Sloan Innovation Period (SIP)

A unique curricular innovation, Sloan Innovation Period (SIP) gives MBA students an intense week of study set apart from the rest of the 13-week semester. Classes offer experiential lessons in leadership and expose students to the groundbreaking faculty research that puts MIT Sloan in a league apart.

The MIT Leadership Center organizes SIP seminars that include real-time simulations, up-close and personal sessions with senior executives, practitioner panels and presentations, skill-building workshops, and self-assessment and reflection activities.

Recent SIP weeks have featured the following courses. Current Sloan students may go to Sloanbid for the most up-to-date listings.

Spring 2013
Title	Course #	Instructor(s)
Teams Track Debrief	ES.000	Lou Bergholz, Edgework Consulting
From Ego-system to Eco-system Economies: Innovating Beyond GDP-The Story of the Gross National Happiness Lab	ES.117	Otto Scharmer, Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan
Leadership Under Fire	ES.118	Virginia Healy-Tangney
The Executive Challenge Business Simulation	ES.128	Pat Bentley, Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan
Obstacles, High Ropes, Leadership, and Teams	ES.152	Carrie Sampson Moore & Tim Mertz, DAPER Staff
21st Century Visual Arts for Business Leaders	ES.160	Mark Cooper, Stephen St. Francis Decky, & Paul Stopforth, SMFA
Improvisation & Influence: An Experiential Leadership Lab	ES.174	Daena Giardella, Lecturer, MIT Sloan
Everest Leadership & Teams Simulation	ES.208	John Carroll, Professor of Management, MIT Sloan & Michael Bean, Forio Simulations
Your Last 6-Weeks and Your First 90-Days: Preparing for Re-Entry into the Workforce from a Leadership Development Perspective	ES.236	Pat Bentley, Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan & Chris Kelly, Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan
Experiential Leadership Development: Hiking in the Smokey Mountains	ES.294	Danielle Sewell, MBA ’13 & Deborah Ancona, Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Leadership Center, MIT Sloan
Introduction of ICE-X Teams Model	ES.592	Deborah Ancona, Professor of Management, MIT Sloan
Observer/Teams Track Training	ES.593	Lou Bergholz, Edgework Consulting
Leadership Simulation: Extreme Bridge	ES.594	Lou Bergholz, Edgework Consulting
Top Chef Showdown	ES.595	Lou Bergholz, Edgework Consulting
Moving Up to Enterprise Leadership: The Seven Seismic Shifts	ES.597	Shawna Slack, MBA ’98, CEO at Genesis Advisers
Leadership in the Era of Crowdsourcing: An Experiential Approach	ES.599	J. Andrei Villarroel, Professor, Author, Speaker on ‘Strategic Crowdsourcing’
Jewish Business Ethics: Right Behavior and Leadership in the Workplace	ES.600	Rabbi Fisher, SM ’97, Executive Director of MIT Hillel