Cassandra Cortez Cano
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/07
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
3 Day Startup (“3DS”) is an academic program designed to teach entrepreneurial skills in an extreme hands-on environment and enable students to start companies. The 3DS program creates a living entrepreneurship laboratory on university campuses by bringing together students ranging from freshmen to freshly-minted PhDs, with diverse backgrounds, including computer science, business, engineering, law, design, communications and others.
Participants gain experience in cross-disciplinary collaboration, brainstorming and ideation, and group productivity, including ad-hoc leadership and decision-making under severe time constraints. The resulting experience is just like that of working with a budding startup company.
The 2000+ 3DS alumni from 40 events over the last three years have started over 33 technology companies that have collectively raised over $8.5 million in investment capital. The weekend is designed with two specific goals in mind: kick-start new student-run companies and build entrepreneurial capabilities in students and their university communities.
To register go to http://training.rackspace.com/iap by January 7, 2013.
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Student Information Processing Board
Contact: Cassandra Cortez-Cano, cassandra.cano@rackspace.com
Jan/18 | Fri | 02:00PM-11:45PM | 32-155 | |
Jan/19 | Sat | 12:00AM-11:45PM | 32-155 | |
Jan/20 | Sun | 12:00AM-09:00PM | 32-155 |
Cassandra Cortez Cano
Christy Anthony, Director, Student Citizenship
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/07
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Fee: $100.00
for non-students (free to current students)
Conflict Resolution @ MIT announces the dates for January/IAP 2013 mediation training. This comprehensive training teaches participants how to conduct mediations, basic mediation skills, mediation ethics, and meets Massachusetts requirements for mediation training. Applications are currently available at the website below and are due by January 7, 2013.
Please note that priority is given to early applications. The training is free to MIT students. A $100 fee is charged for those with other connections to MIT.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEFZSnhGOG9KT1lfTHpwd002amFNWHc6MQ#gid=0
If you have any questions, please contact ConflictResolution@mit.edu
If you are interested in other conflict resolution skills workshop, please contact ConflictResolution@mit.edu. We offer a wide range of conflict management skill workshops that are shorter than this full mediation training.
Sponsor(s): Office of Student Citizenship
Contact: Christy Anthony, W20-507, 617-253-0193, ConflicResolution@mit.edu
Jan/22 | Tue | 12:00PM-05:00PM | Location TBD |
Please note that you must attend all sessions.
Jan/23 | Wed | 09:00AM-05:00PM | Location TBD |
Attendance is mandatory at all sessions.
Jan/25 | Fri | 10:00AM-04:00PM | Location TBD |
Attendance is mandatory at all sessions.
Jan/28 | Mon | 09:00AM-05:00PM | Location TBD |
Attendance is mandatory at all sessions
Jan/29 | Tue | 12:00PM-05:00PM | Location TBD |
Attendance is mandatory at all sessions.
BC Krishna SM 94, President and CEO, MineralTree, Inc.
Jan/15 | Tue | 07:00PM-08:00PM | 32-141 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Financial Fraud
BC will share his experiences as the founder and CEO of fraud detection software company Memento. The fast-paced session will cover a broad range of topics, including, but not limited to:
At Memento, BC also spent time looking into the world of Health Care fraud, and another nasty, insidious problem that does not get enough attention: Prescription Fraud. This is the systematic, significant, expensive abuse of prescription drugs like Oxycodone, Oxycontin, Fentanyl, and Suboxone. Time permitting, he will share some of his findings addressing Prescription Fraud.
The session will use case studies and examples. Attendees should expect to walk away angry, foaming at the mouth, and hopefully inspired to study the topic more and do something about it.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Howard Silver, MIT Libraries, Jack Turner, Technology Licensing Office
Jan/23 | Wed | 02:00PM-03:30PM | 4-231 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/23
Limited to 50 participants
Come and hear Jack Turner, Associate Director of the MIT Technology Licensing Office and patent attorney Sam Pasternak, recently of Choate, Hall and Stewart and now at the TLO, discuss the ins and outs of obtaining patents. This popular session covers a bit of patent history and a lot about current practices, processes, and issues surrounding obtaining a patent; the focus is on the process used at MIT for ideas/inventions developed by the MIT community. A portion of the session is devoted to questions and answers. If you think you will ever invent something, you need to be here.
