Mens et Manus – mind and hand is the motto for MIT Sloan School of Management and something that is taken particularly seriously at the schools’ Global Entrepreneurship Lab. “Students aren’t thinking so much about getting a job in a big company, they are thinking about how to apply the skills they are learning” says Michellana Jester, manager of the action learning programmes at MIT, and they are able to do this to great effect through the G-lab.
Launched in 2000, G-lab links teams of second-year MBA students with small to medium-sized companies in Africa, China, India, Latin America and southeast Asia. Working in groups of four, the students then share their knowledge, experience and research with these business owners over a set three to four month period – with no fees incurred by the company, aside from airline and accommodation expenses when the students visit for the last three weeks. For the first three months, all the work is done remotely and for free.
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