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MIT Sloan faculty will join financial executives from around the world at the MIT Sloan CFO Summit scheduled for November 19. Keynote topics will include business competition during an economic downturn, and clean energy financing. More >>

Yasheng Huang, professor of political economy at MIT Sloan School of Management, says that the government needs to do much more to accelerate the income growth of poor Chinese if consumer spending is to play a bigger role in the economy. The average Chinese, he says, doesn't have as much cash to spend as many people think. More >>

In order to reduce wasted resources and time among competing drug companies, MIT Sloan and Harvard Business School students are working together on a project that aims to forecast the success or failure of pharmaceuticals while they are in the early stages of research. More >>

E. Larson Gunness, MIT Sloan alumnus and owner of an independent financial firm, is conducting a free workshop designed to help artists manage their finances. Seats are still available via online registration. More >>

This blog entry highlights the implications of increasing use of the concept of sustainability, based on ideas from Peter Senge, director of MIT Sloan's Center for Organizational Learning. More >>

MIT Sloan is joining a five year initiative to develop and deploy more environmentally sustainable urban transportation systems. More >>

Ofer Sharone, an assistant professor at MIT Sloan, who is conducting research on job searching, believes "it is personally devastating to start thinking there is something wrong with you. People start to believe that they are flawed, that there is something internally and deeply wrong with them. This (leads) to discouragement and people stopping the job search. If you start to think that it's your fault you're not getting a job, in many cases once you get to that stage it's very hard to continue job searching." More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Saad Fazil highlights three new technologies with the potential to affect how consumers watch television in the near future. More >>

In two videotaped interviews, MIT Sloan Prof. Huang Yasheng discusses his recent article on China's need for political representation that will provide more checks and balances within a strong government sector. He also examines whether or not China is ready for a global leadership role. More >>

More than a year after the economic crisis hit, legislators continue to work on how to reform financial regulation to stave off a future crisis. MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson along with other financial experts review the latest proposal from Sen. Chris Dodd of the Senate Finance Committee. More >>

Oracle's battle with European regulators over its acquisition of Sun Microsystems boils down to a conflict about the importance of free software and the government's role in protecting it. MIT Sloan Prof. Michael Cusumano says the trans-Atlantic "megawar" over open-source software was not surprising. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Henry Mintzberg's thesis on the nature of managerial work is described in this education and career piece. More >>

Research from MIT Sloan's Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee explains why it takes perceptive management to identify the technology solutions that will make a difference, and be able to effectively measure the impact of those solutions. More >>

On November 5, Leland Cheung, a 31-year-old MBA at MIT Sloan, became the first Asian-American city councilor in Cambridge's history. More >>

MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson reports that recent volatility in the stock market has led some to question the wisdom of relying on 401(k) and other defined-contribution plans, invested largely in the stock market, for our nation's retirement security. More >>

MIT Sloan's collection of business open courseware includes classes, lectures and answers for finance, economics and more. More >>

MIT Sloan secured the number four spot in the Eduniversal global top 100 business schools ranking, and number two in the U.S. among schools with "major international influence." The rankings are overseen by an international committee of business school professionals (deans, academic directors, professors, and b-school association leaders). They rely on a set of criteria, which includes accreditations, participation in academic associations, and other ranking systems, along with student and dean recommendations to select and rank schools on their international reputation. More >>

Rexam Plastic Packaging's Personal Care Division announced the appointment of MIT Sloan alumnus Eric Soubeiran to the position of director, Marketing and Innovation. Soubeiran will lead worldwide initiatives to develop and support products in the Division's core markets. More >>

This editorial review highlights key concepts in a new book co-authored by MIT Sloan researcher George Westerman titled, "The Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value." More >>

"President Obama, who spoke at MIT in October, encouraged the Institute and the country to play a leadership role in developing clean energy," says Janet Lin, MIT Sloan MBA 2010 and co-managing director of the Clean Energy Prize. More >>

MIT Sloan lecturer Bill Aulet, chairman of the MIT Clean Energy Prize, says the recognition factor of prizes, apart from their dollar value, is efficient at creating the collaborations needed for new technologies to emerge. More >>

According to a recent report by the MIT Sloan Management Review and The Boston Consulting Group, companies are already dragging their feet even though they're aware that things like environmental regulations and a possible renewable portfolio standard could one day soon affect their business. More >>

MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson says the tax credit has helped keep home prices artificially high. Johnson suggested in a recent Washington Post column that the credit could induce a bubble-like effect on prices: "In effect, the tax credit is a way of making houses temporarily affordable that would not otherwise be affordable, and we know where that leads." More >>

In an opinion piece, MIT Sloan alumnus Saad Fazil writes, "Comcast relies on bundle pricing model (and selling people channels they don't necessarily want) to support its large infrastructure costs." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson blogs, "China essentially pegs its currency (the renminbi, also known as the yuan) against the American dollar, which means that it rises and - most recently - falls in tandem with the greenback." More >>

It remains unclear how the U.S. government will approach institutions currently considered "too big to fail." MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says it is the concentration of credit risk in any form, not the mixing of lending and trading, that makes big banks a threat to the system. More >>

Advice from MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson seems to run counter to the crisis-time decisions of regulators, who in arranging rescues of troubled banks effectively increased the size of companies already considered "too big to fail." More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Dharmesh Shah, chief technology officer and founder of HubSpot Inc., where he heads up HubSpot Labs, is profiled. More >>

YTL Communications announced the appointment of Wing Lee, an MIT Sloan executive certificate holder, as chief executive officer. More >>

MIT Sloan researcher Michael Schrage writes, "Mobile devices are the great distractions - and distracters - of the Information Age. I've heard nurses whisper about doctors who check their Blackberries in the middle of laparoscopic procedures and anesthesiologists who fiddle with their iPods while monitoring vital signs." More >>

"Some tipping point has been reached with Enterprise 2.0," said MIT Sloan Principal Research Scientist Andrew McAfee at this year's Enterprise 2.0 Conference. McAfee explained that while he used to see potential customers approach enterprise tools with skepticism, he's recently noticed a significant shift in attitude. More >>

MIT Sloan student Nabeel Siddiqui is one of 16 international students taking part in a new dual-degree program in which Sloan collaborates with foreign business schools. More >>

The author cites commentary by MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson and MIT Sloan researcher Michael Schrage taken from a recent edition of MIT Sloan Management Review: "Technology is transforming innovation at its core, allowing companies to test new ideas at speeds - and prices - that were unimaginable even a decade ago." More >>

"Based on my experience so far, it seems to me that designers just take naturally to Swarm Creativity," says Peter Gloor, lead research scientist at the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT Sloan. More >>

MIT Sloan Research Scientist George Westerman says, "IT and business managers have often operated independently with respect to risk and compliance management. With IT an essential part of today's business operations, it's imperative to overcome that mentality." More >>

Walking away with $5,000 for his 60-second pitch, Rouzbeh Shahsavari, winner of the MIT $100K Elevator Pitch Contest, seemed pretty excited. His idea? Nanoengineered concrete that is twice as strong, cuts CO2 emissions in half, and is dramatically cheaper than typical concrete. More >>

Reliant Energy today announced the appointment of Tom Gros as senior vice president of Sales. Gros holds an MBA from MIT Sloan. More >>

In his regular column, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson writes, "We believe it will be common knowledge that above-market performance in stock-picking mutual funds is purely a matter of chance and that today's high-priced mutual funds will be seen as the equivalent of snake oil and leeches." More >>

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, temple of the applied industrial sciences, created the Sloan School of Management in 1914 - a recognition of the affinity between the two disciplines - and the school in turn introduced MBA programs in 1925. More >>

"Technology is transforming innovation at its core, allowing companies to test new ideas at speeds - and prices - that were unimaginable even a decade ago," writes MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson and MIT Sloan researcher Michael Schrage in a recent edition of the Sloan Management Review. More >>

Organizers of the Opportunity Green Sustainable Business Conference announced that it will feature a panel discussion analyzing and expanding upon MIT Sloan Management Review's groundbreaking study, 'The Business of Sustainability'. More >>

The fiscal stimulus played a decisive role in reducing the depth and pain of the recession and is now helping to get a recovery under way, blogs MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. More >>

The Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development has signed a three-year agreement with the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) to sponsor a Dean of Entrepreneurship who will be responsible for the HCT Executive MBA in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a program developed in cooperation with the MIT Entrepreneurship Center. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Michael Bair, vice president of business strategy and marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, is listed among the Who's Who at Boeing. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Phil Duff's firm Duff Capital failed, former employees say, because its founder kept spending money as if the credit crunch weren't happening. More >>

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan's Erik Brynjolfsson and Michael Schrage write, "Technology is transforming innovation at its core, allowing companies to test new ideas at speeds and prices that were unimaginable even a decade ago." More >>

Citadel may have a higher burden of proof than other brokers since its bread-and-butter business is making bets in the markets. "The perception of a conflict of interest is a hurdle that they're going to have to go the extra mile to manage," says Andrew Lo, a professor of finance at MIT's Sloan School of Management. More >>

MIT Sloan's Howard Anderson appears in a photo in which he is addressing Peter Brooke, founder of Advent International and TA Associates. More >>

MIT Sloan student Leland Cheung would be the youngest Cambridge City councilor and the first Asian-American to serve on the council if elected. More >>

A panel of venture capitalists and industry specialists named Nanoengineered Concrete the winner of the 2009 MIT Elevator Pitch Contest. This three-year-old contest, which is open to MIT students from across its five schools, including MIT Sloan, allows competing teams 60 seconds to deliver a persuasive elevator pitch to the panel of judges. More >>

"Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, has stayed carefully on the sidelines while a major argument has broken out among and around senior policy-making circles," blogs MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. "Should our biggest banks be broken up, or can they be safely re-regulated into permanently good behavior?" More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Bill Aulet recounts his worst boss. More >>

During the escalating economic crisis of November 2008, MIT Sloan Prof. Pai-Ling Yin found a sound investment opportunity when her Pilates instructor at MIT, Sarah Carr, told her she wanted to open her own studio one day. "I had money that wasn't going to do any good in the stock market anyway," Yin says. "I thought it's much better to invest in Sarah. So we started FitLab." More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Brad Terrell, VP and general manager, Digital Media, Netezza, is slated to present a workshop on November 5 in New York on how AOL Advertising is leveraging the power of Netezza's data warehouse. More >>

This blogger notes the progression of materials available through MIT Open Courseware, including the offerings from MIT Sloan. More >>

In this online opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson writes, "Putting cash in pockets does have a stimulative effect because some of that cash will turn into consumption. But as far as stimulus measures go, it has a low multiplier (the ratio of new economic activity to stimulus spending)." More >>

That hedge funds can be illiquid and unpredictable was an important lesson from last year's market meltdown, says Andrew Lo, director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering. More >>

"Twitter's smart enough, or lucky enough, to say, 'Gee, let's not try to compete with our users in designing this stuff, let's outsource design to them,'" says MIT Sloan Prof. Eric Von Hippel. More >>

"Alerting the public and keeping their attention on climate is a good thing-certainly part of our motive was to focus public attention on the issue," says John Reilly, a scientist and lecturer at MIT's Sloan School, who helped create the Deutsch Bank-financed carbon counter. More >>

Virtual Instruments, a leader in virtual infrastructure optimization, announced that MIT Sloan alumnus John W. Thompson, former chief executive officer and current chairman of the board of directors for Symantec, was appointed to Virtual Instruments' board of directors. More >>

Rexam Plastic Packaging announced the appointment of MIT Sloan alumnus Eric Soubeiran as Director, Marketing and Innovation. More >>

The Economist recently released its annual rankings for the world's top MBA programs. While weighing the relative merits of titans like the Sloan School at MIT and the Haas School at the University of California-Berkeley is tough enough, adding international programs from Spain to Singapore muddies the waters that much more. By combing through the numbers, though, several interesting facts come to light. More >>

A regular keynote speaker in CEO forums and major conferences around the world, Dr. Govindarajan has published seven books in addition to his international best seller. He has authored more than 70 articles which have appeared in academic journals including the MIT Sloan Management Review. More >>

Financial experts blasted the [banks'] subsidy as corporate welfare. "It rewards their irresponsible behavior in the past and encourages them to do the same thing again in the future," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. More >>

In one recent exercise designed to improve their inquiry and advocacy skills, students arrived in class with an engineering idea they wanted to sell and shared the concept with a partner, who then attempted to pitch the idea to a panel from MIT's Sloan School of Management. More >>

"Three-fifty is so impossible to achieve that to make it the goal risks the reaction that if we are already over the cliff, then let's just enjoy the ride until it's over," says John M. Reilly, an economist at MIT. More >>

MIT Sloan student Forgan McIntosh, co-president of the MIT Energy Club says, "The President alluded to the steadfast opposition to change and the idea that clean energy and the carbon tax and a lot of the expensive technologies could potentially ruin the economy, and the outright pessimism about politics on Capitol Hill, as things that make people throw in the towel and not do the hard work." More >>

...MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says the plan might reduce excessive risk-taking at banks under the Fed's watch -- but not at firms beyond the Fed's authority, including hedge funds and other securities firms that trade billions of dollars in complex securities and whose collapse could hurt the economy. "This is a good start, but it's not enough." More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Steven Goune bought a condo unit in Central Harlem for $725,000. More >>

The battle over ownership of the Dodgers is one of the pieces of MIT Sloan alumna Jamie McCourt's and husband Frank McCourt's split. More >>

An excerpt from Harlan Anderson's autobiography references MIT Sloan Prof. Emeritus Jay Forrester. "In 1956, Jay Forrester left Lincoln to become a professor of business at MIT's Sloan School, where he created a new concept called Industrial Dynamics." More >>

In his blog, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson writes, "our big banks have demonstrated an unmatched ability to take over regulators and to convince politicians that a dangerous financial structure is good for America." More >>

Some say that too much of China's growth is coming from investment in inefficient state-owned enterprises and that current stimulus policies are diverting the country away from the reform long needed to balance its economy. "They're moving the economy in exactly the wrong direction," says Yasheng Huang, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management and a leading critic of China's economic strategy. More >>

"Business school applications require many thousands of words' worth of essay questions, usually dealing with those universal but ephemeral corporate themes of Teamwork, Impact, and Dealing With Difficult Situations," writes first-year MIT Sloan MBA Samuel Hawes in this entry. "Somewhere within this morass the applicant is generally expected to answer the question, 'What are you going to do with an MBA?'" More >>

"Credit rating agencies have an internal tension in their business model," writes MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson in this opinion piece. "To bring in revenue, they have to satisfy their customers -- the investment banks creating structured finance products. However, for their product -- their ratings -- to have any value, they have to maintain certain standards for analysis and compliance." More >>