Please Register
Sponsor(s): Libraries, Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Howard Silver, 14S-134, 617 253-9319, HSILVER@MIT.EDU
John F. Carrier, Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management
Jan/24 | Thu | 07:00PM-08:00PM | 66-110 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: none
Back by popular demand!
In this lively and engaging one-hour session, we will examine how a fundamental understanding of systems can help engineering, science, and humanities students overcome the tremendous hurdles they will encounter in their pursuit of a successful rewarding career in the face of large, bureaucratic companies and institutions - organizations that seem to have been set up solely to degrade their professional skills and extract all measures of job satisfaction.
We will specifically touch on the following topics:
We will wrap up with a brief discussion with a short discussion of the history of System Dynamics at MIT, with current examples of its application in the manufacturing and processing industries, based on Dr. Carrier's 10+ years in the field.
Sponsor(s): Chemical Engineering
Contact: John Carrier, JFCARRIE@MIT.EDU
Cort Johnson
Jan/16 | Wed | 09:00AM-02:00PM | E40-160,, Sign up at http://iap.eventbrite.com/ |
Enrollment: Register at http://iap.eventbrite.com/
Sign-up by 01/15
Limited to 30 participants
Prereq: none
Learn the 3 step process of building a technical prototype without having to write a line of code. You'll learn:
Sponsor(s): Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
Contact: Benjamin Israelite, E40-160, (978) 621-9826, bji@mit.edu
Howard Silver, MIT Libraries
Jan/17 | Thu | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/17
Limited to 30 participants
This session will introduce scientists and engineers to business information resources that will help you understand the commercial potential for your ideas, how to find partners, and sources for financial support. We will use realistic examples and hands-on exercises with key resources to demonstrate how to match your ideas and discoveries with the opportunities and realities of the marketplace.
Please Register
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Howard Silver, 14S-134, 617 253-9319, HSILVER@MIT.EDU
Peter Gloor
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/07
Limited to 25 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
This course consists of three parts, part I is the foundation for parts II and III, parts can be taken separately.
Day 1: I. How to Be an Efficient (Online) Networker
Part I is for everybody who would like to learn how they can be more efficient in their online and face-to-face networking.
Day 2: II. Coolhunting
Part II is for the power user who would like to learn how to apply Social Network Analysis to discover and predict emergent trends on the Web by mining Twitter, Blogs, Facebook, Wikipedia and the Web at large. Coolhunting means finding new trends by finding the trendsetters before anybody else, by tapping into the collective intelligence on the Web, and interpreting it through dynamic semantic social network analysis.
Day 3: III. Coolfarming
Part III builds on the basics from part II, it shows you how you can develop new trends through self-organizing teams (Coolfarming) by nurturing COINs (Collaborative Innovation Networks), and how you can better advertise your products on the Web through viral marketing using Twitter, Facebook, and Wikipedia.
This is a revised and condensed version of a distributed course, which has been taught for the last 8 years at MIT, Helsinki, Cologne, and Savannah. (http://sites.google.com/site/coincourse2012/)
Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: Peter Gloor, NE25-749, x3-7018, pgloor@mit.edu
Jan/09 | Wed | 03:00PM-06:00PM | NE25-746, Bring your laptop |
How to Be an Efficient (Online) Networker
twenty rules for networking :
You will create a "virtual mirror" of your own communication behavior, telling you how much of a "star" or a "galaxy" you are, analyzing your own Facebook and e-mail networks.
Peter Gloor
Jan/10 | Thu | 03:00PM-06:00PM | NE25-746, bring your laptop |
Coolhunting
As part of the course you will get Condor-2.6.6, which allows you to analyze Web sites, Blogs, Twitter, Wikipedia, Facebook and E-Mail.
Peter Gloor
Jan/11 | Fri | 03:00PM-06:00PM | NE25-746, bring your laptop |
Coolfarming
In this part we will use Condor-2.6.6 to analyze organizational e-mail networks, and study interpersonal networks on the Web, Twitter, and Facebook.
Peter Gloor
Janet Rickershauser, Senior Lawyer, Charles L. Cooney, Robert T. Haslam (1911) Professor of Chemical Engineering, Alyssa Fitzgerald, Lawyer
Jan/31 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:30PM | E70, 12ft Floor |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/04
Prereq: None
Not all teams achieve impact by creating a for-profit enterprise. Organizations like Ashoka, MITx, New Profit, and The Robin Hood Foundation are organized and reach their target audiences as non-profit organizations.
