study
Dan LeClair takes us inside the planning of GBSN Beyond 2026. The event uses Romania’s still-unfolding story as a case study for the evolving role of management education, from the country’s post-communist success to its navigation of regional and global complexities like AI, energy transition, demographic change, and geopolitical uncertainty.
Learning Agility in the Age of AI
Dan LeClair highlights the increasing importance of learning agility as not only a learning objective, but a conceptual guide for curriculum development and educational design.
Business Schools and the Future of Cities
Dan LeClair reflects on transformation in the cities of Addis Ababa and Bucharest, and related questions about how business schools can support inclusive, sustainable, and resilient development.
Building Business Schools for Context, Not Convention
Dan LeClair describes the tensions business schools face between local impact and global recognition, and how a collaborative network like GBSN helps members learn from each other while remaining grounded in their local context.
Amplifying the Convening Power of Business Schools
In a world where the most pressing problems are too big to be solved in isolation, Dan LeClair describes the unique opportunity that business schools have to engage diverse, cross-sector participants in purposeful shared work.
What Does Research Impact Look Like?
Five lessons from four years as a judge for the FT Responsible Business Education awards If asked to rate academic research on a scale of 1 to 5 for “positive societal impact,” what would you look for? That’s essentially what those us on the research judging panel had to decide leading up to the first… Read more >
A Three-Pound Mindset
I cringed the first time my son fell off the climbing wall. He landed hard and laid there just long enough to make me nervous. Then he stood up, brushed the chalk from his hands, and studied the wall again, thinking about what to do differently this time. It was my first exposure to his… Read more >
What Courage Asks
In The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Lale Sokolov has the morally excruciating job of tattooing numbers on the arms of fellow prisoners entering Auschwitz-Birkenau. The work grants him marginal privileges and protections. At the same time, it makes him part of a system designed to dehumanize and destroy. Why begin a holiday message with a reference… Read more >
Competitor or Catalyst? The Role of AI in Shaping the Future of Management Education
“The role of the economist is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.” Milton Friedman said that and, yes, he may have oversimplified when framing the purpose of business. But Friedman’s point about clarity is worth holding onto even if his views about role of business in society are not…. Read more >