Banks are expected to collect a record amount from overdraft income despite recently backing away from practices such as charging consumers steep fees for overdrawing by a few dollars. Yet, the industry's changes are an acknowledgement that "banks have a serious legitimacy problem," says Simon Johnson, a former chief economist for the who now teaches at MIT's Sloan School of Management. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson, a member of the CASE Advisory Council, suggests that emerging markets should create their own alternative to the International Monetary Fund. He argues that rather than doing the impossible and reforming its structure, and eliminating its negative stigma, a wiser alternative is to create a new institution. More >>

Research from a study authored by MIT Sloan Assistant Prof. Joshua Ackerman finds that sometimes the "mating game is a team sport," and romeos looking for love will likely have more success when traveling with a wing man than when operating solo. "Friends will try to help you find partners to your liking, weed out undesirables, and support you in other ways," says Ackerman. More >>

"We were trusted, more was expected of us, and we stretched to deliver it," writes the author of an opinion piece on trust and belief in the workplace. "The opportunity to realize full potential as a person is how the MIT Sloan School of Management's 'A Study of Spirituality in the Workplace' defines this elusive feeling." More >>

At a recent conference held in Lisbon, MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Malone presented his vision of that the role of collective intelligence in the organizations of the future will be a new collaborative platform between the different actors, with the strategic challenge of reinforcing the central competences of society. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Patricia Garrison Corbin passed away at the age of 62. More >>

The Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation announced the election of MIT Sloan alumnus Steve Rusckowski to its Board of Directors. More >>

MIT Sloan alumna John Windle passed away on October 14, 2009, at New England Baptist Hospital after a valiant 6-month struggle with lung cancer. More >>

China Sunergy Co., Ltd. a specialized solar cell manufacturer based in Nanjing, China, announced that it has appointed MIT Sloan alumnus Siegfried Yi Chou Hsu as Chief Financial Officer. More >>

Offering less audio/visual content than iTunes University, but still full of business school information, MIT's Open Course Ware gives free access to almost all MIT course content, including extensive lecture notes, assignments and exams from MIT Sloan School. More >>

Representatives from Dapat Vista, the winner of the Malaysian prime minister's 'Best of the Best' award, will attend a week-long entrepreneur development program at MIT Sloan. More >>

Despite the growing similarities among Microsoft, Google and Apple, each is a unique beast, says Michael Cusumano, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management. They can be classified according to how they approach the cloud, how they make money and how openly they approach the development of intellectual property. More >>

Sloan Deputy Dean Richard Locke says that logistics-based approach to factory violations is just one piece of a still larger problem; the demands global brands put on local factories must be addressed as well. More >>

MIT Sloan Management Review is listed among the sponsors of Opportunity Green (OG), a sustainability forum facilitating the exchange of responsible information, ideas and new business models being held on November 7 and 8 at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo has been appointed to the Board of Overseers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Overseers act as goodwill ambassadors within the communities served by the medical center. More >>

"The pressing global challenges we face require a new way of thinking, working, and leading that integrates disciplines often seen as separate," says MIT Sloan Prof. John Sterman. More >>

Stephen D. Immerman, who holds an MIT Sloan Executive Education Management certificate, has been named president of Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA. Immerman is also the former MIT Senior Associate Dean for Student Life. More >>

Now in its seventh year, the 2009 MIT Sloan CFO Summit will take place November 19 and bring together more than 500 CFOs and senior financial executives from around the world. More >>

Oliver E. Williamson, a 1955 graduate of MIT Sloan who went on to do pioneering research on the internal organization of businesses, was a recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize for economics. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Frank Reynolds was awarded $435,678 by a federal court jury because the University of Pennsylvania dropped the name "Wharton" from his degree program. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Malone says that the home call-center field is poised for growth. "In many cases those workers can provide better and more cost-effective service than offshore call-center workers in low-wage countries," says Malone. More >>

MIT Sloan has a highly structured interview process, and it is designed to extract particular details from applicants, such as their ability to nurture talent. If the interviewer gets through the interview and you have not revealed those facts, he will be unimpressed, states MIT Sloan Director of MBA Admissions Rod Garcia. More >>

...That may not be enough to shift China's growth model, argues the iconoclastic scholar Yasheng Huang, professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management. In a talk Monday to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China in Beijing, he argued that the emergence of a true Chinese consumer economy will require a much more serious re-think of the current focus on heavy investment and exports. More >>

"A theory should be as simple as possible, but no simpler." If one applies Albert Einstein's words to a colourful basket of theses from leading US academics about the future of investing, it could look like this: Andrew Lo of MIT's Sloan School of Management provides the foundation of the theory. For one of America's current academic superstars, it is pretty clear how the future must look: "We need to solve investors' biggest problem - uncertain outcomes of risks and returns." More >>

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey McCormick announced the engagement of their daughter Meagan Schmitt McCormick to MIT Sloan student Thomas Horace Martin Jr. More >>

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Joseph Doyle writes, "Before promising to cut the fat out of Medicare, we need to be sure we don't hit the bone as well. Some spending is wasteful and some saves lives. We need better ways to measure which is which." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Michael Cusumano was named among the top 50 most influential individuals in the worldwide technology and IT industries by Silicon.com. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Ed Roberts is featured in a program on the state's role in leading the recovery out of the economic crisis. More >>

In this interview, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "In a crisis, when everything is up for grabs and you don't know what's going on, the people who will take your phone calls in government are the people who are going to be standing in the oval office making the key decisions. That's the heart of the system, that's the heart of how you get your agenda through." More >>

"The Europeans are losing out," says Simon Johnson, a professor at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. "The Europeans are the biggest losers of the economic crisis, even though the home of subprime madness was the U.S." More >>

In this interview, MIT Sloan Assistant Prof. Ofer Sharone shares his advice on how to avoid self-blame during unemployment. More >>

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson writes, "The IMF's ability to stabilize the global economy may hit a wall because of resentment among emerging economies. Developing nations have long complained about the extent to which the U.S. and Western Europe dominate the 186-member group - and about the austerity the fund traditionally imposes on borrowers." More >>

Timothy Geithner's calendars show Geithner is too close to Wall Street, says Simon Johnson, a former chief economist with the IMF and professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management. "Your worldview in the middle of a crisis depends on whom you talk to and what their perspective is, and you need a broad cross-section of opinions to truly understand what's happening," Johnson says. More >>

In an article on dealing with a colleague's mistakes, Deborah Ancona, a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and author of X Teams, warns that it's important to "be careful because you don't want to make anyone else see the problem if they haven't already." More >>

In this interview, MIT Sloan Prof. Jiang Wang shares his insights on financial crisis recovery efforts. "From my point of view, the inflation is not nearly as serious as was anticipated. Total liquidity growth has been high, but luckily it did not lead to actual inflation." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Paul Osterman says that the San Antonio Project and Capital IDEA, an Austin [job-training] program based on it, "are among the best, if not the very best, in the country. It's a proven model." More >>

MIT is planning to launch a student-led online publication focused on entrepreneurship by the end of the year, a leader of the effort tells Xconomy. The fledgling publication will be called the MIT Entrepreneurship Review (MITER) and will aim to serve as a resource for entrepreneurs and to raise the already high profile of the prestigious school in the business world. The publication is being organized much like a law review, seeking student editors, based on merit, to provide editorial content, says Eduard Viladesau, a graduate student at MIT Sloan School of Management, who is one of the founders of MITER. More >>

In his blog, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson writes, "At about this time after the near-collapse of its banking system, any democracy goes through a phase of soul-searching regarding its broader economic model." More >>

A quote by MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson that suggests talking to the same people too often can skew a person's viewpoint is referenced. In it, Johnson says, "Your world view in the middle of a crisis depends on whom you talk to and what their perspective is, and you need a broad cross-section of opinions to truly understand what's happening." More >>

A research study by MIT Sloan Assistant Prof. Matt Marx found that while most judges would throw out broad noncompetes, few cases reach the courtroom. "What's really driving behavior is this chilling effect of people assuming the agreement is valid and then kind of taking evasive action," he says. More >>

A 1991 globalization speech by MIT Sloan Dean Emeritus Lester Thurow is referenced. More >>

MIT Sloan student Leland Cheung decided to run for the Cambridge City Council after reading about the incumbents and deciding that the students of Cambridge-who comprise one fourth of the total population-did not have a voice in local government. "The mindset of the city toward the students shouldn't be 'They're only here for four years,' but rather 'We only have four years to convince them to stay'." More >>

Neopart LLC has announced the hiring of MIT Sloan alumnus Ray Melleady as vice president of parts management services. More >>

The MIT Sloan Management Review has released a comprehensive survey of sustainability practices and trends in business including interviews, case studies, and insights into how businesses world-wide view the growing field. More >>

The Federal Reserve won't have to identify companies that got loans from the central bank until a U.S. appeals court reviews a federal judge's disclosure order, according to a lawyer involved in the case...Asks MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson, "What would they freak out about now? In the depth of the crisis, maybe something like that would frighten people, but now? I don't think that there is anything that would upset people particularly." More >>

In this interview, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says it's the structure of the financial sector that's to blame for the current crisis. He says the cause is rooted in the system of incentives and the ownership structure for banks like Wells Fargo, Citigroup, and UBS. Regulation is also a cause, according to Johnson. "It's a structural issue that has come about because of the way the U.S. economy and the financial sector has changed over the past 30 years." More >>

MIT Sloan Assistant Prof. Matt Marx says his research on non-competes showed a significant number of employees were asked to sign non-compete agreements that lasted over three years. More >>

In this interview, MIT Sloan alumnus Deep Joshi says, "The concept of professionals working in villages to promote livelihoods was pretty audacious in the eighties. In those days you only had a few people who thought that way, like Bunker Roy and Anil Sadgopal." More >>

In this Q and A, MIT Sloan alumnus John Krafcik, chief executive of Hyundai Motor America, discussed the auto industry, Hyundai's performance, and its foray into new segments. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus K. Stuart Peskin, CFA, has joined Invesco's Institutional Sales and Client Service team as managing director for client service. More >>

Several elite business schools from around the country are making "tweaks" similar to those at HBS, with individual faculty members taking the lead. "Our approach has not been monolithic change from the top down. Tons of things are bubbling up in response to the crisis," says JoAnne Yates, deputy dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, which is considering implementing a required ethics course. More >>

TCS Chief S. Ramadorai stepped down as the company's CEO and managing director. Ramadorai attended the MIT Sloan Executive Development Program. More >>

A study co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo concluded that under certain conditions, all it takes to fan the flames [of a financial crisis] is for a critical mass of people to extract money from their homes in the form of home equity loans, sales and "cash-out" refinancing. More >>

MIT announced the creation of the Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSH), a research center established at MIT in collaboration with the Portland Cement Association and Ready Mixed Concrete Research and Education Foundation. Researchers from MIT Sloan are expected to participate in the CSH's research activities. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Richard Schmalensee says it's hard to judge how much, if any, impact interchange fees have on the prices that are eventually charged to the consumer because so many factors go into pricing individual items. More >>

The new energy minor at MIT is the product of two years of work by the MIT Energy Initiative's Education Task Force, co-chaired by Don Lessard, the Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management at MIT Sloan, who had a great deal of support from numerous faculty members and administrators to get the new curriculum approved and in place. More >>

However deeply computers may have embedded themselves into modern life, there are still millions of people for whom they remain a challenge. For these Americans, finding a new job during a time of high unemployment can be especially difficult. No one knows how many they are, because there is almost no credible research to assess Americans' overall computer skills. Economists at the MIT Sloan School of Management, who highlighted the lack of data, lamented recently that researchers have, at best, "only cloudy information on technology use" and "levels and kinds of job skill requirements." More >>

"The business of most companies is done by middle managers who run teams, execute plans, and serve as the company's main information channel," says MIT Sloan Prof. Paul Osterman. More >>

The heart of the Legatum Center is its fellows, who must already be enrolled in a graduate program at MIT to be eligible for a fellowship. Many are earning MBA degrees at the Sloan School of Management. More >>

A study by MIT Sloan Management Review and the Boston Consulting Group of more than 1,500 corporate executives worldwide found that more than 70 per cent believe their company has not developed a clear business case for addressing sustainability. However, the research also points out that for those companies that have integrated a strategy of sustainability, there are substantial rewards. More >>

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo writes, "The world has become more complex over the past 20 years, and we need to update our investment paradigm to incorporate these new complexities...To achieve true diversification, investors must now have a broader set of asset classes and risk exposures, long and short, in their portfolios." More >>

While throwing together a few thousand geniuses would breed innovation at any university, the growth of the startup success rate at MIT is due, in part, to the MIT Entrepreneurship Center. Found in 1990 by entrepreneur and investor Edward Roberts, the center nurtures potential corporate superstars. It brings together money-minded students at the university's Sloan School of Management and the brains in the science labs. "MIT is a phenomenal hotbed of entrepreneurship," says Matt DeBergalis, a 2000 graduate who co-founded the online political action committee ActBlue in 2004. More >>

The Real Business of IT, a new book co-authored by MIT Sloan's George Westerman, outlines the fundamental business concepts that a perspective CIO needs to master. More >>

"I think this is all part of an effort Janice Loux to build a strong coalition with community groups, immigrant groups, and political leaders so there's a more united front," says Thomas A. Kochan, cochair of the Institute for Work and Employment Research at MIT. More >>

"People don't focus enough on the price of housing in Shanghai," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. "Seriously, I think the next wave of bubbles is coming in emerging markets and is probably coming in Asia." More >>

It was announced that MIT Sloan Visiting Prof. Clifford Holderness would present a lecture at Concordia University on October 2 entitled, Do Differences in Legal Protections Explain Differences in Ownership Concentration?. More >>

In a speech at the University of Texas, MIT Sloan alumnus Clay Johnson, former U.S. Office of Management and Budget deputy director, shared his past experiences and offered his audience tips on becoming successful public sector professionals. More >>

In his blog, Simon Johnson writes, "Economic and financial models have come in for a lot of criticism in the context of the global financial crisis, much of it deserved." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang writes, "China has made some progress in moving toward a consumer society and it needs to do so now since the consumption in the West has come down - even if G.D.P. has recovered somewhat." More >>

Rose and Sky announced that MIT Sloan alumnus Michael Baer has been appointed to the Rose and Sky Europe Fund's board. More >>

Hudson Library and Historical Society had announced it would host MIT Sloan alumnus Ray Leach, CEO of JumpStart Inc., on Sept. 29 as part of its fall 2009 Entrepreneurship Series. More >>

In an online interview, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "Closing gaps in regulation is one of these things like apple pie and motherhood, of course we're in favor of closing gaps in regulations." More >>

Chrysalis Ventures announced that MIT Sloan alumna Elizabeth Rounsavall was promoted to director of research and analytics. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo says radical compensation reform would be no easy feat given the complexities of most financial institutions and the politics surrounding this effort. "It will take more than bonus caps if we ever hope to create a more stable and robust financial system that will be free from the tyranny of bubbles, crashes, and credit cycles," says Lo. More >>

