IAP 2014 Activities by Sponsor - Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program -UPOP

Ann Guo, Ph.D. '99, Career Coach

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/06
Limited to 25 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None

Have you obsessed over the big career question over the years and find yourself going in circles?  As a career coach and an MIT alum, I can relate to your hopes and frustrations.   In this 2-day bootcamp, we will take a step back and start from first principles.  With an open mind and no prior expectations, we will work our way through a systematic approach to career decision making that breaks the problem down into bite-sized chunks.  At the end of the class, we will form peer coaching groups where you commit to helping one another for the next semester, so you stay on course long after the class is over.  

 By the way, here is my career trajectory: Course 6 --> PhD in Artificial Intelligence --> Startup Founder --> Product Manager --> Quant Finance Recruiter --> Career Coach.   As you can see, I have gone through many career transitions myself.  

 Bring your laptop!

 If the registration is full, please send an email to anyuan@alum.mit.edu with "IAP" as the subject line and your career question.  I will add you to the waitlist. 

Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ojoIvcsKNE2QiNfJnVMgiF1Gkr6iH2yZUtux3_T-GN0/viewform

Sponsor(s): Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program -UPOP
Contact: Amy Shea, 33-413, 617 253-3251, AMYSHEA@MIT.EDU

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2-Day Career Exploration Bootcamp

Jan/08	Wed	01:00PM-06:00PM	66-144
Jan/22	Wed	01:00PM-06:00PM	66-144

Richard Sheridan, CEO, Menlo Innovations

Jan/15

Wed

06:00PM-08:00PM

50 Morss Hall

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/15
Limited to 200 participants

Learn what focusing on Joy can do for your company. Richard Sheridan, CEO and

 

 

 

Sponsor(s): Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program -UPOP
Contact: Kate Moynihan, 35-316, 617-253-0041, KATEJM@MIT.EDU

Rich Sheridan, CEO and Chief Storyteller, Menlo Innovations

Jan/15

Wed

06:00PM-08:00PM

50-Morss Hall, 142 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/15
Limited to 200 participants

Learn what focusing on Joy can do for a company!

Polly LaBarre of The MIX will interview author Rich Sheridan about his newly released book Joy, Inc. - How We Built a Workplace People Love.
 
Inc. magazine recently named Sheridan’s Menlo Innovations the "Most Joyful Company in America" and 800-CEO-READ named Joy, Inc. "Management Book of the Year".

Menlo Innovations has flipped the most slavishly followed tenets of “modern” organization and turned itself into a laboratory for churning out clever alternatives. There is no chain of command at Menlo. There are no bosses, no managers, no secrets, no rules, no walls, and no fear. What they have instead are a series of clever mechanisms and radically practical approaches to cultivating collaboration, collective decision-making, focus, and performance. This is why we’re delighted to be hosting a live, in-person Maverick Hangout with Menlo Innovations co-founder and CEO, Richard Sheridan on Wednesday, January 15th at 6pm-8pm on MIT's Campus. We’ll dive into the principles behind building a joy-based culture, talk about what it means to unleash so much freedom, experimentation, openness and amp up productivity, ingenuity, and alignment at the same time. And we’ll get into the details of Menlo’s redesign of so many core management practices.

Copies of the book will be available for sale at the event. Attendance is open to the public at no charge. There will be light refreshments.

To register: http://upop.mit.edu/events/view/?id=618

Sponsor(s): Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program -UPOP
Contact: Kate Moynihan, 30-316, 617-253-0041, KATEJM@MIT.EDU

Dick Schulze

Jan/14

Tue

05:15PM-06:45PM

1-150

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/14
Limited to 40 participants

UPOP Mentor Dick Schulze ’67 presents an entertaining look at some amusing – and some technological breakthrough – patents of the past, talks about how to get started on patenting your own breakthrough inventions, and takes a peek at where the U.S. patent system is going in the 21st Century.

From San Francisco, Dick is an MIT graduate in electrical engineering and the University of Chicago law school. He is licensed to practice law in California, Colorado, Nevada, and South Dakota, and before the US Patent & Trademark Office. Following service as an Air Force JAG and as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Howard Turrentine in San Diego, he engaged in a general law practice in San Diego, later specializing in intellectual property. For 19 years he was with Hewlett-Packard Co. and its successor Agilent Technologies as Managing Counsel in Intellectual Property, supervising a staff of company attorneys and legal assistants in California, Colorado, Singapore, and Germany. Following his retirement from Agilent in 2007, he became Of Counsel to Holland & Hart in Reno and Special Counsel to Evergreen Valley Law Group of Bangalore, India. In May 2011 he returned to HP for a brief stint as IP Counsel before retiring in the fall of 2012.

Dick has two grown children and four grandchildren. When not practicing law, he can be found passionately pursuing his second profession as a snowboard instructor at Northstar-at-Tahoe Ski Resort.  

 

To register: http://upop.mit.edu/events/view/?id=608

 

Sponsor(s): Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program -UPOP
Contact: Kate Moynihan, 35-316, 617 253-0041, KATEJM@MIT.EDU

John Chisholm

Jan/29

Wed

05:15PM-06:45PM

E25-111

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/29
Limited to 50 participants

You want to start your own business, but where do you start?  What can you do that hasn't already been done?  How can you build the self-confidence to take the plunge?  Do you need a co-founder?  When is the right time to raise money?  How can you scale your business?  Is starting a for-profit business the most ethical thing you can do?  
 This fast-paced, one-hour workshop will answer these questions and more.  You'll learn how to: 

- See dozens of customer needs in areas you are passionate about

- Recognize your many advantages for starting your business

- Assess the fits between each need and your advantages

- Overcome doubts and insecurities that hold you back.

This workshop will help you spend the rest of your life doing what you love, creating security for yourself, and making the world a better place. 

"Before [John's workshop], startups always seemed so distant. Now I realize I have all the resources I need."  - Ben, MIT class of '14

John Chisholm '75, CEO - John Chisholm Ventures (www.johnchisholmventures.com) has started two software companies in the last two decades.  Decisive Technology (now part of Google) was the first company to automate surveys online; CustomerSat (now part of Confirmit) was a leader in enterprise feedback management.  He is President Select of the MIT Worldwide Alumni Association, serves on the MIT Corporation Development Committee, and chairs the MIT Club of Northern California.

To register http://upop.mit.edu/events/view/?id=612

Sponsor(s): Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program -UPOP, Alumni Association
Contact: Kate Moynihan, 35-316, 617 253-0041, KATEJM@MIT.EDU