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Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 2014, Market Basket employees, joined by their customers, protested against the firing of their beloved CEO. They risked their jobs, their livelihoods, and they brought the business to a halt. At a time when we see so much division between the CEOs who represent the top 1% and the workers, who represent by the bottom 99%, this level of support for a CEO got the attention of the entire country. Arthur Demoulas, he stands for valuing people. He always says we are in the people business first, grocery business second. And when the ownership changed, you started asking the questions, what's going to happen with our benefits? What's going to happen with our pay? And when you start taking away that factor of focusing on people, the entire business model starts to fall apart. The workers were fighting for a business model that works for everyone-- for them, for their customers, and for their shareholders. We saw a number of c...

okay and open course was taping this class if you don't want to be on camera you have a right not to be on camera we'll get to why you do later okay in about two slides and just you should let Tom know that's Tom and Alicia from OpenCourseWare okay so in this class we can talking about copyright and about the law because sometimes people talk about copyright in isolation especially people who are really just interested in copyright and in my opinion that's a mistake because copyright is not really special Congress passes lots of laws that they're like about corn subsidies or international trade or guns or you know all sorts of things and copyright is really not special so to understand copyright you would have to understand the law or at least the basics of the law so today we're going to talk a bit about copyright and then we're going to talk about American law in general and some of you that might be kind of boring but I I think it's thri...

PROFESSOR JOEL SCHINDALL: This course represents one of four courses that are given in the Gordon Leadership Program. We have a course on engineering innovation and design, a course on engineering leadership, a course on people and organizations, which talks about how to work effectively within a company, and of course on project engineering, which teaches them how to use the same tools and skills they learned when they assemble electronic systems to assemble the management system that it takes in order to run a complicated program. When we got funding for the Gordon MIT Engineering Leadership Program, we got together with a number of industry leaders, actually quite a large number of industry leaders, to look at what was engineering leadership and what were they looking for in the successful engineers within their companies. About 3/4 of the topics had to do with leadership-- decision-making, advocacy, cross-cultural communication-- but about a quarter of the topics that...

4.614 is a course that I meant to have it as an introduction to Islamic cultures, and I am using it in a plural in here, through looking at one specific kind of architecture which, of course, would be the most related to what we would call Islamic culture, which is the religious architecture of those cultures. And I am using it in the plural because I do not want to convey the image that what we are looking at is a monolithic culture from beginning to end and it is the same in every place that professes Islam as a religion or that accepts Islam as a religion. So it is really a survey course that tries to use architecture, and a specific kind of architecture, in order to introduce to the undergraduate and to the uninitiated the idea of what makes a society or a culture an Islamic society or an Islamic culture through their religious practices within religious spaces and through their tastes and their favorite forms and decorative patterns and so on in these religious space...

The goal of the course is basically to combine the materials that would be covered in two different courses in mechanical or chemical engineering, fluid dynamics and heat and mass transfer, to try and package that for materials engineers within one semester because the curriculum doesn't place enough emphasis on this material to spread it out over two. We try to teach all of the topics that are covered in both of the courses in mechanical or chemical engineering within the single semester. And that makes it, of course, a challenge to teach, a challenge to learn the sticking coefficient, the fraction that actually gets absorbed may not be quite as high as in a two semester sequence but that the goal is to teach all of that material. The students are evaluated on two different criteria which are the quizzes and exams of various types and the homework assignments. I weight the homework assignments very low in their overall grade, just enough to give them an incentive to ...