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IAP 2001 Activities by Sponsor

Sloan School of Management

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

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

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

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


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