15.124  Evaluating a Biomedical Business Concept

If your team has not submitted a note on your report back to your company please do so immediately (if you haven't been able to speak with your company provide your plans to do so or to provide a written report to them).

Reminder to post your Company Presentation Note to Stellar!

Company Presentation Note - posted to Stellar before December 17, 2013
More details about company presentations can be found under the "Homework" tab - "Company Presentation Note - Course Director Instructions".
More details about the note that should be posted to stellar can be found under the "Homework" tab - "Company Presentation Note - Note Instructions".
The report can be delivered verbally and/or in written form.  If possible, it is best if you speak (in person or by telephone) with the company so that they can ask you questions. Please post your teams brief bulletized note to stellar under one team members name before December 17, 2013 and it will count as posted for all team members.

Candy Weaver
Course Secretary

Dear Evaluating Participants,

Please be sure to do your subject evaluations located at:  http://web.mit.edu/subjectevaluation/  If you cannot complete your subject evaluation before class, please bring your laptop/tablet to class so you can do it in class. The teaching staff values your comments and uses your subject evaluations to further develop the course. Thank you in advance for your contribution to the future of the course!

When you report back to the companies you have been working with, view yourself as consultants that the company might have engaged.   You should identify what you think the most important issues facing the company are and what your constructive suggestions are for addressing these issues.  You should be professional, nuanced and judicious in your comments and not say, for example, whether you think the company is good or bad or whether you would invest in it.  In the past the companies have really valued the feedback that they have received from students in this course and many times have changed their strategy on the basis of this feedback.  Generally, the slide decks you present in class may need to be appropriately edited if you are going to present them to the companies.  The companies have volunteered to work with students in this course, and we want the companies to feel that they received something of value in return.  The report can be delivered verbally and/or in written form.  If possible, it is best if you speak (in person or by telephone) with the company so that they can ask you questions.  Each team should send a brief note to Tiana, Candy and me after it has delivered its report  to its company.  We need to deliver grades by December 17, so please do this before then.

Also, if you have not complete your online course evaluation before the start of the last class, please bring your laptop/tablet to class so you can do it in class.  We really value your comments.

Course faculty and staff are looking forward to your final presentations!

Hi Class,

Just a reminder that your final output for the class, in addition to the presentation tomorrow, is to present your findings and recommendation back to the company. It is preferable for you to meet with them in person or on the phone, but if you cannot coordinate to meet, you can provide recommendations in writing. Whatever format, be sure to be judicious and professional in presenting what you think of their company (good or bad). Once you have done this, please email me (and cc Richard Cohen and Candy Weaver) to let us know that you have done it, and please do so by Dec 17th, as that is the day we must turn in grades for the semester.

Thanks,
Tiana