When we work with organizations to build custom executive programs, we draw on the core approaches used across MIT that advance the frontiers of management, science, and technology. While each MIT Sloan custom program is distinct, all are powered by three essential engines.
Productive collaborations are potent agents of change. When we work with your organization to develop a custom program, we begin by putting together a team of MIT Sloan's top business minds with your organization's best managers. We bring together subject expertise from across MIT to meet your specific needs. You bring your company's imperatives, culture, and purpose. Together, we collaborate to tailor the program to address your organization's own challenges and goals.
MIT is first and foremost a research institute, and MIT Sloan faculty lead the world in management thinking and research. The concepts and frameworks taught by our faculty in your custom program are based on the faculty's cutting-edge research. This expertise offers combinations of strategic management, leadership, and innovation with science, engineering, and technology, enabling participants to be more effective in today's complex, global, and technology-driven world. Our faculty's frameworks provide your participants with new ways to think about doing business, new perspectives for analyzing challenges, and new approaches for solving problems.
It is critical to apply theory in the context of complex, real company issues. One approach we offer is the “deep dive” case in which we introduce your own organization's real data and source materials as company-specific cases to be analyzed by teams of participants. We often invite the real-life player to offer his or her perspective on the case. Another powerful approach is to have group projects between sessions. Back at work between sessions, your participants work on team projects mentored by faculty to apply what they have learned to sponsored initiatives that result in recommendations for change or innovation in your company. These approaches increase the depth and breadth of the learning and return real outcomes for the company.
“This program has become a think tank for our participants to step back from business as usual and develop a broader understanding of what's going on in other areas of our organization and throughout the industry. Participants examine industry trends and brainstorm key objectives for the future direction of the company.”
Serge Panczuk
Corporate HR Director
Serono International, Switzerland
The MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership is a life-changing experience for the mid-level executives who embark on the powerful one-year MBA program.
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