11.235 | Fall 2009 | Graduate

Analyzing Projects and Organizations

Course Description

This course teaches students how to understand the rationality behind how organizations and their programs behave, and to be comfortable and analytical with a live organization. It thereby builds analytic skills for evaluating programs and projects, organizations, and environments. It draws on the literature of the …
This course teaches students how to understand the rationality behind how organizations and their programs behave, and to be comfortable and analytical with a live organization. It thereby builds analytic skills for evaluating programs and projects, organizations, and environments. It draws on the literature of the sociology of organizations, political science, public administration, and historical experience-and is based on both developing-country and developed-country experience.
Learning Resource Types
Projects with Examples
Written Assignments with Examples
This class in session, discussing healthcare.
Professor Tendler leads the class in a discussion of innovative preventive-health-care programs in the rural areas of developing countries. (Image by MIT OpenCourseWare.)