The New Product and Venture Development Track is the most requested track in the MIT Sloan School's MBA program. It promotes hands-on leadership for entrepreneurs and new product managers in innovating firms.
Courses cover both engineering and management material.
A new family of graduate courses at MIT combine management and engineering concepts in the context of product development. This course teaches the basics of starting and managing a new technology business based on the development of a newly designed and engineered product family. This course introduces mechanical and economic models of assemblies and assembly automation on two levels. Building on the fundamentals of probability and statistics, this course covers analytical and experimental tools for design of systems that deliver functions despite noise factors in manufacture, environment, and customer use. This course covers modern tools and methods for product design and development.