Information for Students
G-Lab’s components parallel the Think-Act-Reflect architecture of MIT Sloan’s Action Learning model.
Class
- 15.389 Global Entrepreneurship Lab: Emerging Markets
- Term: Fall + January Independent Activities Period (IAP)
- Format: lectures and lab/project
- First half of term (H1): Classes covering various aspects of global entrepreneurship
- Second half of term (H2): Remote project work
- IAP: onsite project work and deliverables
Project
- Four-month team project on company-defined real-world problems
- Four MIT Sloan MBA students per team
- Companies and teams negotiate project scope, schedule, and deliverables
- Teams work remotely with companies from September through December
- Teams work full-time on site for at least 15 consecutive business days in January
Deliverables
- Written recommendations, analyses, and tools to senior management in January
- Team project posters for Action Learning event during first week of February