Simon Johnson, who teaches at MIT, says G-20 leaders simply are not grappling with the biggest issues lingering from the global financial collapse. Instead, they are drafting plans to fix problems in the "medium run"-postponing difficult choices until a time when new developments will demand a different approach still. "The G-20 is dropping the ball," Johnson says. "Not only is the glass not half-full when it comes to global coordination on economic and financial policy, I'm saying there is no glass." More >>

MIT professor Edward Roberts, a specialist in entrepreneurship, said in a Web seminar last month that foreign governments in the Boston area are sharply raising their visibility and involvement with students and small businesses. More >>

MIT Sloan alumna Laurie Baird, director of technology partnerships for Turner Broadcasting Systems Inc., is among the 2009 Women of the Year Technology finalists. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Morrie Eisenberg has been named VP of Corporate Development at vAuto, a provider of used-car inventory management systems for the nation's franchised and independent car dealers. More >>

Jessica Mazonson, an MIT Sloan MBA was a recipient of the prestigious Siebel Scholarship. More >>

MIT Sloan alumna Samantha Joseph of Hingham was slated to join 179 of the world's top female skydivers in an attempt to set a women's world record in formation skydiving to raise money for breast cancer research. More >>

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson writes, "Our financial system provides valuable services to the public, but it also poses serious risks. If we can't re-regulate more strongly to better protect public funds, the next crisis could be worse than the last one." More >>

In this one-on-one interview, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson looks at how the finance industry has effectively captured the US government. Recovery, says Johnson, will fail unless the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform is broken. And, if a true depression is to be avoided, he says, we need to act quickly. More >>

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Deborah Ancona writes, "We all contributed to the bubble, and perhaps change will come when we all take a closer look at the consequences of our own actions." More >>

In this blog entry, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says he feels Wall Street has become much more prudent, at least for now. "Back-to-back financial crises are rare; people are more careful," he writes. "We're in something like 2004-2005 when it comes to risk. But we'll get back up there." More >>

In an online Q and A, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "President Obama himself chose this approach, supporting bigger and more pro-bank CEO bailouts than the world has ever seen before. And yet not one of these CEOs could be bothered to show up for President Obama's speech. Arrogant bankers always mean trouble, and I've never before seen so much banker arrogance as was on display this week." More >>

In his blog, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnsons writes, "The real news from Monday was not the substance of the [Obama] speech or the stony silence of the financial elite in the audience, but rather that not a single chief executive of a major American bank was in attendance." More >>

A 3-D digital ear-canal scanner that promises to improve on the way hearing aids are currently made is being commercialized with the help of MIT's i-Teams program, which pairs Sloan School of Management experts with technical brainiacs. More >>

In July, TARP watchdog Neil Barofsky told Congress that in a worst-case scenario, all of the federal government's support rolled together could ultimately cost $23.7 trillion. "I think that number is an important number," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. "It tells you what the range of outcomes are, and what you should suspect with a median outcome." More >>

Every organization needs a clearly articulated vision and purpose and it is the responsibility of leadership to provide it. MIT Sloan Prof. Deborah Ancona outlines a framework for leadership under uncertainty. More >>

In a talk hosted by MIT Sloan, Lawrence Fish, former chairman and CEO of Citizens Financial, and MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson discuss banks that didn't fail, increasing consumer confidence without improving consumer protection, and the risks for both under-regulation and over-regulation of banks going forward. More >>

Howard Anderson, who teaches entrepreneurship at MIT's Sloan School of Management, says his father's experiences in the Depression influenced him when he started Yankee Group in 1970. Mr. Anderson didn't borrow money or seek venture investors, and he tried to always keep a year's worth of revenue in the bank. "Probably I could have grown faster taking more risk, but that risk was not in my DNA". Now, he sees students opting to take jobs with established companies rather than launching their own. In prior downturns, he says, there were a few bright spots in the economy to which potential entrepreneurs could gravitate. Today, "it's cut across pretty much every industry," he says. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. John Sterman says a key problem with global-warming policy is the time lag between today's emissions and the problems they cause, which can be decades down the road. The model attempts to get around that by allowing policy-makers to see the likely consequences of their decisions immediately. "It's not that the other models are flawed," Sterman says. "They are opaque to the policy-makers." More >>

MIT Sloan's Michael Schrage urges one not to be deceived by Facebook, Twitter and other social media's ability to take information you find and post it for wider consumption on a "wall" or a "stream" or a blog. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Edgar Schein will speak at Shingo Prize Conference with a focus on the "community of lean." More >>

MIT Sloan Visiting Associate Professor Mark Ritson says, "low supply costs will ensure that Amazon will likely make more money per product on their line than from selling other suppliers' products." More >>

MIT Sloan's Josh Ackerman is looking at the impact of perceptions of hardness on our sense of difficulty. The study is ongoing, but he says he is finding that something as simple as sitting on a hard chair makes people think of a task as harder. More >>

Ezra Zuckerman, a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management, spent three years studying actors' careers. He concluded that even though actors see typecasting as deadly, it is, in fact, a ticket to a solid career. Actors who get typecast early on get more work, more consistently. More >>

MIT Sloan School of Management was the first business school to allow MBA applicants to submit either their GRE or GMAT score as part of their application. Rod Garcia director of MBA admissions at MIT Sloan, says the goal was to expand the school's applicant pool to include non-traditional applicants, such as students who majored in humanities and social sciences. More >>

"There's too much uncertainty out there," says Thomas Kochan, a labor economist at MIT's Sloan School of Management. "There's not going to be an upsurge in job openings for quite a while, not until employers feel confident the economy is really growing." More >>

Charles Gammal , an MIT Sloan MBA was a recipient of the prestigious Siebel Scholarship. More >>

Cambridge-based Shareaholic, whose browser plugin helps users share what they find online via common social networking, social bookmarking, and news aggregator services, raised an undisclosed sum of angel financing. Participants in the deal included MIT Sloan Prof. Ed Roberts. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo of MIT's Sloan School of Management points out that in the physical sciences three laws can explain 99% of behavior, whereas in finance 99 laws can explain at best 3% of behavior. More >>

MIT Sloan's climate policy model is now being used by the United States Government: Climate researchers now predict the planet will warm by 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century even if the world's leaders fulfill their most ambitious climate pledges, a much faster and broader scale of change than forecast just two years ago, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations Environment Program. ...We don't want to go there," says Robert Corell, who collaborated with climate researchers at the Vermont-based Sustainability Institute, Massachusetts-based Ventana Systems and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to do the analysis. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Gray Adams married Hilary Anne Cosgrave in Kelowna, British Columbia on September 13. More >>

In his blog, MIT Simon Johnson asks, "If the G-20 fails to deliver, is it really possible that we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes with regard to building up vulnerabilities in our financial system?" More >>

MIT Sloan's Yasheng Huang, Antoinette Schoar, and Roberto Rigobon are among featured commentators discussing the G-20 Summit in light of today's economy. More >>

If Antarctica's ice melts, cities such as Hong Kong and Miami would be threatened, MIT climate scientist John Reilly says. Adds MIT climate expert Henry Jacoby, "Based on the amount of greenhouse gases now in the atmosphere, achieving the 3 1/2 degree goal will require huge efforts over the whole century. The kind of agreement that can be reached in Copenhagen can only get started on that task." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Glen Urban, a member of the of the WPP and Google panel that is overseeing a three-year funding program for media research projects says, "I am confident that the quality of this round's submissions will compare favorably to the impressive projects funded in the first round. The combined learning from the studies in progress and those selected in this second round should prove influential." More >>

Other economists are more skeptical about the substance of the G20 discussions. Simon Johnson, of the Sloan School of Management at MIT, says the framework would be "a pretty meaningless pledge with no teeth and no way of holding anyone to it - but it sounds good." More >>

"The great advantage of the prize model is that it moves work away from the realm of the beauty contest to being performance-oriented," says MIT Sloan's Michael Schrage. "It's the results produced that matters." More >>

MIT Sloan Deputy Dean Steve Eppinger will speak at the 11th International Design Structure Matrix Conference to be held Oct. 11-13 at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Emeritus Richard D. Robinson passed away on September 5, 2009 in Gig Harbor, WA. More >>

MIT Sloan Profs. Lester Thurow and Peter Senge were both named on Accenture's list of top 20 business gurus. More >>

MIT Sloan's Andrew McAfee, Principal Research Scientist, Center for Digital Business, will be among the keynote speakers at TechWeb's Enterprise 2.0 Conference to be held in San Francisco on November 2-5. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson thinks Wall Street has become much more prudent, at least for now. "Back-to-back financial crises are rare; people are more careful," he said. "We're in something like 2004-2005 when it comes to risk. But we'll get back up there." More >>

In this video interview, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "Artificially stimulating, subsidizing particular kinds of activity is not the way to have broad based prosperity in which lots of people share." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "We have not yet met our Ferdinand Pecora, a figure who can create the momentum required for strong new regulation." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof Simon Johnson sums up the key elements of the financial crisis as "large inflows of foreign capital, torrid credit growth, excessive leverage, an asset price bubble, asset price collapse and financial catastrophe." More >>

A research article co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Ernst Berndt assesses the net value of health care for patients with Type II diabetes. More >>

Former MIT Sloan faculty member Marshall N. Carter, chairman of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Group, delivered a lecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's weekly dialogue series. More >>

Donald R. Lehmann was honored with the Seventh Annual Buck Weaver Award for Marketing, which was presented by MIT Sloan School of Management and General Motors Corp. Established in 2003, the award recognizes individuals who have made important contributions to the advancement of theory and practice in marketing science. More >>

The collaboration between the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and MIT Sloan is referenced. More >>

Unpredictable markets and ongoing turmoil require CFOs to learn how to thrive in the new world order, the theme of this year's MIT Sloan CFO Summit on November 19. More >>

On the NPR affiliate WBUR's On Point program, Prof. Johnson said, "We've certainly seen change. We've seen more than marginal change, but it's mostly change in the wrong direction." More >>

"They'll say, 'Look, you regulated us and held us to a higher standard, and now we're failing and it's your job to clean it up,'" MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson is quoted as saying. "It's the kind of regulation where government is on the hook when things go wrong." More >>

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson writes, "Today, a year after the world came to the brink of financial meltdown and great pain was inflicted on millions of investors and workers, our leaders are lining us up to suffer the same horrible experiences again." More >>

"We have lived through a tremendous crisis - and learned how close we came to a second Great Depression - yet nothing is now happening to prevent a repeat of something similar in the near future." More >>

"The big banks now are more powerful than before," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. "Their market share has grown and they have a lot of clout in Washington." More >>

When a bridge over a river collapses, the engineers who built the bridge have to take responsibility. But typically, critics call for improvement and smarter, better-trained engineers - not fewer of them. The same pattern seems to apply to financial engineers. At MIT, the Sloan School of Management is starting a one-year master's in finance this fall because the field has become too complex to be adequately covered as part of a traditional MBA program, and because of student demand. The new finance program, MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo noted, had 179 applicants for 25 places. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says that if major banks are allowed to keep making bets that are ultimately backed by taxpayer guarantees, they will return to the practices that led them to underwrite trillions of dollars in bad loans. "They will run up big risks, they will fail again, they will hit us for a big check" More >>

Prof. Johnson stresses the importance of finding ways to "engage actively in global economic debate. Don't sit back and assume that anything can be left to the 'experts'." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo's testimony prepared for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in November 2008 is referenced. In his testimony, Lo emphasized the need for 'better' regulation rather than more regulation. More >>

In this blog entry, MIT Sloan researcher Michael Schrage writes, "Unlike mass tweeting, this one-to-one 'customized' communication strikes me as a superior business and personal practice. It forces me to be empathetic, anticipatory, and aware. It makes me more sensitive to individual perceptions and needs. And I get feedback telling me how aware and helpful I really am. I even create virtual histories of 'forwards' that I can audit, review, and rethink. Imagine if more managers developed these skills" More >>

...Still, some think it is somewhat naive to expect governments not to cave in to rescue demands of an ailing firm, even if a tough wind-down regime were in place. Because of this, Simon Johnson of MIT thinks it might be best to address the "too-big" part of the problem and limit bank size. The problems at CIT Group, a medium-size firm, haven't destabilized the wider system, he notes. More >>

"The basic principles of asset allocation need to be revised," says MIT finance professor Andrew Lo. He and other experts argue that since market volatility is rising, you must now own other assets -- such as hedge-fund-like investments -- in addition to stocks and bonds to manage risk. And you must be prepared to shift your mix tactically from time to time. "You need to be proactive and adjust as the market changes." More >>

Molex Inc., an electronic components company, has appointed former MIT Sloan faculty member Anirudh Dhebar as a director. More >>

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Tom Kochan writes, "Workers have good reasons to feel left out of stimulus efforts to date. Nearly 20 percent of the workforce is unemployed, unable to find a full time job, or has given up on looking for one." More >>

Entergy Corporation announced the election of MIT Sloan Prof. Stewart C. Myers, a renowned expert in the field of finance, to its board of directors. More >>

In an opinion piece, MIT Sloan alumnus Saad Fazil writes, "The pace of innovation in voice applications has not caught up with pace of advancements in software applications. But it could." More >>

A group of 19 students from MIT Sloan visited Costa Rica last week to learn more about the country's culture, people, and business institutions (Spanish language only). More >>

The MIT Sloan Entrepreneurship Development program is described as leveraging MIT's culture of high-tech entrepreneurship to help entrepreneurs, corporate venturing executives, and others involved in entrepreneurial environments learn what they need to develop ideas into successful businesses, and how to increase entrepreneurial opportunities in their corporations, institutions, and regions. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson asks, "How did the financial system get so fragile that this could happen? What were the guys overseeing it doing?" More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Ed Roberts says, "Today we are seeing an increasing number of early-stage new enterprises, especially in the medical area, that have very clear double bottom-lines-they offer significant upside opportunities for investors while promising dramatic social returns to the country and the world." More >>

Prof Charles Fine, from MIT's Sloan School of Management, warned that the small car advantage would not be sustainable and India should instead look at lightweight cars, which would also be more fuel efficient. More >>

An earlier statement by MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson that finance has at least three serious inherent pathologies is referenced. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Robert Thirsk writes about his experiences aboard the International Space Station. "I haven't driven a car in three months, and yet I've traveled 70 million kilometers. I've watched 16 sunrises and sunsets in a single day. I've sipped coffee out of a bag through a straw, and squeezed macaroni and cheese from a package into my mouth." More >>

Seo Jung-don, president of Sungkyunkwan University, stated that a key pillar in the growth of that university should lie in promoting its global MBA program in collaboration with MIT Sloan. More >>

