First half (H1) of the Fall term
In H1 of the Fall semester, students will learn about countries and industries in the Global Markets (15.223) course.
Second half (H2) of the Fall term
In H2 of the Fall Semester you will prepare by studying a set of common challenges facing global startups and teams that work with them.
Schedule for H2
The primary goal of these sessions is to prepare you for the January internship.
There will be a moderate amount of reading for each session; please keep in mind that everything we ask you to do is designed to make your internship more successful from all perspectives.
Lecture 1: Introduction and Course Overview. Discussion of "How Good Teams Go Bad"
Organization of the class, goals, and expectations. Specifically, this session and those that follow will review key conceptual and practical tools you need to use in order to have a successful project. In general, we will talk about what makes a good project, how to work with firms, and what can go wrong.
Lecture 2: Technology Trends
This session will deal with the latest developments in particular technologies that should be relevant for most projects. We will also talk about how to find out and follow the latest developments regarding any particular technology.
Lecture 3: Tools for Developing Technology Strategies
This session will introduce various frameworks useful in understanding a firm's technology strategy as well as provide you with practical advice on how to gather relevant information about alternative technologies.
Lecture 4: Internationalization strategies
Most of your projects will involve an internationalization dimension. For example, should the company take its product out of its home country? When, how exactly and to where? We will focus this discussion around a successful project from 2001 - the case written by students at Nano will be handed out and is required reading for this session.
Lecture 5: Raising Early Stage Capital
This session will focus on the availability of venture capital and how to develop strategies that will help your GLAB companies access it. Detailed Work Plan Due.
Lecture 6: Organizational/Human Resource Management Issues
As start-ups grow (and the successful ones actually do), they face an array of organizational design and process challenges, as well as human resource management issues. Through a discussion of a few GLAB cases from last year, we will analyze some of these issues and provide you with some tools/frameworks that may help you provide practical advice to your companies.
Intersession Internship
IAP runs from for 4 weeks during the month of January. Your internship should last between 3-4 weeks. The whole team should arrive at and leave the company together.
First half (H1) of Spring term
In H1 of the Spring Semester we will discuss your experiences and talk in more detail with some of the companies. These sessions will take place once a week and run for three hours per session.