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Hands-On Deep Learning
Prof. Rama Ramakrishnan
This is a fast-paced introduction to deep learning with an emphasis on developing a practical understanding of how...
Business & Management
Digital Business & IT
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
advanced
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free
Mathematics of Big Data and Machine Learning
Dr. Jeremy Kepner
This course introduces the Dynamic Distributed Dimensional Data Model (D4M), a breakthrough in computer programming...
Business & Management
Digital Business & IT
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
intermediate
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free
Topics in Mathematics with Applications in Finance
Dr. Peter Kempthorne
This is an updated version of 18.S096 Topics in Mathematics with Applications in Finance from Fall 2013. Please...
Business & Management
Finance & Accounting
Science & Math
intermediate
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free
Product Design and Development
Prof. Matthew Kressy
Product Design and Development is a project-based course that covers modern tools and methods for product design and...
Business & Management
Marketing
Operations
advanced
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free
Finance Theory I
Prof. Andrew Lo
This course introduces the core theory of modern financial economics and financial management, with a focus on...
Business & Management
Finance & Accounting
Social Sciences
advanced
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free
Blockchain and Money
Prof. Gary Gensler
This course is for students wishing to explore blockchain technology’s potential use—by entrepreneurs and...
Business & Management
Finance & Accounting
Digital Business & IT
advanced
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free
FinTech: Shaping the Financial World
Prof. Gary Gensler
This course about financial technology, or FinTech, is for students wishing to explore the ways in which new...
Business & Management
Finance & Accounting
Strategy & Innovation
advanced
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free
Introduction to System Dynamics
Prof. John Sterman
Introduction to systems thinking and system dynamics modeling applied to strategy, organizational change, and policy...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Operations
advanced
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free
Nuts and Bolts of New Ventures
Joseph Hadzima
For 36 years, Nuts and Bolts of New Ventures has been taught during the January Independent Activities Period (IAP)...
Business & Management
Entrepreneurship
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
advanced
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free
Analytics of Finance
Prof. Leonid Kogan
This course covers the key quantitative methods of finance: financial econometrics and statistical inference for...
Business & Management
Finance & Accounting
Social Sciences
advanced
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free
Nonlinear Optimization
Prof. Gabriele Farina
This course offers a unified analytical and computational approach to nonlinear optimization problems. Unconstrained...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Data, Models, and Decisions
Prof. Robert Freund
This course is designed to introduce first-year Sloan MBA students to the fundamental techniques of using data. In...
Business & Management
Supply Chain
Operations
advanced
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free
Design and Manufacturing II
Prof. Jung-Hoon Chun
This course introduces you to modern manufacturing with four areas of emphasis: manufacturing processes,...
Business & Management
Operations
Systems Thinking
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Real Estate Finance and Investment
Prof. David Geltner
This course is an introduction to the most fundamental concepts, principles, analytical methods and tools useful for...
Art, Design & Architecture
Real Estate
Business & Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Toy Product Design
Prof. David Wallace
Toy Product Design is an introduction to the product design process with a focus on designing for play and...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Engineering
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Operations
intermediate
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free
Investments
Prof. Reto Gallati
The focus of this course is on financial theory and empirical evidence for making investment decisions. Topics...
Business & Management
Finance & Accounting
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Financial Management
Prof. Jonathan Lewellen
Financial Management studies corporate finance and capital markets, emphasizing the financial aspects of managerial...
Business & Management
Finance & Accounting
Management
advanced
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free
Entrepreneurial Marketing
Prof. Jin Gyo Kim
This course clarifies key marketing concepts, methods, and strategic issues relevant for start-up and early-stage...
Business & Management
Entrepreneurship
Marketing
advanced
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free
Optimization Methods
Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas
This course introduces the principal algorithms for linear, network, discrete, nonlinear, dynamic optimization and...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Science & Math
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Financial Accounting
Prof. S. P. Kothari
This six-week summer course teaches basic concepts of corporate financial accounting and reporting. This information...
Business & Management
Finance & Accounting
Management
advanced
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free
Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Prof. David Simchi-Levi
This course surveys operations research models and techniques developed for a variety of problems arising in...
Business & Management
Supply Chain
Operations
advanced
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free
Performance Engineering of Software Systems
Prof. Charles Leiserson
6.172 is an 18-unit class that provides a hands-on, project-based introduction to building scalable and...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Database Systems
Prof. Samuel Madden
This course relies on primary readings from the database community to introduce graduate students to the foundations...
Business & Management
Digital Business & IT
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
advanced
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free
Innovation Teams
Prof. Luis Perez-Breva
Do you wonder how technology makes it out of the lab? This course introduces skills and capabilities for real-world...
Business & Management
Entrepreneurship
Strategy & Innovation
advanced
MIT OCW
free
New Enterprises
William Aulet
This course covers the process of identifying and quantifying market opportunities, then conceptualizing, planning,...
Business & Management
Entrepreneurship
Organizations & Leadership
advanced
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free
Supply Chain Planning
Prof. Stephen Graves
15.762J Supply Chain Planning focuses on effective supply chain strategies for companies that operate globally, with...
Business & Management
Supply Chain
Operations
advanced
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free
Pricing
Prof. Catherine Tucker
This course is designed to teach students how to price goods and services by providing a framework for understanding...
Business & Management
Marketing
Operations
advanced
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free
Introduction to Convex Optimization
Prof. Stephen Boyd
This course aims to give students the tools and training to recognize convex optimization problems that arise in...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Science & Math
intermediate
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free
Engineering Design and Rapid Prototyping
Prof. Olivier de Weck
This course provides students with an opportunity to conceive, design and implement a product, using rapid...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Engineering
intermediate
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free
Dynamic Systems and Control
Prof. Emilio Frazzoli
The course addresses dynamic systems, i.e., systems that evolve with time. Typically these systems have inputs and...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Strategy & Innovation
advanced
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free
Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Prof. Fiona Murray
This course discusses the basics every manager needs to organize successful technology-driven innovation in both...
