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.
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.
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.
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|Modules--A Working List] : 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
- Anjali's working list of people to connect with