Organizations & Leadership

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MIT OCW
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Introduction to System Dynamics
Prof. John Sterman
Introduction to systems thinking and system dynamics modeling applied to strategy, organizational change, and policy...
Management Operations Systems Engineering
advanced
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Introduction to Lean Six Sigma Methods
Earll Murman
This course covers the fundamental principles, practices and tools of Lean Six Sigma methods that underlay modern...
Engineering Systems Thinking Health Care Management
intermediate
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free
New Enterprises
William Aulet
This course covers the process of identifying and quantifying market opportunities, then conceptualizing, planning,...
Entrepreneurship Startups/New Enterprises Management
advanced
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U-Lab: Leading Profound Innovation for a More Sustainable World
Dr. Claus Otto Scharmer
15.975 U-Lab: Leading Profound Innovation for a More Sustainable World is an interactive and experiential class...
Adaptation and Resilience Climate Science Communication
advanced
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Leadership Lab
Dr. Claus Otto Scharmer
This five-day interactive and experiential workshop focuses on how leaders lead innovations that both promote social...
Organizations & Leadership Strategy & Innovation Business & Management
advanced
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Advanced Communication for Leaders
Prof. Neal Hartman
This course introduces interactive oral and interpersonal communication skills critical to leaders, including...
Management Communication Organizations & Leadership
advanced
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Adaptive Markets: Financial Market Dynamics and Human Behavior
Prof. Andrew Lo
Economists can’t agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient, as modern financial theory...
Marketing Finance & Accounting Economics
advanced
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Organizational Leadership and Change
Janice Klein
15.317 Organizational Leadership and Change focuses on practical experience that blends theory and practice....
Operations Organizations & Leadership Business & Management
advanced
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Power and Negotiation
Ofer Sharone
This course provides understanding of the theory and processes of negotiation as practiced in a variety of settings....
Management Organizations & Leadership Business & Management
advanced
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The Art and Science of Negotiation
Prof. David Laws
This course provides an introduction to bargaining and negotiation in public, business, and legal settings. It...
Sociology Organizations & Leadership Social Sciences
intermediate
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Strategic Management I
Rohan Sahani
This course focuses on some of the important current issues in strategic management. It will concentrate on modern...
Management Organizations & Leadership Business & Management
advanced
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Game Theory for Strategic Advantage
Alessandro Bonatti
This course develops and applies principles of game theory relevant to managers’ strategic decisions. Topics include...
Management Economics Organizations & Leadership
advanced
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Negotiation and Conflict Management
Prof. Mary Rowe
Negotiation and Conflict Management presents negotiation theory – strategies and styles – within an employment...
Management Communication Organizations & Leadership
advanced
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Communication for Managers
Prof. Neal Hartman
In this course, students develop and polish communication strategies and methods through discussion, examples, and...
Management Communication Organizations & Leadership
advanced
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Building and Leading Effective Teams
Prof. John Carroll
This course is an intensive one-week introduction to leadership, teams, and learning communities. The class meets...
Management Organizations & Leadership Psychology
advanced
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Bioethics
Prof. Caspar Hare
This course does not seek to provide answers to ethical questions. Instead, the course hopes to teach students two...
Philosophy Organizations & Leadership Public Health
intermediate
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Leadership Development
Dava Newman
Students work in a seminar environment to enhance their leadership capabilities. An initial Leadership Laboratory...
Organizations & Leadership Business & Management
advanced
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System Dynamics Self Study
Prof. Jay Forrester
Many books and thousands of papers cover the field of system dynamics. With all of these resources available, it can...
Engineering Systems Thinking Management
advanced
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Practical Leadership
Pat Bentley
Practical Leadership is an interactive seminar where students receive repeated coaching and real-time feedback on...
Communication Organizations & Leadership Social Sciences
advanced
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MIT Sloan Teaching Resources Library
MIT Sloan Faculty
Sloan’s Teaching Resources Library provides open access to case studies and management simulations for management...
Entrepreneurship Startups/New Enterprises Organizations & Leadership
beginner
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Getting Things Implemented: Strategy, People, Performance, and Leadership
Prof. Xavier de Souza Briggs
An old saying holds that “there are many more good ideas in the world than good ideas implemented.” This is a case...
Management Urban Studies Organizations & Leadership
advanced
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System Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World
James E. Paine
This one-day workshop provides a brief overview of system dynamics and a hands-on simulation experience. It also...
Management Operations Organizations & Leadership
advanced
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Management Accounting and Control
Prof. Joseph Weber
This course examines management accounting and related analytical methodologies for decision making and control in...
Finance & Accounting Operations Organizations & Leadership
advanced
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Technology Strategy for System Design and Management
Michael A. M. Davies
This course provides you with a framework to understand the structure and dynamics of high-tech businesses, together...