Business & Management
Entrepreneurship
Marketing
advanced
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free
Software Engineering Concepts
Prof. Nancy Leveson
This is a reading and discussion subject on issues in the engineering of software systems and software development...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Fundamentals of Photovoltaics
Prof. Tonio Buonassisi
Fundamentals of photoelectric conversion: charge excitation, conduction, separation, and collection. Lectures cover...
Business & Management
Strategy & Innovation
Science & Math
intermediate
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free
Introduction to Financial and Managerial Accounting
Prof. Sugata Roychowdhury
This course studies basic concepts of financial and managerial reporting. The viewpoint is that of readers of...
Business & Management
Finance & Accounting
Management
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Science and Business of Biotechnology
Prof. Andrew Lo
This course focuses on early-stage biotechnology companies with particular emphasis on understanding the underlying...
Business & Management
Entrepreneurship
Finance & Accounting
advanced
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free
Leadership Lab
Dr. Claus Otto Scharmer
This five-day interactive and experiential workshop focuses on how leaders lead innovations that both promote social...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Strategy & Innovation
advanced
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free
Finance Theory II
Prof. Dirk Jenter
The objective of this course is to learn the financial tools needed to make good business decisions. The course...
Business & Management
Finance & Accounting
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
The Software Business
Prof. Michael Cusumano
This subject is a seminar-style course aimed at anyone who is interested in founding a software company or working...
Business & Management
Entrepreneurship
Digital Business & IT
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Optical Engineering
Prof. George Barbastathis
This course concerns the theory and practice of optical methods in engineering and system design, with an emphasis...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Science & Math
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Operations Management
Prof. Charles H. Fine
Our objective in this course is to introduce you to concepts and techniques related to the design, planning,...
Business & Management
Supply Chain
Operations
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Marketing Strategy
Prof. Birger Wernerfelt
The course is aimed at helping students look at the entire marketing mix in light of the strategy of the firm. It is...
Business & Management
Marketing
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Advanced Communication for Leaders
Prof. Neal Hartman
This course introduces interactive oral and interpersonal communication skills critical to leaders, including...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Business Analysis Using Financial Statements
Prof. Peter Wysocki
The purpose of this class is to advance your understanding of how to use financial information to value and analyze...
Business & Management
Finance & Accounting
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Data Mining
Prof. Nitin Patel
Data that has relevance for managerial decisions is accumulating at an incredible rate due to a host of...
Business & Management
Digital Business & IT
Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Systems Optimization
Prof. John Vande Vate
Managers and engineers are constantly attempting to optimize, particularly in the design and operation of complex...
Business & Management
Supply Chain
Operations
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Principles of Autonomy and Decision Making
Prof. Brian Charles Williams
This course surveys a variety of reasoning, optimization and decision making methodologies for creating highly...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Poker Theory and Analytics
Kevin Desmond
This course takes a broad-based look at poker theory and applications of poker analytics to investment management...
Business & Management
Management
Science & Math
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Entrepreneurial Sales
Lou Shipley
This course outlines the practical and tactical ins and outs of how to sell technical products to a sophisticated...
Business & Management
Entrepreneurship
Marketing
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Entrepreneurial Finance
Prof. Antoinette Schoar
15.431 Entrepreneurial Finance examines the elements of entrepreneurial finance, focusing on technology-based...
Business & Management
Entrepreneurship
Finance & Accounting
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Logistics Systems
Dr. Chris Caplice
This subject is a survey of the fundamental analytic tools, approaches, and techniques which are useful in the...
Business & Management
Supply Chain
Operations
advanced
MIT OCW
free
System Safety
Prof. Nancy Leveson
This course covers important concepts and techniques in designing and operating safety-critical systems. Topics...
Business & Management
Operations
Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Lean/Six Sigma Processes
Prof. Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
Students of this course will develop a broad understanding of Lean/Six Sigma principles and practices, build...
Business & Management
Operations
Systems Thinking
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Systems
Prof. Neville Hogan
This course models multi-domain engineering systems at a level of detail suitable for design and control system...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Marketing
advanced
MIT OCW
free
How to Develop Breakthrough Products and Services
Prof. Eric von Hippel
Firms must develop major innovations to prosper, but they don’t know how to. However, recent research into the...
Business & Management
Entrepreneurship
Strategy & Innovation
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Organizational Leadership and Change
Janice Klein
15.317 Organizational Leadership and Change focuses on practical experience that blends theory and practice....
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Operations
advanced
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free
Data Management
MIT Libraries Data Management
The MIT Libraries Data Management Group hosts a set of workshops during IAP and throughout the year to assist MIT...
Business & Management
Digital Business & IT
beginner
MIT OCW
free
Principles of Optimal Control
Prof. Jonathan P. How
This course studies basic optimization and the principles of optimal control. It considers deterministic and...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Precision Machine Design
Prof. Martin Culpepper
Intensive coverage of precision engineering theory, heuristics, and applications pertaining to the design of systems...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Practice of Finance: Advanced Corporate Risk Management
Prof. John Parsons
This is a course in how corporations make use of the insights and tools of risk management. Most courses on...
Business & Management
Finance & Accounting
Operations
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Power and Negotiation
Ofer Sharone
This course provides understanding of the theory and processes of negotiation as practiced in a variety of settings....
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Optimization Methods in Management Science
Prof. James Orlin
This course introduces students to the theory, algorithms, and applications of optimization. The optimization...
Business & Management
Operations
Systems Thinking
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
System Architecture
Prof. Edward Crawley
This course covers principles and methods for technical System Architecture. It presents a synthetic view including:...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Information Technology Essentials
Prof. Thomas Malone
This class offers a broad coverage of technology concepts and trends underlying current and future developments in...