Second-year MBA Carter Dunn writes, "In India, only about 10 percent of people are covered by insurance and as a result almost all medical expenses are borne out of pocket. What this means is that there are powerful market forces driving the down the cost of care in India. This is in direct contrast to the US." More >>

In his blog, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson writes, "We need finance, but finance as it currently operates in the United States has become a problem." More >>

After a courageous battle against cancer, at the age of 85, MIT Sloan alumnus Harry Winters Buchanan III passed away on August 28 in Bethlehem, PA. More >>

Former MIT Sloan graduate student Beverly Kay's book, Love 'Em Or Lose 'Em - Getting Good People to Stay, is reviewed. More >>

"The industry has gotten really organized since the crisis began to ease," says Simon Johnson, who is also a professor at MIT. More >>

In this opinion piece, the author cites an excerpt by "one of my favorite thinkers, John Sterman, Director, MIT System Dynamics Group, Sloan School of Management, who lays out his own version of the global Ponzi scheme." More >>

"You've got to get your leadership involved, you have to be consistent, you have to be simple and have everyone understand what you're trying to get accomplished," says MIT Sloan's Edgar Schein. "GM's challenge would be overcoming ingrained corporate attitudes." More >>

A quote by MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Malone is referenced, which appeared in the Harvard Business Review. In it, he says "executives need to start reviewing the purpose of a business as maximizing the contribution of society subject to the constraints of producing a reasonable profit -- not the other way around." More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus David Edery, co-author of Changing the Game: How Video Games are Transforming the Future of Business, was appointed by SMERC Games to the company's advisory board and will serve as an executive consultant in charge of independent game development. More >>

"At a time when the recession has boosted estimates of short-term budget deficits, the idea that the government cannot afford reform seems plausible. But that argument has two fatal flaws." More >>

"It's not surprising that we ignore the future and go about our business," Peter Senge, a professor at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, said in a sobering, 45-minute lecture during the Sustainable Cleveland 2019 Summit, describing a future as frightening as it will be tough to fix." More >>

Richard Locke, deputy dean of the Sloan School of Management at MIT, has been a consistent voice for integrating social and economic concerns into curriculum and research. He has worked with Nike on its labor and environmental standards, and spearheaded the development of MIT Sloan's Laboratory for Sustainable Business (S-Lab), which focuses on the impact of business on climate change, water scarcity, energy needs, environmental degradation and labor issues. Locke recently visited Silicon Valley to meet with groups of MIT Sloan alumni, many of whom work at tech companies, including Apple, Cisco Systems, Google, Intel and NetApp. He talked to the Mercury News about sustainability and green technology." More >>

It's not surprising that we ignore the future and go about our business," Peter Senge, a professor at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, said in a sobering, 45-minute lecture during the Sustainable Cleveland 2019 Summit, describing a future as frightening as it will be tough to fix." More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus and Indian social activist Deep Joshi who did pioneering work for the development of rural communities, is among six Asian achievers chosen for the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay awards for 2009, considered the Asian equivalent of the Nobel Prize. More >>

In the middle of her second year at the Sloan School of Management, Deborah Schapira left the comfortable confines of MIT's Cambridge campus for the village of Bukasa, 20 miles east of Uganda's capital, Kampala. Schapira, who was enrolled in MIT Sloan's Global Health Delivery class, was one of 53 students in six countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The five-month course includes three weeks of living in Africa during the school's independent study period in January. "These skills are very relevant in many careers, but especially for consulting," says Schapira in this profile piece. More >>

Prof. Simon Johnson is quoted in a recent cover story in The Investment Professional about global politics shifting during the financial crisis. More >>

Although ethics has always been a part of curriculum at MIT's Sloan School of Management, it may soon gain a larger presence. The school is testing what it calls an "ethics module" -- not an entire class, but a synthesis of the ethics taught in other business classes. The sessions are currently optional, but may soon become required, says Deputy Dean JoAnne Yates. More >>

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo writes, "Recent neuroscientific research has shown that what we consider to be 'rational' behavior is the outcome of a balance among several brain functions, including emotion, logical deliberation and memory." More >>

In this last journal entry, MIT Sloan alumna Jacklyn Sing writes, "Two years ago, I was getting ready for my MBA and had high expectations about the program. Now, as I am wrapping up the end of classes, I am grateful and amazed at how much MIT Sloan has surpassed my wildest aspirations." More >>

MIT Sloan's Open Courseware is listed among five free learning resources for "inquisitive and ambitious professionals." More >>

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Ed Roberts writes, "Estimates based on 2006 data revealed that living MIT alumni have founded or cofounded 25,800 companies that today employ 3.3 million people worldwide. The annual sales of these companies add up to about $2 trillion--the equivalent of the 11th-largest economy in the world." More >>

At Fudan University's School of Management, the most popular choice among students remains the full-time International MBA program jointly offered with MIT Sloan School of Management. More >>

"We live in a world where innovation now takes many forms, some of which are mediated by the network and depend fundamentally on access to information and freedom to operate. There are entirely novel forms of innovation, like the user-driven innovation studied by Eric Von Hippel at MIT. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Mark Mortensen finds that firsthand experience in global collaborations is a crucial means of engendering trust from shared knowledge among coworkers. More >>

In this editorial piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Emeritus Robert B. McKersie writes, "Barry Bluestone has put his finger on a major challenge that union leaders face: how to engage the big financial problems that municipalities face. However, he failed to complete the sentence: and not be voted out of office." More >>

As Edgar H. Schein of the MIT Sloan School describes in his analysis of organizations as facilitators or inhibitors of organizational learning: "therein lies a problem because we are now talking about changing our mental models, our personal habits of perceiving, thinking and acting, and our relationships with others that are thoroughly embedded. We are talking about having to unlearn some things before new things can be learned." More >>

Just months after an epic banking collapse forced Iceland into the arms of the I.M.F., Iceland is locked in a fierce debate over how to pay off its creditors without ceding too much of its vaunted independence. "When you impose austerity, it becomes very painful and comes at a cost," says MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson, a former I.M.F. economist. But many Icelanders are blaming the I.M.F. and in this case, he says, that is not warranted. More >>

Edward B. Roberts of MIT's Sloan School compared MIT graduates who launched new technological companies with a control group of graduates who pursued other careers. The largest factor in predicting an entrepreneurial career in technology was an entrepreneurial father. Controlling for this factor, he discovered that Jews were five times more likely to start technological enterprises than other MIT graduates. More >>

CEO Lloyd Blankfein's decision to hand over the full amount sought by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner reflects an effort by Goldman Sachs to defuse the public's anger at firms that took taxpayer money, says Simon Johnson, a finance professor at MIT Sloan. More >>

In an excerpt from an MIT Sloan Management Review article by MIT Sloan's Glen Urban, John Hauser, and Michael Braun they write, "Now imagine a Web site that detects a visitor's cognitive style and morphs its look and feel to suit that style. A site like this will communicate well to many different people, and therefore create more sales. In fact, this process of Web site morphing is now possible. Web pages can modify to match customers' varying cognitive styles." More >>

Growth in utilization rather than price, particularly since 1994, has been the primary driver of increased pharmaceutical spending, writes MIT Sloan Prof. Ernst Berndt in this research paper. More >>

"My hunch is this recovery will be about consumers; businesses are going to continue hunkering down for a while," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. More >>

It wasn't clear that the Treasury wanted this to be a turning point, but that's the way it's worked out," says Simon Johnson, a former chief economist with the IMF, now a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Johnson says the markets took so kindly to CIT's quest for private-sector cash that the government "would feel pretty comfortable about" threatening bankruptcy for firms with less than $100 billion in assets. More >>

In this interview, MIT Sloan Prof. Jeanne Ross says, "To date, for whatever reasons, few companies have built a foundation of digitized processes which facilitate agility throughout an organization." More >>

The nation's biggest banks still enjoy federal support through borrowing or debt guarantees. So how far the government is willing to go with its hands-off policy is unclear. "The question is, does it only apply to the small- and medium-sized guys, or does it apply to everyone?" asks MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. More >>

Open source is based around the convenient fact that for 20 to 30 years, computing has happened on a user's local computer, says Benjamin Mako Hill, a senior researcher at MIT Sloan. One result is that open source philosophy and licenses are built around this highly individualistic use of software. More >>

"I'm strongly suggesting that my students use the end-to-end business plan and financial forecasting development tool -- TheIdeaStartup platform -- for future development of their business plans in my New Enterprise course," says MIT Sloan Prof. Howard Anderson. More >>

A look at recent cases and new research suggests that open-innovation models succeed only when carefully designed for a particular task and when the incentives are tailored to attract the most effective collaborators. "There is this misconception that you can sprinkle crowd wisdom on something and things will turn out for the best," says MIT's Prof. Thomas Malone. "That's not true. It's not magic." More >>

MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Gustavo Manso says that in order to be creative, managers need to have space to fail and incentives need to be tailored to reward innovation. More >>

Statistics reported by MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson in the May 2009 edition of The Atlantic -- that between 1948 and 1982, average compensation in the financial sector ranged between 99% and 108% of the average for all domestic private industries -- are referenced. More >>

"By protecting large institutions and not small ones, the 'too-big-to-fail problem' gets worse," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. "We can expect to see that the big guys are going to keep getting bigger and the small guys are going to have to clean up their acts or go bankrupt." More >>

Even with the recent uptick, flying on a commercial jet remains one of the safest forms of transportation: MIT professor Arnold Barnett calculates that the odds of a passenger dying on a large jet in the U.S. are about one in 20 million. More >>

"A lot of people in both government and the nonprofit sector are recognizing that they need the help of MBAs," says MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Andrew Wolk. "MBA programs sometimes don't recognize that a new generation is emerging that cares equally about earning a living and how they do so." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Emeritus Robert McKersie, 79, says he wants the genetic test for risk of Alzheimer's because his mother died of the disease. McKersie feels the test results might help him and his wife decide whether to stay in their house or consider moving to an assisted-living facility. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Joseph Doyle studied the records of people in Wisconsin who were injured in severe automobile accidents and had no choice but to go to the hospital. He estimated that those who had no health insurance received 20 percent less care and had a death rate 37 percent higher than those with health insurance. More >>

"It is too small to make a difference," says Simon Johnson, an economist with the MIT Sloan School of Management, adding that the failure of the program to restore banks' health would ultimately slow the economic recovery. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Deborah Ancona says, "It seems impossible to even consider Sarah Palin a candidate for president. How could she move beyond the Katie Couric interview, the Alaska scandals and now last week's rambling speech announcing a midstream resignation? None of this displays leadership based on intellect, perseverance or strong moral conviction." More >>

Cape Coral, Florida has $615.9 million in debt, a potential $40 million shortfall for the upcoming budget year and $14.2 million in reserves, which MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says won't prevent the city from borrowing. "But the issue is going to be what they pay for it, what the interest rates are." More >>

Alex Hsi and Douglas Jardine, two students at MIT's Sloan School of Management, are using their BzzAgent base of operations to build an e-commerce company. More >>

In the past six months, a number of top MBA and Executive MBA programs -- including MIT Sloan -- have partnered with Web-based search firms to offer students another way to find jobs in addition to the traditional MBA career services office. More >>

MIT Sloan Fellow Ting Shih, co-founder of Click Diagnostics, Inc., has been focusing on ways to get software effectively deployed in developing countries. Shih will be testing systems this summer in South Africa, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya and Botswana. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson is quoted in a WSJ story about the popularity of financial news blogs. More >>

MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein sat down with anchor Martin Soong during a recent media tour in Hong Kong to discuss the impact of the financial crisis on business education. "MIT has always been about innovation, of course, and the Sloan School of Management stands for the idea that organizations are the way that ideas change the world," he said. More >>

In a series of video interviews with reporter Rebecca Knight, MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein shares his philosophy on 21st century management education. More >>

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Ed Roberts writes, "Estimates based on 2006 data revealed that living MIT alumni have founded or cofounded 25,800 companies that today employ 3.3 million people worldwide. The annual sales of these companies add up to about $2 trillion--the equivalent of the 11th-largest economy in the world." More >>

MIT Sloan says the Wall Street meltdown has prompted many in its Class of 2009 to consider careers outside the financial industry. MIT Sloan MBA Career Development Director Jackie Wilbur estimates that 80 to 85 percent of the class had a job offer by graduation, a 5 percent reduction from a year ago. More >>

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced the creation of a $1 million annual business plan competition which will be modeled on, among others, the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship competition. One of the competition's founders is John Harthorne, a recent MIT Sloan School MBA graduate and a former winner of the $100K Competition. More >>

Ethan Mollick is a researcher at MIT's Sloan School and coauthor of Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson fears that hopes of an immediate recovery have been greatly exaggerated, and thinks there is still a lot of nastiness that has to work its way through the system. More >>

In a paper co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Ernst Berndt he writes, "Immunization has been one of the great successes in global health." More >>

The GeoRM summit drew perhaps 50 for the daylong event, which included the Technical Meeting Plenary by the MIT Sloan School's Michael Schrage. More >>

A study co-authored by MIT Sloan Assistant Prof. Ewa Sletten found that more powerful countries and countries with high quality corporate governance systems are less likely to adopt the International Financial Reporting System. More >>

It was announced that MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo will deliver a speech entitled "Kill all the Quants"?: Models vs. Mania in the Current Financial Crisis during the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics on July 8. More >>

Main Street businesses can shop a virtual international bazaar of freelancers to recruit computer programmers in Russia, graphic designers in San Francisco or data analysts in India. "This is one more step in the path to leveling the playing field between small and large businesses," says Thomas Malone, a professor at MIT Sloan and author of The Future of Work. More >>

Another potential downside of decoupling could be a tsunami of capital from developed markets washing over emerging economies and inflating values, says Simon Johnson, a former chief economist for the IMF who is now a professor at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. More >>

The [Boston] Globe has reported that the Times Co. has hired Goldman Sachs to handle potential bids for the newspaper. "Both parties recognized that they've got to put their best foot forward to get a buyer who can be successful," says MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan. More >>

A new generation of online service marketplaces is giving small companies more opportunities than ever to find specialized expertise and affordable labor. MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Malone says, "A small-business person in a company of one can look to the world like a very large company and have access to all kinds of services -- and that's largely because of this kind of model." More >>

After reviewing Obama's plan, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "There appears to be no mention that corporate governance within these large banks failed totally." More >>

"The economy has become much more volatile, not just in the past year, but over the past 10 years," says MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson. "The ability to be agile in your infrastructure is what separates the winners from the losers ... cloud computing is one of the most important technologies that affect the ability to maintain that level of flexibility." More >>

"Congress should carefully weigh any policies that could increase healthcare costs and reduce high-paying jobs, particularly during an economic downturn," says MIT Sloan Prof. Ernst Berndt. More >>

