Sandra Sucher
Biography
Sandra J. Sucher is a Member of the Harvard Business School‘s Technology and Operations Management faculty since 1998, teaches in the School’s MBA and Executive Education programs. Presently she teaches Leadership and Corporate Accountability; and The Moral Leader; previously, she has taught Innovation through Operational Flexibility; and Technology and Operations Management.
An executive with 25 years of experience in service industries and non-profit management.
Her current research focuses on:
» Moral leadership
» Relationship between ethics and innovation
» Learning through literature
Video
Are you a Moral Leader? Ask Sophocles
What can today’s managers and business leaders learn from Sophocles, Achebe, Machiavelli, and Conrad about moral leadership?
Sandra Sucher teaches a Harvard Business School course for MBAs, The Moral Leader, that consists of great literature readings.
The books illustrate ways of thinking that leaders in the the business world need to cultivate to help them manage the moral challenges they encounter. These include a capacity for managing complexity and a tolerance for ambiguity.
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Books
The Moral Leader: Challenges, insights and tools
Successful leaders – at any level and in any arena – are inevitably presented with moral and ethical choices.
This unique and innovative textbook is designed to encourage managers to confront those moral challenges, to develop skills in moral analysis and judgment, and to come to terms with their own definition of moral leadership and how it can be translated into action.
The book is drawing on the inspiration of major literary and historical figures such as Machiavelli, Conrad, Shackleton, and Achebe, and based upon an impressive array of literary sources, including novels, plays, history and biography. With an emphasis on decision-making and action, you can learn to identify moral problems, to address them systematically, and to develop skills that aid them throughout their studies and their professional lives.