Action Learning
Fall 2020 Action Learning Lab Updates
15.572 A-Lab
A-Lab will include both in-person and remote sessions. Pitch day will likely be remote or a combination of remote and in-person.
15.399 E-Lab
E-lab offers students that are interested in entrepreneurship the opportunity to work on projects with a startup and its founders. You don’t need entrepreneurship experience. You will learn how to scope a project, talk to customers (or potential customers), deal with ambiguity and learn how to work in a constantly changing environment with a diverse team with different backgrounds and skills.
The startups will present a number of projects to choose from in the areas of a new customer segment, new applications for a product, financial analysis of sales opportunities etc. Great opportunity to gain first hand experience of what it is like to work in a startup on a project that is meaningful to the leadership team in an area you are interested.
15.830 EM-Lab
Enterprise Management (EM) Lab classes in Fall 2020 will be primarily online with a couple of onsite class meetings to facilitate students meeting with their team members and the teaching team. We expect Fall 2020 to be another intellectually invigorating and fun experience bringing together conceptual learning with deep real world experience supporting your personal, pedagogical, and professional goals.
Enterprise Management (EM) Lab is the flagship Action Learning course of the Enterprise Management (EM) Track. EM Lab represents a partnership between MIT Sloan and leading organizations around the world. Small teams of students work on live projects sourced from leading global companies and emergent innovative leaders. The goal of every EM Lab project is to implement the track vision by developing students’ abilities to solve today’s most pressing business challenges through a holistic cross-functional approach which integrates strategy, operations, marketing and financial considerations. The projects are integral to supporting four career paths including Product & Innovation Management, Rotational Leadership Programs, Functional roles in Marketing, Supply Chain, & Operations Management, and Strategic Management Consulting. Sample host companies have included Amazon, Biogen Idec, BMW, Cisco Systems, Dell, General Electric, Google, IBM, Lilly Pulitzer, Mars, NASDAQ, Nike, Nokia, NPR, Mercedes-Benz, Oxfam, Proctor & Gamble, Reebok, and Verizon.
15.451 & 15.452 Finance Proseminars
The Finance Proseminars are one-semester Action Learning courses that offer students experience in the complex task of developing and communicating solutions to the challenging financial problems facing businesses today. Students work in teams to tackle issues posed by company sponsors and present findings to the company sponsor and their fellow classmates. Both Proseminars will be fully remote.
15.451 Proseminar in Capital Markets/Investment Management
The Proseminar in Capital Markets/Investment Management gives students the opportunity to work on real problems posed by industry leaders from investment management. Sample companies include: PIMCO, State Street, T. Rowe Price, Norges Bank, and GIC.
15.452 Proseminar in Corporate Finance/Investment Banking
The Corporate Finance/Investment Banking Proseminar bridges the gap between finance theory and practice, and introduces students to the broader financial community.
Sample companies include: Bain Private Equity, Carlyle, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, McKinsey, and Citi Ventures.
15.389 G-Lab - now Back to Growth Lab (B2G-Lab)
15.389 G-Lab, Global Entrepreneurship Lab, has been rebuilt and rebranded as 15.389 B2G-Lab, Back to Growth Lab, for 2020-2021. Teams of 4 grad students will as always work closely with leading emerging and frontier market scaleups during the fall. Although international IAP student travel isn’t permitted currently, we’ve activated our global network of transformative CEOs and other leaders. We’ll be creating authentic market understanding—cultural, geopolitical and financial—through virtual treks in class sessions hosted by local unicorn founders and other key ecosystem players. We’ve also called in lots of favors to create TopTier Connect sessions—unfiltered, off the record, small group sessions with world-changing B2G-Lab entrepreneurs and leaders, in team-based gatherings. These insights are in addition to the core entrepreneurial experience of each B2G-Lab team’s strategic growth project with one host company.
There is no IAP component this year.
Questions? B2G-labFaculty@mit.edu or http://actionlearning.mit.edu/b2g-lab
15.777 H-Lab
Healthcare Lab will be 100% remote (lectures, recitations, and projects). Many projects will be COVID-19 related, focusing on changes in healthcare operations, analytics, organizational designs, and health technologies and telemedicine resulting from COVID-19. Many of our guest speakers work on the front lines of the COVID-19 response in healthcare, public health, government, and insurance. They will be discussing both their current activities and innovations as well as highlighting how health systems are changing and will need to continue to adapt to the pandemic and post-pandemic reality.
Lectures are MW 6:30 - 8 pm; recitations are Fridays 11-12. Team projects begin during the semester and must be completed by the end of IAP.
15.248 Israel Lab
Students will be working with Israeli companies remotely. Although there will be no travel to Israel, students still have an exciting opportunity to work with companies on real business challenges.
Israel Lab will continue through IAP.