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This seminar meets six times during the semester. Students work in a seminar environment to develop leadership capabilities. An initial Outward Bound experience builds trust, teamwork and communications. Readings and assignments emphasize the characteristics of great leadership. Global leaders participate in the "Leadership Lunch" series to share their experiences and recommendations. Discussions explore leadership development. The learning experience culminates in a personal leadership plan.

• Contemplate essential questions for leadership
• Define the qualities of a leader
• Research personal characteristics
• Provide global examples of leadership
• Formulate a TPP leadership plan for yourself

The following are biographies of the invited guest speakers.

Partha S. Ghosh, based in Boston, is a renowned strategist and an innovator of business and economic models. He is currently in an advisory role with multiple firms and governments world wide. Earlier, Mr. Ghosh was a partner at McKinsey & Company and Founder/Managing Director of strategy/policy advisory firm Partha S Ghosh & Associates. In his twenty-eight years as a true global citizen and a professional consultant to leaderships of prestigious organizations, corporations and governments, he has been involved in a broad spectrum of engagements, primarily focusing on strategic and policy issues in technology based industries. His work has included global strategy development, innovation and change management, and re-structuring/re-engineering of major companies. More recently he has been helping major companies renew their business models based on information technology/e-commerce and the evolving network/knowledge economies including distributed power generation. He has also served heads-of-state in more than half a dozen countries on strategic and policy issues related to deregulation of industries, privatization, globalization, and socio-economic advancement.

In various leadership forums, he has chaired committees focused on state-of-the-art issues related to management and governance. On specific courses/projects he has been active at MIT and Harvard University on strategic management and policy design. His clients view him as a "creative problem solver" and a "visionary leader." Several CEOs who have worked with him view him as a leader who "inspires leaders to build lasting legacies" He is also Chairman of Intersoft KK, a Business Intelligence firm Head Quartered in Tokyo, Japan, and Chairman of the Board Advisors of Access International Partners, an Advisory firm focused on cross border M & A & Strategic Alliances.

Mr. Ghosh began his professional career in 1971 at Union Carbide with Eveready India, Ltd. in Calcutta, India. Mr. Ghosh has two advanced degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge where he studied from 1975 to 1977. He holds Master's Degrees in (i) Chemical Engineering with emphasis on New Energy Systems & Biotechnologies, and (ii) Business Administration with concentrations in Finance, Information Technology, and International Business. He was A Rotary Foundation Fellow. He obtained his honors, Bachelor of Technology and ranked first in Chemical Engineering, at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kharagpur, India in 1971. He won the Institute Medal as the number one graduating student.

Mr. Ghosh is married with two children. Besides traveling with his family or for business, Mr. Ghosh is an avid public speaker and enjoys jogging, bicycle riding, driving, and community service or social work. Mr. Ghosh cherishes the opportunities of community and philanthropic work, especially to identify ways to use his experience and knowledge, to those who seek to better their lives in both developing and developed regions of the world. Recently he has founded The Boston Pledge, a non profit organization to stimulate bottom-up entrepreneurship and economic development, and to develop environmentally friendly technologies.

Lawrence S. Bacow became the twelfth President of Tufts University on September 1, 2001. A lawyer and economist whose research focuses on environmental policy, he holds faculty appointments in five departments at Tufts: Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning; Economics; Civil and Environmental Engineering; Public Health and Family Medicine in the Medical School; and in the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Since coming to Tufts, President Bacow established the Task Force on the Undergraduate Experience to explore the potential of Tufts' undergraduate academic, residential and co-curricular offerings. Numerous task force recommendations have been implemented, highlighted by the current construction of Sophia Gordon Hall to expand on-campus housing for Tufts students. President Bacow oversaw the 10-year reaccreditation of Tufts by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. He streamlined the administration in Arts, Sciences & Engineering to increase resources for faculty and appointed the Council on Graduate Education to strengthen graduate programs university wide. He launched a plan to expand the basic sciences at the School of Medicine and successfully worked with hospital officials to restore the university's name to Tufts-New England Medical Center. On the Medford/Somerville campus, he has led a thoughtful master planning process to preserve the sense of place that makes the campus special while also identifying new space for teaching, research, office, student, residential and other uses. Construction of a new music building is underway, and preliminary planning has begun for a new laboratory building for biology and engineering. President Bacow has strengthened relations between Tufts and its host communities, initiating activities such as Community Day on the Medford/Somerville campus and an annual symposium on active citizenship and community partnerships. He has emphasized increased collaboration among Tufts' eight schools and generated creativity and enthusiasm for interdisciplinary study. Under President Bacow's leadership, Tufts has enjoyed its three most successful years of fundraising as well as research support.

Phillip L. Clay is the Chancellor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Professor of City Planning. The Chancellor and the Provost are the Institute's two most senior academic officers. As Chancellor, Professor Clay has oversight responsibility for graduate and undergraduate education at MIT, student life, and student services. Professor Clay chairs the MIT Council on the Environment and serves on the board of the Cambridge-MIT Institute.

A member of the MIT faculty since 1975, Professor Clay served as Associate Provost in the Office of the Provost from 1994 to 2001. He was Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning from 1992 to 1994 and its Associate Department Head during 1990 to 1992. From 1980 to 1984, Professor Clay served as Assistant Director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of MIT and Harvard.

Professor Clay is widely known for his work in U.S. housing policy and community-based development and has been involved in several studies that received national attention. For example, in a 1987 study commissioned by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp., he identified the market and institutional conditions contributing to the erosion of low-income rental housing and documented the need for a national preservation policy. He later served on the national commission that recommended the policy that became part of the Housing Act of 1990. His research and writing continue to explore U.S. housing and urban policy.