OpenCourseWare is a way for MIT to allow anyone to self-learn from MIT. Some course material is made public for anyone to download and follow. So I decided to give you some intro to what courses you can self-learn at MIT, ranging from Air Traffic controller to quantum physics. Here are my so far favorites:
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Yes, coming to the U.S.A was a good experience for me. But some items shocked me when I came back to Norway and saw the price. If you’re an american and thinking about going to Norway sometime soon, please reconsider. Or, do it the best way possible: call me and I’ll host you and show you around. A lot more inexpensive and a whole better experience.
I’ll give you some overview of the different prices between the two countries as I experienced it.
On my way home to Norway I decided to do a little stay-over in Wimbledon, London. I’ve been to London many times before but flying straight from the United States to the United Kingdom make the differences appear. This is what I’ve noted so far:
I’m packing up my stuff and heading out of Boston. It’s been a great stay that has far exceeded my expectations. I’ve met people, seen things and breathed the air between Harvard and MIT. The city tonight was particular beautiful from the Cambridge riverside on a warm, dry summer night. Tomorrow I turn in the cable modem and loose my network access, so this will be my last blog from Boston. This is my story of how I ten years ago made MIT my goal. And by completing that plan, what now?
This blog comes about a week too late but still is valid I guess. In my class Competitive Strategies and Dynamics: winning in technology markets, we had the no small job of analyzing the largest mobile company in Japan, NTT DoCoMo, and figure out new ways for the company to make money in a very commoditized market. To put some extra pressure on the group, NTT DoCoMo sent one of their R&D managers to meet up with us, 13 hours from Japan to Boston.
So I guess most of you reading this know my real name is NOT Brad Storm (oh, did that come as a shock to you?). However, Brad Storm is my alter ego, created in California and I obviously kept it when going to Boston. I got some questions about this Brad Storm thing and Here’s why:
This fact struck me today. or should I say, you have to Bergenser to really appreciate California. What is my top ten California list? Read further…
So I’m in the final week of regular school at MIT. The semester is almost over. I will soon go into the history books as the 257th Norwegian MIT alumni in MIT history. So what have I learned from the USNews #2 ranked US business school, MIT Sloan?
My very interesting class, Technology Strategy, is finally concluded. My group project focused on satellite navigation systems like GPS, and how the technology is about to merge with the cell phone industry. Technology Strategy is really an interesting and important class. It raises questions about how value is created (how do companies actually create the technology?), capture the value (how to make money on it) and how to deliver value (get it out into the market!). Based on technology and economical knowledge the whole value chain of technology and innovation is being discussed. If this sounds interesting, take further read on what we found for the hybrid GNSS / Cell phone market:
Another class project is completed. In my class “managing innovation & entrepreneurship” we’ve talked with senior management of two different companies about what practices they use in their search and development of innovative product to conquer market share. The first one was a smaller Norwegian software company that tries to bring their product into the American market. The other company was a medical product company in the Johnson & Johnson (jnj.com) group. Two very different companies with different approaches. However, they both provided some really good advice that most companies can learn from. (more…)