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The Human Side of Technology Ralph Katz Mon, Wed, Fri, Jan 10, 13, 15, 17, 22, 24, 27, 29, 08-11:00am, E51-325 Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class. Limited to 80 participants. Listeners allowed, space permitting Prereq: Permission of instructor Level: G 9 units Standard A - F Grading Examines the human side of managing technical professionals and teams throughout innovative processes, including micro and macro issues. Topics include motivational commitment and performance; dealing with complacency; understanding the relationships among innovation, change, motivation, and uncertainty; managing creative individual contributors; effective recognition and reward systems; leading decision making processes; staffing critical roles and cross-functional relationships; information/knowledge transfer; organizational diagnosis for change. Restricted to SDM students; others with permission of instructor. Contact: Ralph Katz, E70-676R, (617) 253-5085, rkatz@mit.edu |
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Special Seminar in Management Leadership Lessons Learned from the Military Leigh Hafrey Mon Jan 27, Tue Jan 28, Wed Jan 29, 09am-03:00pm, E62-276 Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class. Limited to 100 participants. Listeners allowed, space permitting Prereq: Permission of instructor Priority given to current Sloan students and fellows. Level: H 3 units Graded P/D/F Can be repeated for credit Group study of current topics related to management not otherwise included in curriculum. What is it about the military that so frequently produces adaptable and well-rounded leaders in a variety of civilian settings? How can we leverage military leadership principles to plan for our own leadership development here at Sloan? In this seminar, military, government, and industry leaders, along with MIT Sloan faculty, will address the skills and leadership qualities that can help prepare you to lead in the 21st Century. The purpose of this seminar is to teach students the leadership practices, traits, and mindset that have been successfully used by military leaders and to show how those tools can be applied to civilian leadership and management challenges. Teaching will be done through a combination of methods including lectures, interactive case studies, guest speakers, and training exercises. Contact: Brian Retherford, BReth27@mit.edu |
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Special Seminar in Management The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans Joseph Hadzima, Jr, Joost Bonsen Tue-Thu, Jan 21-23, 28-30, 06-09:00pm, 10-250 Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class. Limited to 200 participants. Listeners allowed, space permitting Prereq: Permission of instructor An interest in new ventures Level: H 3 units Graded P/D/F Can be repeated for credit Group study of current topics related to management not otherwise included in curriculum. The Nuts and Bolts of preparing a Business Plan and launching a New Venture will be explored in this 25th annual course offering. The course is open to members of the M.I.T. Community and to others interested in entrepreneurship. Recommended for persons who are interested in starting or are involved in a new venture, including social development ventures. Persons planning to enter the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition should find the course particularly useful. Historically approximately 50% of the class has been from Sloan and 50% from the Science, Engineering and Architecture Schools. This "cross-school" course has resulted in the formation of $100K Competition Teams and a number of successful startups. Open to all departments and schools. Web: http://nutsandbolts.mit.edu/ Contact: Teaching Assistant, nutsandbolts-ta@mit.edu |
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Special Seminar in Management Spec Sem in Mgmt: From MIT to CEO: Technologists Leading Startup Ventures Noubar Afeyan Tue Jan 7, Wed Jan 8, Thu Jan 9, 03-06:00pm, E51-345 Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class. No listeners Prereq: Permission of instructor Level: G 1 units Graded P/D/F Can be repeated for credit Group study of current topics related to management not otherwise included in curriculum. Startup ventures form a special class of enterprise that translates innovations into commercial offerings often disrupting large markets. This course will focus on the characteristics, requirements and role of a technologist-CEO in a startup. We will analyze the role from many points of view including as chief strategist, fundraiser, recruiter, motivator, promoter, market developer, sales person, visionary, communicator and paranoid optimist. Contact: Eliza Deland, E40-160, (617) 253-9632, edeland@mit.edu |
