MIT Subject Listing & Schedule
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6 subjects found.

15.345 Doctoral Proseminar in Behavioral and Policy Sciences

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Prereq: Permission of instructor
Units: 2-0-4 [P/D/F]

A professional seminar for doctoral students to report on their research, work on their thesis proposals, and practice their job talks. Also addresses general professional issues such as publishing, searching for jobs, the academic career, etc.
Staff

15.615 Essential Law for Business

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Prereq: None
Units: 3-0-6
You must participate in Sloan's Course Bidding to take this subject.
Lecture: MW8.30-10 (E51-149)

Provides a solid grounding in what managers need to know about how law shapes opportunities and risks for the businesses they manage and their own careers. Enhances leadership skills for navigating critical law-sensitive junctures that managers encounter in young and mature companies. Explores the legal frameworks of organizing a new venture; contracts and deals; litigation and liability; employment and changing jobs; regulation and criminal sanctions; complex transactions, including public and private mergers and acquisitions; finance and private equity; distress, reorganization, and bankruptcy; and effective use of IP and cutting-edge technologies. No prior knowledge of law expected.
J. Akula
No textbook information available

15.616 Basic Business Law, Tilted Towards Key Emerging Issues

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Not offered regularly; consult department
Prereq: None
Units: 3-0-6

Broad-gauged introduction to business law designed to prepare managers to exercise judgment and leadership when confronting key law-sensitive issues of importance to their organizations and their own careers. Topics include contracts, liability, employment, changing jobs, intellectual property, business disputes, bankruptcy and reorganization, acquisitions, regulatory compliance, and corporate crime. The distinctive feature of 15.616 is an additional focus on newly-emerging, law-sensitive issues of key significance to business. Those topics vary from year to year; some recent examples include doing business in the BRIC nations, and the legal framework of social media.
Staff

15.662[J] Managing Sustainable Businesses for People and Profits

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(Same subject as 11.383[J])
Prereq: None
Units: 3-3-3

Examines opportunities and challenges involved in building and growing businesses that achieve high financial performance and provide good jobs and careers to employees. Students engage participants in the MITx online course title Shaping the Future of Work to learn about the expectations and employment experiences of workers across the world. Through readings, cases, simulations and class visits from industry leaders, explores the underlying principles and business practices that help to secure that alignment between business health and societal well-being.
Staff

17.195 Globalization

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Not offered regularly; consult department
(Subject meets with 17.196)
Prereq: Permission of instructor
Units: 3-0-9

Analyzes changes in the international economy and their effects in the politics, economy, and society of advanced and emerging countries. Topics to be explored include: the independence of national governments; wage inequality; unemployment; industrial production outside national borders and its consequences for innovation, efficiency, and jobs; fairness in trade; and mass culture versus local values. 17.195 fulfills undergraduate public policy requirement in the major and minor. Students taking graduate version are expected to complete additional assignments.
S. Berger

17.196 Globalization

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Not offered regularly; consult department
(Subject meets with 17.195)
Prereq: Permission of instructor
Units: 3-0-9

Analyzes changes in the international economy and their effects in the politics, economy, and society of advanced and emerging countries. Topics include the independence of national governments; wage inequality; unemployment; industrial production outside national borders and its consequences for innovation, efficiency, and jobs; fairness in trade; and mass culture versus local values. 17.195 fulfills undergraduate public policy requirement in the major and minor. Students taking graduate version are expected to complete additional assignments
S. Berger