1. The First Two of Five Pre-Course Readings and The Leadership Project Launch Assignment – Part I For The ‘Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological / Phenomenological by Werner Erhard (Independent) and Michael C. Jensen (Harvard Business School) and Kari L. Granger (Sunergos, LLC)

2. IP in a World Without Scarcity by Mark Lemley (Stanford Law School)

3. A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory by Matthew Jackson (Stanford University – Department of Economics)

4. Taming Momentum Crashes: A Simple Stop-Loss Strategy by Yufeng Han (University of Colorado at Denver – Business School) and Guofu Zhou (Washington University in St. Louis – Olin School of Business)

5. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)