In this interview, MIT Sloan's Peter Senge talks about, among other things, how his most recent book, The Necessary Revolution, details the way companies, often working collaboratively with NGOs, are embracing the challenges and opportunities around sustainability. More >>

Iridium was a technologically visionary system of 66 satellites that promised -- and delivered -- telephone connectivity between any two points on the globe. "It was a triumph of technology over business," says Howard Anderson, founder of the Yankee Group, a technology research and consulting firm, and now a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. More >>

Luckily, we have an academic here in Massachusetts who has dedicated the past few years to looking at the impact of noncompetes. Matt Marx, who recently joined the faculty of MIT's Sloan School of Management, has made three important findings about what noncompetes do. More >>

"The Federal Reserve will keep interest rates very low for a long time. If you could borrow from the Fed, you have credit of a 1 percent interest rate, and there are many interesting investments around the world that offer some gains above that," says Simon Johnson, professor at MIT Sloan School of Management. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says he isn't surprised that bond fund manager Bill Gross is such a virulent foe of nationalization. As Johnson points out, Pimco is a major bondholder in some of the biggest banks, so nationalization would hurt his portfolio. More >>

MIT Sloan's Peter Senge says, "Even as conditions in the world change dramatically, most businesses, governments and other large organizations continue to take the same kinds of institutional actions that they always have." More >>

According to MIT Sloan researchers Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross, as IT spending increases and virtually every business interaction becomes increasingly digitized, new levels of IT savvy will be required for all managers - both IT and non-IT -- to transform firms' technology into a strategic asset that boosts margins. More >>

In an excerpt from an MIT Sloan Management Review interview with MIT Sloan's Andrew Lo he says, "Many corporations did a terrible job in assessing and managing their risk exposures, with some of the most sophisticated companies reporting tens of billions of dollars in losses in a single quarter." More >>

MIT Sloan School professor Sugata Roychowdhury examines the accrual choices made by outsourcing firms with links to U.S. congressional candidates during the 2004 elections, and specifically test for income-decreasing discretionary accruals. Evidence is consistent with firms using earnings management to reduce both direct political costs and the costs associated with causing embarrassment to affiliated political candidates. More >>

Farmers led China's first stage of market reform after 1978, a golden age for rural advancement that ended in about 1993, according to Prof. Yasheng Huang at MIT More >>

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan writes, "One of the biggest failures of the current labor law is that even after a majority of employees vote for union representation, only 56 percent of them achieve a first contract after two years." More >>

"Most of the president's economic policies make sense, and his fiscal stimulus push has helped stabilize financial markets," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson in this interview. More >>

Using the term "sustainability" does not spur society on to an ultimately better solution. Rather, it is a "negative vision," says MIT Sloan's Peter Senge, founder of the Society for Organizational Learning. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says the move by the 10 banks seeking to repay federal bailout money does signal "a restoration of their ability to raise capital, which is a crucially important development in the financial recovery." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says that "a whole generation of policymakers has been mesmerized by Wall Street, always and utterly convinced that whatever banks said was true." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan says a potential sale could come at a greatly reduced price -- and could mean drastic cuts in the [Boston] Globe's work force. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Roberto Rigobon is finalizing a new index which will change the way countries measure inflation and allow it to be done on a daily basis. More >>

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Joe Hadzima says, "the commitment of IPVision to address core challenges to integrating intellectual property and business strategy is driven by customer executives and experts." More >>

Labor and media experts say a protracted dispute could further damage the Boston Globe or increase the risk of its closure. "It has to be a major commitment to rebuild the organization and to work together," says MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan. "They need to reframe the negotiations, and they need to face reality." More >>

MIT Sloan Research Scientist George Westerman says, "As businesses rethink their approach to risk management, many are realizing that IT Risk is a fundamental aspect of business risk." More >>

Although the worst moment passed when the financial system completely froze last October, "there are many challenges ahead, principally in the real economy," says MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang. More >>

Banks are raising account fees because of a "mix of market power and opportunism," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Rodrigo Verdi disputes the notion that the U.S. would be at a disadvantage if it did not adopt IFRS wholesale. "In countries like the U.S., there may be minimal room for improvement because U.S. GAAP is already considered a high-quality accounting regime." More >>

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson writes, "That while we are likely done with a panic or 'free fall' phase, we have only just begun to deal with the deeper problems revealed by the global financial crisis." More >>

In states that require stronger privacy safeguards for medical records than is prescribed by the Federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the adoption of electronic medical records systems was 24 percent lower than in states without stronger privacy laws, according to a study co-authored by MIT Sloan Assistant Prof. Catherine Tucker. More >>

Dean David Schmittlein and MIT Sloan Professor Deborah Ancona appear in a series of video interviews conducted by Financial Times reporter Rebecca Knight on the FT web site. They tackle such questions as the role of business schools can play in resolving the financial crisis and leading in uncertain times. More >>

In this in-depth profile, MIT Sloan Prof. Deborah Ancona reveals that when she first started out as an academic at a different institution, a male faculty member took her aside and told her that the purple pumps she had on 'were not tenure track shoes'. "Everyone has a purple shoe story," says Ancona. "Success at an organization is not always judged by what's in the manual -- there's an unwritten culture, unwritten rules." More >>

MIT Sloan's Peter Senge was listed at No. 35 among the Fast Company's 100 most creative people in business. More >>

A group of MIT graduates won a small fortune - $100,000 - for developing a way to upgrade software while the computer keeps running. Their new company, Ksplice, took top prize in the 20th annual MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition. More >>

In an opinion piece, MIT Sloan MBAs Sombit Mishra and Brian Cantwell write that "running the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition is a lot like running a startup. We spend most of our time raising money. We are underpaid (in fact, we aren't paid). Day or night, weekday or weekend, the job never really stops." More >>

As a sign of the video industry's growing clout, MIT Sloan hosted its first conference devoted to the video game business. More >>

Among the topics discussed at the MIT Sloan Gaming Conference were "serious games,""digital distribution" and "MMO business models" which featured a panel that included baseball's Curt Schilling, founder of Maynard-based 38 Studios LLC. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Robert Thirsk is a member of a six-person crew that will live on the International Space Station for six months. On May 27, he and two other crewmates launched from Kazakhstan to join the other three already aboard the station. More >>

SearchCIO.com covers the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium which took place in May 2009 on the MIT Sloan campus. More >>

In an interview on Blog Talk Radio, MIT Sloan Prof. Ed Schein shares ideas for offering, giving and receiving help that deepens business and personal relationships. More >>

Research by Dr. James Oldroyd of SKK University in alliance with MIT Sloan shows a growth of 7.5% in inside sales positions, which amounts to 800,000 remote selling jobs annually by 2012 while traditional outside sales or field sales positions are growing at only .5%. More >>

A research paper published by MIT Sloan Prof. Gustavo Manso suggests that a mix of long-term incentives and golden parachutes will best spark creativity and innovation. He writes, "In a controlled laboratory experiment, we provide evidence that the combination of tolerance for failure and reward for long-term success is effective in motivating innovation." More >>

A Sloan Foundation grant established the MIT School of Industrial Management in 1952 with the charge of educating the "ideal manager". The school was renamed in Sloan's honor as the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. More >>

In 2006, MIT Sloan permitted the GRE for applicants to their MBA programs. The policy, while common among Executive MBA programs, is still the exception at top-ranked full-time MBA programs. More >>

Results from a study conducted, in part, by a group of researchers from MIT Sloan concluded that an important level of trust between people can be achieved only by spending time with each other, learning each other's customs and observing how each other works and thinks. More >>

In this interview, Dr. Ishwar Dayal of IIM-L credits the collaboration with MIT Sloan for the success of the IIIM Kolkata MBA program. More >>

Researchers at MIT Sloan and IBM Research and found that the average e-mail contact was worth $948 in revenue. More >>

A team of MIT Sloan MBA students chose Destiny, Florida from among many other organizations as their project in the MIT Laboratory for Sustainable Business (S-Lab). More >>

MIT Sloan secured the 10th position in the FT 2009 Executive Education open enrollment rankings, up from 19 in 2008. More >>

In this interview, MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson says, "The paradox of thrift is the idea that you try -- everyone tries to increase their savings, so desired savings goes up, thrift being savings, but the act of trying to save pulls down the entire economy, gives you a big recession or maybe even a depression, and total savings don't go up. Maybe they even go down. So everyone trying to save leads to a big slowdown and less savings. That's a paradox." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says that although he thinks the economy is bottoming out, the main question is if the shape of the recovery is a "V-shape" or an "L-shape." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson discusses the stimulus plan. "The math around the precise jobs saved is fuzzy and very much open to criticism, but the big picture is the overall financial system is stabilizing", he says. More >>

In this commentary, a credit card study performed by MIT Sloan Profs. Drazen Prelec and Duncan Simester are cited. More >>

"A number of U.S. companies have looked with trepidation on the situation in Finland and at the magnitude of the investment there," says Paul L. Joskow, a professor of economics at MIT, and a co-author of an influential report on the future of nuclear power in 2003. "The rollout of new nuclear reactors will be a good deal slower than a lot of people were assuming." More >>

MIT Sloan's Peter Senge believes systems theory provides the type of discipline and toolset needed to encourage people to see "interrelationships rather than things, to see patterns of change rather than static 'snapshots.'" More >>

Banks are raising account fees because of a "mix of market power and opportunism," says Simon Johnson, a former chief economist for the International Monetary Fund who teaches at MIT Sloan. "They are supposed to act in the interest of shareholders, so they're gouging consumers." More >>

In an opinion piece by MIT Sloan Assistant Prof. Gustavo Manso, he asserts that a growing body of research in economics and finance shows the best way to encourage innovation is by tolerating early failure while rewarding long-term success. More >>

"People look back now and say they overdid it; they should have raised rates earlier," MIT economist Simon Johnson says. "This is kind of a rerun. They could make mistakes on both sides." More >>

The new dean of Stanford's Graduate School of Business is former MIT Sloan faculty member Garth Saloner, an economist, popular teacher, and a leader in management education. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang argues that slowing rural income growth, not high savings rates, was the main reason consumption had fallen as a percentage of GDP in the past two decades. "The theory is that Chinese save too much ... My view is that the problem is slow income growth, especially among the rural population," Huang says. More >>

All large players, from mutual, hedge and pension funds to banks and insurance companies, should have to pay a levy in proportion to the extent to which they heighten risk in the overall system in order to prevent further financial crises, says MIT Sloan Professor Andrew Lo. More >>

The field of System Dynamics, a discipline founded by MIT Sloan Prof. Emeritus Jay Forrester in 1956, provides insight into modern day economic problems. As abstract as the title is, the concept is simple: when you introduce an artificial construct into a natural system, the system tends to reject it. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Eric Von Hippel has studied how users create new products or modify existing products to make them work in novel ways. He refutes the common perception that innovation comes from a formalized product development process managed by a company. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Malone suggests that CIOs will become Chief Organizational Officers. That prompted Jeanne Ross, director of the MIT Sloan's Center for Information Systems Research, to say that the CIO title should be redubbed Strategy Execution Officer, not to be confused with another SEO (search engine optimization. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Paul Osterman says he's been working with the Industrial Areas Foundation in the Southwest for about 15 years. "The reason I do that is because when it comes to labor market issues...economic justice, when it comes to thinking about how to fix the economy and how to improve the lives of people, there is literally no other network, no other organization in this country with a better set of ideas, a better set of models." More >>

At SAP's annual user conference, MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson participated in a roundtable discussion for industry analysts and press in an attempt to deliver some clarity to the age-old conflict between CFO and CIO. More >>

Change could eliminate current incentives for employers to delay and stall negotiations and will dramatically reduce the delay, frustration and animosity generated by the company-dominated system. MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan says, "The process could be set up to allow for a neutral arbitrator, an employer-chosen arbitrator and a union-chosen arbitrator." More >>

In this opinion piece MIT Sloan Prof. Arnold Barnett writes, "There are various proposals to alter or abolish the Electoral College, perhaps the most conspicuous being a scheme to move to a national popular vote through an agreement among states." More >>

A research paper published by MIT Sloan Prof. Gustavo Manso describes a business experiment -- involving that entrepreneurial archetype, the lemonade stand -- suggesting that a mix of long-term incentives and golden parachutes will best spark creativity and innovation More >>

"In previous research we have found a correlation between the investment in technology and improved performance," says MIT Sloan's Erik Brynjolfsson. "The higher the investment in technology, the higher the performance in terms of productivity metrics." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Eric von Hippel co-surveyed 216 members of Outdoorseiten.net, a community of 8,300 German, Austrian and Swiss hikers about their brand preferences, and found that people were very interested in buying hiking products that displayed their clubs' logos. More >>

A study of first-contract negotiations co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas A. Kochan found that even after a majority of workers voted for a union, they actually reached a contractual agreement with management only 56 percent of the time. More >>

Some economists, including MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson, say our financial system would be healthier if we jettisoned massive banks, instead relying on a network of regional banks and community banks More >>

"The broad lesson for the IT shop is to look beyond the IT shop and not just focus on cutting costs there. You need to reach out and touch the other parts of the organization," says Erik Brynjolfsson of the MIT Sloan School of Management. More >>

It was announced that MIT Sloan Assistant Prof. Tavneet Suri would participate as a discussant in a finance and development workshop on May 20 at the University of Chicago. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson believes that, in the context of low income countries having been severely affected by the global economic downturn, the G20 summit, by contributing to the stabilization of the world's financial system, has had a "positive effect." More >>

When a state has health privacy laws in place, it reduces the likelihood a hospital will adopt an electronic medical record system by 20 to 30 percent, according to a study by MIT Sloan Prof. Catherine Tucker. "What we found is that when we were talking to hospitals, a lot of the costs came because these state laws are very different and so it meant that a vendor couldn't sell a standardized solution," she says. More >>

You gain two types of knowledge when you spend time in another place," says MIT Sloan Prof. Mark Mortensen. "If, for example, you spend some time in Tokyo you learn about the customs, the way people work, their way of thinking. But there is also what we call reflected knowledge -- you also learn how the way they see you, the way your home office comes across." More >>

MIT Sloan Visiting Associate Prof. Alan MacCormack will be among experts travelling to Malaysia in July to conduct courses and practical workshops on soft skills and management skills. More >>

In an opinion piece, Simon Johnson writes, "The biggest risk now is that the Federal Reserve and the Treasury try to re-leverage our way out of a Japanese-style prolonged recession by flooding the economy with cheap credit -- like they did in 2002, but to an even greater degree." More >>

In recent research papers, MIT Sloan Assistant Prof. Gustavo Manso asserts that, among businesses on experimentation for innovation, incentives that don't penalize failure and promote long-term success lead to more innovative business strategies than fixed-wage or pay-for-performance incentives. MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Pierre Azoulay served as a co-author on one of the papers. More >>

"Regulators' whole strategy is 'wait and see,' to buy time for the economy to recover. It's just stall tactics," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. More >>

