I’m writing this post from Jakarta, where I just started my 3 weeks of on-site G-Lab work.
G-Lab is short for Global Entrepreneurship Lab, which is a famed course for 2nd years at MIT Sloan. It entails an academic course in the fall of 2nd year, followed by an on-site project to a developing country. In the fall semester, students form teams of 4 (I am working with some of my closest friends at Sloan), and are matched with a start-up in a developing country. After teams are matched early in the fall, they get to work on a tangible consulting project. Students spend over 3 months working on the project from Cambridge, followed by a 3-week trip to the country to work on-site with the company.
It is an opportunity for students to learn about opportunities and problems facing entrepreneurs in emerging markets; and an opportunity for the host company to gain high impact insight and analysis, with concrete “leave behinds” that the Senior Management can put to work immediately.
You can follow my experience, along with other teams’ experiences here.
More to come!