Earn Your Master’s Online from the SCU Leavey School of Business

Nydia MacGregor: For the Online MBA program, ethics takes a really prominent role in a couple of places. All of the courses in the MBA program were inspired by best practices from Silicon Valley. We began by saying, "Look, we think we have a rigorous curriculum, but we want to be sure that it's relevant." And ethical dilemmas is a burden of all leaders, anywhere. Doesn't matter what company you're working for, what NGO you work for, this is part of being a leader. So understanding that means you need to know how to articulate what the trade offs are, understand who's going to be affected, and then, again, starting from a base of where your values are, come to a decision that you can be proud of.

So we went to executives here in Silicon Valley and said, "Take a look at what we're doing. What do you think are the skills and values that every student graduating from here needs to have?" And principle leadership is one of them.

Anmol Thiara: Santa Clara educates the hearts and minds of every individual that steps on campus. It is, not only made for you to get a good education, but they're in a way educating the hearts and minds of every individual student within this university to go on and make a world a better place. For companies, especially startups, to be successful, cultures and values are a huge and immense component of their success.

Nydia MacGregor: And so, repeatedly, throughout the program, we ensure that we touch on best practices in general, but in specific, best practices related to principal leadership.

Anmol Thiara: Whatever path I choose to take in life, I know that the values and the upbringing that I've learned at Santa Clara University, I can take along with me, and help make the world a better place to the extent that I can.