The seminar will enable members of the MIT community to further their understanding of how 501(c)(3) status can help them better deploy their technologically-based projects, and is open to students, faculty, and staff who have practical questions about how to organize and operate a non-profit.
Sue Abbott, Janet Rickershauser, and Alyssa Fitzgerald, core attorneys in the Tax-Exempt Organizations practice group at Goodwin Procter LLP, a Boston-based Am Law 50 firm, serve the legal needs of many of the Greater Boston Area’s most prominent non-profits.
Since the inception of these free seminars in 2003, we have provided the legal tools for achieving and maintaining 501(c)(3) status to over 1400 organizations in the Boston area.
Over the 2.5 hour seminar, we propose to cover:
Sponsor(s): Chemical Engineering
Contact: Jose Estabil, E70-1270, 617 253-5978, JJE@MIT.EDU
Alorah Harman, Course 1 , THE MEME design
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/10
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: "scientist" self-label, some experience in a wet-lab ideal.
For the scientist who wants an extra shot of creativity in their IAP!
Design thinking is a framework and a process that uses a designer's tools to analyze and characterize ill-defined problems. Using design thinking, we can supplement a linear approach to a problem (in lab for example) with a more fluid and iterative investigation alongside.
This hands-on class is about idea generation, communication, and team dynamics specialized for scientists. Working in groups, we'll get a primer on how to think like a designer, especially with regard to mindset, group and solo brainstorming, and how to tease out and categorize qualitative insights to inform the design of quantitative experiments.
To learn by doing, we'll apply our human-centered frameworks to a high-energy 2-day exercise of envisioning the future of "the lab," sharing our end results with each other. All disciplines are welcome, but we'll have a focus on wet-lab environments (especially bio-labs).
**ROOM CHANGE** Saturday and Sunday (1/12-1/13) 1pm-4pm in 32-124.
Now enrolling excited scientists (U/G/etc.) as space allows until Jan 10th. Contact aharman@mit.edu with interest.
Sponsor(s): Biology
Contact: Alorah Harman, AHARMAN@MIT.EDU
Jan/12 | Sat | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 32-124 |
Jan/13 | Sun | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 32-124 |
Jorge Guzman
Jan/22 | Tue | 09:00AM-04:00PM | E51-151 | |
Jan/23 | Wed | 09:00AM-04:00PM | E51-151 | |
Jan/24 | Thu | 09:00AM-12:00PM | E51-151 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/18
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Many engineering students hope to build their own business one day, some might even already be working on it, or would do so if they just thought they could make a business out of their work. Business strategy, however, is a foreign concept for them. As they start their businesses they often only learn what strategy they can from observation, conversation, and reading online. Though it has results, this approach is quite suboptimal.
This course provides a “crash course” on entrepreneurial strategy, prepared specifically for engineering students (both graduate and undergraduate) with no previous knowledge of business. Jorge Guzman, the instructor, has been on both sides, he is a former software developer and is a current PhD student at MIT Sloan, TIES (the S stands for Strategy). He observes that strategy concepts are very different from engineering concepts, and that it is often hard for engineers to appreciate their value. In the structure for this class, he tries to bridge that gap.
This class is useful for anyone who wants to start their own business, join an early stage company, or join an established firm in which (s)he some someday hopes to create new product lines.
Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: Jorge Guzman, jorgeg@MIT.EDU
Afarin Bellisario, Technology Licensing Officer
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 40 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
The course consists of 4 independent 2 hour sessions, and will focus on the journey from an innovative concept (or proof of concept) to a commercially viable product. Each session covers an independent part of the process. All sessions will use real examples from real world products. We may have other mystery guests. Throughout the course we will discuss building of a financial model to determine the viability and test a variety of scenarios. Students are encouraged to bring their own projects to work on. Participants are welcome in individual sessions and can sign up by sending an email to aobell@mit.edu up to 24 hours before the actual class.
