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Delivering technology to nearly 4 billion people who live in poverty presents a range of challenges, particularly in terms of scaling operations. In this course, you’ll explore strategies for meeting the needs of emerging markets—while growing your organization and profitability. Over the course of six half-days, you’ll examine new approaches for partnering with base of the pyramid (BoP) populations, and developing and delivering lucrative products that benefit these communities.
In the face of the pandemic, every aspect of human life has had to be rethought in one way or another: how we live, how we learn, how we work, how we shop, and how we move. Countries, companies and individuals in the working world have had to go through a transformation—a collective Apollo 13 period that has stretched over a year—to rethink, to restructure and to retool. We are now tiptoeing our way into a new normal—or as the Chairman of Moderna puts it, into a new abnormal. Innovation will not anymore be an important exercise, but rather an approach to life. Fortunately, we have learned much about innovation over the last 20 years with the growth of new technologies, new business models and new approaches to continuous, dynamic shape-shifting transformation to stay abreast of the times.
What would Artificial General Intelligence look like if its first breakthrough were not in language, but in the invention of matter? Join the frontier of superintelligence applied to agentic materials discovery. In this condensed four-day course, you will move beyond static design to master autonomous AI workflows. Through hands-on clinics, you will build multi-agent systems that do not merely predict material properties, but reason, plan, and invent next-generation smart materials - integrating large-scale computational modeling with generative AI to solve complex engineering challenges across scales, from atoms to systems, from concept to physical realization.
Ready to turn your data and technical knowledge into meaningful insights that engage and persuade stakeholders? In this course, you’ll hone your communication skills in four essential areas: public speaking, critical thinking, visual persuasion, and audience adaptation. A unique feature of this program is that all participants will meet one-on-one diagnostic meetings with the course instructor. Supplemented with these one-on-one sessions, and students participating in discussions and hands-on activities, you’ll master actionable strategies for quantifying your conversations and moving your projects and organization forward.
In this dynamic, five-day course, you’ll master the tools and strategies you need to create an organization that supports successful innovation at every stage of the ideation and production process.
Become a stronger leader of innovation and design-thinking in your workplace. Join us for a highly interactive and engaging course that will teach you powerful new approaches for creating innovative solutions, crafting vision that gets buy-in, and developing solutions that people love. You'll learn our proven 10-Step Design Process and gain the strategies and hands-on experience to make your mark as a leader of innovation. Don't miss this opportunity to take your leadership capabilities to the next level.
Rapid innovation is disrupting incumbent players, creating new technological frontiers, and challenging traditional ways of doing business around the world and across industries. In this timely, three-day course, you’ll acquire a practical understanding of what constitutes genuine innovation—and master proven frameworks, methods, and modes of thinking that can help you create stronger, more innovative business models, products, and services.
Innovation doesn’t just generate profits—it can also make the world a better place by addressing pressing humanitarian challenges. Drive innovation and make an impact as a nonprofit or corporate leader by mastering Participatory Design, an evidence-based, problem-solving approach pioneered by MIT D-Lab. In this dynamic five-day course, you’ll learn to mitigate barriers to participation and enable a more inclusive innovation ecosystem.
Master the interpersonal, communication, and management strategies you need to increase your impact and become an effective leader in today’s technical environments. Over the course of five days, you’ll learn to lead and motivate teams that produce powerful results by mastering proven techniques for building effective technical teams, managing interpersonal conflict, and creating and communicating a shared vision that drives improved outcomes.