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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Outsider Insider podcast explores group identities
Listen to the first season of Outsider Insider, an MIT podcast about group identity, the value of diverse friendships, and what we can learn from listening to each other. Hosted by Professors Ray Reagans and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan and featuring other MIT faculty.
Explore some of the MIT Sloan courses that are preparing our students to lead increasingly diverse and global organizations.
Course Title
15.308
Leading the Way: Interpersonal & Organizational Strategies for Advancing DE&I
Spring
| 9 Cr.
Leading the Way: Interpersonal & Organizational Strategies for Advancing DE&I
Spring
9 Cr.
Leading the Way: Interpersonal & Organizational Strategies for Advancing DE&I introduces and analyzes competing explanations and claims about inequality within US workplaces; reviews evidence regarding the effectiveness of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and policies; and investigates how race, gender, and other identities may affect employees' experience in work organizations. Significant class time is devoted to experiential exercises to develop skills for interacting effectively with diverse others, managing teams and critical conversations, and advocating thoughtfully for change. Weekly assignments include written reflections based on readings and social science research. Restricted to Sloan MBA students.
15.364
Innovation Ecosystems for Regional Entrepreneurship-Acceleration Leaders
Spring
| 9 Cr.
Innovation Ecosystems for Regional Entrepreneurship-Acceleration Leaders
Spring
9 Cr.
Innovation Ecosystems for Regional Entrepreneurship is aimed at students seeking an action-oriented understanding of innovation ecosystems, such as Silicon Valley, Greater Boston, Singapore, Lagos, and other sites across the globe. The course provides a framework for analyzing these critical innovation economies from the perspective of key stakeholders: large corporations, governments, universities, entrepreneurs, and risk capital providers. It also outlines the design and delivery of policies and programs (e.g., hackathons, accelerators, prizes, tax policy, immigration policy) intended to accelerate innovation-driven entrepreneurship in an ecosystem. Content is focused on how these programs can be used to drive corporate innovation and entrepreneurship and build stronger cultures of innovation. Meets with 15.3641 when offered concurrently. Expectations and evaluation criteria differ for students taking graduate version; consult syllabus or instructor for specific details.
15.371
Leading with Impact
Spring
| 12 Cr.
Leading with Impact
Spring
12 Cr.
Leading with Impact introduces skills and capabilities for real-world problem solving to take technology from lab to societal impact: technical and functional exploration, opportunity discovery, market understanding, value economics, scale-up, intellectual property, and communicating/working for impact across disciplines. Students work in multidisciplinary teams formed around MIT research breakthroughs, with extensive in-class coaching and guidance from faculty, lab members, and select mentors. Follows a structured approach to innovating in which everything is a variable and the product, technology, and opportunities for new ventures can be seen as an act of synthesis. Teams gather evidence that permits a fact-based iteration across multiple application domains, markets, functionalities, technologies, and products, leading to a recommendation that maps a space of opportunity and includes actionable next steps to evolve the market and technology.
15.679
USA Lab: Bridging the American Divides
Spring
| 9 Cr.
USA Lab: Bridging the American Divides
Spring
9 Cr.
USA Lab: Bridging the American Divides offers a practical exploration of community revitalization in America's small towns and rural regions. Focuses on work, community, and culture. The course consists of rigorous classroom discussions, research, and team projects with community development organizations. It includes a site visit over SIP week and spring break required for project fieldwork.
15.690
Diversity as Discovery
Fall
| 6 Cr.
Diversity as Discovery
Fall
6 Cr.
Diversity as Discovery aims to help students discover who they are as individuals and members of a community. Course operates under two basic assumptions: that we can accomplish more together than alone, and that a significant part of who we are as individuals is left out of most organizational settings. Confronts the lack of tools and frameworks for dealing with the wealth of diversity among populations, and discusses the value diversity could potentially create.
Meet the Team
Ray Reagans
Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
MIT Sloan is eager to provide a diverse group of talented students with early-career exposure to research techniques as well as support in considering research career paths.
