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This course presents a challenging multi-dimensional perspective on the causes of human disease and mortality. The course focuses on analyses of major causes of mortality in the US since 1900: cancer, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes, and infectious diseases. Students create analytical models to derive estimates for his
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- biological engineering
- disease
- mortality
- cancer
- cerebrovascular disease
- diabetes
- infectious disease
- risk
- inherited risk
- environmental risk
- population genetics
- mutation
- public health
- malignancy
- statistics
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This course addresses the challenges of defining a relationship between exposure to environmental chemicals and human disease. Course topics include epidemiological approaches to understanding disease causation; biostatistical methods; evaluation of human exposure to chemicals, and their internal distribution, metabolism, reactions with cel
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- biological engineering
- biostatistics
- risk
- risk analysis
- risk factor
- environmental agent
- environetics
- cause and effect
- pollution
- statistical analysis
- toxic
- genetics
- disease
- health
- epa
- metabolism
- endocrine
- immunity
- uncertainty
- mortality
- death rate
- prediction
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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The topic of the class is information economics. The purpose is to give an introduction to some of the main subjects in this field: risk sharing, moral hazard, adverse selection (signaling, screening), mechanism design, decision making under uncertainty. These subjects (and others) will be treated in more depth in the advanced theory course
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- economics
- information
- economics
- microeconomic theory
- money
- risk sharing
- moral hazard
- adverse selection
- signaling
- screening
- mechanism design
- decision making
- uncertainty
- decision-making
- information economics
- incentive theory
- contract theory
- choice
- choices
- microeconomic analysis
- risk
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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The aim of this course is to acquaint students with traditional topics in labor economics and to encourage the development of independent research interests. This course is taught in two parts: Fall term and then in the subsequent Fall term.
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- economics
- economics
- labor
- market
- statistics
- theory
- neoclassical
- supply
- model
- life-cycle
- demand
- wages
- immigration
- human capital
- econometrics
- liquidity
- constraints
- mobility
- incentives
- organization
- moral hazard
- insurance
- investments
- efficiency
- unemployment
- search
- jobs
- training
- capital
- firm
- technology
- skills
- risk
- signaling
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This course explores the foundations of policy making in developing countries. The goal is to spell out various policy options and to quantify the trade-offs between them. We will study the different facets of human development: education, health, gender, the family, land relations, risk, informal and formal norms and institutions. This is
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- economics
- economics
- development
- policy
- human
- education
- health
- gender
- family
- land
- relations
- risk
- informal
- formal
- norms
- institutions
- decisions
- poor
- households
- countries
- government
- international
- organizations
- non-governmental organizations
- ngos
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This course explores perspectives in the policy process - agenda setting, problem definition, framing the terms of debate, formulation and analysis of options, implementation and evaluation of policy outcomes using frameworks including economics and markets, law, and business and management. Methods include cost/benefit analysis, probabilis
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- engineering systems division
- politics
- decision making
- negotiation
- planning
- wedge game
- climate change
- global warming
- nrc
- nuclear power
- nuclear energy
- nuclear proliferation
- government
- public policy
- globalization
- science
- epa
- nsf
- transportation
- urban planning
- standards
- risk
- risk assessment
- engineering
- energy
- internet
- network neutrality
- regulation
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This course covers principles and methods for technical System Architecture. It presents a synthetic view including: the resolution of ambiguity to identify system goals and boundaries; the creative process of mapping form to function; and the analysis of complexity and methods of decomposition and re-integration. Industrial speakers and fa
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- engineering systems division
- systems
- product development process (pdp)
- architect
- tradeoff
- function
- use case
- scenario
- creativity
- complexity
- interface
- form
- feature
- requirements
- design
- optimization
- risk
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Engineering systems design must have the flexibility to take advantage of new opportunities while avoiding disasters. This subject develops "real options" analysis to create design flexibility and measure its value so that it can be incorporated into system optimization. It builds on essential concepts of system models, decision analysis, a
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- engineering systems division
- real options
- flexibility
- flexible design
- engineering systems
- complex projects
- evaluation over time
- risk
- uncertainty
- valuation
- timing
- uncertainty modeling
- flexibility valuation
- methods
- design analysis
- lattice analysis
- monte carlo simulation
- flexibility identification.
