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Global Entrepreneurship Lab: Asia-Pacific

Overview

15.389A Global Entrepreneurship Lab: Asia-Pacific enables teams of students to work with the top management of global start-ups and gain experience in running, and consulting to, a new enterprise outside the United States. The focus is on start-ups operating in emerging markets throughout the world, with a special focus on the Asia-Pacific region. The course combines an internship in a growing firm with in-class discussions of the issues and policies that affect the climate for innovation and start-up success around the world.

Special Features

15.389A is part of a two-section course and includes materials that cover entrepreneurship in the Asia-Pacific region. 15.389B Global Entrepreneurship Lab: Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa is also available on OpenCourseWare and covers topics pertinent to these additional regions.

Skills you'll practise

Business & ManagementEntrepreneurshipFinance & AccountingInnovation & EntrepreneurshipInternational DevelopmentSocial SciencesSociologyStartups/New Enterprises

Advantages and disadvantages

Advantages

  • The real MIT course: lecture notes, problem sets and exams, often with solutions.
  • Free, with no sign-up or deadlines.
  • Taught by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the strongest names in its field.
  • Completely free.
  • Self-paced: start any time.
  • Hands-on: you build or practise, not just watch.

Disadvantages

  • No certificate, no grading and no forum: you need to be self-driven.
  • Many courses are recordings of past semesters and some have notes only, no videos.
  • No certificate.

Some points apply to every course of this kind; see how we rank.

Free to learn

  • Free: All the materials are free to use, with no sign-up. MIT OpenCourseWare gives no certificate.

Taught by

  • Prof. Yasheng Huang
  • Prof. Simon Johnson
  • Michellana Jester

Massachusetts Institute of Technology is in Tier 1: world-leading universities and India's top institutes of our institution ranking (98/100). OpenCourseWare is the gold standard for free university material.

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