15.369
Corporate Entrepreneurship
Addresses the practical steps that can be taken to make existing organizations (corporations, non-profits, government, etc.) become more entrepreneurial. Uses a systematic approach to integrate lectures, exercises, guest speakers, and a team project. Application required.
Fall 2015 · Seminar in Corporate Entrepreneurship
Topics
- Introduction: Why aren’t established firms more entrepreneurial?
- Corporate Entrepreneurship Frameworks
- Designing the Entrepreneurial Organization. Leadership and the Role of the Executive
- Accelerating new business growth: The external tools and methods that can be employed by a firm
- Managing an “entrepreneur friendly” organization—architecture and culture
Readings
- [CE] = Burns, P. Corporate Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Large Organizations . Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. ISBN: 9780230304031.
- [CE&I] = Morris, M. H., D. Kuratko, et al. Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation . Cengage Learning, 2010. ISBN: 9780538478922.
- [CE] Chapter 1, pp. 3–29.
- [CE&I] Chapter 2, pp. 28–57.
- If you have not taken Sloan’s core Organizational Processes course, 15.311, you should familiarize yourself with the three lenses:
- [CE] Chapters 2 and 8, pp. 31–65 and 243–51.
- [Kiefer] pp. 8–21. Optional : Some of the material in Class 1 can be reviewed by reading pages 1–7.
- [CE&I] Chapter 12, pp. 331 and 337–47.
- [CE&I] Chapter 12, pp. 331–8.
- [CE] Chapter 8, pp. 251–65.
- [CE&I] Chapter 4, pp. 109–11.
- [CE] Chapter 5.
- Keeley, L., H. Walters, R. Pikkel, et al. Chapters 1, 2, 18, and 19 in Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs . Wiley, 2013. ISBN: 9781118504246.
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: None G (Fall; first half of term) 3-0-3 units
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Fall 2015
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.