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After a year at MIT Sloan and a summer internship, you've learned and practiced analyzing problems, generating solutions, and making recommendations. Yet the most effective managers go further: they know how to actually get things done. In 15.990: Practicing Management you'll develop, apply, and refine the skills, tools, and approaches essential for doing just that. The centerpiece of the course is a real-world project that offers the ideal laboratory for you to become more effective as a manager.

What's the approach taken by this course?

This innovative course has three linked objectives: 1) to equip you to be the most effective manager you can be; 2) to develop skills for learning from every experience; and 3) to enable you to start making a difference while you're still hereby designing and working on a project that goes beyond consulting to the manager's iterative cycle of strategy, implementation, evaluation, strategy, implementation.... a cycle that principled, innovative leaders use with their teams to improve the world.

The course combines interactive in-class exercises, lively discussion, focused lectures, small-group meetings, consultations with experts and practitioners, novel web-based tools, and, of course, work within an organization, MIT group or lab on a real problem for which practical management solutions are urgently needed.

How is 15.990 different from GLab?

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