Dr. Afarin Bellisario is currently a technology licensing officer at MIT, overseeing electronics and semiconductor portfolio. She has over three decades of experience in semiconductors, advanced materials, communications and signal processing, and holds both a doctorate in engineering and an MBA from MIT. Professionally, she has held executive positions with Intel Corp., Analog Devices, BBN (now part of Raytheon), Booz-Allan and Hamilton, Shawmut Advanced Materials, and Fonix. Prior to joining TLO, Dr. Bellisario was the founder and president of Transtrategy Inc. a consulting firm specializing in commercializing technology in advanced materials and semiconductors. She has taught this IAP class since 2005.
Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Afarin Bellisario, ext. 8-8329, aobell@mit.edu
Jan/10 | Thu | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 4-145 |
Session 1 is focused of identifying and selecting a target application/market. This session covers concept of commercial viability, and the process of identifying opportunities, the value proposition, pricing, and timing.
Afarin Bellisario - Technology Licensing Officer
Jan/17 | Thu | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 4-145 |
Session 2 covers concept of markets, size, growth and eco systems. We will cover customers, channels, supply chain, as well as market sizing, competition and the role of partnerships and start up revenue and business models. The financial aspects of product and business are also discussed.
Afarin Bellisario - Technology Licensing Officer
Jan/24 | Thu | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 4-145 |
Session 3 covers commercialization strategy and role of IP, and its protection, in commercialization. In addition to various strategies to commercialize technology, the subjects covered include: IP protection and formation of corporations. A patent attorney will join us for this session.
Afarin Bellisario - Technology Licensing Officer
Jan/31 | Thu | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 4-145 |
Session 4 is focussed on a variety of commercialization strategies and synthesizing a commercialization strategy for a new technology base and testing various assumptions and scenarios.
Afarin Bellisario - Technology Licensing Officer
David Engel
Jan/22 | Tue | 02:00PM-03:00PM | E51-145 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/21
Time is one of the most precious assets we have and we should make sure that we are spending it wisely. Time management is a broad term that includes a wide variety of techniques and systems to improve the way you approach your tasks and goals. This course will give an introduction to some of the main ideas and some suggestions where you might be able to improve your own time management system. We’ll discuss topics such as “What time management can do for you”, “Why your inbox should not be your to do list”, “What should I do next” and “How 15 minutes could save you a lot of stress”.
Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: David Engel, dengel@MIT.EDU
Peter Vassallo
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/28
Attendance:
The goal of the course is to provide students with no prior experience in C++ with an introduction to the basics, as well as the resources and guidance to enable them to pursue self-study on their own time after IAP. The course will provide some context as to how C++ is used in practice and what employers would expect of someone who can program in C++. It is organized by the Quant Finance Club at Sloan and examples from Finance will be used wherever possible. Tracy Licklider is an independent software projects advice & rescue consultant. He mainly consults on or directly does rescue of projects in trouble -- one of the fastest growing segments of the computer software industry.
Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: Peter Vassallo, pav87@mit.edu
Joshua Schuler, Executive Director, Lemelson-MIT Program
Jan/14 | Mon | 03:00PM-04:30PM | 10-105 (Bush Room) |
Enrollment: http://lmitiap.eventbrite.com/#
The Lemelson-MIT Program welcomes back its 2005 and 2012 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize winners, David Berry, MD-PhD, and Miles Barr, PhD.
Berry is a partner at Flagship Ventures, and founder of Flagship portfolio companies: LS9, Joule Unlimited, Eleven Biotherapeutics, Seres Health, and Pronutria. Barr is president and CTO of Ubiquitous Energy - a company he founded while finishing his PhD in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Barr co-founded the company with Vladimir Bulović, PhD, Professor of Electrical Engineering in EECS. Bulović holds over 50 U.S. patents, in the area of nano-structured electronics - a majority of which have been licensed and utilized by both start-up and multinational companies, including QD Vision, and Kateeva, which he also founded with his student.
Berry, Barr, and Bulović will describe their inventions and their process of bringing them into the marketplace – including interactions with the Technology Licensing Office. Come learn about the surprises and lessons they encountered, and hear tips on how to effectively commercialize your ideas and technologies, interact with the media, and bring your academic successes out of the laboratory and into the real world to affect change.
Discussion Moderated by: Joshua Schuler, Executive Director of the Lemelson-MIT Program.
