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This innovative course has three linked objectives: 1)
- to equip you to be the most effective manager you can be;
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- to develop skills for learning from every experience; and
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- to enable you to start making a difference while you're still here by 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.
We'll work on this cycle via team projects.
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Projects for 15.990 should:
- Be substantial enough to support the collaborative work of team of at least four students (please note that teams will be formed in the class);
- Involveinteractions with multiple stakeholders within a host organization;
- Center on a problem that cannot be solved simply by research, analysis, or application of off-the-shelf frameworks;
- Depend on the design and execution of "mini experiments" that test hypotheses and gather data to advance learning;
- Depend on innovation---your mini-experiments should represent a new, untested strategy for your host, helping them move beyond the limits of preexisting infrastructure.
Can I do my own project? Can I select my own team?
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Please email Ashley Chiampo (ashley@mit.edu) to apply for the course. We are accepting students on a rolling basis. Please send the following :
- 2 or 3 paragraphs explaining why you would like to take this class---specifically, what you would like to learn.;
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- if you have an idea in mind, instead send a 1-page project proposal that addresses our project criteria.