Business & Management
Digital Business & IT
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization
Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas
The course is a comprehensive introduction to the theory, algorithms and applications of integer optimization and is...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Science & Math
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Marketing Management
Prof. Duncan Simester
This course provides an introduction to the fundamental concepts of marketing, including a customer orientation,...
Business & Management
Marketing
Strategy & Innovation
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Strategic Management I
Rohan Sahani
This course focuses on some of the important current issues in strategic management. It will concentrate on modern...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Game Theory for Strategic Advantage
Alessandro Bonatti
This course develops and applies principles of game theory relevant to managers’ strategic decisions. Topics include...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Consumer Finance: Markets, Product Design, and FinTech
Prof. Jonathan Parker
This course provides a solid understanding of consumer decision-making and how new products and services are...
Business & Management
Finance & Accounting
Strategy & Innovation
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Design of Electromechanical Robotic Systems
Prof. Franz Hover
This course covers the design, construction, and testing of field robotic systems, through team projects with each...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Science & Math
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Negotiation and Conflict Management
Prof. Mary Rowe
Negotiation and Conflict Management presents negotiation theory – strategies and styles – within an employment...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Healthcare Finance (15.482x)
Prof. Andrew Lo
Healthcare Finance (15.482x) provides students with the background, resources, and framework to influence the...
Business & Management
Finance & Accounting
Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Operations Strategy
Prof. Charles H. Fine
15.769 Operations Strategy provides a unifying framework for analyzing strategic issues in manufacturing and service...
Business & Management
Supply Chain
Operations
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Communication for Managers
Prof. Neal Hartman
In this course, students develop and polish communication strategies and methods through discussion, examples, and...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Economic Analysis for Business Decisions
Prof. Ernst Berndt
15.010 is the Sloan School’s core subject in microeconomics, with sections for non-Sloan students labeled 15.011....
Business & Management
Operations
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Bioethics
Prof. Caspar Hare
This course does not seek to provide answers to ethical questions. Instead, the course hopes to teach students two...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Leadership Development
Dava Newman
Students work in a seminar environment to enhance their leadership capabilities. An initial Leadership Laboratory...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
advanced
MIT OCW
free
System Project Management
Prof. Olivier de Weck
Subject focuses on management principles, methods, and tools to effectively plan and implement successful system and...
Business & Management
Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Dynamic Programming and Stochastic Control
Prof. Dimitri Bertsekas
The course covers the basic models and solution techniques for problems of sequential decision making under...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Real Estate Capital Markets
Prof. David Geltner
This half-semester course introduces and surveys the major public capital market real estate vehicles, REITs and MBS...
Art, Design & Architecture
Real Estate
Business & Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Network Optimization
Prof. James Orlin
15.082J/6.855J/ESD.78J is a graduate subject in the theory and practice of network flows and its extensions. Network...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Digital Business & IT
advanced
MIT OCW
free
A Workshop on Geographic Information Systems
Prof. Joseph Ferreira
This class uses lab exercises and a workshop setting to help students develop a solid understanding of the planning...
Business & Management
Digital Business & IT
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
NextLab I: Designing Mobile Technologies for the Next Billion Users
Mr. Jhonatan Rotberg
Can you make a cellphone change the world?
NextLab is a hands-on year-long design course in which students research,...
Art, Design & Architecture
Media Studies
Business & Management
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Operations
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Database, Internet, and Systems Integration Technologies
Dr. George Kocur
This course addresses information technology fundamentals, including project management and software processes, data...
Business & Management
Digital Business & IT
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Power of Place: Media Technology, Youth, and City Design and Development
Prof. Anne Whiston Spirn
This workshop provides an introduction to urban environmental design and explores the potential of information...
Art, Design & Architecture
Architecture
Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Product Engineering Process
Prof. David Wallace
In this hands-on undergraduate class, students work in large teams of approximately 15-20 individuals to design and...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Strategy & Innovation
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Principles of Computer System Design: An Introduction
Jerome H. Saltzer
Principles of Computer System Design: An Introduction is published in two parts. Part I, containing chapters 1-6, is...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Practical Leadership
Pat Bentley
Practical Leadership is an interactive seminar where students receive repeated coaching and real-time feedback on...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Communicating With Data
Prof. John Carroll
Communicating With Data has a distinctive structure and content, combining fundamental quantitative techniques of...
Business & Management
Management
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Finance and Society
Prof. William Deringer
This course provides students with a broad historical and social-scientific introduction to a central aspect of...
Business & Management
Finance & Accounting
Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Operations Management
Prof. Jérémie Gallien
This half-term course introduces students to problems and analysis related to the design, planning, control, and...
Business & Management
Supply Chain
Operations
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Optimization Methods in Business Analytics
Prof. James Orlin
This course will examine optimization through a business analytics lens. Students will learn the theoretical aspects...
Business & Management
Management
Science & Math
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Airline Management
Dr. Peter Belobaba
This course provides an overview of airline management decision processes with a focus on economic issues and their...
Business & Management
Operations
Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Global Health Informatics to Improve Quality of Care
Dr. Ken Paik
This course will explore innovations in information systems for health care delivery in developing countries, and...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Digital Business & IT
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Marketing Management: Analytics, Frameworks, and Applications
Prof. John Hauser
This course helps students develop skills in marketing analysis and planning, and introduces key marketing ideas and...
Business & Management
Marketing
Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
MIT Sloan Teaching Resources Library
MIT Sloan Faculty
Sloan’s Teaching Resources Library provides open access to case studies and management simulations for management...
Business & Management
Entrepreneurship
Organizations & Leadership
beginner
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Manufacturing Systems
Dr. Stanley Gershwin
This course provides ways to analyze manufacturing systems in terms of material flow and storage, information flow,...
Business & Management
Operations
Science & Math
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Logistical and Transportation Planning Methods
Richard C. Larson
The class will cover quantitative techniques of Operations Research with emphasis on applications in transportation...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Manufacturing System and Supply Chain Design
Prof. David Simchi-Levi
15.763J focuses on decision making for system design, as it arises in manufacturing systems and supply chains....
