TEACHING
Political Science Subjects
17.878 | Quantitative Research: Design and Methods
Seminar explores the development and application of qualitative research designs and methods in political analysis. Considers a broad array of approaches, from exploratory narratives to focused-comparison case studies, for investigating plausible alternative hypotheses. The focus is on analysis, not data collection.
17.188J | Labor and politics
Examines issues facing labor in today's global world through research and reading. Recent developments (globalization, liberalization, privatization) have created a mix of opportunities and risks for labor in most developing countries. On the one hand, these trends have encouraged foreign direct investment and the diffusion of global supply chains, which in turn, have promoted economic development and job growth for some groups of workers in some of these countries. On the other hand, globalization and liberalization have undermined social safety nets, eroded labor and environmental standards, and resulted in greater rates of poverty for other groups of workers in other developing countries. How do we explain these differences? What kinds of policies can be promoted to more evenly distribute the benefits of globalization? Subject seeks to address these two questions.
Sloan Subjects
15.913 | Strategies for Sustainable Business Lab (S-Lab)
Focuses on the "live" project during which participants will work in groups of three to four people with an organization that has requested the Sloan School's help in thinking through an issue related to sustainability. Prior projects have included work with large companies like Disney, Intel and Nike, smaller companies like Good Energies, GoLoCo and Green Fuel Technologies and NGOs like Clinton Climate Initiative, US Business Council for Sustainable Development, and MiBanco. Past projects have developed new tools or approaches, structured new strategies for organizational sustainability, and assessed market opportunities.
15.915 | Sustainable Business Lab (S-Lab)
Focuses on the "live" project during which participants will work in groups of three to four people with an organization that has requested the Sloan School's help in thinking through an issue related to sustainability. Prior projects have included work with large companies like Disney, Intel and Nike, smaller companies like Good Energies, GoLoCo and Green Fuel Technologies and NGOs like Clinton Climate Initiative, US Business Council for Sustainable Development, and MiBanco. Past projects have developed new tools or approaches, structured new strategies for organizational sustainability, and assessed market opportunities.
15.389 | Global Health Delivery (G-lab)
Global Entrepreneurship Lab (G-Lab) is the flagship international internship course offered at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
G-Lab is a mix of classroom learning matched with a global internship in an emerging market. Teams of MBA students work with host companies around the world in essentially a 4-month, unpaid mini-consulting project. Host companies set the project focus. That is, our teams work on the problems host companies want to fix.
Currently G-Lab is focusing on young, entrepreneurial firms and organizations in three areas: Latin America, the Asia-Pacific region, and Global Health Delivery in Africa.