Sponsor(s): LEMELSON-MIT PROGRAM
Contact: Shannon O'Brien, 10-110, 617 258-5798, SHANNON1@MIT.EDU
Everardo Ruiz SM '00, Intellectual Ventures
Jan/31 | Thu | 10:00AM-12:00PM | E62-250 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Apple v. Samsung. Microsoft and AOL. Kodak in digital imaging? Google, Motorola, and Nortel. Litigation everywhere.
Inventions are now bought and sold worldwide as businesses, institutes, agencies, and inventors seek to monetize their intellectual property, frequently through the sale or litigation of patents. This seminar will begin with an overview of technology intellectual property - the concepts of copyright, trade secret, and patents, and then review the patent marketplace from several perspectives, discussing modern patent strategy along with several patent valuation approaches including key economic and legal factors.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Josh Wachman 90, SM 96, Entrepreneur
Jan/14 | Mon | 12:15PM-01:15PM | 10-105 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Ditto, A Social Media Venture
This is an alumni talk and recruiting event.
What can machine vision see in the 300 million photos uploaded to Facebook everyday? And what if the content of every Facebook photo linked to Wikipedia, YouTube and Amazon?
Serial entrepreneurs David Rose and Josh Wachman ’90, SM ’96 have conceived, developed and sold several companies individually and through a long standing collaboration. Driven by imagination and a tenacious vision for what could be, the pair has developed products and businesses spanning healthcare (Vitality), consumer products (Ambient Devices), interactive TV (WatchPoint Media), on-line photo sharing (Opholio) and interactive media (iFactory). Come hear about their new venture in social media called Ditto.
We're looking for students and alumni with programming skills and an interest in social media, image processing and graphics. We are recruiting interns and staff.
This is a technical recruiting event and pizza will be served.
Register Today!
This free event is sponsored by the Class Connections program and the MIT Alumni Association.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Sid Probstein '90, CTO of Attivio, Robert Rizika '89, SM '94, President and CEO of Vidscale, and the CEO of ProfitBricks
Jan/29 | Tue | 02:00PM-03:00PM | E51-376 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Come learn from two successful entrepreneurs what it is like to work in start-ups, and how they have managed their careers as entrepreneurs.
Sid Probstein ’90 has spent more than 20 years managing R&D organizations including Northern Light Technology and Fast Search and Transfer. He s currently the CTO of Attivio. Robert Rizika ’89 has spent nearly 25 years leading and building successful technology companies, including Blackwave (sold to Juniper Networks in 2010), Reflective Technologies, and VerdiSoft (sold to Yahoo! in 2003). He is currently the President and CEO of Vidscale, and the CEO of ProfitBricks.
Don’t miss this informative talk about what it’s really like to work at a start-up!
This free talk is sponsored by the Class Connections program and the MIT Alumni Association.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Katherine Julian, Staff Associate, Shendi Xu, Staff Associate
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
These workshops will help you learn how to maximize the power of mentoring on both an individual and organizational level.
Sponsor(s): Office of Undergrad. Advising/Academic Programming
Contact: Katherine Julian, 7-103, 617 253-9764, KJULIAN@MIT.EDU
Jan/22 | Tue | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 4-149 |
Looking for a mentor? Want to further develop a mentoring relationship you already have? Come to this session to learn how to get the mentoring you want!
Topics that will be covered include:
-how to find a mentor
-making a good first impression
-avoiding pitfalls in the mentoring relationship
-communication and self advocacy
-building a sustainable relationship
Katherine Julian - Staff Associate
Jan/23 | Wed | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 4-149 |
Looking to start a mentoring program for your group or organization? Want to revamp a mentoring program you oversee? Come to this workshop that will focus on the development and administration of a mentoring prgoram.
Topics this session will include:
-creating a mission statement and goals for your program
-communication and publicity
-matching mentors and mentees
-trainings and events
-evaluation
Shendi Xu - Staff Associate
Amanda Peters, Career Development Specialist
Jan/17 | Thu | 05:00PM-07:00PM | 4-163 |
Enrollment: Registration required through CareerBridge
Learn from MIT alums working in patent law about careers that let you stay abreast of the newest technologies. By working in the field of intellectual property, you can make a career of patenting, protecting, licensing, and valuing the most recent technological discoveries! Topics discussed will include an overview of intellectual property rights available to inventors, a day-in-the-life of patent attorneys, and a discussion of how intellectual property rights are protected in the realms of academia and industry.