MIT Sloan Visiting Professor Irving Wladawsky-Berger was cited as an affiliate of Mercator XXI, a professional services firm helping clients engage the global economy. More >>

A white paper released by MIT Sloan Prof. Ernst Berndt and Mark Trusheim of MIT shows that eliminating FDA's preemption protection would decrease patients' access to life-enhancing medical devices, increase health care costs and reduce medical device industry employment. More >>

Michael Siegel, a professor at MIT Sloan, says he thought small rural hospitals in western Massachusetts "could very much benefit from an open-source system, but they're not." More >>

"What needs to happen is a lot more coordination of these privacy laws so hospitals don't have to deal with these patchwork systems," says Catherine Tucker, assistant professor of marketing at MIT Sloan. More >>

"Banks that are too big to fail must now be considered too big to exist," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. More >>

In Shanghai GDP has grown dramatically compared with the national average, but household income is not growing relative to GDP. MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang believes that a high savings rate is not the problem: low income growth is to blame. More >>

Attrition among minorities has not been formally quantified, but anecdotal evidence from workforce specialists indicates that it is a chronic problem. This troubling trend can be mitigated through education, says MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan. "Adults don't change attitudes, but they can learn to be more effective workers with the right skills sets." More >>

Most experts don't think a swine-flu outbreak by itself would eliminate many U.S. jobs or severely worsen the economy. MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson envisions only a "small hit" to economic activity in the United States -- just a few tenths of 1 percentage point. More >>

The start-up company Ksplice Inc, founded by MIT engineering graduates Jeff Arnold and its chief operating officer Waseem Daher, recently beat five finalists to clinch top prize in this year's MIT Entrepreneurship Competition -- which apart from bragging rights included $100,000 in start-up funds. More >>

MIT Sloan doctoral candidate Joe Hsueh was awarded a Beyster Fellowship at Rutgers University to build an educational computer simulation on the dynamic effects of alternative investment strategies, timing of those strategies for a technology start-up, and tradeoffs of decisions related to compensation and ownership. More >>

"There are plenty of similarities between playing a game well and operating a successful enterprise. When we use games in controlled ways, what they do they teach well," says Ethan Mollick, a Ph.D candidate at MIT Sloan. More >>

On a panel during MIT Sloan's recent Sports Analytics Conference, Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke admitted that all he wants from any game is for his fans to see a few goals, a donnybrook or two and, hopefully, a win. More >>

Students from MIT Sloan were among a group of business students who participated in a 'war game' exercise whereby students take on the roles of key industry players in an effort to imagine how the battle to digitize America's health records will play out. More >>

"The teams at the top of the standings have them," Dean Oliver, director of quantitative analysis for the [Denver] Nuggets, said at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in March. "The teams at the bottom don't." More >>

"BlackBerry use allows for increased communication during down time, and a reduction of moment-to-moment stress," says a report by Melissa Mazmanian of MIT Sloan. ""However, expectations of responsiveness have intensified and become taken for granted. Users report an unrelenting desire for information and a drive to monitor incoming messages, which they explain as a need to reduce their anxiety of being disconnected." More >>

Mass High Tech profiled the five finalists gearing up for the final competition in this year's MIT $100K competition. More >>

In many ways, it wouldn't be surprising if MBA applications peaked in 2009, if that is indeed what preliminary registration numbers indicate as it is not tenable that such large increases could last for much longer. "At some point, it's going to drop," says Rod Garcia, director of MBA admissions at MIT Sloan. More >>

Since receiving her MBA from MIT Sloan in June 2008, Talene Najarian has been pursuing various volunteer opportunities. "I hope to contribute to an organization currently making a tangible impact on the wellbeing of people in Armenia." More >>

Broadpoint Capital, Inc., a broker-dealer subsidiary of Broadpoint Securities Group, Inc., announced that Geoffrey Harris has joined the firm's investment banking division as a Managing Director. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Alexis Chevriere was listed among the GFI Informatique Board of Directors. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Narendra Patni will step down as CEO from his long reign in Patni, the company he founded fresh out of MIT Sloan More >>

The Escala Group announced that MIT Sloan alumnus Jeffrey D. Benjamin has joined its Board of Directors. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Ed Parks was named Vice President of Engineering at Agilence, Inc., a leader in intelligent video analysis solutions. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Daryl Morey uses statistical models for scouting and player evaluation, but don't even think about asking him to divulge details. This is proprietary, cutting-edge stuff. Or, as Mavericks owner Mark Cuban put it at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytic conference, "Everybody is looking for the secret sauce. And if we find it, we don't want to share it." More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Anand Daniel was chosen as a judge for The TYE Business Plan Competition. The mission of TYE is to inspire and empower today's youth to be entrepreneurs, by engaging them in an exciting mix of programs. More >>

In a video conversation, MIT Sloan alumna Robin Chase discusses future forms of ride-sharing, car-sharing, and public transportation. More >>

It was announced that MIT Sloan alumnus Randal Pinkett would be the keynote speaker at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore commencement on May 15. More >>

Thirty-five participants in a business strategy-and-forecasting exercise were students from four graduate business schools including MIT Sloan. More >>

Matthew Marx, who will be joining the MIT Sloan faculty in 2009-2010, was among the winners of the 2009 Harvard Business School Doctoral Program Wyss Awards for Excellence in Doctoral Research. More >>

In this blog posting, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson writes, "By choosing instead forbearance and 'earn out' through high profits, the Treasury has made it much easier for financial interests to oppose re-regulation of any kind. Presumably this means we'll end up -- again -- with less regulation than is prudent or fair." More >>

A presentation in which Eric Von Hippel showcased a number of interesting innovations that his team has uncovered in urban slums throughout the developing world is referenced. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Jeffrey Stibel offers seven ways to be happier at work. First among them -- Smile. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson writes that banks will continue to receive a great deal of financial support in the form of credit from the Federal Reserve and debt guarantees from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. This is good for bank stockholders, but not necessarily helpful for the economic recovery. More >>

MIT Sloan School professor Thomas Malone addresses the mental models that impede management progress, the role of collective intelligence in solving climate problems, and his view of how wrong people are about what business is for. More >>

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang writes, "Shanghai trails Hong Kong in financial talent, but arguably this is the least important gap. The most significant ingredient in the making of a successful capital market is a vibrant entrepreneurial base. After all, a capital market exists to serve the needs of entrepreneurs, not the other way around." More >>

MIT Sloan Professors Simon Johnson and Kristin Forbes were named economic advisers for 2009 and 2010 by the Congressional Budget Office. More >>

Named for computer engineer Jay Wright Forrester, a professor at MIT Sloan and the founder of an analytical process known as System Dynamics, the Forrester Effect uses feedback to analyze supply-chain disturbances. More >>

MIT Sloan's MBA program ranked fifth in this year's annual rankings of 426 master's programs in business accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International in fall 2008 and early 2009. Data provided by the schools was used to calculate rankings based on a weighted average of a range of indicators, including program quality as assessed by the deans and directors of peer schools as well as recruiters, graduate placement success and student selectivity More >>

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo writes that financial engineering is no more responsible for the crisis than aerospace engineering was responsible for the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion in 1986. In both cases, incorrect human judgments involving inappropriate uses of technology led to disaster. More >>

In this opinion piece co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson, he writes that "Bernanke has become the country's economist in chief, the banker for the United States and perhaps the world, and has employed every weapon in the Federal Reserve's arsenal." More >>

In mid-march, eight students from MIT Sloan's China Lab teamed up with three business schools across China to provide market strategies and competitive analysis in a practice platform. More >>

One of the most important causes of the current financial crisis is the fact that accounting -- the language in which banks and other corporations communicate, strategise, and plan -- is inherently backward-looking, writes MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo in this opinion piece. More >>

This story examines ways that international students are financing an MBA at top-ranked colleges including MIT Sloan. More >>

Attivio's Chief Executive Officer Ali Riaz will be delivering a luncheon keynote address at the 2009 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium where more than 500 CIOs, CTOs, and senior technology executives from across the globe will gather to confer. More >>

MIT Sloan is among the top 10 MBA programs in the world that now accept the GRE General Test. More >>

According to research by MIT Sloan School's Center for Information Systems, companies with mature, strong IT Governance earn at least a 20 percent higher return on assets than organizations with little or no governance. More >>

Prestigious institutes such as the Sloan School at MIT and Kellogg are devising attractive programs to rope in students from all walks of life and have all reported double-digit rise in applications. More >>

"There was hope with Cerberus, that they would add managerial skill, and turn Chrysler around," Antoinette Schoar, a professor at MIT, told The Times. "It's difficult to say whether the private equity firm did a good enough job, or, were they just caught in this?" More >>

MIT Sloan's Global Entrepreneurship Laboratory is cited as a program that gives students experience working with startups in emerging markets. More >>

MIT Sloan Assistant Prof. Gustavo Manso and a collaborator wrote, "In a controlled experiment, we provide evidence that the combination of tolerance for failure and reward for long-term success is effective in motivating innovation." More >>

Researchers at MIT Sloan and IBM Research found that the average e-mail contact was worth $948 in revenue. More >>

According to a global survey of more than 500 MBA programs by the Graduate Management Admission Council, 77% have reported a rise in applications from potential students this year, up from 64% last year. MIT Sloan School reported double-digit rises in applications. More >>

The MS in Finance is growing in popularity, and the economic meltdown may create new opportunities for grads. MIT Sloan will launch a degree in finance this fall. More >>

A new MIT Sloan study so far suggests that a greater degree of interdisciplinary collaboration within universities may lead to more entrepreneurship and technology transfer -- but only to an extent. More >>

During this one-on-one interview with Bill Moyers, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "The government has a broader set of public policy initiatives. One of them is save the banks. Others are help consumers and some auto companies." More >>

When it comes to America's current economic woes, MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson says that the U.S. suffers from "financial oligarchies" -- government officials and elite members of the financial sector that run the country like a profit-seeking company More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "Remember, the idea of the government is to try and force banks to sell some of these toxic assets and encourage hedge funds and other investors to buy them at a higher price than they would otherwise." More >>

A new study by MIT Sloan Prof. Rodrigo Verdi found evidence suggesting that some companies opportunistically select their peers to justify higher CEO compensation. More >>

"The crisis hits China's private sector really hard because China's private sector accounts for a larger share of China's manufactured exports," says Yasheng Huang, an MIT professor who wrote about the rising power of SOEs in his 2008 book, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics. More >>

The U.S. could use its antitrust laws to dictate the right size for banks, says Simon Johnson, now a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management in the May issue of The Atlantic magazine. More >>

Most experts don't think a swine-flu outbreak by itself would eliminate many U.S. jobs or severely worsen the economy. MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson envisions only a "small hit" to economic activity in the United States -- just a few tenths of 1 percentage point. More >>

The Godfather is a management book, writes MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Howard Anderson. "It puts Peter Drucker to shame; it makes Good to Great about as relevant as Mr. Rogers" More >>

The Fed asked banks not to reveal their results during quarterly earnings announcements earlier this month. Regulators worry investors might punish banks without good news to announce. "Mostly, it was a buying-time strategy," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. More >>

Former MIT Sloan economist Fischer Black was the first of his kind -- a serious academic, with publications under his belt and a tenured position to boot -- to make the move to Wall Street, putting theory into practice and risking the scorn of his ivory tower colleagues. More >>

In a congressional hearing this week, MIT economist Simon Johnson argued that Europe may have a weaker economic recovery than the United States because its bank assets are more concentrated in very large firms. More >>

In this interview, MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson says, "The point is you don't throw banks into Chapter 11 because that is destructive. But you manage a bankruptcy process -- it's not nationalization, it's a government-run receivership. More >>

Mike Grandinetti, senior lecturer at MIT Sloan, is slated to speak at the Indus Entrepreneur TiECON East conference on May 21-22, 2009. This year's theme is `Sustainable Innovation.' More >>

A recent study by MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas A. Kochan found that among those who garnered enough support for a union election, only one in five attempts actually saw a union contract from their employer. More >>

Deflation is not just a Spanish concern. "It doesn't mean it will spread here to the U.S., but we need to look closely at Spain and other places to understand the dynamic," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson, "It's like the front line of a new virus outbreak." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Howard Anderson says, "If I were a Sun customer, I was starting to get nervous about Sun. I was worried about their viability. I'm not worried about that anymore. I know that Oracle is going to be there." More >>

Converting preferred stock into common stock could show lawmakers how far regulators will go to buy time for financial firms that need more capital, according to MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. "In some ways, it's an appeal for money. The stress test is going to say they need capital. ... So at some level, they're communicating with Congress." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Jiang Wang will take on the role of dean at the new Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, which was established at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in April 2009. "Practical ability will be highlighted throughout the curriculum," Wang says. More >>

Studies by the MIT Sloan School's Erik Brynjolfsson and others show that organizations across a range of industries were able to take advantage of new IT capabilities only after making substantial changes. More >>

"The strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown, and that's been characteristic of this crisis from the beginning," says MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo. "The traumatic events of 2008 will lead to potential damaging behavior on the part of investors unless they are aware of the hyperstimulated emotional state they're in." More >>

A research study co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan found that only one in five cases that filed a National Labor Relations Board election petition ultimately reached a first contract between workers and management. More >>

It was announced that Robert Faletra, CEO of Everything Channel, would speak at the third annual MIT Sloan Sales Conference on Friday, April 17 and participate on a CEO Roundtable moderated by MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Peter Kurzina. More >>

According to MIT Professor Thomas Kochan, arbitrators make decisions that reflect what is occurring in comparable jurisdictions, and there is a widely shared norm among arbitrators that contract innovations arebest left to the parties to negotiate on their own. More >>

A study co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Catherine Tucker suggests that there's a tradeoff between achieving fast adoption of electronic medical records and strong health-care privacy. "What we found was that privacy laws are getting in the way of hospitals trying to exchange information with each other," Tucker says. More >>

"There is a clear correlation between economic distress and social distress," said Paul Osterman, professor of Human Resources and Management at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. "Underemployment is not good news for families." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson points out that a key gauge of investor confidence -- the market for credit default swaps -- shows that some investors have been making big bets that the risk is growing that struggling banks like Citigroup and Bank of America will collapse. More >>

It was announced that remarks from MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson would be featured at the Smart Globalization conference, hosted by the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, on April 23. More >>

"Energy entrepreneurship is different. You can't treat it the same as other types of entrepreneurship," says William Aulet, senior lecturer at MIT, which sponsors an annual $100K Entrepreneurship Competition that includes a clean-energy award. More >>

Forte and its member schools have talked to thousands of women to explain the value of the MBA. "We market not just the schools," says Julie Strong, an admissions officer at MIT Sloan. "We market the MBA as a whole." More >>