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This team-taught subject is for doctoral students working on emerging technologies at the interface of technology, policy and societal issues. It integrates concepts of research strategy and design from a variety of disciplines. The class addresses problem identification and formulation of research topics, the role of qualitative and quanti
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- engineering systems division
- uncertainty
- risk
- politics
- forecasting
- future
- prediction
- disaster
- space shuttle
- nuclear power
- nuclear energy
- energy policy
- government
- technology assessment
- ota
- gps
- internet
- packet switching
- data network
- military
- dec
- digital equipment
- drug
- pharmaceutical
- air transport
- aircraft
- public policy
- industrial policy
- uav
- de
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course introduces the theory and the practice of engineering ethics using a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural approach. Theory includes ethics and philosophy of engineering. Historical cases are taken primarily from the scholarly literatures on engineering ethics, and hypothetical cases are written by students. Each student will wr
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- engineering systems division
- philosophy
- myth
- kant
- john stuart mill
- kierkegaard
- augustine
- joseph campbell
- risk
- disaster
- honesty
- whisteblower
- social responsibility
- pugwash
- environment
- bioethics
- lawsuit
- praxistics
- decision making
- management
- accident
- choice
- morals
- complexity
- judgement
- consequence
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This course does not seek to provide answers to ethical questions. Instead, the course hopes to teach students two things. First, how do you recognize ethical or moral problems in science and medicine? When something does not feel right (whether cloning, or failing to clone) — what exactly is the nature of the discomfort? What kind of tensi
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- linguistics and philosophy
- medical ethics
- ethics
- genetics
- life support
- stem cell
- gm
- genetically modified
- genetic engineering
- risk
- biomedical
- medicine
- cloning
- euthanasia
- enhancing or cheating
- abortion
- eugenics
- slippery slope
- organ transplant
- organ donor
- disease
- public health
- health care
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"The Art of the Probable" addresses the history of scientific ideas, in particular the emergence and development of mathematical probability. But it is neither meant to be a history of the exact sciences per se nor an annex to, say, the Course 6 curriculum in probability and statistics. Rather, our objective is to focus on the formal, thema
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- literature
- philosophy
- scientific thought
- scientific method
- mathematics
- chance
- risk
- statistics
- history of science
- quantitative measurement
- chaos
- uncertainty
- induction
- deduction
- inference
- luck
- gambling
- cause and effect
- games of chance
- fate
- prediction
- rationality
- decision making
- religion
- randomness
- knowledge
- fact
- human nature
- m
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This course helps in developing skills as science communicators through projects and analysis of theoretical principles. Case studies explore the emergence of popular science communication over the past two centuries and consider the relationships among authors, audiences and media. Project topics are identified early in the term and studen
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- science technology and society
- public understanding of science
- science writing
- museum
- exhibit
- debate
- journalism
- stem cell
- recombinant dna
- intelligent design
- gma
- genetically modified food
- biotechnology
- bioengineering
- risk
- journal
- newspaper
- radio
- fraud
- cloning
- evolution
- controversy
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This course is a graduate reading seminar, in which historical and contemporary studies are used to explore the interaction of technology with social and political values. Emphasis is on how technological devices, structures, and systems influence the organization of society and the behavior of its members. Examples are drawn from the techn
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- science technology and society
- design
- planning
- history
- american history
- electrification
- aviation
- taylorism
- war
- military history
- fire prevention
- risk
- development
- business
- civilization
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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Financial Management studies corporate finance and capital markets, emphasizing the financial aspects of managerial decisions. It touches on all areas of finance, including the valuation of real and financial assets, risk management and financial derivatives, the trade-off between risk and expected return, and corporate financing and dividend policy. The course draws heavily on empirical research to help guide managerial decisions.
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- management
- finance
- corporate finance
- capital markets
- managerial decisions
- financial assets
- risk management
- financial derivatives
- expected return
- risk
- dividend policy
- empirical research
- futures
- options markets
- valuation
- budgeting
- portfolio theory
- investments
- projects
- company
- companies
- return
- stocks
- bonds
- pricing
- options
- markets
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This six-week summer course teaches basic concepts of corporate financial accounting and reporting. This information is widely used in making investment decisions, corporate and managerial performance assessment, and valuation of firms. Students perform economics-based analysis of accounting information from the viewpoint of the users of accounting information (especially senior managers) rather than the preparer (the accountant). This course is restricted to MIT Sloan Fellows in Innovation and Global Leadership.
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- management
- financial accounting
- analyzing financial statements
- measuring corporate performance
- making business decisions
- valuing companies
- corporate finance
- business economics
- cash flow discounting
- risk
- valuation
- balance sheet
- income statement
- accounting process
- statement of cash flows
- receivables
- revenue recognition
- inventories
- liabi
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