MIT LGO Mission Statement
To develop and educate global leaders with deep knowledge of operations, engineering, and management to solve industry’s most important problems.
Vision Statement
The MIT LGO program and its community of students, faculty, partner companies and alumni aim to provide an innovative curriculum with focus on operations, engineering, data technologies, and leadership, with deeply experiential delivery centered around onsite thesis projects at LGO’s partner companies. The LGO culture shapes our actions and aspirations.
This vision is fueled by three key aspirations:
- Attracting top STEM graduates from around the world
- Engaging leading operations-focused companies as partners
- Connecting students and partner companies in a unique partnership with MIT faculty and departments from the School of Engineering and School of Management
Core Values
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Community: We focus on the team, caring for each other, trusting one another, and respecting diverse perspectives
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Bias for Action: We embrace an operational mindset, with a passion for going to the Gemba, learning from mistakes, and driving continuous improvement
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Communication: We listen with curiosity, respect, and empathy, communicate with candor and humility, and focus on solutions
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Resilience: We persevere in the face of challenges and collectively emerge stronger from setbacks
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Integrity: We act with integrity, doing what’s right even when it’s tough and holding ourselves accountable to our shared values
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Pay it Forward: We give back to the LGO community and beyond, contributing actively to the success of others
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Leadership: We embody these values as we embrace challenging situations, and inspire those we lead with our courage to solve industry’s most pressing problems
Definition of Operations
- The scope of Operations includes systems, technology, processes and people that are critical to the creation, and capture of value from goods and services.
- Operations provide the blueprint for the core activities (e.g., manufacturing, product design & development and logistics) and the culture that determine the organizational capabilities and how value is created to all stakeholders; in short how stuff gets done.
- Leading successful & resilient organizations greatly depend on operational strategies that empower people to harness advanced technologies and machine intelligence.