15.389B
Global Entrepreneurship Lab: Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa
Fall 2010
Topics
- Stylized view of entrepreneurship
- Income inequality, social stratification and market opportunity at the bottom of the pyramid: The case of Brazil
- Mixer
- Where are we in the global cycle?
- Entrepreneurship diasporas; Team dynamics
- Global location decisions
- Entering a market in flux
- Global sales strategies for ambitious entrepreneurs
- Inside the entrepreneurial ecosystem
- Working in a G-Lab project
- Faculty meetings with teams
- When bad teams happen to good people
- Introduction to library research; Open Mike
- Open Mike; Medical information
- Travel logistics; Faculty meetings with teams
- Global environment for your projects
- Local environment for your projects
- Internationalization
- Faculty meetings with teams (cont.)
- Managing your G-lab internship
- Conclusion
- G-Lab Internship
- Debrief and reflection session
- Poster session
- Submission of final deliverables
Readings
- Marulanda, Sergio, Belén Monedero, Diogo Santos and Fernando Tomé. “Beleza Natural: Choosing the Right Growth Model.” MIT Sloan School of Management Case, May 2006.
- Boone, Peter, and Simon Johnson. “Will the Politics of Global Moral Hazard Sink Us Again?” Chapter 10 in The Future of Finance . London School of Economics and Political Science, 2010, pp. 247-88.
- SES #: 5 · TOPICS: Entrepreneurship diasporas; Team dynamics · READINGS: Kerr, William, and Daniel J. Isenberg. “Take Advantage of your Diaspora Network.” Harvard Business School Note. Harvard Business School Publishing. Note: 9-808-029, August 15, 2007.
- SES #: 6 · TOPICS: Global location decisions · READINGS: Nanda, Ramana, and Toby Stuart. “KiOR: Catalyzing Clean Energy.” Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-809-092, March 4, 2009.
- SES #: 8 · TOPICS: Global sales strategies for ambitious entrepreneurs · READINGS: Kuemmerie, Walter, and Chad Ellis. “Spotfire: Managing a Multinational Start-Up.” Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-899-078, October 12, 1998.
- Sahlman, William A. “Endeavor: Creating a Global Movement for High-Impact Entrepreneurship.” Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-810-049, September 28, 2009.
- SES #: 12 · TOPICS: When bad teams happen to good people · READINGS: Lehrich, M. Jonathan, Jeff Kennedy, Anne Ma, Mike Reagan, and Tristan Wu. “Breakdown in Brazil.” MIT Sloan School of Management Case. Case: 09-097, Rev. October 7, 2011.
- SES #: 18 · TOPICS: Local environment for your projects · READINGS: Bowers, Andrew, Daniel Cook, Lori Simpson, and Stanley Yung. “PeaceSoft Solutions (A).” MIT Sloan School of Management Case. Case: 08-078, September 2, 2008.
- SES #: 19 · TOPICS: Internationalization · READINGS: Cuellar, Alejandro, Yvette Hau, Walter Lironi, and Diego May. “Color/9: Tatitos.” MIT Sloan School of Management Case. Case: 09-090, March 2002.
- SES #: 22 · TOPICS: Managing your G-lab internship · READINGS: Dowd, Katherine, Patcharapa Yuu, and Theeradech Kay. “Kapanmed (A).” MIT Sloan School of Management Case. Case: 10-108, November 30, 2010.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.