Business & Management
Supply Chain
Operations
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Advanced System Architecture
Dr. Daniel E. Whitney
This course provides a deep understanding of engineering systems at a level intended for research on complex...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Substance Use Disorder Ventures Program
MIT SUD Ventures Team
Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Ventures is an intense and immersive hybrid program, offered through MIT Open...
Business & Management
Entrepreneurship
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Medical Decision Support
Prof. Lucila Ohno-Machado
This course presents the main concepts of decision analysis, artificial intelligence, and predictive model...
Business & Management
Digital Business & IT
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
The Analytics Edge
Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas
This course presents real-world examples in which quantitative methods provide a significant competitive edge that...
Business & Management
Operations
Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Operations
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Just Money: Banking as if Society Mattered
Dr. Katrin Käufer
Do you know what your bank does with your money? What is the role of a bank in producing societal well-being?
This...
Business & Management
Finance & Accounting
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Management Accounting and Control
Prof. Joseph Weber
This course examines management accounting and related analytical methodologies for decision making and control in...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Finance & Accounting
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Patents, Copyrights, and the Law of Intellectual Property
This course is an intensive introduction to the U.S. law of intellectual property with major emphasis on patents,...
Business & Management
Management
Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Law of Corporate Finance and Financial Markets
Dr. John Akula
Much of 15.617 focuses on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and the law-sensitive aspects of financial...
Business & Management
Finance & Accounting
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Management of Services: Concepts, Design, and Delivery
Prof. Charles H. Fine
15.768 Management of Services: Concepts, Design, and Delivery explores the use of operations tools and perspectives...
Business & Management
Supply Chain
Operations
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Engineering Innovation and Design
Blade Kotelly
Learn to produce great designs, be a more effective engineer, and communicate with high emotional and intellectual...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Strategy & Innovation
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Marketing
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Developmental Entrepreneurship
Prof. Alex Pentland
This class surveys developmental entrepreneurship via case examples of both successful and failed businesses and...
Business & Management
Entrepreneurship
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Green Supply Chain Management
Dr. Edgar Blanco
The half-semester graduate course in Green Supply Chain Management will focus on the fundamental strategies, tools...
Business & Management
Supply Chain
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Financial and Managerial Accounting
Prof. George Plesko
15.514 is an intensive introduction to the preparation and interpretation of financial information for...
Business & Management
Finance & Accounting
Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
IDS.333 Risk and Decision Analysis
Prof. Richard de Neufville
The course addresses a fundamental issue in system design and management, the need for engineering leaders to...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Technology Strategy
Prof. Jason Davis
This course provides a series of strategic frameworks for managing high-technology businesses. The emphasis...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Marketing
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Management in Engineering
Prof. Jung-Hoon Chun
This course gives an overview of engineering management and covers topics such as financial principles, management...
Business & Management
Entrepreneurship
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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
Media Studies
Business & Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Organizing for Innovative Product Development
Heng Xu
This course introduces new product development. Topics include technology transfer, relations between science and...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Systems Thinking
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Finance & Accounting
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Strategic HR Management
Prof. Diane Burton
This course is about both the design and execution of human resource management strategies. This course has two...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Biomedical Information Technology
Prof. C. Forbes Dewey
This course teaches the design of contemporary information systems for biological and medical data. Examples are...
Business & Management
Digital Business & IT
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory
Prof. George-Marios Angeletos
This course is a survey of modern macroeconomics at a quite advanced level. Topics include the neoclassical growth...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
System Dynamics II
Prof. John Sterman
Continuation of 15.871, emphasizing tools and methods needed to apply systems thinking and simulation modeling...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Operations
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Early Stage Capital
Prof. Shari Loessberg
If you are an entrepreneur, one of your priorities, in addition to building your company, is ensuring you have...
Business & Management
Entrepreneurship
Finance & Accounting
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Taxes and Business Strategy
Prof. George Plesko
Traditional finance and other business courses analyze a broad spectrum of factors affecting business...
Business & Management
Finance & Accounting
Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Entrepreneurship Without Borders
Michael Casey
This course examines opportunities and problems for entrepreneurs globally, including Europe, Latin America, and...
Business & Management
Entrepreneurship
Finance & Accounting
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Quantifying Uncertainty
Dr. Sai Ravela
The ability to quantify the uncertainty in our models of nature is fundamental to many inference problems in Science...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Combinatorial Optimization
Prof. Santosh Vempala
Combinatorial Optimization provides a thorough treatment of linear programming and combinatorial optimization....
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Space System Architecture and Design
Prof. Daniel Hastings
Space System Architecture and Design incorporates lectures, readings and discussion on topics in the architecting of...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Designing and Sustaining Technology Innovation for Global Health Practice
Prof. Jeffrey Blander
Innovation in global health practice requires leaders who are trained to think and act like entrepreneurs. Whether...
Business & Management
Strategy & Innovation
Science & Math
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Knowledge-Based Applications Systems
Prof. Randall Davis
This course covers the development of programs containing a significant amount of knowledge about their application...
Business & Management
Digital Business & IT
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Macro and International Economics
Prof. Simon Johnson
15.015 Macro and International Economics focuses on the policy and economic environment of firms. This subject...
Business & Management
Finance & Accounting
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Applied Economics for Managers
Prof. Daniel Richards
The fact of scarcity forces individuals, firms, and societies to choose among alternative uses – or allocations – of...
Business & Management
Management
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Financing Economic Development
Prof. Karl Seidman
This course focuses on the tools and programs available to economic development practitioners to address capital...
Business & Management
Finance & Accounting
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Advanced Topics in Real Estate Finance
Prof. David Geltner
This half-semester course introduces and surveys a selection of cutting-edge topics in the field of real estate...