Marketing Management Operations
advanced
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Technology Strategy
Prof. Jason Davis
This course provides a series of strategic frameworks for managing high-technology businesses. The emphasis...
Marketing Management Organizations & Leadership
advanced
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Networks, Complexity and Its Applications
Prof. Cesar Hidalgo
Networks are a ubiquitous way to represent complex systems, including those in the social and economic sciences. The...
Art, Design & Architecture Engineering Media Studies
advanced
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Organizing for Innovative Product Development
Heng Xu
This course introduces new product development. Topics include technology transfer, relations between science and...
Systems Engineering Organizations & Leadership Strategy & Innovation
advanced
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The Law of Mergers and Acquisitions
Dr. John Akula
This course is designed to give students an introduction to the law-sensitive aspects of Mergers & Acquisitions...
Management Finance & Accounting Law
advanced
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Strategic HR Management
Prof. Diane Burton
This course is about both the design and execution of human resource management strategies. This course has two...
Organizations & Leadership Management Business & Management
advanced
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System Dynamics II
Prof. John Sterman
Continuation of 15.871, emphasizing tools and methods needed to apply systems thinking and simulation modeling...
Systems Thinking Management Operations
advanced
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Facilitative Leadership in the Public Sector
Prof. Lawrence Susskind
This four-part dinner series was created by Prof. Lawrence Susskind at the request of a group of students in MIT’s...
Policy and Administration Urban Studies Communication
advanced
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Strategic Organizational Design
Prof. Thomas Malone
15.320 Strategic Organizational Design focuses on effective organizational design in both traditional and innovative...
Management Organizations & Leadership Strategy & Innovation
advanced
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Organizational Economics
Prof. George Baker
This course in organizational economics prepares doctoral students for further study in the field. The course...
Economics Organizations & Leadership Social Sciences
advanced
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Game Theory for Managers
Prof. David McAdams
This half-term course examines the choices that we make which affect others and the choices others make that affect...
Management Economics Organizations & Leadership
advanced
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The Economics of Information: Strategy, Structure and Pricing
Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson
15.567 The Economics of Information provides an analysis of the underlying economics of information with management...
Digital Business & IT Economics Organizations & Leadership
advanced
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Organizational Processes
Prof. John Van Maanen
Organizational Processes enhances students’ ability to take effective action in complex organizational settings by...
Management Organizations & Leadership Business & Management
advanced
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Advanced Strategy
Prof. Rebecca Henderson
This course draws on a wide range of perspectives to explore the roots of long term competitive advantage in...
Entrepreneurship Startups/New Enterprises Operations
advanced
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Team Project
Prof. John Carroll
The Team Project has the goals of (1) developing teamwork and leadership skills and (2) learning from the analysis...
Management Organizations & Leadership Strategy & Innovation
advanced
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Competitive Decision-Making and Negotiation
Prof. Gordon Kaufman
This course aims to develop negotiation skills by active participation in a variety of negotiation settings, and a...
Management Organizations & Leadership Business & Management
advanced
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Introduction to Technology and Policy
Prof. Dan Ross
This course explores perspectives in the policy process - agenda setting, problem definition, framing the terms of...
Policy and Administration Operations Organizations & Leadership
advanced
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Managerial Psychology
Prof. John Carroll
This course introduces you to behavioral science theories, methods, and tools and provides opportunities to use and...
Management Organizations & Leadership Psychology
intermediate
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Power: Interpersonal, Organizational and Global Dimensions
Prof. Susan S. Silbey
Using examples from anthropology and sociology alongside classical and contemporary social theory, this course...
Sociology Philosophy Anthropology
intermediate
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Executing Strategy for Results
Donald Sull
This course provides business students an alternative to the mechanistic view of strategy execution that reframes an...
Entrepreneurship Startups/New Enterprises Management
advanced
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Engineering Ethics
Dr. Taft Broome
This course introduces the theory and the practice of engineering ethics using a multi-disciplinary and...
Engineering Philosophy Organizations & Leadership
advanced
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Comparative Grand Strategy and Military Doctrine
Prof. Barry Posen
This course will conduct a comparative study of the grand strategies of the great powers (Britain, France, Germany...
Humanities History Political Science
advanced
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Unmanageability: Pathless Realities and Approaches
Gabriel Kahan
Over the last 40 years, new managerial technologies in Western democratic societies have emerged to dominate our...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Media Studies
advanced
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Analyzing Projects and Organizations
Prof. Judith Tendler
This course teaches students how to understand the rationality behind how organizations and their programs behave,...
Policy and Administration Sociology Political Science
advanced
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Management Communication for Undergraduates
Dr. Lori Breslow
The goal of this course is to help students learn to communicate strategically within a professional setting....
