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Life at MIT Sloan: A
Perspective

 

 The Academic Year: 1st Year

 

Pre-term: Day="11" Year="2003" w:st="on">Aug 11 – 15, 2003

• Not required
  but highly suggested (for social reasons)
• Review classes:
  Accounting, Economics, Math/Statistics
• Unofficial
  happy hours – meet classmates early

 

FastForward Orientation: w:st="on">Aug 18 – 29, 2003

• Leadership/team-building
  at the Warren Center
• w:st="on">Tours of MIT
  Research Labs
• Played in the
  largest Beer Game ever (~400 participants; systems dynamics game) – Our 1^st
  place winning team:

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Blakely, Stella Choi, Lia Dean, Alberto Farronato, Derick McGee, Christina Pan,
Manu Sareen, Parand Zendehrouh (photo)

 

Classes
start: Sep 3, 2003

 

Sloan Innovation
Period (SIP) Week:
Oct 20 – 24, 2003

SIP
Workshops attended:

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Designs and Market Penetration via Conjoint Analysis and Optimization Modeling,
Professors Robert M. Freund (Operations Research) and w:st="on">Duncan Simester (Marketing)

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< ![endif]>Social Network Analysis, Professor Jonathon
Cummings

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< ![endif]>Decision-making
in the Social World, Professors Mike Norton and Dan Ariely

 

First Semester
Courses

• 5 Core (Required)
  Classes + 1 Elective (either Finance Theory 1 or Strategic
  Marketing). Optional: weekly
  recitations for Econ, Accounting, and DMD.
• Core Classes
  are taken with your “Ocean” (section of 50-60 people).
• Also in the
  Core: assigned study teams of 5-7 people (chosen for maximum diversity of
  student backgrounds).

 

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Course Number	Course Name	Professor
15.010	Economic Analysis for Business Decisions	Van den Steen	Core
15.060	Data, Models, and Decisions (DMD)	Tsitsiklis	Core
15.280	Communication for Managers	Hartman	Core
15.311	Organizational Processes (OP)	Fernandez	Core
15.515	Financial Accounting	Plesko	Core
15.809	Strategic Marketing	Simester	Elective

 

Additional Academic Requirements
in First Semester

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Team Project – analyze/diagnose a change initiative at an actual company,
non-profit, organization

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Year Challenge Team Project – this year’s corporate sponsor is Merck

 

Winter Break: Month="12" Day="20" Year="2003" w:st="on">Dec 20, 2003 – Month="1" Day="4" Year="2004" w:st="on">Jan 4, 2004

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< ![endif]>China: w:st="on">Hong Kong, Guangdong
Province, Shanghai

 

Independent Activities Period (IAP): Jan 5 – Month="1" Day="30" Year="2004" w:st="on">Jan 30, 2004

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< ![endif]>Silicon Valley TechTrek

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< ![endif]>Los Angeles MediaTrek

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< ![endif]>15.975 – The Nuts & Bolts of
Business Plans

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Marketing Case Competition (Houston,
TX)

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< ![endif]>Interview
Blitz Week & summer internship interviews begin

 

Second Semester
Courses

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electives; 51 credits max for the semester.

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options outside of Sloan include classes in other MIT departments (such as the
Media Lab, Comparative Media Studies, the MIT Center for Real Estate),
Harvard’s Kennedy School, HBS.

 

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Course Number	Course Name	Professor
15.351	Managing Innovation & Entrepreneurship	Von Hippel	Elective
15.835	Entrepreneurial Marketing	Kim	Elective
15.535	Financial Statement Analysis (FSA)	Joos/Wysocki	Elective
15.760	Intro to Operations Management	Fine	Elective
15.398	NPVD Proseminar - Entrepreneurs in Innovation: IT, Energy, Biotechnology, & Communications	Anderson/Bell	Elective
15.900	Strategic Management (aka Strategy)	de Figueiredo	Elective

 

Sloan Innovation
Period (SIP) Week:
Mar 15 – 19, 2004

SIP
Workshops:

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End of Product Development, Professors John Hauser and Glen Urban

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< ![endif]>Measuring Negotiation Performance:
Cutting-edge Research and Technology, Professor Jared Curhan

 

Spring Break: Month="3" Day="17" Year="2004" w:st="on">Mar 17 – 28, 2004

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< ![endif]>Dubai, United Arab Emirates
trek

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< ![endif]>Cambridge, w:st="on">UK: MIT $50K Global Startup Workshop
conference

 

Summer MBA
Internship: Microsoft
(Redmond, WA)

 

 

The Academic Year:
2nd Year

 

Fall 2004 Semester
Courses

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limit now raised to 54 credits per semester.