Art, Design & Architecture
Real Estate
Business & Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Strategic Organizational Design
Prof. Thomas Malone
15.320 Strategic Organizational Design focuses on effective organizational design in both traditional and innovative...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Strategy & Innovation
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Robust System Design
Prof. Daniel Frey
This course was created for the “product development” track of MIT’s System Design and Management Program (SDM) in...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Science & Math
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Health Information Systems to Improve Quality of Care in Resource-Poor Settings
Leo A. Celi
This course is a collaborative offering of Sana, Partners in Health, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement...
Business & Management
Strategy & Innovation
Digital Business & IT
advanced
MIT OCW
free
System Optimization and Analysis for Manufacturing
Prof. Stephen Graves
One objective of 15.066J is to introduce modeling, optimization and simulation, as it applies to the study and...
Business & Management
Operations
Systems Thinking
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Spatial Database Management and Advanced Geographic Information Systems
Prof. Joseph Ferreira
This semester long subject (11.521) is divided into two halves. The first half focuses on learning spatial database...
Business & Management
Digital Business & IT
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Organizational Economics
Prof. George Baker
This course in organizational economics prepares doctoral students for further study in the field. The course...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Information Technology I
Prof. Chrysanthos Dellarocas
Information Technology I helps students understand technical concepts underlying current and future developments in...
Business & Management
Digital Business & IT
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Digital Business & IT
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Dynamic Optimization Methods with Applications
Prof. Guido Lorenzoni
This course focuses on dynamic optimization methods, both in discrete and in continuous time. We approach these...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Tools for Analysis: Design for Real Estate and Infrastructure Development
Prof. Richard de Neufville
This course is an introduction to the analytical tools that support design and decision-making in real estate and...
Art, Design & Architecture
Real Estate
Business & Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Information Technology in the Health Care System of the Future
Dr. Bryan Bergeron
This innovative, trans-faculty subject teaches how information technologies (IT) are reshaping and redefining the...
Business & Management
Digital Business & IT
Health & Medicine
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Organizational Processes
Prof. John Van Maanen
Organizational Processes enhances students’ ability to take effective action in complex organizational settings by...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Inventions and Patents
Dr. Robert Rines
This course explores the history of private and public rights in scientific discoveries and applied engineering,...
Business & Management
Entrepreneurship
Strategy & Innovation
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Experimental Projects I
Earll Murman
The Experimental Project Lab in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics is a two-semester course sequence:...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Advanced Strategy
Prof. Rebecca Henderson
This course draws on a wide range of perspectives to explore the roots of long term competitive advantage in...
Business & Management
Entrepreneurship
Organizations & Leadership
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Professional Seminar in Sustainability
Sarah Slaughter
Sustainability challenges organizations to address the implications – and responses – in their own operations and...
Business & Management
Entrepreneurship
Operations
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Engineering Systems Analysis for Design
Prof. Richard de Neufville
Engineering systems design must have the flexibility to take advantage of new opportunities while avoiding...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
The Theory of Operations Management
Prof. Jérémie Gallien
The doctoral seminar 15.764 focuses on theoretical work for studying operations planning and control problems. This...
Business & Management
Supply Chain
Operations
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Team Project
Prof. John Carroll
The Team Project has the goals of (1) developing teamwork and leadership skills and (2) learning from the analysis...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Strategy & Innovation
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Nonlinear Programming
Prof. Robert Freund
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of nonlinear optimization theory and methods. Topics include...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Science & Math
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Multidisciplinary System Design Optimization
Prof. Olivier de Weck
There is need for a rigorous, quantitative multidisciplinary design methodology that works with the non-quantitative...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Special Seminar in Marketing: Marketing Management
Prof. Dan Ariely
The purpose of 15.840 is to:
Introduce key marketing ideas and phenomena.
Develop students’ skills in marketing...
Business & Management
Marketing
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Exploring Sea, Space, & Earth: Fundamentals of Engineering Design
Prof. Alexandra Techet
Student teams formulate and complete space/earth/ocean exploration-based design projects with weekly milestones....
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Engineering
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Seminar in Operations Management
Prof. Charles H. Fine
This seminar will explore the purposes and development of Technology Roadmaps for systematically mapping out...
Business & Management
Supply Chain
Operations
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Strategic Marketing Measurement
Prof. Drazen Prelec
Marketing research may be divided into methods that emphasize understanding “the customer” and methods that...
Business & Management
Marketing
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Technology and Policy
Prof. Dan Ross
This course explores perspectives in the policy process - agenda setting, problem definition, framing the terms of...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Operations
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Managerial Psychology
Prof. John Carroll
This course introduces you to behavioral science theories, methods, and tools and provides opportunities to use and...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Management
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Power: Interpersonal, Organizational and Global Dimensions
Prof. Susan S. Silbey
Using examples from anthropology and sociology alongside classical and contemporary social theory, this course...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Executing Strategy for Results
Donald Sull
This course provides business students an alternative to the mechanistic view of strategy execution that reframes an...
Business & Management
Entrepreneurship
Organizations & Leadership
advanced
MIT OCW
free
S-Lab: Laboratory for Sustainable Business
Prof. John Sterman
How can we translate real-world challenges into future business opportunities? How can individuals, organizations,...
Business & Management
Entrepreneurship
Operations
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Financial Crises
Prof. Alp Simsek
This course is an introduction to the economic theories of financial crises. It focuses on amplification mechanisms...
Business & Management
Finance & Accounting
Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Engineering Ethics
Dr. Taft Broome
This course introduces the theory and the practice of engineering ethics using a multi-disciplinary and...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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
Media Studies
Business & Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Mechanical Assembly and Its Role in Product Development
Dr. Daniel E. Whitney
The course presents a systematic approach to design and assembly of mechanical assemblies, which should be of...
