"Blast Off" Engineering Leadership Lab
"Blast Off" Engineering Leadership Lab
Many of you have asked what sort of things we do in the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program's weekly Engineering Leadership Labs (ELLs).In this video of our "Blast-Off" ELL on September 28, Gordon Engineering Leaders (GELs) practiced the skills of decision making, ingenuity, ...
"From Unlocked To Unleashed: Leadership In Your Life"
"From Unlocked To Unleashed: Leadership In Your Life"
Learn practical strategies to integrate leadership into your daily life.
"Team Wonderfulness": How GELs Expand their Engineering ...
"Team Wonderfulness": How GELs Expand their Engineering Leadership Skills
In this video, "Team Wonderfulness"--a group of Gordon Engineering Leaders who participated in ESD.950: Project Engineering during IAP 2011--demonstrate how they developed their visioning, relating, sensemaking, and delivering skills.
2008 Alumni Leadership Conference Keynote Address by MIT ...
2008 Alumni Leadership Conference Keynote Address by MIT President Susan ...
President Hockfield talks about the ways MIT is contributing to the innovation economy and how accelerating innovation means opening doors between traditional disciplines, between academic institutions, between the academy and industry, and between MIT and other ...
A Conversation on Leadership
A Conversation on Leadership
03/03/2011 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumUrsula M. Burns, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Xerox Corporation Description: Her "journey to the top" is one that "could only happen in the United States of America," says Ursula Burns, describing her rise from New York City projects to the apex of ...
A Conversation with Jack Welch
A Conversation with Jack Welch
When Jack Welch was a young manager, he blew the roof off one of General Electric's factories in a chemical accident. Summoned to a company VP, Welch received comfort rather than harsh words and a pink slip.
A New Conversation with Jack Welch
A New Conversation with Jack Welch
04/26/2011 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumJack Welch, Founder Jack Welch Management Institute Description: Jack Welch has never been one to pussyfoot around when it comes to discussions of leadership, and he doesn't break from form during a lively give"and"take with MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein ...
A Policy on Leadership
A Policy on Leadership
03/31/2010 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumEdmund (Ted) F. Kelly, PhD '70, Chairman, President & CEO; Liberty Mutual Description: Ted Kelly walks a Sloan audience through the process of turning around a failing company. His formula? Develop two key things: a fact based analytical organization, and ...
Alumni Association and Campaign for Students Update
Alumni Association and Campaign for Students Update
Opening remarks and alumni activities report by Toni Schuman '58, president, MIT Alumni Association; Alumni Fund update presented by Donald E. Shobrys '75, chair, Alumni Fund Board; Campaign for Students update presented by Jeffrey Newton, vice president, Resource ...
Alumni Profiles: Lola Ball '91, SM '92
Alumni Profiles: Lola Ball '91, SM '92
Alumna Lola Ball talks about her experience at MIT and what keeps her coming back to the Alumni Leadership Conference year after year.
Annual Technology Day Report 2010
Annual Technology Day Report 2010
06/05/2010 KresgeDr. Susan Hockfield, President, MITDescription: Note: This video has some audio problems, which get resolved at early on with some help from an audience member, presumed to be a Course VI alum. MIT President Susan Hockfield delivers a general update on the Institute to MIT ...
Ariadne Smith (GEL '10) Describes Why the GEL Program is ...
Ariadne Smith (GEL '10) Describes Why the GEL Program is Vital for MIT ...
In this video, Ariadne Smith (GEL '10), a Gordon Engineering Leader who recently earned her Certificate of Completion in Engineering Leadership, shares her thoughts about why the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program is so valuable to MIT engineering ...
Behind the Scenes of Admissions at MIT
Behind the Scenes of Admissions at MIT
An insider's view of MIT admissions from Dean of Admissions Stu Schmill '86 and members of the admissions staff. Find out what has changed over the years, what has stayed the same, and how that affects those students applying to MIT today.
Benj Christensen, LGO '12, on his Internship at ...
Benj Christensen, LGO '12, on his Internship at Massachusetts General ...
Benj Christensen, LGO '12, is doing his six-month onsite internship at new LGO partner Massachusetts General Hospital from February-August 2011. Hear him discuss the relevance of LGO's management, technology, and leadership training to his analysis of patient flow ...
Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program: ...
Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program: Engineering ...
On October 23, Gordon Engineering Leader candidates participated in a "Leadership Reaction Course". Planned and executed by Senior GELs, the LRC featured a series of exercises in which Junior GELs discovered the value of effective team communications and grew to ...
Beyond the Bench: Preparing MIT Students for the Challenges ...
Beyond the Bench: Preparing MIT Students for the Challenges of Global ...
10/03/2008 9:30 AM Little KresgeJames A. Champy, '63, SM '65, Chairman of Consulting Perot Systems Corporation; Life Member, MIT Corporation; Subra Suresh, ScD '81, Dean, MIT School of Engineering; ; Adele Naude Santos, Dean MIT School of Architecture and Planning; ...
Bill Porter in Conversation with Howard Anderson
Bill Porter in Conversation with Howard Anderson
04/28/2010 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumWilliam A. Porter, SF '67, Co"Founder & Chairman Emeritus, E"Trade Financial Corporation; Howard Anderson, William Porter Distinguished Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship, MIT SloanDescription: Some of the lessons Bill Porter picked ...
Capitalism 3.0: An Institutional Revolution In the Making
Capitalism 3.0: An Institutional Revolution In the Making
06/05/2010 Wong AuditoriumOtto Scharmer, Senior LecturerDescription: C. Otto Scharmer points to what he calls a "blindspot" in contemporary leadership research: the organization and management of attention. He argues that there are different kinds of awareness or ...