Curriculum
Both the Minnesota and national Young American Leaders Program are hosted by graduate-level university programs: the University of Minnesota’s Center for Integrative Leadership and Harvard Business School’s U.S. Competitiveness Project. Required pre-reading and Program teaching are at the graduate or professional course level.
Action Beyond the Classroom: Minimum Viable Benefit (MVB) Projects
Unique to the Minnesota Program, participants will form working groups to develop a Minimum Viable Benefit (MVB) Project that brings their particular strengths, networks and skills to bear to address a specific challenge for their city or across our region—with the opportunity to continue developing and launching their initiative following the Program alongside a faculty mentor.
Samantha Silker, University of Minnesota; Jan Rivkin, Harvard Business School; David Weerts, University of Minnesota; Dan Forbes, University of Minnesota; Vanessa Laird, University of Minnesota; Kathy Quick, University of Minnesota
Sample Schedule
2:00 - 3:45 PM, Hotel & Program Check In
4:00 - 4:30 PM, Welcome & Opening Remarks
4:30 - 5:30 PM, Case Study 1
5:30 - 6:00 PM, Group Photos
6:00 - 7:15 PM, Dinner + The Promise of Cross-Sector Leadership
7:30 - 8:30 PM, MVB Session 1: Who & Why
7:00 - 8:15 AM, Breakfast
8:15 - 9:00 AM, Travel to West Bank
9:00 - 10:15 AM, Case Study 2
10:30 - 11:45 AM, Practicing Cross-Sector Leadership: An Introduction
12:00 - 1:30 PM, Lunch + Leadership Chat
1:45 - 3:00 PM, The State and Trajectory of the US Economy
3:15 - 4:15 PM, Case Study 3
4:30 - 5:30 PM, MVB Session 2: Where & What
5:30 - 6:00 PM, Travel to East Bank
6:00 - 8:30 PM, Dinner featuring Stakeholders & Alumni
7:00 - 8:15 AM, Breakfast
8:15 - 9:00 AM, Travel to West Bank
9:00 -10:15 AM, Case Study 4
10:30 - 11:45 AM, Managing the Future of Work: What Can You Do?
12:00 - 1:30 PM, Lunch + Leadership Chat
1:45 - 2:45 PM, Practicing Cross-Sector Leadership: Individual Contributions
3:00 - 4:15 PM, Practicing Cross-Sector Leadership: Understanding Your Landscape
4:30 - 5:30 PM, MVB Session 3: Preliminary Factual Foundations and MVB
5:30 - 6:00 PM, Travel to East Bank
6:00 - 8:30 PM, Dinner + Panel
7:00 - 8:15 AM, Breakfast
8:15 - 9:00 AM, Travel to West Bank
9:00 -10:00 AM, Case Study 5
10:15 - 11:45 PM, Minimum Viable Benefit (MVB) Presentations
12:00 - 1:30 PM, Lunch + Leadership Chat
1:45 - 2:45 PM, What Have We Learned About Cross-Sector Leadership?
2:45 - 3:00 PM, Closing Remarks