Business & Management
Operations
Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
E-Commerce and the Internet in Real Estate and Construction
Dr. John Macomber
1.464 examines the long term effects of information technology on business strategy in the real estate and...
Art, Design & Architecture
Real Estate
Business & Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Airline Schedule Planning
Prof. Cynthia Barnhart
Explores a variety of models and optimization techniques for the solution of airline schedule planning and...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Form-Finding and Structural Optimization: Gaudi Workshop
Prof. Erik Demaine
Inspired by the work of the architect Antoni Gaudi, this research workshop will explore three-dimensional problems...
Art, Design & Architecture
Architecture
Business & Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Communication System Design
Prof. Vladimir Stojanovic
This course presents a top-down approach to communications system design. The course will cover communication...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Analyzing Projects and Organizations
Prof. Judith Tendler
This course teaches students how to understand the rationality behind how organizations and their programs behave,...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Global Strategy and Organization
Prof. Donald Lessard
Companies today confront an increasing array of choices regarding markets, locations for key activities, outsourcing...
Business & Management
Management
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Management Communication for Undergraduates
Dr. Lori Breslow
The goal of this course is to help students learn to communicate strategically within a professional setting....
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Management
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Integrating the Lean Enterprise
Prof. Deborah Nightingale
This class addresses some of the important issues involved with the planning, development, and implementation of...
Business & Management
Supply Chain
Operations
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Biomedical Computing
Prof. Peter Szolovits
Analyzes computational needs of clinical medicine reviews systems and approaches that have been used to support...
Business & Management
Digital Business & IT
Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Frameworks and Models in Engineering Systems / Engineering System Design
Prof. Joseph Sussman
This class provides an introduction to quantitative models and qualitative frameworks for studying complex...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Energy, Climate & Sustainability
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Generating Business Value from Information Technology
Prof. Jeanne Ross
This course provides concepts and frameworks for understanding the potential impact of information technology (IT)...
Business & Management
Operations
Digital Business & IT
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Prototypes to Products
Mr. Andrew Heafitz
For students and teams who have started a sustainable-development project in D-Lab (EC.701J or EC.720J), Product...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Decision Making in Large Scale Systems
Prof. Daniela Pucci De Farias
This course is an introduction to the theory and application of large-scale dynamic programming. Topics include...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Applications of System Dynamics
Prof. James Hines
15.875 is a project-based course that explores how organizations can use system dynamics to achieve important goals....
Business & Management
Operations
Systems Thinking
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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...
Business & Management
Entrepreneurship
Organizations & Leadership
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Environmental Engineering Applications of Geographic Information Systems
Prof. Daniel Sheehan
This graduate seminar is taught in a lecture and lab exercise format. The subject matter is tailored to...
Business & Management
Digital Business & IT
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Technology-based Business Transformation
Prof. Irving Wladawsky-Berger
This course covers how to leverage major technology advances to significantly transform a business in the...
Business & Management
Marketing
Strategy & Innovation
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Seminar in Corporate Entrepreneurship
Aleksandra J. Kacperczyk
This course addresses the practical challenges of making an established company entrepreneurial and examines various...
Business & Management
Entrepreneurship
Strategy & Innovation
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Biological Engineering Programming
Prof. Andrew Endy
In this course problems from biological engineering are used to develop structured computer programming skills and...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
intermediate
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...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Special Topics in Supply Chain Management
Prof. Brian Subirana
This subject presents a range of advanced topics in integrated logistics and supply chain management. The course was...
Business & Management
Supply Chain
Operations
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,...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Strategy & Innovation
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Law for the Entrepreneur and Manager
Dr. John Akula
This course provides a basic understanding of legal issues that corporations face during their existence. The course...
Business & Management
Entrepreneurship
Management
intermediate
MIT OCW
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...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Managing Nuclear Technology
Prof. Richard Lester
An examination of current economic and policy issues in the electric power industry, focusing on nuclear power and...
Business & Management
Management
Social Sciences
advanced
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,...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Operations
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Reflective Practice: An Approach for Expanding Your Learning Frontiers
Prof. Ceasar McDowell
The course is an introduction to the approach of Reflective Practice developed by Donald Schön. It is an approach...
Business & Management
Strategy & Innovation
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Listening to the Customer
Prof. Drazen Prelec
The 15.821 and 15.822 Sequence
Marketing research may be divided into methods that emphasize understanding “the...
Business & Management
Marketing
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
D-Lab: Supply Chains
Prof. Stephen Graves
This course introduces concepts of supply chain design and operations with a focus on supply chains for products...
Business & Management
Supply Chain
Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Innovative Businesses and Breakthrough Technologies - The Legal Issues
Dr. John Akula
15.616 is an introduction to business law which covers the fundamentals, including contracts, liability, regulation,...
Business & Management
Entrepreneurship
Strategy & Innovation
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Practical Information Technology Management
Prof. Benjamin Grosof
The course purpose is to provide the substance and skill necessary to make sound business decisions relating to...
Business & Management
Operations
Digital Business & IT
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Dynamic Optimization & Economic Applications (Recursive Methods)
Prof. Iván Werning
The unifying theme of this course is best captured by the title of our main reference book: “Recursive Methods in...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Popular Musics of the World
Prof. Patricia Tang
This course focuses on popular music, i.e. music created for and transmitted by mass media. Various popular music...
Art, Design & Architecture
Business & Management
Marketing
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
2nd Summer Introduction to Design
Prof. Alex Slocum
Introduce students to the creative design process, based on the scientific method and peer review, by application of...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Engineering
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...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
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...
Business & Management
Organizations & Leadership
Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Computation for Biological Engineers
Prof. Eric Alm
This course covers the analytical, graphical, and numerical methods supporting the analysis and design of integrated...
Systems Thinking
Biological Engineering
Biology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Systems Optimization: Models and Computation (SMA 5223)
Prof. Jie Sun
This class is an applications-oriented course covering the modeling of large-scale systems in decision-making...
