MIT Lectures, a special lecture course of Tsinghua-MIT International MBA Program, was opened again in this semester on April 18, 2013. The first lecture was given by Neal Hartman, Professor of the Department of Managerial Communication, MIT Sloan School of Management, who had deeply impressed the students with practical and fun teaching-learning experience in “Case Classes - Learning to prepare and participate” and “Cross-cultural Communication”, the two progressive lectures he gave in the 2012 fall semester.

The topic of Professor Hartman’s lecture this year was “Group Decision-Making, Team Roles and Leading Effective Teams”. With vivid and interesting tools such as individual role analysis & test and team role analysis, Professor Hartman concluded a precise analysis of the types of individual roles from his skillful interactions with the students, and demonstrated the relationship between different types of roles and the importance of teamwork.

Following five lectures, a one-week course on technology strategy was jointly organized by the International MBA Program and the MIT Sloan School of Management in the last fall semester. The course was given by Professor Pierre Azoulay, the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management and an Associate Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Students from MBA class of 2013 and some Tsinghua-MIT IMBA alumni in the relevant industry attended the course, after which they commented, “a big benefit of such intensive course is that our learning and exchange were very efficient, which is because we spent every day concentrating on learning the topic-related knowledge and cases, and our experience in the same industry helped create a comparatively unified discourse system.”

It has been a convention that in each semester, there are 3-5 half-day special lectures for Tsinghua-MIT IMBA students from at least 3 professors of the MIT Sloan School of Management.

                         (Written by Tsinghua-MIT International MBA Program, MBA Programs.)