What, exactly, is Praxis@MIT Sloan?

• 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,
  • a semester-long course for second years
  • web-based materials
  • opportunities for community interaction via meetings, discussions, workshops
  • more to come!
• An emerging kit of practical tools useful for turning ideas into high-level action.
• A forum dedicated to the value of practice:
  • appreciating 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
  • a practice field for building insight and testing ideas via simulation, experimentation, testing
  • a setting in which students can practice essential skills in the context of their current work