Welcome to the working space for the MIT Sloan Practicing Management project. We're working on a new course to be offered 2006-2007, and we're also developing links to other efforts at MIT Sloan and to elsewhere at MIT.
Practicing Management @MIT Sloan: Transforming the world through people, ideas, and action
MIT has always been all about learning by doing. In 1860, its founders announced their commitment to mens et manus, placing "the most earnest co-operation of intelligent culture with industrial pursuits" at the center of the Institute's mission.
Today MIT Sloan is ready to redefine management education. By charting new learning architectures, focusing on action and real-world practice, and inventing new ways to collaborate, we are helping our students to learn by innovating. Not only is such experience valuable because students apply what they have learned in the classroom, but also because by taking action, making things happen, and creating new solutions to problems, they develop as managers, change agents, and leaders.
How we are creating an MIT Sloan education in which every student can learn by innovating?In the spirit of learning by innovating, we are devising new experiments in conjunction with MIT Sloan students, faculty, and staff. Three linked efforts are already underway.
- "How to get it done" course. A new course that supports existing project-based learning experiences.
- New, emergent projects. A new projects course in which students and faculty co-create projects related to sustainability that are linked to work already taking place on campus or nearby.
- Capability development. Build connections, knowledge, and capabilities to make project-based learning more effective.
Want to learn more about the whole idea? Start here.
Tasks, connections, and other updates? Current activities. Creating the community.
What is the Practicing Management approach to education? Students prepare, act, and reflect on their experience, learning what it means to work with and through others to get things done. MIT students have always set out to change the world. With the new Practicing Management project, we're helping them to start changing the world while they're here.
some of the things planned for this internal site:
- modules: our collective list of things we'd like to offer students while they are here
- eventually, we'll have a page for each module with notes, readings, exercises, etc that we can all contribute to
- matrix of modules: our mapping of the ways in which students get to learn about these things while they are here, lisiting modules in the Practicing Management course, Leadership, CDO workshops, communications/OP, etc
- practicing management rough notes and emerging ideas to share
- evolving course plan for Practicing Management
- draft vision statement for Practicing Management
- context: background info, archives and links