Management Organizations & Leadership Business & Management
intermediate
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Designing and Leading the Entrepreneurial Organization
Prof. Diane Burton
This subject is about building, running, and growing an organization. Subject has four central themes: How to think...
Startups/New Enterprises Management Organizations & Leadership
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Social Studies of Bioscience and Biotech
Prof. Byron Good
In this course, social, ethical and clinical issues associated with the development of new biotechnologies and their...
Engineering Economics Biological Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Managing the Innovation Process
Prof. Jonathon Cummings
This course approaches “managing the innovation process” through five levels of analysis: individual, team, network,...
Management Organizations & Leadership Strategy & Innovation
advanced
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free
Communicating in Technical Organizations
Dr. Edward C. Barrett
This course focuses on an exploration of the role that communication plays in the work of the contemporary...
Communication Literature Organizations & Leadership
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Lean Enterprise en Español
Earll Murman
Este curso contiene un subconjunto de material en español del curso 16.660J (en Inglés). Para la versión en Inglés,...
Health Care Management Operations Organizations & Leadership
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Organizations and Environments
Prof. Pablo Boczkowski
The goal of this doctoral course is to familiarize students with major conceptual frameworks, debates, and...
Anthropology Economics Political Science
advanced
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free
Technology, Law, and the Working Environment
Prof. Charles Caldart
This course addresses the relationship between technology-related problems and the law applicable to work...
Engineering Organizations & Leadership Law
advanced
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free
Organizations as Enacted Systems: Learning, Knowing and Change
Dr. Peter Senge
The course is structured around a core of fundamental concepts concerning how we view organizations, and the...
Organizations & Leadership Strategy & Innovation Business & Management
advanced
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free
Leadership Stories: Literature, Ethics, and Authority
Prof. Leigh Hafrey
This course explores how we use story to articulate ethical norms. The syllabus consists of short fiction, novels,...
Management Literature Humanities
advanced
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free
The Sociology of Strategy
Prof. Ezra Zuckerman
This seminar provides an introduction to scholarship in a growing research community: the sociologists and...
Sociology Management Organizations & Leadership
advanced
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free
New Executive Thinking Social-Impact Technology Projects
Dr. Anjali Sastry
This customized independent study course puts Sloan Fellows MBA students into direct contact with innovators...
Startups/New Enterprises Management Organizations & Leadership
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Special Seminar in Communications: Leadership and Personal Effectiveness Coaching
Prof. Christine Kelly
This course builds on the work done concurrently in 15.280 Communication for Managers and 15.311 Organizational...
Management Communication Organizations & Leadership
advanced
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free
IT and Business Transformation
Prof. Cyrus Gibson
The purpose of this Proseminar in Information Technology and Business Transformation (ITBT) is to provide students...
Digital Business & IT Management Organizations & Leadership
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Proseminar in Manufacturing
Prof. Donald Rosenfield
This course provides an integrative forum for operations and manufacturing students and is the focus for projects in...
Operations Organizations & Leadership Strategy & Innovation
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Understanding Military Operations
Prof. Owen Cote
This course examines selected past, current, and future sea, air, space, and land battlefields and looks at the...
Policy and Administration Organizations & Leadership Social Sciences
advanced
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free
Cross-Cultural Leadership
Pat Bentley
Cross Cultural Leadership is a collaborative research seminar that examines what constitutes “effective” leadership...
Anthropology Organizations & Leadership Social Sciences
advanced
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free
Advanced Research Seminar in System Dynamics:
Prof. Hazhir Rahmandad
Doctoral-level advanced research seminar in system dynamics modeling with a focus on social, economic, and technical...
Engineering Systems Thinking Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Managerial Psychology Laboratory
Prof. Dan Ariely
We function in our personal and professional lives based on knowledge and intuitions. Our intuition that we know a...
Management Organizations & Leadership Psychology
intermediate
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free
People and Organizations
Prof. Thomas A. Kochan
15.668 People and Organizations examines the historical evolution and current human and organizational contexts in...
Management Organizations & Leadership Business & Management
intermediate
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free
Integrating eSystems & Global Information Systems
Prof. Stuart Madnick
The strategic importance of information technology is now widely accepted. It has also become increasingly clear...
Data Science Digital Business & IT Electrical Engineering
intermediate
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free
Economic Institutions and Growth Policy Analysis
Prof. Michael Piore
This course is designed for students particularly concerned with the practical problems of operating in large formal...
Policy and Administration Economics Organizations & Leadership
advanced
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free
Innovation in Military Organizations
Prof. Barry Posen
This seminar has three purposes. One, it inquires into the causes of military innovation by examining a number of...