Pizza for this event will be sponsored by iRobot. Preregistration requested on CareerBridge.
Panelists:
Glen Weinstein, Senior Vice President & General Counsel at iRobot Corporation
Kristin Smith, Associate at Beyer Law Group
Alex Wissner-Gross, Founder of Enernetics, Inc. and Gemedy, Inc.
Clay Satow, Patent Counsel at Bose Corporation
Renee Fuller, Technology Specialist at Wolf Greenfield
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Amanda Peters, 12-170, (617) 253-4733, acpeters@mit.edu
Kari R. Smith, Digital Archivist, Krista Ferrante, Collections Archivist
Jan/25 | Fri | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 14N-118 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 24 participants
Prereq: none
Do you keep a lot of stuff at home because you're not sure if you can throw it out? Do you have piles of paper or folders of digital files of old phone bills, insurance policies, tax returns, bank statements, credit card offers, and other similar kinds of paper or digital material? If so, then this session is for you! Learn how knowing what you need to keep (and for how long) allows you to get rid of all the things you don't need to keep. That's the essence of personal records management. Free yourself from the clutter and inertia of feeling like you should keep everything (and know what you should be keeping). Bring in a few items and we'll talk you through guidelines to help you at home!
Presenters: Krista Ferrante, Collections Archivist; Kari R. Smith, Digital Archivist
Please register for this event.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Kari Smith, 14N-118, 617 258-5568, SMITHKR@MIT.EDU
Athanasios Orphanides
Jan/29 | Tue | 10:30AM-12:00PM | E51-315 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Until its tenth anniversary and even after the start of the global financial crisis, the European economic and monetary union was a considered a success. Since 2009, however, the euro area is mired in a crisis that presently threatens the survival of the monetary union and even the European Union in its current form. This session will briefly review the framework of the euro area and some of the weaknesses that have been playing a role in perpetuating and magnifying the crisis. One focus will be the governance of the euro area, the absence of a representative government that can decisively tackle the crisis, and the role of political considerations at individual member states. Another focus will be the role of the ECB and economic considerations for the euro area as a whole. Questions serve as a backdrop: Will the euro area survive? What are possible paths towards a resolution of the crisis?
Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management, Economics
Contact: Athanasios Orphanides, orphanid@mit.edu
Christopher Noble
Jan/23 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 3-133, Please register at http://tlo.mit.edu/iapevents |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
You've invented something really cool. Now can you protect it and create a company around it? Come and hear Christopher Noble, Technology Licensing Officer of the MIT Technology Licensing Office. Learn How and When to file a patent (and if you need to); how your startup can spin the invention out from MIT and get that coveted “exclusive license”; how MIT’s Technology Licensing Office can help you (and what they want from you); and what your investors are looking for when they ask the question: “Tell me about your IP”. Please register at: http://tlo.mit.edu/iapevents
Sponsor(s): Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Kikuyu Daniels, NE18-501, 617 253-6966, KDANIELS@MIT.EDU
Deborah L. Fisher, Institute Auditor, Toni P. Robinson, Ombudsperson, Mark DiVincenzo, Deputy General Counsel, Marianna Pierce, Director, Policy, Compliance, and Labor Relations
Jan/24 | Thu | 10:00AM-11:00AM | 32-141 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: none
MIT as an institution and a community maintains high ethical values and standards; these are embodied in the Institute’s Statement of Responsible and Ethical Conduct.
This session will review these longstanding policies, and describe ways for members of the community to obtain answers to questions or raise concerns about conduct that may not be consistent with these values and standards.
The respective roles of the Ombuds Office, the Office of the General Counsel, Human Resources, the Audit Division and the Institute’s Anonymous and Confidential Reporting System (“hotline”) will be covered in this session.
