Technology and Competitive Strategy

MAS.968 / MIT Sloan 15.963

Jointly as Harvard Business School Course 1286

Associate Professor Joseph Jacobson (MIT) /Assistant Professor Brian Silverman (HBS)
TA Joost Bonsen (MIT) /RA Brianna Huntsberger (HBS)

Nano-Logic

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Jacobson Group

dekker's group
Dekker Group

Overview

Technology and Competitive Strategy deals with the strategic issues posed by future technologies, still in the lab, which have the potential for great impact. Lessons will be drawn and applied from presently emerging technologies. In addition the course will look at the question of realizing optimal structures, at scales from universities to nations, for future innovation. Technology and Competitive Strategy begins over IAP and continues into the Spring Semester alternating venues between MIT and HBS. First Class: January 11, 2001 Bartos Auditorium 3p.m., MIT Media Lab Bldg. E15. (The first session is a special introduction to the HBS Case Study Method for MIT students).

Outline

The course consists of four units:
  • Logic, Chips, and Computation;
  • Biotechnology;
  • Patents and University Developed Research; and
  • Communications and Developing Nations.

Each unit will overview some of the latest emerging and future technologies followed by a set of selected case studies. Each unit culminates in a group project, by joint teams from HBS and MIT, geared towards future developments in each area. The final project will be to both business-plan and product-prototype the commercialization of an emerging technology and/or development opportunity.

Optimal Structures for Innovation

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Resnick Group

Molecular Machines

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Montemagno Group

Enrollment

Limited to 50 MIT students. Admission will be decided, in part, on the basis of a two paragraph statement -- due by 1/08/01 -- detailing your reasons for wanting to take the course along with your technical background, skill set, and accomplishments. Append URLs pointing to an online resume and/or academically-relevant personal webpages of projects you have been in engaged in as necessary. Email your statement to: TCS@media.mit.edu We will attempt to choose a mix of people spread across the areas of emphasis of the course, with applicants encouraged from any school, department, and lab at MIT, but with enrollment heavily biased towards graduate students with strong technological backgrounds.