What, exactly, are Practicing Management and praxis@MIT Sloan?

We're calling this webspace dedicated to helping MIT Sloan students hone their own personal practice of management praxis@MIT Sloan. praxis@MIT Sloan offers a starting point for learning about tools, frameworks, and skills that enable effective action, and fits into a uniquely MIT Sloan approach to connecting learning with practice that we label Practicing Management.

At its heart, Practicing Management has one goal: to help turn even more good ideas into even more effective action. To that end, praxis@MIT Sloan is building and sharing the tools for turning ideas into action, drawing on the science, the art, and the practice of effective management. 

Our resources are vast: the passion and smarts of our students, faculty, and every member of the MIT Sloan community; the rigor, theory, and research embedded in our curriculum and embodied in our faculty's work; and MIT's rich tradition of engaging in the real world, generating new ideas as well as new solutions to old problems. 

Practicing Management/praxis@MIT Sloan is:

• A team of faculty, staff, and interested students working together to design ways to build the personal effectiveness of every student at MIT Sloan.
• A collaborative project to develop a holistic approach to learning that builds on MIT's and Sloan's most vital traditions of rigor and theory blended with real-world tests and experience.
• A set of learning opportunities:
  • an evening seminar series focused on key management skills
  • a semester-long course in which second-year MBA students turn ideas into action while honing skills and insight
  • web-based materials for self-study and use by any student, team, or class
  • opportunities for community interaction via meetings, discussions, workshops
  • more to come!
• An emerging kit of practical management tools useful for turning ideas into high-level action.
• A forum dedicated to the value of practice:
  • appreciating, and learning from, the practice of management as exemplified by the best leaders and managers
  • helping every student to develop his or her own personal practice of management - habits, skills, and approaches that work for you
  • a practice field for building insight and testing ideas via simulation, experimentation, testing
  • a setting in which students practice essential skills in the context of their current work
    
    

MIT Sloan is the world leader in combining theory and practical application. We tell our students we expect them to change the world. With Practicing Management, we ask them to start while they're here - and to build the skills to keep getting better even after they leave.