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<span class="" style=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span class="" style="">Mary S Camerlengo <<a href="mailto:mcam@mit.edu" class="">mcam@mit.edu</a>><br class="">
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<span class="" style=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span class="" style=""><b class="">New Spring Class: Managing Minds: The Limits and Possibilities of Science - Lessons from Israeli Science</b><br class="">
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<span class="" style=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span class="" style="">February 8, 2019 at 1:48:14 PM EST<br class="">
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<span class="" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Sloan is offering a new class this term called<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">Managing Minds: The Limits and Possibilities of Science - Lessons from Israeli Science</b>. Please kindly forward
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<b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:12pt">SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT</span></b></div>
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<b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:12pt">MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY</span></b></div>
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<b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:12pt">Spring 2019 SYLLABUS</span></b></div>
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<b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:18pt">Lessons from Israeli Science</span></b></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size:12pt">Prof. Gad Yair</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size:12pt; line-height:24.799999237060547px">Office: E62 343, Office Hours: By appointment<br class="">
Contact:<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><u class=""><span class="" style="color:rgb(4,98,193)"><a href="mailto:msyairg@mit.edu" class="" style="color:rgb(149,79,114); text-decoration:underline">msyairg@mit.edu</a></span></u><span class="" style="color:rgb(4,98,193)"></span></span></p>
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Is science culturally determined? Are thoughts culturally ordered? Can cultures compensate for lack of resources? What are some of the limitations that cultures set? How and why? And how can scientific administrators and leaders use cultural assets for promoting
science? This course will provide students with managerial tools for assessing science while focusing on Israeli science as an in-depth case study. Using classic and contemporary readings in Science and Technology Studies (STS), students in this class would
be able to understand and apply tools for assessing scientific productivity and innovation of elites (e.g. Nobel Prize); they would apply contemporary quantitative methodologies for assessing national achievements in science (by using<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.scimagojr.com/countryrank.php" class="" style="color:rgb(149,79,114); text-decoration:underline"><span class="" style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">Scimago</span></a>);
they will evaluate the productivity of selected scientists (e.g. by using<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://harzing.com/blog/2017/11/publish-or-perish-version-6" class="" style="color:rgb(149,79,114); text-decoration:underline"><span class="" style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">Publish
or Perish</span></a>), and they would be able to rank universities and disciplines (by using various methodologies like<a href="http://www.shanghairanking.com/index.html" class="" style="color:rgb(149,79,114); text-decoration:underline"><span class="" style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">ARWU</span></a>).
To understand how culture affects scientific achievements, in the latter half of the course students will use comparative methodologies for explaining how Israeli culture encourages innovation and helps scientists sustaining prolific careers. Students would
decipher the role of culture in working habits in the lab, in strategizing careers, even in intellectual habits and styles. The instructor will share his experience as the Chief Scientific Officer of CoolCite, an Israeli Ed-Tech startup that develops tools
for managing higher education with academic data. By using Israel as a cultural mirror, students would finally assess the scientific standing of their country of origin (using Scimago) and make a concrete analysis of one academic department - in Israel and
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that their own culture may set on science and management.</div>
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