Research by MIT Sloan Visiting Scholar M. Shayne Gary found that the "boom and bust" dynamics experienced by many businesses are caused by decision errors and biases that can be avoided. More >>

President Obama recently selected former MIT Sloan Associate Prof. Lael Brainard as undersecretary for international affairs in the Treasury Department. More >>

"We and others are funding start-ups as slowly as possible, or not at all," says Howard Anderson, a founding partner of Battery Ventures and a senior lecturer at MIT. More >>

In this interview, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson states that "The IMF was set up as part of a U.S.-run postwar system and those traditions last. So, the IMF would always be extremely reluctant to do anything that would seem like criticism of any current administration." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says that despite the banking collapse, financial leaders such as Warren Buffett have retained surprising control over the government. "There's this general presumption that Wall Street knows best. But they may not know best for the taxpayer," he says. More >>

In addition to his hefty agenda at home, Obama "is trying to prevent the rest of the world from imploding," says Simon Johnson, a former International Monetary Fund economist who is now a professor at MIT Sloan. More >>

Europeans and Americans don't always see eye to eye -- and how to solve the global financial crisis is no exception. "The Europeans think there's a danger of overdoing it," says Simon Johnson, a former International Monetary Fund chief economist, now a professor at MIT Sloan. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Edgar Schein has described two principles for organizations that want to transform to a new business process: the "survival anxiety" or guilt must be greater than the "learning anxiety." More >>

A number of applicants turned out for a recent online chat with Julie Strong, senior associate director for MBA Admissions at MIT Sloan, and Jennifer Burke Barba, assistant director of MBA Admissions at MIT Sloan. More >>

Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of One Laptop per Child, is the slated keynote speaker at MIT Sloan's XII Annual Latin Conference on May 2, 2009. More >>

MIT Sloan School of management will kick off its first Business in Gaming Conference with a keynote from 2K Boston president and BioShock creator Ken Levine, student organizers announced. More >>

Digital distribution, marketing, and in-game advertising are the themes of MIT Sloan School of Management's inaugural Business in Gaming Conference being held on Friday, May 8, 2009 on the business school's campus. More >>

In this blog entry, MIT Sloan MBAs Carter Dunn and Mahesh Konduru write, "In our conversations with a select pool of people, there was a near unanimous agreement that MIT Sloan is indeed a fertile ground for aspiring entrepreneurs." More >>

It was announced that on Wednesday, May 27, 2009, the Russian space agency (Roskosmos) will launch a Soyuz rocket into space from Baikonur, Kazahkstan, for Expedition 20/21. Sitting inside will be MIT Sloan alumnus Robert Thirsk, the first Canadian astronaut to launch with Russia as well as the first Canadian to undertake a long-duration mission in space. More >>

In the aftermath of one of the most devastating years in financial market history, many investors tend to doubt whether their investment strategies have really helped them achieve their objectives, writes Bancha Serngadichaivit, a graduate of MIT Sloan, and an executive at Bangkok Bank and a director and the public awareness chair of the CFA Society of Thailand. More >>

PIMCO announced that MIT Sloan alumnus Guillermo Osses has been promoted to executive vice president. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Andrew Luan, a former CDO trader at Deutsche Bank in New York, quit his job to go work as a tour guide around the city's financial district. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus William H. Rodgers III passed away on March 19 after a 6-year battle with cancer. He was 64. More >>

The achievements of MIT Sloan alumnus Kofi Annan are highlighted on his 70th birthday. Annan's unwavering dedication to human rights earned him a Nobel Peace Prize, among many other accolades. More >>

Corn Products International, Inc. announced that its board of directors has appointed MIT Sloan alumna Ilene Gordon chairman, president and chief executive officer. More >>

It was announced that MIT Sloan alumnus George Weyerhaeuser Jr. will make a keynote presentation at the 2009 International Conference on Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry on June 23-26, 2009 in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. More >>

MasterCard Worldwide announced the appointment of MIT Sloan alumnus Vicky S. Bindra, 44, as president, Asia/Pacific Middle East Africa region. Mr. Bindra, will join MasterCard on June 1, 2009. More >>

"The NCAA tournament, in 63 games, makes more TV money than the local TV money for the entire NBA regular season of 1,200-plus games," MIT Sloan alumnus and Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey said at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in March. "It would be hard to tell the owners you'd have to take a revenue hit, but you might get it back later because more people are tuning in." More >>

MIT Sloan alumna Robin Chase, the CEO of carpooling venture GoLoco.org and co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, will speak at SUNY Oswego's dual Commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 16, 2009. More >>

Simon Johnson, economist and professor at MIT Sloan School of Management, says he's in favor of FDIC-style takeover resolutions, "which is different from coming in and taking the situation as is and putting in a crony." More >>

The Washington Post today launches "The Hearing," a blog that discusses the key economic policy questions being debated in Washington. Simon Johnson and James Kwak will write the blog. More >>

Simon Johnson, as a professor at MIT, says that the BRIC coordination is both noteworthy and a good sign. "If the BRIC came together, they'd be stronger relative to the G7." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson questions whether leading financial institutions have enough capital to muddle through, or if, instead, their solvency problems are so serious that we will experience continuing reduction in lending (often known as deleveraging), a deeper recession and a slower recovery. More >>

MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson argues that the U.S. should invoke anti-trust laws to break up Wall Street, whose power poses a material threat to the American economy. More >>

A blog posting reads: In a fascinating piece in the latest issue of The Atlantic, Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, outlines what he sees as the alarming influence of Wall Street firms over the American economy. He expounds on his thesis in our interview, making several points. More >>

Joint Economic (9:30 a.m.): Holds a hearing on "Too Big to Fail or Too Big to Save? Examining the Systemic Threats of Large Financial Institutions." Joseph Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel Prize recipient, professor at Columbia University and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers; Simon Johnson, professor of entrepreneurship at MIT's Sloan School of Management; and Thomas Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, testify. More >>

The International Monetary Fund's forecast is a "bottom up" aggregation of macroeconomic views on specific countries, put together in a mutually consistent manner by experienced economists, blogs MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. More >>

An article that cites MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson's piece in The Atlantic is listed as one of the top stories of the week. More >>

Do such rallies indicate anything more than investors desperate to find good news anywhere? Or do they suggest a real return of confidence? The editors at the NYT asked MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson for his analysis. More >>

The IBM collaboration with MIT Sloan tracked the electronic communications of over 7,000 volunteers for three years. The aim of the work was to put a dollar amount on the effect of those electronic and virtual relationships. More >>

MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson expounds on his recent article in The Atlantic, explaining how Wall Street and Washington, D.C., have come together to form the "most advanced oligarchy" in the world, why the stress tests on the nation's biggest banks fall short, how he thinks nationalization will take place, and why we're most likely to suffer an "L" shaped recovery. More >>

A January MIT Sloan Management Review interview with MIT Sloan Prof. John Sterman is posted. It reads, "The personal isn't always part of the conversation, but I really do believe that we can't have a sustainable society if people are constantly overworked, burned out, sleep deprived, and don't have time for friendships or relationships or community, for participating in civil society. More >>

In this interview, MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein shares his thoughts about the recession's impact on corporate America, entrepreneurs, and the ambitions of business school students. More >>

The current crop of business school students faces decidedly different prospects than their predecessors did, says MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein. "It's tough. This is not an easy time to come out of any kind of school environment, undergrad or MBA." More >>

A working paper co-authored by MIT Prof. Stephen Ross on contrarian traders is referenced. More >>

"In its depth and suddenness, the U.S. economic and financial crisis is shockingly reminiscent of moments we have recently seen in emerging markets (and only in emerging markets): South Korea (1997), Malaysia (1998), Russia and Argentina (time and again)," writes MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson in this opinion piece. More >>

While many advisors suggest holding tight until the stock market recovers, MIT Sloan visiting professor Zvi Bodie says investors need to face some painful facts. "Stocks are risky," says Bodie, "To rely on them for what you really need is a bad idea." More >>

In better times, generous paychecks and computational challenges attracted physicists and engineers to Wall Street, but some experts now blame them for the crash. Andrew Lo, a financial engineer at MIT, discusses why Wall Street needs these number crunchers more than ever. More >>

Simon Johnson writes, "Even before the G20 summit begins, world leaders have decided not to address the major questions of the day: how to adjust monetary policy around the world, how to save Europe from itself (difficult but still doable), and how to break the political and economic power of major banks." More >>

In this opinion piece, co-writer Simon Johnson asserts, "The problem in the market today is that the prices demanded by the banks are much higher than the prices that private buyers (hedge funds, private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds) are willing to pay." More >>

In this opinion piece co-written by Simon Johnson, he says, "The argument that AIG's traders are the people that we must depend on to save the United States economy is as weak and self-serving as it was in Thailand, Korea or Indonesia. AIG is essentially advocating survival of the weakest. Thankfully, the American people are not buying it." More >>

An MIT Sloan study finding that 44 percent of the time America's newly unionized workers lack a collective bargaining agreement a year after voting for union representation is referenced. More >>

In a piece examining the leadership agenda among business schools, The Financial Times recent rankings are cited (MIT Sloan came in at No. 9). More >>

MIT Sloan Management Review, which is published at MIT Sloan, has launched a multi-year collaboration with The Boston Consulting Group that will "explore emerging thinking on sustainability and its implications for business strategy and organization. More >>

The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium recognized Vivek Kundra, Federal Chief Information Officer at the White House, among outstanding IT innovators. More >>

Newly elected Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim participated in inter-disciplinary work at MIT Sloan. More >>

Skolkovo and MIT Sloan announced a series of joint programs that will strengthen the Russian school's international capacity, while exposing Sloan's faculty and students to different global challenges. More >>

MIT launched its Transportation@MIT program, a two-year pilot program that combines the efforts of the Institute's School of Engineering, the School of Architecture and Planning, and MIT Sloan. More >>

LFM Senior Lecturer, Steven Spear, discusses the prospects for General Motors Corp.'s restructuring plan. More >>

Amitay Kalmar, MIT Sloan MBA '10, discusses the 2009 Israel Trek during which students gained a better understanding of Israel and its economy and business landscape. More >>

MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson spars with host Stephen Colbert Simon Johnson while explaining why America's economy resembles an unstable, emerging market. More >>

The median net worth of the average black family is 10 times less than that of the average white family, a 2006 National Urban League report found. Those reasons make good sense, says Zvi Bodie, a visiting professor at MIT. More >>

In this interview, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says that things in Great Britain and Europe are very bad. More >>

"[Obama's] obviously got a lot of charisma and it's his first big meeting. And I think people tend to be very polite in these situations but there could also be a level of awkwardness there," says Simon Johnson, a former IMF chief economist who is now a professor at MIT. More >>

Many manufacturing companies turn to outsourcing to save labor costs, however cost-saving measures are available right on their factory floors, according to research by MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer John Carrier. More >>

Given the inevitability that these countries will have a growing influence, the London summit meeting is likely to be remembered "as the last hurrah for the U.S. and Europe rescuing the world economy," says Simon Johnson, a professor at MIT. More >>

MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson is slated to share his view on the global financial crisis in a conference call hosted by Wall Street Access. More >>

In 1996, MIT Sloan's Lester Thurow described the state of the global economy as "punctuated equilibrium", a metaphor for the evolutionary biology term meaning a sudden change in the order of things. More >>

"There is a clear correlation between economic distress and social distress," says MIT Sloan Prof. Paul Osterman. "Underemployment is not good news for families." More >>

Visible Measures, Inc. has raised $10 million in a Series C round bringing its total venture investment to $29.3 million --- with a 2006 seed round from five angel investors, including MIT Entrepreneurship Center Chairman Edward Roberts. More >>

Increasingly during the current financial crisis, reporters have been banking on Simon Johnson of MIT Sloan for analysis and advice. More >>

Andrew Lo, head of the MIT's Financial Innovation Laboratory, has merged behavioral and efficient markets theory using Darwinian biology. In his 'adaptive markets hypothesis', markets behave efficiently during periods of calm. More >>

Looking at the U.S. crisis, Beijing feels its economic philosophy vindicated, says Yasheng Huang of MIT. "Today's situation is much more severe. Today you have the most efficient private enterprises in trouble, not Communist relics." More >>

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Ken Zolot says "I am delighted to be joining the Kauffman Foundation team as a senior fellow as we look out over the economic future and embark on a new approach for increasing both the number of new companies formed and the chances of success for these ventures." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo says, "Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism. Financial losses are a byproduct of innovation, but disruptions and dislocations are greatly magnified when risks have been incorrectly assessed and incorrectly assigned." More >>

"The political reality has changed," says Simon Johnson, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund who is now at MIT. "The new bailout climate is troubling. It could make it difficult for the Obama team to sell its plan." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johns believes the TALF program could help revive the consumer credit market, but at this point, "most Wall Street bankers would rather be attacked by wild dogs than take part." More >>

"If I were running a country, I wouldn't want the IMF in a headline unless it's something like, 'Poland tells the IMF to stuff it,' says Simon Johnson, a former IMF chief economist who is now a professor at MIT." More >>

Research by two MIT economists, Drazen Prelec and Duncan Simester, found that a group using credit cards offered much more for items--in one case, more than twice as much--despite the fact that the experiment was arranged so as to make paying in cash easy and convenient" More >>

Global open innovation marketplace InnoCentive, Inc. appointed MIT Sloan's Eric von Hippel to its advisory board. More >>

In this interview, MIT Sloan Prof. Emeritus Jay Forrester speaks about the intersection of sustainability and management. More >>

If it acquired Sun, I.B.M. "would unify those warring groups and make for a stronger front against Microsoft," says MIT Sloan Prof. Michael A. Cusumano. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Glen Urban plans to analyze Web users' surfing habits to determine their thinking styles -- such as whether they are most influenced by verbal or visual messages or if they are more holistic or analytical -- and how to tailor ads accordingly. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang argues that what visitors see when they visit Shanghai is a mirage. He says that far from being a free-market paradise, Shanghai is the creation of a controlling communist government. More >>

At the moment, equities are moving too early, says Andrew Lo, professor of finance at MIT. "We are not yet seeing any glimmers of an economic recovery." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang's book, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics, is reviewed. The book relates the epic tale of rural Chinese entrepreneurship between 1980 and 1990, in which striving businessmen built firms of substantial scale in the poorest provinces. More >>

There's widespread agreement among the world's biggest countries that the current global financial and economic crises require global solutions. But as leaders from twenty of those countries gathered to offer solutions, that may be about all they can agree on. "I think they're pretty disunified," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. "But they don't obviously want to present that too publicly." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo is sharing a five-year, $22 million BofA grant with the Center for Future Banking at MIT's Media Lab. BofA is supporting research on technological and quantitative themes, such as data mining and behavioral economics. More >>