Business & Management
Systems Thinking
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Strategic Management in the Design and Construction Value Chain
Dr. John Macomber
This course provides an overview of key concepts in strategic management in the construction, real estate, and...
Business & Management
Supply Chain
Operations
advanced
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
free
Principles of Engineering Practice
Prof. Lionel C. Kimerling
This class introduces students to the interdisciplinary nature of 21st-century engineering projects with three...
Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Management
intermediate
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
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
System Design and Analysis based on AD and Complexity Theories
Prof. Nam Suh
This course studies what makes a good design and how one develops a good design. Students consider how the design of...
Systems Engineering
Computer Science
Mechanical Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Nuclear Systems Design Project
Prof. Michael Short
This capstone course is a group design project involving integration of nuclear physics, particle transport,...
Physics
Energy
Systems Engineering
intermediate
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
MIT OCW
free
Topics in Combinatorial Optimization
Prof. Michel Goemans
In this graduate-level course, we will be covering advanced topics in combinatorial optimization. We will start with...
Engineering
Systems Thinking
Mathematics
advanced
MIT OCW
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
Queues: Theory and Applications
Prof. David Gamarnik
This class deals with the modeling and analysis of queueing systems, with applications in communications,...
Mathematics
Operations
Systems Engineering
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
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
free
The Structure of Engineering Revolutions
Prof. David Mindell
6.933J / STS.420J provides an integrated approach to engineering practice in the real world. Students of 6.933J...
Entrepreneurship
Startups/New Enterprises
Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Internet Technology in Local and Global Communities
Mr. Manish Gaudi
This course is based on the work of the MIT-African Internet Technology Initiative (MIT-AITI). MIT-AITI is an...
Educational Technology
Media Studies
Electrical Engineering
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Manufacturing Systems Analysis
Dr. Stanley Gershwin
This course covers the following topics: models of manufacturing systems, including transfer lines and flexible...
Mathematics
Operations
Systems Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
free
Medical Computing
Prof. Isaac Kohane
The focus of the course is on medical science and practice in the age of automation and the genome, both present and...
Digital Business & IT
Biological Engineering
Computer Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Development of Inventions and Creative Ideas
Dr. Dedric Carter
This course examines the role of the engineer as patent expert and as technical witness in court and patent...
Policy and Administration
Engineering
Law
advanced
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
free
Research Seminar on Urban Information Systems
Prof. Joseph Ferreira
Seminar participants and invited guests will lead critical discussions of current literature and ongoing research....
Digital Business & IT
Urban Studies
Computer Science
advanced
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
free
Algebraic Techniques and Semidefinite Optimization
Prof. Pablo Parrilo
This research-oriented course will focus on algebraic and computational techniques for optimization problems...
Mathematics
Systems Engineering
Systems Thinking
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Urban Public Finance in Developing Countries
Prof. Annette M. Kim
This readings-based course analyzes the structure and operation of government systems in developing countries, with...
Policy and Administration
Urban Studies
Finance & Accounting
advanced
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
free
Biomolecular Feedback Systems
Domitilla Del Vecchio
This course focuses on feedback control mechanisms that living organisms implement at the molecular level to execute...
Engineering
Systems Thinking
Systems Engineering
intermediate
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
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
Introduction to Computers in Public Management II
Prof. Joseph Ferreira
Second of two modules facilitating a basic understanding of computing in planning and public management. Students...
Digital Business & IT
Urban Studies
Systems Engineering
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
Business Model Innovation: Global Health in Frontier Markets
Dr. Anjali Sastry
This course explores successful approaches to delivering healthcare in challenging settings. We analyze...
Health Care Management
Management
Public Health
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Information and Communication Technologies in Community Development
Prof. Langley Keyes
This practicum subject integrates theory and practice through the design, implementation, and evaluation of a...
Digital Business & IT
Sociology
Communication
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Media Education and the Marketplace
Mr. Manish Gaudi
This instance of “Media, Education, and the Marketplace” focuses on the rise of information and communications...
Media Studies
Communication
Digital Business & IT
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
Experimental Projects II
Prof. Edward Greitzer
The Experimental Project Lab in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics is a two-semester course sequence:...
Aerospace Engineering
Systems Engineering
Computer Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Global Entrepreneurship Lab: Asia-Pacific
Prof. Yasheng Huang
15.389A Global Entrepreneurship Lab: Asia-Pacific enables teams of students to work with the top management of...
Startups/New Enterprises
Sociology
Finance & Accounting
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Management of Supply Networks for Products and Services
Prof. Gabriel Bitran
This course covers organizational, strategic and operational aspects of managing Supply Networks (SNs) from domestic...
Supply Chain
Operations
Business & Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
MBA Study Tour: Innovation Islands - How New Zealand Became A Global Player in the Race to Innovate
Prof. Neal Hartman
This International Study Tour went to New Zealand during the first half of the 2016 Spring semester and travel...
Startups/New Enterprises
Management
Strategy & Innovation
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Research Topics in Architecture: Citizen-Centered Design of Open Governance Systems
Daniel Greenwood
In this seminar, students will design and perfect a digital environment to house the activities of large-scale...
Policy and Administration
Media Studies
Architecture
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
MIT OCW
free
Transit Management
Prof. Nigel Wilson
This course discusses management methods of relevance to public transportation systems. Topics include strategic...
Urban Studies
Operations
Business & Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Managing Innovation: Emerging Trends
Prof. Eric von Hippel
Important emerging trends in innovation are identified, and their implications for innovation management are...
Management
Strategy & Innovation
Business & Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Project Appraisal in Developing Countries
Prof. Annette M. Kim
This course covers techniques of financial analysis of investment expenditures as well as the economic and...
Finance & Accounting
Economics
International Development
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Air Transportation Systems Architecting
Earll Murman
This course addresses the architecting of air transportation systems. The focus is on the conceptual phase of...
