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Information Technology
—Courses and Programs
Course Title
Term
15.320 000
Strategic Organizational Design
Spring
| 9 Cr.
Strategic Organizational Design
Spring
9 Cr.
Focuses on effective organizational design in both traditional and innovative organizations, with special emphasis on innovative organizational forms that take advantage of new information technologies. 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, and other forms of collective intelligence. Team projects include inventing new possibilities for real organizations.
15.561 000
Information Technology Essentials - Foundations of Digitization
Spring
| 9 Cr.
Information Technology Essentials - Foundations of Digitization
Spring
9 Cr.
Emphasizes programming in scripting languages (e.g., Python, R, spreadsheet) within the context of emerging trends underlying current and future uses of information technology (IT) in business. Provides a solid grasp of programming basics and foundations of computing. Other topics include web technologies, database systems, digital experimentation, crowdsourcing, and machine learning.
15.563 J 000
Artificial Intelligence for Business
Spring
| 9 Cr.
Artificial Intelligence for Business
Spring
9 Cr.
Explores how to design and evaluate products and policy based on artificial intelligence. Provides a functional (as opposed to mechanistic) understanding of the emerging technologies underlying AI. Presents AI's opportunities and risks and how to create conditions under which its deployment can succeed. No technical background required.
15.567 000
The Economics of Information
Spring
| 6 Cr.
The Economics of Information
Spring
6 Cr.
Analysis of the underlying economics of information with business implications. Studies effects of digitization and technology on business strategy and organizational structure. Examines pricing, bundling, and versioning of digital goods, including music, video, software, and communication services. Considers the economic and managerial implications of data-driven decision-making, search, platform competition, targeted advertising, personalization, privacy, network externalities, and artificial intelligence. Readings on fundamental economic principles provide context for industry speakers and case discussions.
15.575 000
Economics of Information and Technology in Markets and Organizations
Spring
| 12 Cr.
Economics of Information and Technology in Markets and Organizations
Spring
12 Cr.
Builds upon relevant economic theories and methodologies to analyze the changes in organizations and markets enabled by digital technologies. Examines information economics, labor economics, industrial organization and price theory, growth theory, intangible asset valuation, incomplete contracts theory, and design of empirical studies. Extensive reading and discussion of research literature explores the application of these theories to business issues with relevant guest speakers. Students will complete a final research paper and presentation. Primarily for doctoral students.
15.580 000
Seminar in Information Technology: Focused on Cybersecurity
Spring
| 9 Cr.
Seminar in Information Technology: Focused on Cybersecurity
Spring
9 Cr.
Group study of current topics related to information technology.
15.S03 000
SSIM: Behavioral Science 2.0: Taking on the Crises and Emerging Victorious
Spring
| 12 Cr.
SSIM: Behavioral Science 2.0: Taking on the Crises and Emerging Victorious
Spring
12 Cr.
Opportunity for group study by graduate students on current topics related to management not otherwise included in curriculum.
15.S68 000
SSIM: Generative AI for Managers
Spring
| 6 Cr.
SSIM: Generative AI for Managers
Spring
6 Cr.
Group study of current topics related to management not otherwise included in curriculum.
Programs
Information Technology does frontier research on the economic, business and organizational implications of digital technologies. PhD Program participants are expected to acquire a solid grasp of underlying information technologies and principles of information theory, along with their organizational and economic implications. Students and faculty address research questions raised by the emerging digital economy, the transformation of organizations and markets, and opportunities for new business models.
IT is inherently multi-disciplinary. Study in this area utilizes faculty with backgrounds in economics, management science, computer science, organizational behavior and psychology. The MIT Center for Digital Business, the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence and the MIT Center for Information Systems research are among the resources available to students to conduct innovative IT research in a wide variety of areas.
