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Master of Science in Business Administration –Major in Entrepreneurship (Innovation & Growth)
Discover New Markets&
Technology Entrepreneurship
Worcester & Boston16th September ‐ 27th September 2012
Overview
Date Sunday 16th to Thursday 27th September 2012
First meeting point: Monday 17th – Marriott, Lobby at 8.30 am
Program Lectures, Company Visits, Workshops and Extracurricular Visits
Locations Courtyard® by Marriott® Worcester, Worcester MAIrvinghouse, Cambridge MASwissnex, Boston MA
Price CHF 400.– participation by student(more information will follow)
Locations
Jerry Schaufeld
Mr. Schaufeld's wealth of experience in entrepreneurship, operations and general management of technology‐based companies ranges from his current role as Professor of Entrepreneurship at WPI to an assignment as a commercialization consultant at Children'sHospital in Boston. He served as Director of the RI Slater Fund, past President and CEO of Mass Ventures and has a "hands on" track record in several early stage companies that ranges from functional to board level advisory roles. He is a member of the Launch Pad Angel Group in Wellesley and Co‐founder of the Cherrystone Angels in Rhode Island.
In addition, Mr. Schaufeld is an advisor to the newly formed Boynton Angel group in Central Massachusetts, a charter member of the national Angel Capital Association (ACA), and a founder/ participant in the regional NE Angels ACA group. He was co‐founder of a venture capital funded, technology based company called Phoenix Controls Corporation. The company pioneered an approach to the control of air flow in critical laboratory and hospital environments and was successfully sold to a Fortune 500 company.
Jerry Schaufeld
He worked in a variety of functional executive roles at Arthur D. Little, Disc Technology Corporation, Ferrofluidics Corporation, and Waters Associates. They included international sales and marketing, finance, engineering, manufacturing and operations. In addition, he executed two significant turnaround projects as senior executive. Mr. Schaufeld was a founder and the first Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum which is a resource group for early stage companies with global outreach. He also founded the Incus Group which is a CEO level business acquisition and resource organization. He served on the Board of the Bay State Medical Physicians organization in Springfield, MA, the Board of the MetroWest Hospital and its emergency physicians group, a series of technology based manufacturing company Boards, as well as the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), the Corporate Directors Group and the Board of Navigator Technology Ventures which is a Cambridge based venture capital/ commercialization firm. With a graduate engineering degree, research experience at MIT, an MBA and professional engineer's license (MA); Jerry has a distinguished technical and operations savvy managerial career. His specific interest is in the area of the formation and success of innovative, technology based enterprises. This interest began while he was a Special Student at the MIT Sloan School where his studies focused on the areas of the Management of R&D, Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship. His current research is in the area of improving the probability of success in early stage ventures.
Study Trip – Topics
1. Technology Entrepreneurship: Clean‐Tech; Design Thinking, IP, Collective Intelligence2. Discover New Market: American Culture, Market Entry Strategies in the US3. Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
1. Oliver de Weck: MIT – System engineering2. Hampus Hillerstrom: europhlage3. Masschallenge4. Marc Rioult – Puramatrix5. Essential Design6. Paul Bottino: Harvard Tech Center7. Andrei Villarroel, Assistant Professor; MIT Sloan Center for Collective Intelligence
www.mit.edu/~andreiv or Peter Glor
8. Great visit 2012: ……………
Study Trip – To Do’s1st of June – 16th of Septembera) Chapter 1‐5: Technology entrepreneurship – Book Shaneb) Chapter 1,2, 6‐8: International entrepreneurship – Book Hollensenc) Texte: Hofstede and Troopenaarsc) Case Study: Apple
16th of September – 27th of September: Comfort zone ‐‐ Interactivity8 Teams: ‐ Presentation Swiss Group, Briefing‐ Presentation Company/Institution/Personality, ‐ Social Media‐Team‐ Debriefing‐Team for every day
27th of September – 24th of October1. Lecture report2. Personal reflexion
Program 1st WeekSunday 16th
Monday17th
Tuesday18th
Wednesday19th
Thursday20th
Friday21st
Saturday22nd
Morning
Prof. Chick Kasouf
MarketingWelcome & Overview
E. OverstromProvost and J. Schaufel
Prof. F. Hoy
Entrepreneurship family business
Tour robotics Lab Prof. M. Gennert
Prof. D. Apelian
Materials processing‐global
viewWrap‐up and
feedback session
Afternoo
n
Prof. Mike Elmes
Leadership in the New World
Prof. F. Miller
Accounting in theNew World
Prof. J. Gobert
The Psychology of Learning
ConferenceTransport from Logan Airport to
Worcester
Prof. Jerry Schaufeld
International Topic
Trip to Irving House @Harvard
Even
ing Check‐InMarriott , Worcester
Professor Schaufeld’s class
WPI VentureForum
Visit to a fraternity
Visit to Higgins Armory Meet Swissnex
team
Program 2nd WeekSunday 23rd
Monday24th
Tuesday25th
Wednesday26th
Thursday27th
Morning
Presentation Swissnex Visit at Essential Design
@Boston South Station
Visit FraunhoferInstitute
@Cambridge
MIT Workshop with Marc Rioult and puramatrixAmerican culture
IP in the US
Afternoo
n US Market Access with Jos Sheffelaar
@Swissnex
Olivier de Weck, System
Engineering@MIT
Neurophlage HampusHillerstrom@Cambridge
Case study Writing@Swissnex
MassChallenge.com
Visit of CIC & presentation of a
Swiss entrepreneurial life path @Swissnex
Harvard TechCompany visits
Feedback@Swissnex
Even
ing
Panel discussion on the value of business
in CleanTechprocessing @Swissnex
Accommodations
Worcester Courtyard® by Marriott® Worcester | 72 Grove Street | Worcester, MA01605 | 001 (508)‐363‐0300www.marriott.com
Accommodations
Boston Irving House at Harvard | 24 Irving Street | Cambridge, MA 02138 | 001 (617)‐547‐4600www.cambridgeinns.com/irving
Dress Code
Business Casual and/or Smart Casual