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Pd21: An Education Consortium For Product Development Leadership

Author(s) -

Mark T. Smith,

Denny Mahoney

Publication year - 2020

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

DOI - 10.18260/1-2--10397

Subject(s) - new product development , product (mathematics) , session (web analytics) , management , curriculum , library science , leadership development , engineering , sociology , political science , computer science , public relations , pedagogy , world wide web , geometry , mathematics , economics

Business survival and growth is critically dependent upon the ability to develop new products and services, yet there has been a distinct scarcity of educational programs whose overarching focus is product development. With support from the NSF and the Center for Innovation in Product Development (CIPD) at MIT, a university consortium was formed in 1998 to disseminate a Master of Science program focused on product development leadership. This paper reviews the evolution of “PD21”, the “Education Consortium for Product Development Leadership in the 21 Century,” from creation of the template Master’s degree program at MIT and formation of the consortium, to the transfer of curriculum to three other member schools (RIT, the University of Detroit-Mercy, and the Naval Postgraduate School), to the future of the consortium. Attention is given to the complexities and challenges associated with collaboration within and between universities.

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