Engineering
Urban Studies
Operations
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Seminar on Health Care Systems Innovation
Stan Finkelstein, MD
This seminar applies a systems perspective to understand health care delivery today, its stakeholders and problems...
Engineering
Health Care Management
Biomedical Technologies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Technology and Cities
Prof. Joseph Ferreira
This seminar is an introduction to the usage and impacts of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on...
Engineering
Visualization
Computer Science
advanced
MIT OCW
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
Information Technology as an Integrating Force in Manufacturing
Prof. Brian Subirana
In virtually every industry and every firm, information technology is driving change, creating opportunities and...
Digital Business & IT
Operations
Business & Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
MADM with Applications in Material Selection and Optimal Design
Dr. Abbas Sadeghzadeh Milani
This course begins with a comparative review of conventional and advanced multiple attribute decision making (MADM)...
Systems Thinking
Materials Science and Engineering
Operations
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Readings in Optimization
Prof. Robert Freund
In keeping with the tradition of the last twenty-some years, the Readings in Optimization seminar will focus on an...
Engineering
Mathematics
Systems Engineering
advanced
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
MIT OCW
free
Designing Paths to Peace
Prof. Alex Slocum
Teaches creative design based on the scientific method through the design, engineering, and manufacture of a...
Art, Design & Architecture
Engineering
Visual Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Transportation Policy, Strategy, and Management
Prof. Joseph Coughlin
This class surveys the current concepts, theories, and issues in strategic management of transportation...
Urban Studies
Operations
Business & Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Risk Aware and Robust Nonlinear Planning
Dr. Ashkan Jasour
In this course, Dr. Ashkan Jasour addresses advanced probabilistic and robust optimization-based techniques for...
Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Systems Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
free
Workshop in IT: Collaborative Innovation Networks
Peter Gloor
Diversity begets creativity—in this seminar we tap the amazing power of swarm creativity on the Web by studying and...
Digital Business & IT
Communication
Computer Science
advanced
MIT OCW
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
Multi-Scale System Design
Prof. Martin Culpepper
Multi-scale systems (MuSS) consist of components from two or more length scales (nano, micro, meso, or...
Systems Thinking
Systems Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
D-Lab: Disseminating Innovations for the Common Good
Susan Murcott
In the trilogy of D-Lab courses, D-Lab: Dissemination focuses on disseminating innovations among underserved...
Startups/New Enterprises
Sociology
Economics
intermediate
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
Technology and Innovation in Africa
Prof. Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga
What do technology and innovation mean from Africa? This is the central question of this course, which tackles a...
History
Anthropology
International Development
intermediate
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
Competition in Telecommunications
Prof. Jerry Hausman
Competition in Telecommunications provides an introduction to the economics, business strategies, and technology of...
Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Economics
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Global Entrepreneurship Lab: Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa
Prof. Simon Johnson
15.389B Global Entrepreneurship Lab: Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa enables teams of students to work...
Startups/New Enterprises
Economics
Entrepreneurship
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Leveraging Urban Mobility Disruptions to Create Better Cities
Prof. Pericles (Chris) Zegras
In this course, we explore how new mobility systems can be leveraged to promote equity, improve health outcomes, and...
Energy
Built Environment
Climate and Energy Policy
beginner
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
Information Technology and the Labor Market
Prof. Frank Levy
This course explores how information technology is reshaping different dimensions of the U.S. labor market: the way...
Digital Business & IT
Sociology
Economics
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Mission & Metrics: Finance Training for Federal Credit Program Professionals
Deborah Lucas
Federal credit programs involve a unique set of challenges and opportunities. This practical training course for...
Policy and Administration
Management
Finance & Accounting
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Advanced Urban Public Finance: Collective Action and Provisions of Local Public Goods
Prof. Yu-Hung Hong
In analyzing fiscal issues, conventional public finance approaches focus mainly on taxation and public spending....
Economics
Policy and Administration
Sociology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Business and Impact Planning for Social Enterprises (0.SolveX)
Dr. Anjali Sastry
People in every corner of the world are innovating to solve social and environmental problems in their communities....
Startups/New Enterprises
Management
Entrepreneurship
beginner
MIT OCW
free
Carrier Systems
Prof. Cynthia Barnhart
Carrier systems involve the design, operation and management of transportation networks, assets, personnel, freight...
Engineering
Urban Studies
Operations
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Information and Communication Technology in Africa
Raja Bobbili
This is a discussion-based, interactive seminar on the development of information and communication technology in...
Digital Business & IT
Electrical Engineering
International Development
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Research Seminar in IT and Organizations: Economic Perspectives
Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson
Business organizations and markets use a bewildering variety of structures to coordinate the productive activities...
Digital Business & IT
Economics
Operations
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
MIT OCW
free
New Global Agenda: Exploring 21st Century Challenges through Innovations in Information Technologies
Prof. Nazli Choucri
This workshop is designed to introduce students to different perspectives on international politics in the 21st...
Digital Business & IT
Political Science
Policy and Administration
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
X PRIZE Workshop: Grand Challenges in Energy
Dr. Erika Wagner
In 2004, the Ansari X PRIZE for suborbital spaceflight captured the public’s imagination and revolutionized an...
Startups/New Enterprises
Economics
Strategy & Innovation
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Feeding Cities in the Global South: Challenges and Opportunities for Action in Cartagena
Alejandro Guarín
The purpose of this seminar is to provide a context for understanding the challenges of urban food provisioning from...
Policy and Administration
Supply Chain
Urban Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Scaling Entrepreneurial Ventures
Brian Halligan
This course surveys the personal, institutional, and operational challenges involved in scaling an entrepreneurial...
Startups/New Enterprises
Management
Entrepreneurship
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Lead User Innovation Handbook
Erdin Beshimov
MIT Lecturer Erdin Beshimov created a short manual that collects and explains a wide range of lead user innovation...
Startups/New Enterprises
Entrepreneurship
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
beginner