What, exactly, is Praxis@MIT Sloan?
At its heart, Praxis@MIT Sloan has one goal: to help turn even more good ideas into even more effective action. At MIT Sloan, we tell our students we expect them to change the world. With Praxis@MIT Sloan, we ask them to start while they're here – and to build the skills to keep getter better even after they leave.
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.
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