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Special Seminar in Management Special Seminar Social Entrepreneurship: The Story of One Laptop Per Child. Charles Kane Mon Jan 13 thru Thu Jan 16, 03-06:00pm, E51-376 Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class. No listeners Prereq: Permission of instructor Level: G 2 units Graded P/D/F Can be repeated for credit Group study of current topics related to management not otherwise included in curriculum. This course explores the challenges and successes of the social entrepreneurship adventure "One Laptop Per Child". The project involved many engineering, business, and distribution decisions that one would encounter in any other social entrepreneurship venture. The professors explore and describe the current state and future vision of the project. Students are invited to participate in helping impact the direction of the future of the project. Students should sign up on Websis by December 20, 2013. \\*\\*Student are require to purchase "Learning to Change the World: The social impact of one laptop per child." by Charles Kane and Walter Bender. Kindle copies are available via Amazon.com and some copies may be available at the MIT Press or MIT Coop. Contact: Eliza Deland, E40-160, (617) 253-9632, edeland@mit.edu |
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Special Seminar in Management Negotiation and Influence Jared Curhan Wed Jan 29, Thu Jan 30, 08am-05:00pm, E62-262 Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class. Limited to 85 participants. No listeners Prereq: Level: U 2 units Graded P/D/F Can be repeated for credit Group study of current topics related to management not otherwise included in curriculum. No matter how excellent your ideas or how sophisticated your analyses, most significant achievements require the ability to communicate with and influence others. The purpose of this course is to equip undergraduates with negotiation strategies that they can use to understand, plan for, and achieve their objectives in a variety of situations. The course will entail extensive personalized feedback, tips for efficient pre-negotiation planning, and plenty of opportunities for students to practice and hone their negotiation skills. Negotiation is something you learn by doing. This course utilizes games, simulations, videos, lectures, and discussion. Negotiation examples are drawn not only from the business sector, but also from student and family life. Contact: Scott Alessandro, E48-547, (617) 253-6296, salessan@mit.edu |
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Special Seminar in Management SSIM: IT for Green: Social Responsibility and Commercial Opportunity Cancelled Jason Jay, John Pflueger Mon Jan 6, Wed Jan 8, Fri Jan 10, 10am-04:00pm, E62-221 Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class. Limited to 32 participants. Listeners allowed, space permitting Prereq: Permission of instructor Level: H 2 units Graded P/D/F Can be repeated for credit Group study of current topics related to management not otherwise included in curriculum. The environmental and natural resource challenges of this century are serious and accelerating. Fortunately, our capacity to solve problems is also accelerating with the rapid advancement of Information and Communication Technology. By some estimates, ICT can mitigate carbon emissions equivalent to 7x the sector's end-to-end footprint, through smarter systems: in buildings and cities, supply chains and transportation, energy, water, and agriculture, to name a few opportunities. We will investigate application of ICT to environmental issues, and help students develop new solutions. The result will be business model concepts, and proposals for the MIT Climate CoLab's active contests. Instructor: John Pflueger, Ph.D. is an MIT alum and Dell's Principal Environmental Strategist. He has worked on Energy Efficiency and Sustainability since 2006. John represents Dell on The Green Grid's Board of Directors and served as chairman of TGG's technical committee from 2007 to 2011. Meets: Jan 6-10: MWF, 10-4 PM & TH, 1/2 hr team session w/ Instr Contact: Jason Jay, E62-362, (617) 253-0594, jjay@mit.edu |
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Special Seminar in Management Distributed Leadership Workshop Deborah Ancona, Thomas Malone, Wanda Orlikowski Schedule: TBD Selection by departmental lottery. Do not pre-register on WebSIS. Enter lottery by: 20-Dec-2013 Limited to 45 participants. No listeners Prereq: Permission of instructor Level: H 6 units Graded P/D/F Can be repeated for credit Group study of current topics related to management not otherwise included in curriculum. Do you want to improve your abilities as a leader? This workshop focuses on the key leadership capabilities needed in today's increasingly decentralized organizations: sensemaking, relating, visioning, and inventing. Through conceptual discussions, small group exercises, and self-reflection, the workshop will help you develop your leadership capabilities, evaluate your leadership strengths and weaknesses, understand better your values and aspirations as a leader, and practice developing your leadership skills in interactions with class members. Schedule (all sections meet in E62-233) Section A: Jan 7 & 8, 8:30am-6pm, Jan 9, 8:30am-3:30pm Section B: Jan 14 & 15, 8:30am-6pm, Jan 16, 8:30am-3:30pm Section C: Jan 21 & 22, 8:30am-6pm, Jan 23, 8:30am-3:30pm Pre-register through Sloan bidding website: https://sloanbid.mit.edu/registrar-student/ Bidding open: Dec. 2 Web: https://sloanbid.mit.edu/registrar-student/Home.tap Contact: Wanda Orlikowski, E62-418, (617) 253-0443, wanda@mit.edu |
