Learning from Failure: Developing Resilient Leaders and Organizations [Module I]

It’s all too easy to learn from success.  

This half-semester course explores how stakeholders can learn from concepts and examples of failure.  The curriculum that comprises this module examine common denominators of failures in the context of the commercial real estate industry involving investment, capital formation, development, acquisition, management, policy, and governance.  Linked characteristics and factors that collectively lead to failure are addressed by applying both pre- and post-mortem analyses to real-world case studies as well as facilitating a framework to understand how decision making is influenced by cognitive bias.  

The course is designed for graduate-level students with a variety of backgrounds who demonstrate a curiosity in learning from an analogue of otherwise predictable success patterns.