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About the Center for Leadership Development

The Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester has established a new Center for Leadership Development where students can obtain leadership instruction and development, and where the Simon community can create, research and disseminate the future standards of corporate leadership.

“Since the Simon School is the place “Where Thinkers Become Leaders,” it is fitting that the School has created a new Center for Leadership Development,” says Dean Mark Zupan. “The goal of the Center is to realize William E. Simon’s vision of the School as ‘a leader and a path breaker in higher education.’ ”

The Center’s mission is to provide a focus for understanding the essence of leadership. Under the direction of Daniel H. Struble, senior lecturer in business communication and area coordinator, business communication, the Center encompasses an annual Leadership course conducted by world renowned finance scholar and former Simon faculty member Michael C. Jensen; the student-managed VISION Program and VISION Connect, a new initiative that links Simon students with small businesses that need help developing business plans; the Richard Sands Leadership Lecture Series, presenting top national executives on leadership topics; the business communication curriculum for all full-time M.B.A. students including a communications and leadership component; club leaders training; team building and leadership training; and a series of “Faculty Flicks” for students featuring films related to leadership followed by group discussions led by Simon faculty.

“The Center is new, and we are reaching out and trying different things,” says Struble. “Our goal is to expose students to the mechanics and ethics of leadership.”