2020: A Test of Leadership

A look at what it meant to be a leader in a year unlike any other.

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Between the COVID-19 pandemic, the reckoning on anti-Black racism, and the US election, 2020 has seen both a call for leadership and an interrogation of what it means to be a leader.

In March, CBS launched the Leading Through Crisis webinar series to highlight the ways business leaders, faculty members and alumni have responded to both the challenges of the pandemic and the protests in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder.

Leading Through Crisis has been renamed Leading Through Change and will continue to be the home for insight and perspectives from faculty, alumni, and guests into what is still a trying time.

Before we turn the calendar to 2021, we wanted to look at what CBS faculty, alumni, and special guests have taught us about leadership in the past nine months, and what lessons leaders could learn in the future.

A complete archive of Leading Through Change webinars can be found here.

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