Who will be teaching the course?
The MIT Sloan School of Management faculty and staff are experienced entrepreneurs who are highly credible in the international businesses world. They have the experience, knowledge and global connections that businesses value and consistently deliver on what they promise to H&I businesses. The team who will be delivering the EDP course include:

William Aulet, Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, MIT Entrepreneurship Center, is a serial entrepreneur who has run three companies, directly created hundreds of millions of dollars in market value, raised more than $100 million in funding for his companies, produced award-winning products, and helped develop numerous business leaders in his 25-year business career.

Steve Brown, Technology Licensing Officer at the MIT Technology Licensing Office, manages the evaluation, prosecution, maintenance, marketing, and licensing of seven hundred MIT inventions in the chemicals, materials, bio/pharma and medical device areas.

Diane Burton, the Michael M. Koerner Assistant Professor of Management of Technology, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, studies employment relations in entrepreneurial companies and human resource management practices. In ongoing research, she is studying entrepreneurial teams and executives' careers.

Fiona Murray, Senior Sarofim Family Career Development Professor and Associate Professor, Management of Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship, studies and teaches innovation and entrepreneurship including the campus-wide iTeams course developing "go-to-market" strategies for breakthrough innovations developed in MIT labs.

Michael Grandinetti, Senior Lecturer, formerly Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer with PTC's Software Solutions Group spent 12 years as a senior executive at four venture-backed technology companies, where he helped co-lead one company through an IPO road show, contributed to a second company's IPO, and was instrumental in the creation of several new product categories.

Kenneth Morse, Former Managing Director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center, has played a key role in launching several MIT-related high-tech start-ups, including 3Com Corporation; Aspen Technology, Inc.; a biotech company; and an expert systems firm. His expertise includes global sales and marketing strategies for new high-tech ventures and university-based technology entrepreneurship initiatives.

Richard Locke, the Alvin J. Siteman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Political Science, and Director of the MIT Italy Program, studies economic adjustment and development, comparative labour relations and political economy. His current work examines cooperative patterns of economic development in Eastern Germany, Southern Italy, and Northeast Brazil.

Janet Shanberge, Senior Lecturer, MIT Entrepreneurship Center, has spent the past 26 years focused on providing consulting services to multinational and domestic companies on China business development. She is a specialist in transaction facilitation between foreign investors and Chinese counterparties and has a successful record of project negotiation and implementation on behalf of MNC clients.

Duncan Simester, Associate Professor of Management Science, investigates marketing problems. His work on retail pricing investigates how customers form inferences from competitive prices from common marketing cues such as sale signs, price endings, installment billing offers and credit card logos.