Available Courses

• Current Topics in Entrepreneurial studies 01

  • Teacher: Scott Provost

    

  International Journal of Business and Management

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• General Entrepreneurship - Faculty Research

  • Teacher: Scott Provost

    

  
  

• Introduction to Lean Six Sigma Methods MIT 16.660

  • Teacher: Scott Provost

    

  
  

  Course Description

  This course introduces the fundamental Lean Six Sigma principles that underlay modern continuous improvement approaches for industry, government and other organizations. Lean emerged from the Japanese automotive industry, particularly Toyota, and is focused on the creation of value through the relentless elimination of waste. Six Sigma is a quality system developed at Motorola which focuses on elimination of variation from all processes. The basic principles have been applied to a wide range of organizations and sectors to improve quality, productivity, customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, time-to-market and financial performance.

• Law for the Entrepreneur and Manager

  • Teacher: Scott Provost

    

  Derived From MIT Open course 15.615

  This course provides a basic understanding of legal issues that corporations face during their existence. The course starts by providing the basic building blocks of business law. We then follow a firm through its life cycle from its "breakaway" from an established firm through it going public.