Climate CoLab Workshop
Robert Laubacher, Professor Thomas W. Malone, Joshua Introne
Thu Jan 13, 02-05:00pm, NE25-746
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
Prereq: None
The Climate CoLab is a web forum where people for all over the world can work together to create proposals for what we should do about climate change. It is a project of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. The system combines web-based climate and economic modeling, structured online conversation, and new kinds of group decision making tools.
In this workshop, we invite students to learn about the Climate CoLab and share their ideas about how the project might evolve in the future. The workshop will start with a presentation on the Climate CoLab by Sloan Professor Thomas W. Malone. We then will invite students to undertake a series of tasks using the system. The final part of the session will be a discussion of possible future directions for the project, where we will welcome student input.
The workshop will be of value to students with an interest in sustainability, climate change, and emerging energy technologies. It will also be useful to students who would like to learn about next generation Web 2.0 technologies.
Attendees should bring a laptop so they can use the Climate CoLab during the session.
Web: http://climatecolab.org
Contact: Robert Laubacher, NE25-753, x3-0526, rjl@mit.edu
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Coolhunting and Coolfarming through Swarm Creativity
Peter Gloor
Tue Jan 11, Wed Jan 12, Thu Jan 13, 03-06:00pm, E51-335
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 09-Jan-2011
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Discover what’s going to be cool—before everyone else.
In this course you will find out how to:
- discover cool trends through finding the trendsetters: tap into the collective intelligence of the Web, Blogs, and online social networks (coolhunting)
- develop the new trends through viral marketing and self-organizing teams (coolfarming)
You will also learn how to use our Condor, CoolPeople and CoolTrend software for coolhunting and dynamic social network analysis.
This is a condensed version of a distributed course, which has been taught for the last 6 years at MIT, Helsinki, Cologne, and Savannah. (http://sites.google.com/site/coincourse2010/)
Web: http://www.ickn.org/iap.html
Contact: Peter Gloor, NE25-749, x3-7018, pgloor@mit.edu
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Men and Women in the Workplace: How to Construct a Successful Life at Work and at Home
Kate Sweetman, Anne Weisberg
Wed Jan 19, 09am-05:00pm, E62-223
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 12-Jan-2011
Limited to 50 participants.
Lots of unwritten rules and unexamined assumptions at both work and home stymie successful integration of work and life for both men and women. What common misperceptions derail optimal gender relationships at work and at home? Where’s the common ground? Knowing how to shape these dynamics can deliver the life that you want.
Anne Weisberg is a director in Deloitte’s Talent organization; a specialist in the field of diversity, gender and work/life integration; and leader of Deloitte’s internal mass career customization ™efforts. An honors graduate of both Harvard Law School and UC Berkeley, her latest book is Mass Career Customization.
Kate Sweetman is president of Sweetman Consulting, a leadership firm with a global practice. Her book The Leadership Code: Five Rules to Lead is now available in 14 languages. A graduate of HBS and Yale, Kate is a Visiting Scholar at MIT’s Legatum Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
Contact: Kim A. Cowperthwaite, E52-126, (617) 715-5320, scnckim@mit.edu
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Tax Issues for Employees and Entrepreneurs
Howard Mandelcorn, Joseph Weber
Wed Jan 26, Thu Jan 27, 01-04:00pm, E51-376
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
This course intends to expose students to a broad range of tax issues students will encounter shortly after graduation as an entrepreneur or an employee. For a new employee, taxes are an important consideration in decisions regarding deductions and retirement savings (through employee and employer contributions such as 401k's IRAs, etc). Taxes also feature prominently in decisions with respect to stock option-based compensation. Also, tax related issues for U.S. taxpayers working overseas will be addressed. For the entrepreneur, taxes also influence a new business venture's choice of entity: Corporation, LLC, Partnership, Sole Proprietorship. Instructor: Howard Mandelcorn is a partner at the Hutchings Baramian LLP law firm in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Contact: Liz Galoyan, (617) 253-9744, lgaloyan@MIT.EDU
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