Learning best practice from the best practitioners

MIT Sloan invites more than 400 of the world’s finest leaders to campus every year. The most anticipated of these visits are the talks given as part of the Dean’s Innovative Leader Series, which features the most dynamic movers and shakers of our day.

At a school that places enormous value on having both feet planted in the real world, the Dean’s Innovative Leader Series is a powerful learning tool. Students have the rare privilege of engaging in frank and meaningful discussions with the leaders who are shaping the present and future marketplace.


2012 Speaker Highlights


Guler Sabancı

Güler Sabancı

Chairman and Managing Director, Sabancı Holding
May 4, 2012
E62-276, 12 Noon
Light lunch, 11:30am.

Co-Sponsored by the Office of External Relations and the MIT Leadership Center

Güler Sabancı is Chairman and Managing Director of Sabancı Holding, the parent company of the Sabancı Group, Turkey’s leading industrial and financial conglomerate.

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Lord John Browne

The world’s most dynamic leaders and speakers offer fresh insight at the Dean’s Innovative Leader Series. Google’s Eric Schmidt visited MIT Sloan in November 2011 to discuss “The Future of the Global Mind.”
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