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Massachusetts Institute of Technology has always been associated with major scientific and technological breakthroughs. But the breakthroughs alone do not explain the impact that MIT has had on the world. For that we have to look at entrepreneurship, which starts with the "Mens et Manus" (Mind and Hand) slogan on the Great Seal of MIT. For faculty, students, and alumni, MIT is all about making discoveries and inventions and then applying these discoveries and inventions to solve real problems. In a very tangible way, MIT faculty and graduates invent the future, and entrepreneurship—the building of new businesses—is often the road to that future.


Watch this video introduction to entrepreneurship at MIT.

A 2009 Kauffman Foundation study entitled "Entrepreneurial Impact: The Role of MIT" reports that the then-active companies founded by MIT graduates employed about 3.3 million people and generated annual world revenues of $2 trillion, producing the equivalent of the eleventh-largest economy in the world. This rich legacy of high-impact companies spans a wide range of industries; recent examples include A123 Systems, Akamai, iRobot, InVivo Therapeutics and Dropbox.

The following courses represent a selection of the entrepreneurship-related courses offered at MIT. The courses are organized in two ways:

• Core and Supplemental: Core courses, the starting points for entrepreneurs and Supplemental courses, important once the basics have been mastered, are listed below.
• Courses Arranged by Topic:
  • Finance
  • Law
  • Leadership
  • Marketing and Planning
  • Operations
  • Strategy

A list of MIT-hosted videos relating to entrepreneurship is also available.

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Core

Course #	Course Title	Level
6.901	Inventions and Patents	Undergraduate
15.615	Law for the Entrepreneur and Manager	Undergraduate
15.316	Building and Leading Effective Teams	Graduate
15.317	Organizational Leadership and Change	Graduate
15.351	Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship	Graduate
15.351	Managing the Innovation Process	Graduate
15.352	Managing Innovation: Emerging Trends	Graduate
15.356	How to Develop "Breakthrough" Products and Services	Graduate
15.358	The Software Business	Graduate
15.369	Corporate Entrepreneurship: Strategies for Technology-Based New Business Development	Graduate
15.389A	Global Entrepreneurship Lab: Asia-Pacific	Graduate
15.389B	Global Entrepreneurship Lab: Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa	Graduate
15.390	New Enterprises	Graduate
15.391	Early Stage Capital	Graduate
15.394	Designing and Leading the Entrepreneurial Organization	Graduate
15.431	Entrepreneurial Finance	Graduate
15.783J	Product Design and Development	Graduate
15.818	Pricing	Graduate
15.821	Listening to the Customer	Graduate
15.835	Entrepreneurial Marketing	Graduate
15.912	Technology Strategy	Graduate
15.975	Special Seminar in Management The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans	Graduate
MAS.666	Developmental Entrepreneurship	Graduate

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Supplemental

Course #	Course Title	Level
11.011	The Art and Science of Negotiation	Undergraduate
14.27	Economics and E-commerce	Undergraduate
15.020	Competition in Telecommunications	Undergraduate
15.301	Managerial Psychology	Undergraduate
EC.701J	D-Lab I: Development	Undergraduate
6.931	Development of Inventions and Creative Ideas	Graduate
15.010	Economic Analysis for Business Decisions	Graduate
15.024	Applied Economics for Managers	Graduate
15.060	Data, Models, and Decisions	Graduate
15.063	Communicating With Data	Graduate
15.277	Special Seminar in Communications: Leadership and Personal Effectiveness Coaching	Graduate
15.280	Communication for Managers	Graduate
15.281	Advanced Managerial Communication	Graduate
15.311	Organizational Processes	Graduate
15.511	Financial Accounting	Graduate
15.616	Innovative Businesses and Breakthrough Technologies - The Legal Issues	Graduate
15.649	The Law of Mergers and Acquisitions	Graduate
15.667	Negotiation and Conflict Management	Graduate
15.760B	Introduction to Operations Management	Graduate
15.762J	Supply Chain Planning	Graduate
15.763J	Manufacturing System and Supply Chain Design	Graduate
15.768	Management of Services: Concepts, Design, and Delivery	Graduate
15.769	Operations Strategy	Graduate
15.778	Management of Supply Networks for Products and Services	Graduate
15.810	Marketing Management (Fall 2004)	Graduate
15.812	Marketing Management (Fall 2002)	Graduate
15.822	Strategic Marketing Measurement	Graduate
15.834	Marketing Strategy	Graduate
15.840	Special Seminar in Marketing: Marketing Management	Graduate
15.963	Advanced Strategy	Graduate
15.963	Management Accounting and Control	Graduate
15.969	Dynamic Leadership: Using Improvisation in Business	Graduate
15.974	Practical Leadership	Graduate
15.974	Leadership Lab	Graduate
15.975	U-Lab: Leading Profound Innovation for a More Sustainable World	Graduate
15.978	Leadership Tools and Teams: A Product Development Lab	Graduate
15.980J	Organizing for Innovative Product Development	Graduate
15.992	S-Lab: Laboratory for Sustainable Business	Graduate
15.996	Cross-Cultural Leadership	Graduate
17.462	Innovation in Military Organizations	Graduate
ESD.172J	X PRIZE Workshop: Grand Challenges in Energy	Graduate
ESD.801	Leadership Development	Graduate

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