MIT IAP

IAP 2001 Activities by Category

Management and Entrepreneurship

Edgerton Center Student Technology Consultants
J. Kim Vandiver , Jim Bales
Tue Jan 16, Tue Jan 30, 02-04:00pm, TBD

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session

"How can I hire a student to do a short-term technical project?" "I know Java; how can I find consulting jobs to make some money?""Where can I learn the skills I need to get a UROP?"
STC exists to answer these questions and more. We help match skilled undergrads with faculty and staff that need to get jobs done. These short-term projects can form the basis for a longer-term mentorship. We also help students gain the skils they need for STC jobs and for UROPs.
Web: http://stc.mit.edu/iap
Contact: Jim Bales, 4-402, x3-6178, bales@mit.edu
Sponsor: Edgerton Center

Entrepreneurship Forum
Lisa Spirio , John H. Lo, Kate Smith
Fri Jan 19, 01-05:00pm, Wong Auditorium

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: none

The MIT Science and Engineering Business Club will host four speakers to discusss new emerging technologies in the following areas: 1. Biotechnology 2. E-commmerce 3. Optical Networking and 4. Nanotechnology. All are welcome to attend. Co-sponsored by Newcogen.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/sebc
Contact: Lisa Spirio, WiBr-309, 258-5165, spirio@wi.mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Science & Engineering Business Club

High-Tech Start Ups
Jack M. Gill, Vanguard Venture Partners
Mon, Wed, Fri, Jan 8, 10, 12, 17, 19, 22, 24, 26, 10-11:30am, 36-156

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 20-Dec-2000
Limited to 30 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)

A pragmatic, experienced-based mini-course on the venture capital process, formation and capitalization of high-tech companies, sources of innovative technologies, role of tech transfer process at universities, startup operational issues, role of VCs and board members, execution time frames, liquidity process, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions. Discussion of case studies about communications, optical components, and medical companies. Get some "insider" secrets from twenty years of VC practice and a high-tech career planning guide.
Contact: Donna Ferri, x3-4624, dferri@mit.edu
Sponsor: Electrical Eng & Computer Sci

Intrepreneurship: Effectiveness in a Technical Organization
Les Gray Morgan Group
Tue Jan 9, Wed Jan 10, 09am-04:30pm, 1-135

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 29-Dec-2000
Limited to 30 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: none

Don't come to this class if you want to spend your career toiling for others instead of controlling your own career! This class is targeted to those individuals who desire to become business and project managers and leaders, and rise up through an organization to leadership roles. The ability to be "effective" in a technical organization is one of the most important set of skills of successful technical professionals. You'll be introduced to the broad set of skills necessary to be efffective and to "best practices" for them. After you depart MIT for the real world, having this skills "tool set" is probably the most important ingredient in your future success.
Contact: Jean Sucharewicz, 5-225, jsuch@mit.edu
Sponsor: Ocean Engineering

Marketing: An Introduction for Entrepreneurs
Barbara Bund
Tue Jan 16 thru Fri Jan 19, 09:30am-12:30pm, E51-325

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 08-Jan-2001
Limited to 86 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)

Intended for graduate students who must sign up in advance.
To start a business or to become involved in one, you'll need to understand marketing. This course provides an introduction to marketing. It introduces definitions and basic concepts of marketing: customers, market segment, marketing stategy, and the marketing mix (product, price, distribution, communication).
Note: This class is open only to graduate students who must sign up in advance. Send your name, course, and e-mail address to Surekha Vajjhala, at the MIT Entrepreneurship Center.
Contact: Surekha Vajjhala, E51-355, x3-3453, surekha@mit.edu
Sponsor: Sloan School of Management

Public Issues and Conflict Management
Cliff Goudey, MIT Sea Grant Marine Advisory Leader , Brandy Moran
Wed Jan 17, Thu Jan 18, Fri Jan 19, 08am-05:00pm, MITSG, E38-300

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 27-Dec-2000
Limited to 20 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: none

This is a 3-day course on Public Issues and Conflict Management for people who primarily deal with coastal and ocean issues. In this workshop you'll gain knowledge and understanding of the anatomy of conflict, and the skills and processes needed to deal with it. While not intended to create negotiators or mediators, this knowledge will help enable participants to avoid or diffuse conflict when involved in potentially contentious public meetings.
Contact: Cliff Goudey, x3-7079, cgoudey@mit.edu
Sponsor: Sea Grant College Program

Selling Yourself and Your Ideas: Effective Sales, Communication, and Negotiation for Technical Professionals
Les Gray, Morgan Group
Thu Jan 11, Fri Jan 12, 09-04:30am, E51-151

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 31-Dec-2000
Limited to 50 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: none

The ability to convince others that you, your ideas, and your products are valuable is one of the most important skills of successful people. You have to be able to convince employers, your boss, investors, customers, team members and partners. This class will give you some understanding of what is needed to launch your career successfully, and to make you a better, wealthier, and more effective engineer or scientist. You will learn specific skills and techniques that really work, including practice selling yourself. Learn how to ask the questions that get people to say "yes." Bring a copy of your resume with you. (The presenter says that "you will not learn this stuff at Sloan or HBS.")
Contact: Jean Sucharewicz, 5-225, jsuch@mit.edu
Sponsor: Ocean Engineering

