A fighter aircraft F/A-18F Super Hornet prepares to launch from the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. (Photo courtesy of the United States Navy.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Barry Posen
Prof. Harvey Sapolsky
MIT Course Number
17.462
As Taught In
Fall 2005
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This seminar has three purposes. One, it inquires into the causes of military innovation by examining a number of the most outstanding historical cases. Two, it views military innovations through the lens of organization theory to develop generalizations about the innovation process within militaries. Three, it uses the empirical study of military innovations as a way to examine the strength and credibility of hypotheses that organization theorists have generated about innovation in non-military organizations.