Sponsor(s): Audit Division, Presidents Office, MIT Human Resources
Contact: John Dvorak, NE49-3021, 617 452-3577, DVORAK@MIT.EDU
Kent Summers, Jim Noschese, MIT Venture Mentoring Service Volunteer Mentor
Jan/10 | Thu | 01:00PM-05:00PM | Stata Center 32-141 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/08
Limited to 75 participants
Prereq: none
Contact: Roberta McCarthy, 10-358, x8-0720, rmccar@mit.edu
Mark Porter '05, Certified Financial Planner, Andrew Percey '95, MNG '96, Founder, Prometheus Web Solutions
Jan/10 | Thu | 04:30PM-05:30PM | 34-101 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Starting and growing your own business can be tremendously rewarding. But it involves much more than just offering a product or service. How do you manage your personal finances if you haven't received significant funding? What do you need to know about employees and taxes? How do you create an online presence that will drive revenue and growth? Come learn the essentials regarding:
• Taking advantage of changing tax brackets during start-up
• Efficient use of your personal funds
• Managing payroll and taxes
• Building the optimal website for your business
• Attracting your target customers to your website
• Finding the best resources for your web design and marketing
The first half of this seminar will focus on small business finances and is taught by Mark Porter '05, certified financial planner. The second half will focus on promoting your business online and is taught by Andrew Percey of Prometheus Web Solutions. The seminar will last 60 minutes with Mark and Andrew available afterwards for additional questions.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Mark Porter '05, Certified Financial Planner, Andrew Percey '95, MNG '96, Founder, Prometheus Web Solutions
Jan/16 | Wed | 06:00PM-07:00PM | 34-101 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Starting and growing your own business can be tremendously rewarding. But it involves much more than just offering a product or service. How do you manage your personal finances if you haven't received significant funding? What do you need to know about employees and taxes? How do you create an online presence that will drive revenue and growth? Come learn the essentials regarding:
• Taking advantage of changing tax brackets during start-up
• Efficient use of your personal funds
• Managing payroll and taxes
• Building the optimal website for your business
• Attracting your target customers to your website
• Finding the best resources for your web design and marketing
The first half of this seminar will focus on small business finances and is taught by Mark Porter '05, certified financial planner. The second half will focus on promoting your business online and is taught by Andrew Percey of Prometheus Web Solutions. The seminar will last 60 minutes with Mark and Andrew available afterwards for additional questions.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Fady Saad, Shirish Nilekar
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 50 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: none
Majority of startups fail because of managerial issues, and mainly because managers fail to see the organizational system. This practical and concise activity will explore the different lifecycle phases an organization goes through, and the changing needs in each phase. At the end of this activity, students will be able to see the complete startup system and the interdependency between its elements
Sponsor(s): Engineering Systems Division
Contact: Fady Saad, 617 386 9861, FADY@MIT.EDU
Jan/09 | Wed | 06:00PM-08:00PM | E51-085 | |
Jan/10 | Thu | 06:00PM-08:00PM | E51-085 | |
Jan/11 | Fri | 06:00PM-08:00PM | E51-085 | |
Jan/12 | Sat | 06:00PM-08:00PM | E51-085, potential optional session |
Fady Saad, Shirish Nilekar
Partha Gosh, Global Strategist and Policy Advisor
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/09
Limited to 85 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Interest in leadership in any field
Leadership is a common buzzword in many fields, and a desirable trait for all employers. But what really constitutes an effective leader? How can you tap into your own potential and lead with authenticity? Don't miss this opportunity to build your leadership skills and learn about yourself through a five-day seminar taught by renewed global strategist and policy advisor and MIT alum Partha S. Gosh.
Day 1: Understanding what makes a person an effective leader: “The art of becoming”
Day 2: Listening to your inner voice: Avoiding self deception? Know thy self
Day 3: Developing a 360 degree perspective on the emerging possibilities: Sensing your passion in the universe
Day 4: Internalizing the 21 golden rules in cultivating the essentials of leadership
Day 5: Crafting your agenda in seeking self-fulfillment
Seminar web site: http://psgleadership.scripts.mit.edu/2013IAP/
RSVP by 1/9 to kjulian@mit.edu
Sponsor(s): Office of Undergrad. Advising/Academic Programming, Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education
Contact: Katherine Julian, 7-103, 617 253-9764, KJULIAN@MIT.EDU
Jan/10 | Thu | 09:30AM-12:30PM | E51-315 | |
Jan/11 | Fri | 09:30AM-12:30PM | E51-315 | |
Jan/14 | Mon | 09:30AM-12:30PM | E51-315 | |
Jan/15 | Tue | 09:30AM-12:30PM | E51-315 | |
Jan/16 | Wed | 09:30AM-12:30PM | E51-315 |
Partha Gosh - Global Strategist and Policy Advisor
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