Systems Dynamics 101
Nan Lux , Hazhir Rahmandad
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)

Please come and participate in playing the famous MIT Beer Game, join in other hands-on simulation games, along with computer-based case studies, discussions, lectures and other exercises designed to increase your intuitive understanding of complex systems. You will be exposed to the central principles of system dynamics and experience some system dynamics computer modeling. There is no advance registration. Just show up!
Contact: Nan Lux, E60-375, x3-1574, nlux@mit.edu
Sponsor: Sloan School of Management

The Beer Game
Paulo Goncalves and Hazhir Rahmandad, Doctoral Candidates
Mon Jan 29, 09am-12:00pm, E25-117

Principles of SD
Hazhir Rahmandad, Doctoral Candidate
Mon Jan 29, 01:30-04:00pm, E51-325

Modeling Building with Vensim
Hazhir Rahmandad, Doctoral Candidate
Tue Jan 30, 09am-01:00pm, E52-010, Choose 9:00AM or 10:30AM

Welfare Reform
George Richardson, Professor, SUNY Albany
Tue Jan 30, 01-02:30pm, E51-325

Sustainable Development
Khalid Saee, Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Tue Jan 30, 03-04:30pm, E51-325

Problem Definition
Laura Black, Doctoral Candidate
Wed Jan 31, 09-10:15am, E51-325

The Past, Present and Future of System Dynamics
Jay W. Forrester
Wed Jan 31, 10:30am-12:00pm, E51-325

An Interactive Session
Brad Morrison, Doctoral Candidate
Wed Jan 31, 01-04:00pm, E51-325

Project Management
James Lyneis, Consultant, Pugh-Roberts Associates
Thu Feb 1, 09-10:30am, E51-335

Organizational Creativity
David Peterson, Ventana Systems, Inc.
Thu Feb 1, 10:30am-12:00pm, E51-335

Technology Venture Workshop: How to Win the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition
Joost Bonsen
Mon Jan 22, 04-06:00pm, 3-133

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 70 participants.
Single session event

Ex-Lead Organizer of the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition discusses identifying profitable opportunities, sharp presentations, and alumni company cases. Useful towards other IAP entrepreneurship classes. Helps you craft winning exec summary and shows benefits of being an MIT $50K organizer.
Web: http://www.mit.edu/people/jpbonsen/tven.html
Contact: Joost Bonsen, 617.930.0415, jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu
Sponsor: Joost P Bonsen, jpbonsen@mit.edu

Technology and Competitive Strategy
Joseph Jacobson, Associate Professor, MIT , Brian Silverman, Assistant Professsor, HBS
Thu Jan 11, 18, Tue Jan 23, 30, 03-06:00pm, E15, Bartos, continues into spring semester

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 11-Jan-2001
Limited to 50 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Two paragraph application due by 1/11/01.

Technology and Competitive Strategy deals with the strategic issues posed by emerging new technologies and future technologies now just in the lab. Students will come from both HBS MBA students and graduate students from MIT.
There will be four sections: Logic, Chips and Computation; Biotechnology; Patents and University Developed Research; and Communications and Developing Nations. There will be an overview of the most important future technologies followed by a set of case studies. Each unit culminates in a group project consisting of teams from HBS and MIT geared towards future developments in each of these areas. In addition there will be a final project.
A 2-paragraph statement detailing your reasons for wanting to take the course along with technical background, skill set, and accomplishments is required by 1/11/01 to: TCS@media.mit.edu. Admission will be decided, in part, on the basis of your application. We will attempt to choose a mix of people spread across the areas of emphasis of the course.
Web: http://www.media.mit.edu/tcs
Contact: Murray Whitehead, E15-435, x3-0905, tcs@media.mit.edu
Sponsor: Media Arts & Sciences

What is Management Science?/What is Operations Research?
John Little, Stephen Graves
Wed Jan 10, Fri Jan 12, 10:30-11:30am, 2-105

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: none

Do you enjoy mathematics and computers? Would you like to apply your skills to business, government, and non-profit institutions? Then come and learn about the fields of operations research and management science, a science for improving the decisions of organizations. These fields typically use data, mathematical models, and computer-based information systems. Intended for undergraduates and graduate students considering OR/MS as a field of study. The second session will be followed by a lunch in E40-106. Participants welcome at individual sessions but attendance at both sessions is encouraged.
Contact: Jeff Meldman, E40-165, x3-4932, jmeldman@mit.edu
Sponsor: Sloan School of Management

You & Human Progress: How to Savor Life @ MIT & Beyond
Joost Bonsen
Fri Jan 26, 04-06:00pm, 3-133

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 42 participants.
Single session event

Takes a systems view of human progress, e.g. innovation dynamics and global economic convergence. Presents historical data on quality of life, wealth/income, & rates of change in social goods. Strategizes how to tackle these issues while at MIT.
Web: http://www.mit.edu/people/jpbonsen/yhp.html
Contact: Joost Bonsen, 617.930.0415, jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu
Sponsor: Joost P Bonsen, jpbonsen@mit.edu


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