 

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Course Number	Course Name	Professor
15.013	Industrial Economics for Strategic Decisions	Pindyck	Elective
15.223	Global Markets, National Politics, and the Competitive Advantage of Firms	Huang	Elective
15.358	The Software Business	Cusumano	Elective
15.402	Finance II: Corporate Finance	Bergman	Elective
15.518	Taxes & Business Strategy	Plesko	Elective

 

Resumes
due for 2^nd-year resume book:
Sep 9, 2004

Recruiting
starts for 2^nd years: Month="9" Day="27" Year="2004" w:st="on">Sep 27, 2004

 

Sloan Innovation
Period (SIP) Week:
Oct 18 - 22, 2004

SIP
Workshops:

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Value Proposition - The First Key Step in Strategy, Prof. Arnoldo Hax

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Investment, Prof. John Akula & Meerie Joung, Partner, Bingham McCutchen

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< ![endif]>Leadership Simulation: Bosnian
Peacekeeping Force, Bruce Newsome and Prof. Deborah Ancona

 

Winter Break

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Independent Activities Period (IAP): January 2005

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< ![endif]>Peru trek: Mancora, Lima, w:st="on">Cuzco, Inca trail hike to w:st="on">Machu Picchu

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< ![endif]>Brazil: Florianopolis,
Rio de Janeiro, Salvador,
Sao Paulo, Foz do w:st="on">Iguacu

 

Spring 2005 Semester
Courses

 

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Course Number	Course Name	Professor
15.227B	Special Seminar in International Management: India Spring Trip	Hartman	Elective
15.431	Entrepreneurial Finance (Venture Capital)	Schoar	Elective
15.912	Technology Strategy	Henderson	Elective
15.846	Branding	Roberts	Elective
15.842	Market Research	Danaher	Elective
15.995	Private Equity	Cooper	Elective
15.974	Practical Leadership	Bentley	Elective

 

 

Sloan Innovation
Period (SIP) Week:
Mar 14 – 18, 2005

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3 out of 4 SIP weeks are required, so opting out of this one.

 

Spring Break: Mar 17 – 28, 2005

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class) – you must apply by essay in the fall semester

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< ![endif]>New Delhi, Agra,
Bangalore, Mumbai ( w:st="on">Bombay)

 

Graduation: June 3, 2005

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Student Life at MIT
Sloan

 

 

MIT Sloan Photos and AdMIT Videos – a great glimpse into the Sloan culture!

 

 

Sampling of Traditions/Social

• Tues Night “ThirstQuenchers” at various w:st="on">Cambridge bars (not official
  MIT Sloan sponsored)
• Wed nights at
  Beacon Hill Pub in Boston
  (not
  official MIT Sloan sponsored)
• Weekly, themed
  Thurs night “C-functions” (Consumption Functions officially sponsored by
  MIT Sloan)
• FREE sailing
  and sailing classes on the Charles River
  at the MIT Sailing Pavillion
• Sloan pick-up
  ultimate frisbee games on weekends
• The Grad Rat (the
  graduate version of MIT’s brass rat class ring)
• Ocean
  Thanksgiving Dinner (Nov)
• Fall Ball
  formal (November 22,
  2003)
• Sloan Talent
  Show (December 12,
  2003)
• International
  trips during Spring Break (for class credit)
• Sloan Follies ( Month="4" Day="25" Year="2004" w:st="on">April 25, 2004)
• Spring Gala
  formal in Newport, w:st="on">Rhode Island (May 1, 2004; April 16,
  2005)
• SLOAN (Sloan
  Loves Overachievers Awards Night, w:st="on">May 13, 2004)
• Intramural
  sports
• Sloan Ski House
  (Killington, w:st="on">Vermont)
• Sloan-HBS
  basketball game
• MBA Co-Ed Flag
  Football Tournament
• BVI trip –
  about a quarter to a third of the 2^nd year class takes a
  self-organized sailing trip to British Virgin Islands
  the week after the last semester’s final exams, before commencement

 

 

 

Marketing

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< ![endif]>MIT
Sloan Marketing faculty rated #1 in research by citation study

( w:st="on">10/06/03, Academic Assessment Services)

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< ![endif]>Also:
Economics faculty ranked #1, Finance faculty ranked #2

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< ![endif]>Four
business schools ranked in top 30 for all 8 disciplines in study: Chicago,
Harvard, MIT Sloan, Stanford

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w:st="on">University Marketing Case Competition – w:st="on">3^rd Place
(1/16 – 1/18/04, info,
photo)

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< ![endif]>MIT
Sloan team: Mariya Genzel, ersonName
w:st="on">Jennifer Hill, Grant Ho, Christina Pan

 

Entrepreneurship

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Venture Development courses

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< ![endif]>MIT $50K Global Startup Workshop: Month="3" Day="25" Year="2004" w:st="on">March 25 – 27, 2004, w:st="on">Cambridge, UK,
co-hosted with CU Entrepreneurs

 

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< ![endif]>MIT Sloan MediaTech
Club – Treks to visit companies, alums, mingle with other MBA students
around the world

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< ![endif]>NYC
MediaTrek: w:st="on">Nov 9 – 11, 2003

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< ![endif]>Silicon
Valley Trek: Jan 4 – 9, 2004
(Boston
Globe article)

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MediaTrek: w:st="on">Jan 11 – 14, 2004

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< ![endif]>NYC MBA Media Conference: Feb 20, 2004

 

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< ![endif]>Other
Treks

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< ![endif]>London MBA EuroTrek:
Thanksgiving 2003 (organized by MIT Sloan European Club, Chicago,
Columbia, HBS,
Kellogg, Stanford, Wharton)

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Miami, Massachusetts,
Seattle, Washington,
DC, NYC Real Estate Trek

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< ![endif]>Example
Spring Break trips

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subsidized, some school-sponsored; varies each year

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< ![endif]>India,
Brazil, Japan, China; Scandinavia/Nordic countries; Dubai, United Arab
Emirates; fashion industry trek to Italy/France; Mexico surfing trip

 

Other Great
Resources

MIT Center for
Real Estate

 

 

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