XXXXX This site is an archive for past courses of Creativity and Innovation in Organization and Work, Prof. Freeman. For the current course go to Saturday:
9:45 arrival in Boston; van to The Kendall Hotel, 350 Main St, Cambridge, Mass.
10:25am: Brunch at Hotel
11:30 Liquid Bits and the Cambridge Innovation Ctr with Hiram Samel and Haggai Goldfarb
~ 2 pm MIT's Culture of Innovation: A personal walking tour examining MIT's culture
4:25 pm Bathroom break (for Tom)
4:30 pm Introduction to System Dynamics - MIT's Systems Approach to Creativity
6 pm Dinner at Hotel
Evening Free time (bedtime check: 10 pm)
Sunday:
9 am Discussion of Organizational Culture, in particular, what might account for MIT's extraordinary success in creating value through innovation.
10 am MIT museum: Not your ordinary museum
~ 12:00 noon Tom Koulopoulos: The direction and evolution of business and technology
~ 2 pm Communities of Innovation: Boston Innovation Tour. Bus tour with stops in Cambridge, with stops at Harvard University
4:55 pm Bathroom break (for Tom)
5:00 Distributed Leadership: Elaine Backman, MIT Sloan Leadership Center
6:30 pm Dinner at Think Tank (No longer flooded I think)
Evening Free time (bedtime check: 10 pm)
Monday:
9 am: MIT Media Lab: Taemie Kim, Benjamin Waber, Daniel Olguin and Sandy Pentland discuss Sensible Organizations
Noon: Communities of Innovation: Boston Innovation Tour Walk from Kendall Square to Boston Waterfront, lunch at Faneuil Hall Marketplace
2:55 pm: Bathroom break (for Tom)
3:00 pm: Synectics Creativity workshop with Elisa O’Donnell: Purposeful Creativity and Creative Thinking in Organizations
5:15 Return: Van from hotel at 5:15 to airport
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