Battilana Clip 5

Close up of Professor Battilana listening with her hands together.

Topics Covered

Using humor; Questioning, listening and responding; Case teaching; Making thinking visible; extending dialogue with a single student; pressing students for expanded reasoning/evidence; intellectual rigor; using the board

  • InstructorJulie Battilana, Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration (Harvard Business School), Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation (Harvard Kennedy School)
  • Student Group: Graduate
  • School: Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Course: Power and Influence
  • Clip Length: 4 minutes, 32 seconds (37:48-42:20)

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Instructional Themes

Using humor; Questioning, listening and responding; Case teaching; Making thinking visible; extending dialogue with a single student; pressing students for expanded reasoning/evidence; intellectual rigor; using the board

Instructor

Julie Battilana, Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration (Harvard Business School), Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation (Harvard Kennedy School)

Student Group

Graduate

School

Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School

Course

Power and Influence

Clip Length

4 minutes, 32 seconds (37:48-42:20)

Clip Context

  • “Power and Influence,” a graduate course at Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School with 85 students enrolled. 
  • This course explores how power works in society, how it is often used to reproduce the status quo, and how we might leverage it as a force for social change. Battilana's use of cases and simulations brings otherwise abstract concepts to life for students. In this class, the students discuss a case study about OrganJet, a company that flies transplant patients to hospitals that have organs available for transplant. 
  • This clip comes about 38 minutes into the hour-long video as Battilana explores one student’s ideas about for-profit vs. non-profit possibilities in the case study.