Courses tagged with "Nutrition" (461)

This class surveys the current concepts, theories, and issues in strategic management of transportation organizations. It provides transportation logistics and engineering systems students with an overview of the operating context, leadership challenges, strategies, and management tools that are used in today's public and private transportation organizations. The following concepts, tools, and issues are presented in both public and private sector cases: alternative models of decision-making, strategic planning (e.g., use of SWOT analysis and scenario development), stakeholder valuation and analysis, government-based regulation and cooperation within the transportation enterprise, disaster communications, systems safety, change management, and the impact of globalization.

15.975 U-Lab: Leading Profound Innovation for a More Sustainable World is an interactive and experiential class about leading profound innovation for pioneering a more sustainable economy and society. The class is organized around personal reflection practices, relational practices, and societal practices. It focuses on the intertwined relationship between the evolution of capitalism, multi-stakeholder innovation, and presencing.

This course will take a non-technical approach to understanding how governments influence the macroeconomy. Topics will include fiscal policy, deficits and debts, monetary policy and structural reform. We will review some current debates, such as fiscal stimulus vs. austerity and rules vs. quantitative easing.

Gain high-level perspective on the world of business and organisations today in preparation for a better understanding of tomorrow

This course 'Unethical decision making in organizations : A seminar on the dark side of the force' will teach you how strong organizational contexts push good people towards unethical decisions. You will also learn how to protect yourself and your organization against such forces lurking in the dark.

This subject discusses the broader trends in the labor market, how urban labor markets function, public and private training policy, other labor market programs, the link between labor market policy and economic development, and the organization of work within firms.

In this course, you’ll examine perceptual maps, which are used to identify how consumers differentiate among products and how they perceive one product relative to another. These maps are valuable for identifying opportunities to introduce and position new products, repositioning existing products, and identifying your true competitors.

Build real-world embedded solutions using a bottom-up approach from simple to complex in this hands-on, lab-based course.

Whether your interest lies in solving the world’s biggest problems, creating the next commercial success or addressing something closer to home, this course will give you a toolbox to vet your ideas and test them in the real world.

This seminar will cover the multi-disciplinary theoretical and empirical foundations of research on work, employment, labor markets, and industrial relations. We begin by tracing the historical development of theory and research in the field, paying special attention to how the normative premises, concepts, and methodological traditions of industrial relations compare to those of other disciplines that contribute to the study of work and employment relations. Then we will review a number of current theoretical and policy debates shaping the field. This will be followed by a series of modules introducing different disciplinary perspectives used to study work and employment issues today. Emphasis will be given to recent research from different industries that illustrate the mix of methods—field work, qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, etc.—we encourage in this field of study.

Diversity begets creativity—in this seminar we tap the amazing power of swarm creativity on the Web by studying and working together as Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs). As interdisciplinary teams of MIT management, SCAD design, University of Cologne informatics, and Aalto University software engineering students we will explore how to discover latest trends on the Web, and how to make them succeed in online social networks. We study a wide range of methods for predictive analytics (coolhunting) and online social marketing (coolfarming), mostly based on social network analysis and the emerging science of collaboration. Students will also learn to use our own unique MIT-developed Condor tool for Web mining, social network analysis, and trend prediction.

Курс поможет осмыслить извечные проблемы жизни человека: богатство и бедность, деньги и рынки, инфляция и безработица, индивидуальные решения и государственная политика. The course will help you to understand the lasting economic problems of everyday human life: wealth and poverty, money and markets, inflation and unemployment, human decisions and governmental policies.

Курс посвящен изучению макроэкономических вопросов, таких как долгосрочный рост, циклические колебания экономики и стабилизационная политика государства. The course covers major macroeconomic issues, such as long-run growth, cyclical fluctuations of the economy, and stabilization policy.

Мы рассмотрим принципы и модели финансового анализа компании, а также оценку стратегических решений компании с точки зрения их влияния на фундаментальную стоимость компании. In this course you will learn the principles and models of financial analysis of a firm based on the criteria of value creation.

Самое сложное экономическое событие сводится, в конечном счёте, к действиям отдельных людей и фирм. Микроэкономика показывает, как можно эти действия анализировать – как люди выбирают, что потреблять, а фирмы – что производить. Microeconomic theory tells how people decide what to consume, and firms – what to produce and how to win over their competitors in the market.

Курс посвящен закономерностям конкуренции, рассматриваемой в рамках концепции стратегического взаимодействия продавцов, включая олигополистическую конкуренцию и решения укоренившегося продавца, сталкивающегося с опасностью входа. Explore the factors that determine firm size and market structures by analyzing the strategic decisions made by market participants.

Вы узнаете, как функционируют финансовые рынки и финансовые институты. Каким образом компании привлекают капитал для своего развития, а также как инвестировать на финансовом рынке.
You will learn how the financial markets and institutions operate, how companies can attract capital for their development and also how to invest in the financial market.

В курсе изучаются основы экономической теории рынка труда, объясняющие поведение основных участников рынка труда – домохозяйств, фирм и государства. We will study the economic theory of the labor market, explaining the behavior of the main agents in the labor market - households, firms and the state.

人是否會如同理論經濟學的預測進行決策？這門課將透過每週的課程影片以及課後作業帶你了解實驗經濟學的基本概念。每週將會有習題練習以及指定閱讀的期刊論文。你將會參與一些線上的實驗、報告論文並且互評其他同學的報告。

Financial decisions and financial management are drivers of business performance and success. Financial data plays a vital role in business strategy, planning, and positioning. Learn the basics of financial statements, the conceptual framework of financial information and its relationship to firms’ strategic positioning and strategy execution.

By completing this course, you will learn how to assess and use financial information to make informed business decisions.

这门课程用财务语言解构企业的价值创造过程，从而帮助学习者理解影响价值创造的各种因素，建立财务思维，并具备将其应用于商业决策的能力。我们将从认识财务报表开始，逐步了解财务信息的架构体系，讨论财务数据与行业、战略定位与战略执行的关系，剖析企业的价值创造过程，在此基础上，讨论如何运用财务数据进行商业决策。

What you'll learn

·       - How to think with a financial mindset

·       - How to use financial knowledge when making business decisions

·       - The basics of financial systems architecture

·       - How financial data plays a role in strategic execution and positioning

·       - 用财务语言解构企业的价值创造过程

·       - 帮助学习者理解影响价值创造的各种因素

·       - 培养将其应用于商业决策的能力

Financial decisions and financial management are drivers of business performance and success. Financial data plays a vital role in business strategy, planning, and positioning. Learn the basics of financial statements, the conceptual framework of financial information and its relationship to firms’ strategic positioning and strategy execution.

By completing this course, you will learn how to assess and use financial information to make informed business decisions.

这门课程用财务语言解构企业的价值创造过程，从而帮助学习者理解影响价值创造的各种因素，建立财务思维，并具备将其应用于商业决策的能力。我们将从认识财务报表开始，逐步了解财务信息的架构体系，讨论财务数据与行业、战略定位与战略执行的关系，剖析企业的价值创造过程，在此基础上，讨论如何运用财务数据进行商业决策。