Welcome to the working space for MIT Sloan Practicing Management

We're working on a new course to start October 2006.
We're also connecting with related work already underway at Sloan and MIT, while mapping out new ideas in collaboration with students, staff, and faculty that build on our unique traditions and strengths.

MIT has always been all about learning by doing. In 1860, its founders announced that "the most earnest co-operation of intelligent culture with industrial pursuits" would be the new 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.

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 Practicing Management, MIT Sloan tudents start changing the world while they're here.

Learn about the new course.

How we are creating an MIT Sloan education in which every student can learn by innovating? In the spirit of learning by practicing, we are devising new experiments in conjunction with MIT Sloan students, faculty, and staff, with the aim of developing new things rapidly and learning as we go. Three linked efforts are already underway: mapping out the key ideas and framework for Practicing Management; specifics on the course plan; and connecting this effort with others underway at MIT Sloan. Please note that many of these pages are just initial drafts or working notes.

"Preparation-action-reflection" basic framework. A cut at the learning spiral idea. Links to research on learning. A (potential) vision for Practicing Management.
Practicing Management Course. A new course based on the preparation-action-reflection-framework.
Connecting this effort. Collecting ideas, connecting people and experiences, and working to enable practicing management thoughout the curriculum and MIT Sloan experience.

Working documents
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, listing courses, workshops, other opportunities
Anjali's working list of people to connect with, notes from conversations, etc
What some other B schools are doing in this area
Background to this idea and effort
This is a joint effort involving students, faculty, staff, and alumns. Get involved!

MIT Sloan graduates have a real impact on the world. What's your impact?