History Policy and Administration Organizations & Leadership
advanced
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free
Dynamic Leadership: Using Improvisation in Business
Prof. Lakshmi Balachandra
The first two weeks of this course are an overview of performing improvisation with introductory and advanced...
Management Communication Organizations & Leadership
advanced
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free
Leading Organizations II
Prof. John Van Maanen
Through lectures, discussions, and class exercises, 15.322 analyzes the human processes underlying organizational...
Management Sociology Organizations & Leadership
advanced
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free
Literature, Ethics and Authority
Prof. Alvin Kibel
Our subject is the ethics of leadership, an examination of the principles appealed to by executive authority when...
Anthropology Literature Philosophy
advanced
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free
Leadership Tools and Teams: A Product Development Lab
Prof. Deborah Ancona
In this class you will be creating a leadership development tool for students like yourselves in the leadership...
Management Organizations & Leadership Business & Management
advanced
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free
Ethical Practice: Leading Through Professionalism, Social Responsibility, and System Design
Prof. Leigh Hafrey
This course offers an introduction to ethics in business, with a focus on business management. Students explore...
Management Organizations & Leadership Business & Management
advanced
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free
Strategic Management II
Prof. Arnoldo Hax
This course is intended to be an extension of course 15.902 Strategic Management I, with the purpose of allowing the...
Management Organizations & Leadership Business & Management
advanced
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free
Managing Transformations in Work, Organizations, and Society
Prof. Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
The course focuses on skills managers need to adapt to current sweeping changes in the nature of work and the...
Management Organizations & Leadership Business & Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Gender, Power, Leadership and the Workplace
Dr. Elena Mendez Escobar
The course will focus primarily on contemporary discourses concerning gender inequality. Most of the readings...
Gender Studies Organizations & Leadership Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series: Topics in Medical Ethics and Responsible Conduct in Research
Dr. Jonathan Rosen
This seminar based course explores techniques for recognizing, analyzing, and resolving ethical dilemmas facing...
Humanities Philosophy Organizations & Leadership
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Managing Global Integration
Prof. José Santos
This course on global integration brings together matters of global markets and institutions, global strategy,...
Management Organizations & Leadership Business & Management
advanced
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free
The Aerospace Industry
Earll Murman
This course meets weekly to discuss recent aerospace history and current events, in order to understand how they are...
Humanities History Operations
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Work, Employment, and Industrial Relations Theory
Prof. Thomas A. Kochan
This seminar will cover the multi-disciplinary theoretical and empirical foundations of research on work,...
Organizations & Leadership Management Economics
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Technology Policy Negotiations and Dispute Resolution
Prof. Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
Technology Policy Negotiations and its prequel, ESD.932, Technology Policy Organizations, form a sequence on...
Policy and Administration Communication Organizations & Leadership
advanced
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free
Individuals, Groups, and Organizations
Prof. John Carroll
This class develops basic concepts for understanding individual, group, and organizational behavior through the...
Sociology Organizations & Leadership Psychology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Global Health Innovation: Delivering Targeted Advice to an Organization in the Field
Dr. Anjali Sastry
In this three-day workshop, students will get a broad introduction to global health issues. We will look at one...
Health Care Management Management Organizations & Leadership
advanced
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free
Architecture and Communication in Organizations
Prof. Diane Burton
While no businesses succeed based on their architecture or space design, many fail as a result of inattention to the...
Management Communication Architecture
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Technology Policy Negotiations
Prof. Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
This course features a core framework for an interest-based, problem-solving approach to technology, logistics and...
Engineering Policy and Administration Systems Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Planning & Institutional Processes in Developing Countries
Prof. Judith Tendler
This introductory course helps students learn to pose questions and analyze problems in the field of planning in...
Economics Organizations & Leadership Policy and Administration
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Shaping the Future of Work (15.662x)
Prof. Thomas A. Kochan
The goal of this course is to explore and develop plans of action for improving the job and career opportunities for...
Policy and Administration Management Economics
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Managing and Volunteering In the Non-Profit Sector
Prof. Paul Osterman
This is a course intended to give students a broad overview of the management challenges of the non-profit sector....
Policy and Administration Management Organizations & Leadership
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Systems Leadership and Management Praxis
Michael A. M. Davies
SLaM (Systems Leadership and Management) Praxis is a course is designed to introduce students to the dynamics of...
Management Organizations & Leadership Strategy & Innovation
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Technology Policy Organizations
Prof. Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
Technology Policy Organizations and its sequel, ESD.933, Technology Policy Negotiations and Dispute Resolution, form...
Organizations & Leadership Business & Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Urban Labor Markets and Employment Policy
Prof. Paul Osterman
This subject discusses the broader trends in the labor market, how urban labor markets function, public and private...
Management Economics Organizations & Leadership
advanced