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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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