Global MIT Sloan

Global Entrepreneurship Lab

G-Lab is the flagship international internship course at MIT Sloan. The course links teams of MIT Sloan MBA students with entrepreneurs in emerging markets from Ghana to India, Uruguay to Vietnam. The students share their knowledge, experience and research with these business owners, helping them deal with such immediate challenges as internationalization commercialization, financing, and marketing. Meanwhile, the students gain experience in global environments and put their management skills to use.

In recent years, G-Lab has focused increasingly on developing markets in China, India, and Southeast Asia. Students work with a variety of high-potential firms in an array of industries—an online video portal in Shanghai, an IT outsourcing firm in Bangalore, a vegetable oil producer in the Philippines, a venture capital firm in Vietnam. Host companies praise the G-Lab students’ professionalism, commitment, and analytical skills. In the words of one CEO, “How do I feel about G-Lab? Very simple: I want another team.”