Leadership versus Management
Ray Archer Vice President Operations, Dell Inc.
Wed Jan 11, 08:30-10:00am, 3-270
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
This lecture will discuss the differences between leadership and management. The focus is on actual practice and experience from Ray's experience with the US Navy, Dell, and elsewhere. The talk will be interactive.
Contact: chris caplice, e40-365, x8-7975, caplice@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Center for Transportation and Logistics
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Mega Energy Projects
Peter Evans, Nicholas Alan McKenna
Tue Jan 10, Thu Jan 12, Tue Jan 17, Thu Jan 19, 10am-12:00pm, E51-149
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 09-Jan-2006
Limited to 40 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Mega energy projects are complex, high impact projects that range from $1 to $20 billion dollars. They can yield important benefits but also generate strong resistance given their potentially large social, environmental and geopolitical impacts. This course will provide an integrated approach to understanding the growing trend toward mega energy projects worldwide. The course will draw on systems architecture, system dynamics, organizational theory and transaction cost economics to understand why these complex social and technical projects are often delayed and run over budget. It will also draw on theories of international relations, political economy, and transnational interest group politics to understand the broader forces that cause mega-energy projects to succeed or fail.
Web: http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/17/ia06/17.917/
Contact: Peter Evans, E40-441, x4-1497, evansp@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Political Science
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System Design and Operations Under Uncertainty
Olivier de Weck
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
The traditional paradigm in the design of large scale systems such as the electrical power grid and transportation systems has been that changes occur slowly or that trends can be predicted reliably. Recent events such as Sept. 11, 2001, a suite of natural disasters and increasingly dynamic and fragmented marketplace challenge this assumption. Increasingly, architects, designers and operators have to include consideration of uncertainty in their decision making. This seminar series illuminates this subject from a variety of viewpoints.
Web: http://www.mit.edu/~margret/orcesd
Contact: Margret Bjarnadottir, margret@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Operations Research Center
Adaptive Experimentation, Expected Value of Improvement, and Robust Design
Professor Dan Frey
We will present research into adaptive experimentation as a means for making improvements in design of engineering systems. A simple method for experimentation is described entitled adaptive one-factor-at-a-time. A mathematical model is proposed and theorems are presented concerning the expected value of the improvement provided. Full abstract can be found at www.mit.edu/~margret/orcesd
Tue Jan 10, 12-01:00pm, E40-498
An OR Approach to Financial Planning
Dr. Gina Mourtzinou, Portfolio Manager, RiverSource
Financial planning is best described as the process used to establish an individual’s short and long-term goals and make the appropriate financial and personal decisions to achieve those goals. In today’s world with the market conditions as uncertain as ever, financial planning becomes increasingly more important. It is also a dream OR problem. Full abstract can be found at www.mit.edu/~margret/orcesd.
Tue Jan 17, 12-01:00pm, E40-298
Strategic Engineering: Designing Systems for an Uncertain Future
Olivier de Weck
In this talk I will first introduce the notion of Strategic Engineering as an interesting and increasingly important field of study in the context of system design. I will argue that there are two primary dimensions that drive strategic thinking in systems engineering. The first is the temporal dimension which requires that future uncertainties be reflected. Detailed abstract can be found at www.mit.edu/~margret/orcesd.
Tue Jan 24, 12-01:00pm, E40-298
The Weakest Link
Aharon Ben-Tal, Visiting Professor
The proverb says the steel chain is no stronger than its weakest link. How then one finds the weakest link? Suppose we can perform tests on the strength of individual links;
How to design an algorithm that will find the weakest link in the smallest possible number of such tests? We shall present in the talk such an optimal algorithm.
Tue Jan 31, 12-01:00pm, E40-298
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Uncovering the Leader in You
Partha Ghosh
Mon Jan 9 thru Thu Jan 12, 10am-12:30pm, E51-315
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 08-Jan-2006
Limited to 60 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
This program builds on Partha Ghosh's personal experience of leading and working with corporate, political, and government leaders from many cultures and nations. The goal is to help participants identify, cultivate, and direct their innate leadership qualities.
Informed by a variety of leaders, from Socrates to Andrew Carnegie, from Mother Teresa to Martin Luther King, this program will help participants to identify the essential qualities of a leader and then identify their own inner potentials of the "self" for the good of the greater society. In turn participants will be expected to develop a personal development map to unleash his/her inner leadership qualities with a view of the emerging challenges of the planet: ecological, energy, and equity.
Web: http://esd.mit.edu/leadership/
Contact: Susan MacPhee, x4-4005
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