15.S07
Special Seminar in Management
Opportunity for group study by graduate students on current topics related to management not otherwise included in curriculum.
Spring 2013 · GlobalHealth Lab
Topics
- Visions for the course and vision in global health
- Readings
- Readings and Nairobi County Hospital case prep
- Data and measurement
- HR, job design, and task shifting
- Health commodities and distribution
- Expansion, growth, and unmet needs
- On-site team project in Africa or South Asia, including mentor visits as feasible
- On-site team project (cont.)
- Preparation of trip debrief
- Mentor meeting: finalize wrap-up host deliverable
- Management matters, revisited
- Mentor or team meetings
- Debrief with Prof. Sastry
Readings
- International Initiative for Impact Evaluation. “Access to health: How to reduce child and maternal mortality?” Enduring Questions Brief 14 (2010).
- Graban, Mark, Kai Nexus, et al. “Feel Human Again.” Six Sigma Forum Magazine, November 2012, 16–20.
- Dawar, Niraj, and Amitava Chattopadhyay. “Rethinking Marketing Programs for Emerging Markets.” Long Range Planning 35, no. 5 (2002): 457–74.
- Cassleman, Paul, Burt LaFountain, et al. “Empowering Lives in Kenya: The Chebaiywa Clinic.” MIT Sloan School of Management case. MIT Sloan School of Management. Case: 09–094, August 13, 2009.
- ———. “SmileTrain India: Assessment and Vision.” (PDF) Presentation for board of directors, December 2, 2010.
- Hartigan, Pamela, and Charmian Love. “The Power of Unreasonable Teams.” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2013, 19–20.
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: Permission of instructor G (Fall; second half of term) Units arranged Can be repeated for credit.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Spring 2013
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.