Assessing the Commercial Potential for Breakthrough Technologies at MIT
Ken Zolot, Rob Abbanat, Ravi Mehta, Omer Cedar
Wed Jan 26, 06-09:00pm, 32-124
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 08-Jan-2005
Limited to 100 participants.
Single session event
The purpose of this IAP class is to illustrate a process by which MIT researchers with breakthrough technologies can explore the commercial potential of their ideas. This process is currently being employed in the Innovation Teams class, taught by Ken Zolot at the Sloan school. The class is appropriate for MIT grad students, faculty and post-docs currently engaged in research activities, and who are interested in learning how to commercialize their intellectual property.
Contact: Ken Zolot, E40-196, (617) 253-8653, zolot@mit.edu
Sponsor: Sloan School of Management
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Business Ethics in Jewish Tradition
Rabbi Gershon Segal
Thu Jan 6, Thu Jan 20, 27, 05-06:00pm, W11 Boardroom
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
What are the boundaries in advertising a product? Are there limits to how much one can charge? When is competition forbidden? These questions and other issues of business ethics have been the subject of rabbinic discussion in the Mishnah, Talmud, Shulchan Aruch and modern rabbinic response. This series will seek to identify principles of business ethics from the perspective of Jewish law and values.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/hillel/www
Contact: Rabbi Gershon Segal, W11-040, (617) 253-2982, ravsegal@mit.edu
Sponsor: Hillel
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CMI Enterprisers
Josh Jacobs
Wed Jan 5 thru Wed Jan 12, 08am-10:00pm, Durham, England
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 28-Oct-2004
Limited to 10 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: For MIT undergraduates
CMI Enterprisers is a week-long residential retreat at Durham University in England that builds self-confidence, creativity, and networks to allow participants to create new enterprises, whether corporate or social. The program is free and open to MIT undergraduates in any course; it is not related to the Cambridge-MIT Exchange. Other participants are from UK universities. Preference will be given to students with interest and some experience in building a new venture, whether it be a student organization, business, or other activity. Up to 10 will be selected. Info session with free food and past participants: Tuesday 26 October, 5:30-6:30 PM, 8-403. Applications due to the website listed on Thursday 28 October.
Web: http://www.cmi-enterprisers.org
Contact: Josh Jacobs, 8-403, x3-2959, jsjacobs@mit.edu
Sponsor: Cambridge-MIT Institute
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Networking for Planners
Olivia Fox Cabane, Spitfire Communications
Thu Jan 27, 09am-05:00pm, 3-401
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 24-Jan-2005
Limited to 20 participants.
A good planner must possess certain skills, including knowledge of how to cultivate and employ social capital and social networks. In this workshop, you will learn how to build consensus for your project inside and outside your organization, and build trust at all levels to ensure stakeholder support.
Contact: Kathleen Hoag, 9-547, x3-7692, hoag@mit.edu
Sponsor: Urban Studies and Planning
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Oh, Behave! Practicing and Mastering Behavioral Interviews
Jon McLaughlin
Wed Jan 19, Thu Jan 20, 02-05:00pm, E51-145
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 17-Jan-2005
Limited to 18 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
This is designed to be an intense, fun, interactive workshop on interviewing. We will focus on Behavioral Event Interviews and other common questions. Expect group work, some role playing and analysis of previously videotaped interviews. Every attempt will be made to tailor common sense advice for each participant on how they can improve and present their best selves in what is, for most, a stressful situation. Practice works! This is offered by Jon McLaughlin of the MIT Sloan MBA Admissions Office.
Contact: Jon McLaughlin, E52-101, (617) 452-2819, jonmc@mit.edu
Sponsor: Sloan School of Management
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Performance: Why Institutions Don't Have It...Why They Can't Get It...And Why Hedge Funds Aren't the Answer
Mike Epstein, Laszlo Birinyi
Thu Jan 13, 01-04:00pm, E51-335
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 76 participants.
Single session event
Using proprietary, mostly volume related, analyses of actual U.S. equity trading Mr. Birinyi (called in November 2004 issue of Smart Money Magazine as one of the 30 most influential people on Wall Street) will identify the historic performance shortfalls of the investment management community, its causes and their probable continued intractability. He will also discuss the low prospects for successful solutions arising out of current incentive based solutions, namely hedge funds.
Contact: Svetlana Sussman, E52-430, (617) 253-8318, ssussman@mit.edu
Sponsor: Sloan School of Management
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Psychology and Neurophysiology of Financial Decisionmaking
Dmitry Repin
Wed Jan 12, 10am-12:00pm, E52-010
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 60 participants.
Single session event
What are the mechanisms behind the economic behavior of individual market participants? How risk-taking behavior depends on the emotional state and how well are behavioral mechanisms adapted to succeed in the modern financial marketplace? How do emotions affect trading profit and loss and is there a difference in physiological patterns for good and bad trading performance? This seminar will discuss the above questions in the context of recent research findings at the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering.
Web: http://lfe.mit.edu/risk_psychology/index.htm
Contact: Svetlana Sussman, (617) 253-8318, ssussman@mit.edu
Sponsor: Sloan School of Management
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Venture Skill-Building Workshop
Jin Yi, Trish Fleming
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 21-Jan-2005
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Join a group of students, faculty, alumni to learn the knowledge and share the experience of making technology entrepreneurship successful. You will be able to
Explore technology entrepreneurship fundamentals
Discover how to turn an innovative product idea into a new technology venture
Understand the legal aspects of setting up and running a venture
Network with the people who can help to make your ideas a reality
Meet your venture team members.
Web: http://www.mit-sebc.net/signup.php
Contact: Jin Yi, 5-017, x3-5087, yijin@mit.edu
Sponsor: Science Engineering and Business Club
Cosponsor: TechLink
Nuts and Bolts of Strategic Networking
Joost P. Bonsen
Mon Jan 24, 12-01:00pm, 4-231
Raise Early Stage Capital - Bootstrapping and Venture Capital
MIT Enterprise Forum - Cambridge Chapter
Tue Jan 25, 12-01:00pm, 4-237
Basics of Sales and Marketing for Techno Entrepreneurs
Brian Schneider, Pres., Boston Chapter of United Professional Sales Assoc.
Wed Jan 26, 12-01:00pm, 4-237
Understanding Angel Investor
Peter Miller Co-Director, MIT Venture Mentoring Service
Thu Jan 27, 12-01:00pm, 4-237
Jin Yi, Trish Fleming
Fri Jan 28, 12-01:00pm, 4-237
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What is Management Science? What is Operations Research?
John Little, James Orlin
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 learn about operations research and management science (OR/MS), a science for improving the decisions of organizations. Typically the field uses data, mathematical models, and computer-based information systems. Series is intended for undergraduates and graduate students considering OR/MS as a field of study.
Contact: John Little, E56-308, x3-3738, jlittle@mit.edu
Sponsor: Sloan School of Management
John Little, James Orlin
Participants welcome at individual sessions but attendance at both sessions is encouraged.The second session will be followed by a lunch in E40-106.
Wed Jan 12, 10:30am-12:00pm, 2-105
John Little, James Orlin
Participants welcome at individual sessions but attendance at both sessions is encouraged. The second session will be followed by a lunch in E40-106.
Fri Jan 14, 10:30am-12:00pm, 2-105
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