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Corporate Entrepreneurship Lab

This course is for students who want to learn how they can help organizations be more entrepreneurial and innovative.

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Corporate Entrepreneurship Lab

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Helping CDS create an experiential offering for Costco online

Club Demonstration Services (CDS), the powerhouse partner behind retail giant Costco, provides product samples and demos in more than 800 Costco warehouses across 12 countries, with a strong focus on food. There’s just one problem: Demonstrations, food especially, appeal to in-person customers. The company aimed to branch out to new products, especially health, beauty, and home goods, to attract online shoppers. Entrepreneurship in Organizations Lab students Masa Kawahashi, SFMBA ’24 and Ayobami Aluko, SFMBA ’24 were tasked with sharpening CDS’s e-commerce strategy.

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15.369 Corporate Entrepreneurship Lab

Corporate Entrepreneurship Lab (CE-Lab) is for students who want to learn how they can help organizations be more entrepreneurial and innovative. Along with classes on frameworks and tools, and sessions with guest speakers and industry practitioners, student teams will work directly with large organizations on their entrepreneurial and innovation challenges. Students should be excited to work with existing organizations by applying leadership and organizational skills, startup best practices, and an entrepreneurial and growth mindset.

Corporate Entrepreneurship Lab

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CE-Lab at a glance

  • Term

    Spring

  • Units

    9

  • Eligible students

    All MIT Sloan graduate students

  • Prerequisites

    Students should be familiar with Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup by Bill Aulet

  • Bid/Application

    Application

  • Host organization profile

    Large for-profit and nonprofit organizations

  • Sample sectors

    Consumer products, energy, healthcare, technology

  • Sample host organizations

    Michelin, Microsoft, Puma

Corporate Entrepreneurship Lab

Faculty

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CE-Lab Faculty

Susan Siegel

Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management

Sue Siegel has driven game-changing ideas and powered companies that advance industries and improve lives for more than three decades. With vast experience across industries, she is on the forefront of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and is helping…

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Yu-Ting Kuo

Yu-Ting Kuo

Lecturer

Yu-Ting Kuo is a faculty member at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and National Tsing Hua University’s Department of Computer Science, where he teaches entrepreneurship and innovation in organizations, machine learning, and AI ethics. Kuo helps…

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Susan Neal

Susan Neal

Lecturer

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