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3.00 Credits
Focuses on effective organizational design in both traditional and innovative organizations, with special emphasis on innovative organizational forms that can provide strategic advantage. Topics include when to use functional, divisional, or matrix organizations; how IT creates new organizational possibilities; examples of innovative organizational possibilities, such as democratic decision-making, crowd-based organizations, internal resource markets, and other forms of collective intelligence. Team projects include inventing new possibilities for real organizations.
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Prereq: None
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4.00 Credits
Analyzes through lectures, discussions, and class exercises, the human processes underlying organizational behavior. Restricted to MIT Sloan Fellows in Innovation and Global Leadership.
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Prereq: None
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2.00 Credits
Provides students opportunities to meet senior executives of private and public institutions, and discuss key management issues from the perspective of top management. Students prepare detailed briefings identifying and analyzing important management issues facing these organizations. Seminar includes a one week field trip to a domestic location. Restricted to MIT Sloan Fellows in Innovation and Global Leadership.
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Prereq: None
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2.00 Credits
Continuation of subject 15.325 on the identification and analysis of important management issues. Students prepare briefings and meet with senior government and international leaders during field trips in selected international areas. Restricted to MIT Sloan Fellows in Innovation and Global Leadership.
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Prereq: 15.325
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
No course description available.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
Group study of current topics related to organizational studies.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Develops basic concepts for understanding individual, group, and organizational behavior through critical analysis of important works in the field. Areas covered: individual affect and cognition; group process and performance; and organizational culture and adaptation. Emphasizes use of behavioral science concepts for stimulating new and useful organizational behavior research. Primarily for doctoral candidates in the Sloan School of Management.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Provides an introduction to research in "organizations and environments," an interdisciplinary domain of inquiry drawing primarily from sociology, and secondarily from economics, psychology, and political science. Seeks to understand organizational processes and outcomes in the surrounding economic, cultural, and institutional context in which they are situated. Also provides an introduction to the main groups that together form the Behavioral Policy Sciences (BPS) area of MIT/Sloan, including economic sociology, organization studies, work and employment, strategic management, global management, and technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Consists of four modules taught by faculty from each of the four BPS groups, as well as integrative sessions taught by the main instructor. Preference to first-year doctoral students in BPS.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Examines changing relations among work, organizations, and society and their implications for management and sustainability. Focuses on the skills managers need to build and lead sustainable organizations and to adapt to increasing workforce diversity; modular, dispersed and team-based work systems; and customer-employee interactions in a service-based economy. Discusses the role of the corporation in society, its responsibilities to multiple stakeholders, and interactions with community groups, labor market institutions, and national and global governmental bodies. Students conduct an action-based research project in an organization of their choice.
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Prereq: None
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2.00 Credits
A professional seminar for doctoral students to report on their research, work on their thesis proposals, and practice their job talks. Also addresses general professional issues such as publishing, searching for jobs, the academic career, etc.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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