China Lab

For 10 years, Project Teams of MIT Sloan MBA students visited the Chinese campuses participating in the MIT-China Management Education Project to teach IMBA students about career-related issues not usually included in their curriculum. In Spring 2008, Project Team was replaced with China Lab, a new stage in collaborative student activity. Working in small IMBA-MBA teams, 32 students enrolled at the Chinese universities and 24 at MIT Sloan undertook three-month internships that embraced classroom-based education, social activities, company visits, and work together in teams with 12 Chinese entrepreneurial firms. All of the students spent time together in both countries. Many also earned course credit. In Spring 2009, 24 IMBA students and 24 MBA students participated in China Lab.