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Special Seminar in Management SSIM: Scaling the Social Entrepreneurship Venture Jason Jay, Robert H. Hacker Tue Jan 21 thru Fri Jan 24, 03-05:00pm, E51-376 Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class. Listeners allowed, space permitting Prereq: Permission of instructor Level: H 2 units Graded P/D/F Can be repeated for credit Group study of current topics related to management not otherwise included in curriculum. In this one week course we will unpack the myths and economics of social entrepreneurship in an effort to find a heuristic for successful "social" ventures. Much of the professor's thinking on the subject was inspired by his three years as CFO at One Laptop per Child Association and previous lectures and January courses taught at Sloan on SE. Starting with a definition of SE built around the framework of value creation-value capture, the course looks at five critical uses of capital and how they shape the tradeoff in value and the resultant form of entrepreneurship. Contact: Jason Jay, E62-362, (617) 253-0594, jjay@mit.edu |
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Special Seminar in Management Software Tools for Operations Research Dimitris Bertsimas, Vishal Gupta, Iain Dunning Tue, Thu, Jan 7, 9, 14, 16, 21, 23, 28, 30, 09am-12:00pm, E62-250, Jan. 9 meets in E51-335 Selection by departmental lottery. Do not pre-register on WebSIS. Enter lottery by: 01-Jan-2014 Limited to 36 participants. Listeners allowed, space permitting Prereq: Permission of instructor or 15.093J Level: H 3 units Graded P/D/F Can be repeated for credit Group study of current topics related to management not otherwise included in curriculum. The "big data revolution" has placed added emphasis on computational techniques in Operations Research (OR). Large-scale optimization, data analysis and visualization are now commonplace among researchers and practitioners alike. More than ever, there is a need not only to develop new techniques, but also to implement and use them. This course is a multi-session workshop focusing on software tools specific to the practice of OR. We concentrate on the mechanics of using common software to apply specific methodologies. Topics covered include data analysis and visualization using [R], using linear and mixed-integer optimization solvers, parallel computing and techniques for handling massive datasets. (See Stellar for details) Class participation, group code-reviews and individual hands-on coding are stressed in each session. The course culminates with a multi-session project illustrating how the tools can be combined to create a simple "software as a service" website. Meets Tuesdays and Thursdays. Contact: Iain Dunning, idunning@mit.edu |
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Special Seminar in Management The Business of Robotics William Aulet, Matt Beane Mon Jan 13, 08:30am-05:00pm, E62-233 Selection by departmental lottery. Do not pre-register on WebSIS. No listeners Prereq: Permission of instructor Level: H 1 units Graded P/D/F Can be repeated for credit Group study of current topics related to management not otherwise included in curriculum. Hype and hopes are high for robotics in business. This intensive workshop is devoted to helping us separate the two. We will generate answers through our own research, and we will be joined by a panel of outside experts - from industry, robotics firms, academia and beyond. This field is changing rapidly, so our main goal will be to generate new knowledge that these experts should find interesting. The basic design of the workshop will include a brief orienting lecture at the beginning of the day. You will be responsible for some advance reading so we can move quickly. The panel will also occur in the morning, and the afternoon will be an "unconference" where you will collectively determine your research focus and plans. A research report will be due by the end of IAP, and will be included in a shared set of research findings, available to all participants. Express your interest in participating using the link below. Web: http://goo.gl/1UIFhX Contact: Matt Beane, E62-370, mbeane@mit.edu |
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Special Seminar in Managaement Operations for Entrepreneurs Charles Fine Mon Jan 27, Tue Jan 28, Wed Jan 29, ??-??:00am, See schedule below Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class. Limited to 50 participants. Listeners allowed, space permitting Prereq: Permission of instructor Level: H 4 units Standard A - F Grading Can be repeated for credit Group study of current topics related to management not otherwise included in curriculum. This class will use a series of cases in development to explore the issues and principles for building operations capabilities in entrepreneurial organizations. We will have several guests who are principals or founders of entrepreneurial organizations. Students taking the class for credit will be required to complete short case write-ups. Schedule: Mon, 1/27 9AM - 2PM, E51-395 Tues, 1/28 1PM - 6PM, E51-145 Wed, 1/29 9AM - 2PM, E51-395 Contact: Charles Fine, E62-466, (617) 253-3632, charley@mit.edu |