Because Bank of America has rescinded job offers it had made to students requiring H-1B sponsorship, some fear students who have traditionally studied in the US to get a job in North America may go elsewhere. "There might be an inclination for people from around the world to vote with their feet," says MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein. More >>

"I'm worried about what happens when you see that a Greece or an Ireland that might need bailouts," says Simon Johnson, an MIT economics professor and former IMF chief economist. "Where is the money going to come from?" More >>

In an interview, MIT Sloan Prof. Paul Osterman discusses his new book, The Truth About Middle Managers and the plight of middle managers in a down economy. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "This country is very good at producing great engineers and recruiting them from all around the world. I'm predicting a wave of entrepreneurship. It will kick in right away, but you won't see the full impact for five years." More >>

Letting insolvent institutions linger results in a "massive destruction in value [of the banks and a] looting in these companies by management," says MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson. More >>

A study co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Damon Centola found that Internet users gravitate to the same social cliques online that they occupy in the real world. On the bright side, Centola says, cliquishness can actually be good for the world. More >>

If the nation makes the switch from oil to natural gas to run its vehicles, will it simply be trading one foreign-dependent fuel for another? The answer is, probably. But to what extent is very hard to say. "Welcome to uncertainty," says Gordon Kaufman, a professor emeritus and oil and gas expert at the MIT Sloan School. More >>

In an extract from the sustainability section of the book, The 80 Minute MBA: Everything You'll Never Learn at Business School, MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein says, "It's not a story of 28-year-olds trying to save the world, it's a story of managing cataclysmic change." More >>

The 30 or so students taking MIT Sloan Prof. Fiona Murray's Innovation Team (I-team) course divide into three- or four-person teams that analyze inventions' potential and recommend a means of bringing it to market. More >>

According to a government-sponsored survey, only about 17 percent of the nation's physicians are using computerized patient records. "This is really not a technology problem," observes MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson. "It's a matter of incentives and market failure." More >>

In testimony before the House Financial Services Committee last fall, MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo called for establishing a permanent, independent government agency modeled on the National Transportation Safety Board to study failures in the financial markets. More >>

According to Debbie Berechman, executive director of the MBA program at MIT Sloan, "Obama's commitment to lessen the US dependence on fossil fuel and MIT's alternative energy initiatives are good examples of a potential partnership forged from a common vision." More >>

"Wall Street's not going to be a great place to work for the next couple of years," says Chad Lovell, 29, a second-year student at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Lovell interned at Barclays Capital in New York last summer but passed on a full-time job offer there in favor of a strategic planning post at industrial conglomerate Emerson Electric Co. in St. Louis after he graduates in June. More >>

A team of MBA students from MIT Sloan and international MBA program of China's Tsinghua University are teaming up in Beijing on an interactive project to help Chinese money-lender CreditEase sharpen its marketing strategies. More >>

On Friday, April 3, the 6th Annual MIT Sloan Private Equity Symposium will address the evolution of investment strategies in a changing economic and financing environment. More >>

The MIT Sloan Sales Conference, taking place on 4/17/09, will offer an agenda geared towards selling in the current economic crisis, as well as sessions on CEO leadership challenges, lessons from past recessions, innovative sales models, and workshops on technology. More >>

MIT Sloan student Jimmy Bartolotta was among the 2009 recipients of the Jostens Trophy, which recognizes outstanding student-athletes in NCAA Division III basketball for excellence in the classroom, on the playing court, and in the community. More >>

MIT Sloan students participated in the "2009 Antigua Study Tour" from March 18-27 to investigate and resolve issues facing senior management in local organizations rooted in the Antiguan economy. More >>

Students from MIT Sloan were among the competitors in the Association for Corporate Growth, Inc. Cup, a regional Mergers and Acquisitions case competition. More >>

The Baseball Analytics panel was excellent and gave amazing insight into how analytics are used not only by people who write about them, but also by the teams themselves. More >>

The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference brought analytics and fact-driven decision-making to the world of sports. Or, in the words of ESPN writer Bill Simmons, "it's a complete dorkapalooza." More >>

At the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, front office executives discussed potential strategies for gathering and analyzing data on such things as a player's passion, defense skills, and team chemistry, as well as on the fan experience. More >>

At the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, Dallas Maverick's owner Marc Cuban said that a win is only worth about a half million dollars to a team's bottom line, so that rebuilding teams with low salary structures are often the most profitable. More >>

The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, which brought a total of five ESPN.com writers and editors to town, resulted in extra coverage of the two Boston Celtics home games played that weekend. More >>

At the MIT Sloan Sports Analytic Conference, participants learned that as statistics become more prevalent, NBA teams will become better at making informed decisions about which players to trade, which ones to draft, which ones to put on the floor together, and when. More >>

The 20th MIT $100K Business Plan Competition has attracted 260 submissions -- a $100K record, according to co-managing directors Sombit Mishra and Brian Cantwell. The two first-year MIT Sloan students say they've seen a surge in the energy and web/IT services categories. More >>

MIT student Geoffrey von Maltzahn, co-founder of startup company Resonance Therapeutics, was awarded the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Inventions. The startup is working with a team from MIT Sloan on developing its business plan. More >>

MIT Sloan student Mahesh Konduru writes, "Notwithstanding the lull in traditional hiring, industries recruiting for general management, operations, marketing, strategy and sales functions has been active. Some students who had their minds set on traditional MBA internships are re-evaluating their interests and strengths and are finding other avenues to learn during summer." More >>

Students from MIT Sloan were among the competitors in the 8th annual Leeds Net Impact Case Competition on February 20-21. The competition hosts rising business leaders from MBA programs from around the nation to help find solutions to corporate sustainability issues. More >>

Offshore energy explorer Cnooc appointed MIT Sloan alumnus Yang Hua as its president. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Alex Min is among the founders of Terrafugia, a company which is developing The Transition, a "roadable" aircraft. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Joseph Skerritt and the company he founded, Proper Cloth, are profiled. Proper Cloth is a New York-based e-commerce dress shirt company that allows shoppers to mix and match fabrics while using computer-generated tailoring for the right fit. More >>

When asked what brought him to an MIT Enterprise Forum's event, MIT Sloan alumnus Michael Parduhn said, "I'm looking for a job." More >>

In February 2003, MIT Sloan alumna Robin Chase, founder of Zipcar, was forced out by the company's Board of Directors. "I'm gleeful about the engine of capitalism, but it has some very negative, destructive aspects," she says. "We see it around us now: Extreme greed. Shocking arrogance." More >>

Randy Avent, a graduate of MIT Sloan's Greater Boston Executive Program, is a finalist in Texas Tech University's vice presidential search. More >>

It's a difficult time for a brand new biotech firm to be drumming up interest in a novel approach to delivering drugs, with investors snubbing so many firms with drugs already in clinical trials. But the market conditions haven't stopped MIT Sloan alumna Elisabet de los Pinos from raising more than $3 million in an initial financing for her new company Aura Biosciences. More >>

At their Annual General Meeting in Hong Kong, the members of International Stainless Steel Forum elected MIT Sloan alumni Pascal Payet-Gaspard to succeed Dr. Staffan Malm as Secretary General. More >>

Energy Conversion Devices Inc., a manufacturer of thin-film flexible solar laminate products for the building integrated and commercial rooftop markets, named MIT Sloan alumnus Ken Fox Chief Marketing Officer. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus George Peel Chandler passed away on March 6 in a car accident in San Diego. Chandler headed the U.S. Small Business Administration's San Diego district office for 25 years and retired in September 2005. More >>

MIT Sloan alumna Dayna Cunningham says, "Without a prior agenda-setting discourse enabling African American communities to arrive at some collective decisions about their shared future, I can't imagine either innovation in support of, or accountability to, black concerns." More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus William Reinhardt is a candidate for the Office of Selectman for the town of St. George, Maine. More >>

Simon Johnson, an MIT professor and former IMF chief economist, has been particularly smart and scary on both upcoming policy decisions and wider structural problems that still need to be addressed in the economy. More >>

According to a recent study by MIT Sloan Prof. Jared Curhan, money played a lesser role in job satisfaction and retention. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. John Sterman and Dr. Bob Corell presented the Climate-Rapid Overview and Decision Support Simulator (C-ROADS), a user-friendly, interactive computer model of the climate system, in an event hosted by the American Meteorological Society. Senator John Kerry provided the introduction and context. More >>

A chart by Simon Johnson of MIT shows the price you have to pay if you want insurance against a company such as Citigroup who is defaulting on a bond you might own. The higher the price, the worse shape the market thinks that company is in. More >>

MIT Sloan School of Management is extending its international influence through an agreement with Skolkovo, the Moscow-based business school set up by entrepreneur Ruben Vardanian. More >>

Dean David Schmittlein says that the Skolkovo effort "ties into MIT Sloan's mission, which is to develop principled, innovative leaders who improve the world. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Lester Thurow defines the American middle class as the group with incomes lying between 75% and 125% of the median. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Leigh Hafrey is among faculty from leading business schools who have visited IIPM as part of its global exposure initiative. More >>

According to Yasheng Huang, an economist at MIT, explicitly state-controlled firms make up half the economy. That probably understates the true effect, because even private firms understand that their existence depends on their relations with the state. More >>

MIT Sloan ranked number seven among the 2009 BusinessWeek Best Undergraduate Business Schools, up two spots from 2008. More >>

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan senior lecturer Neal Hartman writes that it is important to understand that people perceive uncertainty in different ways and managers should nurture the idea among stakeholders that uncertainty brings possibilities, rather than seeing it just as a threat. More >>

The MIT Admissions Office predicts that total applications will be up 15 percent from last year. The figure does not include MIT Sloan, which has yet to report its numbers and, if it follows the trend for other business schools, promises its own impressive set of applicant growth. More >>

Arnold Barnett, an MIT professor and expert in accident statistics, says the risk of dying on a flight has not changed markedly by the recent crashes. The odds of a passenger dying on a jet flight in developed nations is less than one in 20 million, he says. More >>

InsideSales.com was awarded a patent for the invention of Web based phone services. The company pioneered the concept and technology behind lead response management in conjunction with research done at MIT Sloan. More >>

MIT Sloan is cited among a group of top business schools using the Education Testing Service GRE-GMAT comparison tool that allows a student to apply to business school with a GRE score. More >>

Dean Bernard Ramanantsoa of HEC Paris discusses HEC's global push including its new partnership with MIT Sloan. More >>

One school that has found a replacement lender is MIT Sloan School of Management. More >>

OpenCourseWare business offerings like those provided by MIT Sloan have seen an increase, says Steve Carson, external relations director for MIT OpenCourseWare. More >>

MIT Sloan's new building on Main Street, aimed to serve as the central nexus of the Sloan campus, is among the major construction projects on the MIT campus. The building is slated for completion in the summer of 2010. More >>

In an interview with Bill Moyers, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says that the U.S. financial system reminds him more of the embattled emerging markets he encountered in his time with the International Monetary Fund than that of a developed nation. More >>

MIT's Simon Johnson says, "What many Indians really need is access to the kinds of technology, capital, infrastructure, that would allow them to increase productivity ten times. They would still be considerably poorer than we are, but this would lift hundreds of millions out of poverty and save many children's lives." More >>

MIT's Simon Johnson says, "I'd like to give people money. And if they choose to save it, or use it to reduce their credit card debt, that would be fine with me. Remember that we have a pretty serious 'balance sheet' problem in this economy." More >>

Last year, private-equity firm Lone Star Funds bought up nearly $6.7 billion of Merrill Lynch's credit debt obligations at 22 cents on the dollar. Could that be the private model the Treasury Department wants others to duplicate? Simon Johnson, a professor at MIT and a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, offers his insights. More >>

MIT's Simon Johnson thinks that if the government didn't overpay for the bad assets, the "Bad Banks" idea has some merit. More >>

MIT economist Simon Johnson warns that we're in for an 'L-shaped' recession that could, if we're lucky, become a 'bathtub-shaped' recession. More >>

By the time regulators get a handle on one investment class, a slew of new ones have been created. "This is a cycle that goes on and on--and will continue to get repeated," says MIT Sloan Prof. Peter Wysocki. More >>

Dean David Schmittlein says that these are times of change and challenge all over the country, and management education is no exception. More >>

Dean David Schmittlein says, "Any firm that is involved in the cutting edge of providing new kinds of value is very much of interest to our students." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says that it's definitely tougher to get a loan these days. "If you think of there being three types of borrowers: Really creditworthy, medium creditworthy, and somewhat dubious." More >>

In his new book, The Truth About Middle Managers, MIT Sloan Prof. Paul Osterman writes, "Middle managers are the glue that holds organizations together. More >>

"Most Wall Streeters agree that a large number of such bonds--amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars, perhaps trillions--are worth far less than their stated, or par, value. How much less is central to resolving the financial crisis. "It's an informational nightmare," says Andrew Lo, director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering. More >>

Simon Johnson says, "The main Chinese concern is with exchange rate policy rather than voting weights." More >>

The Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, and other banking regulators say they can convert the government's stock in the banks from preferred shares to common shares. "I don't think this is the end solution. It is a very haphazard way of trying to deal with the problems and simply postponing the inevitable -- more bank failures and takeovers by the FDIC," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. More >>

According to MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson, "It's one big trans-Atlantic money market out there, and these banks lend money to each other all the time. Deutsche Bank and UBS and Goldman Sachs and Citi are all intertwined." More >>

Simon Johnson, a former IMF chief economist at MIT, says: "We are seeing the consequences of the lack of IMF resources. Programs are probably undersized because the IMF is worried about running out of money." More >>

A study by MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Mark Kritzman measuring the long-term impact of all expenses involved in investing in a mutual fund or hedge fund is referenced. More >>

"It's a European issue, but the U.S. can show leadership," said Simon Johnson, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and now a professor at MIT. More >>

"Given the magnitude of market movements caused by hedge funds in 2007 and 2008, it is now known that hedge funds are no longer a little niche industry for sophisticated investors and have come of age," says MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson expects more students will become entrepreneurs, especially those with a "tech story," mirroring a trend seen in 2001. More >>

Simon Johnson, an economics professor at MIT and a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, says many people might take a dim view of the TALF program because it provided government subsidies to investors like hedge funds. More >>

The MIT Sloan executive education course, Implementing Radical Innovation, uses company visits and team projects to help managers identify new opportunities in a shaky economy. "Innovation is the only real answer in tough economic times -- see GM today as a crystal clear example," says senior lecturer Bill Aulet. More >>

According to the new study by Ed Roberts and Charles Eesley entitled, "Entrepreneurial Impact: The Role of MIT," if the active companies founded by MIT graduates formed an independent nation, their revenues would make that nation at least the seventeenth largest economy in the world. More >>

"It's very difficult to imagine that the manufacturers or the unions will give up what they need to give up if they each think the government, ultimately, will bail them out," says MIT Sloan Prof. Michael Cusumano. "The bottom line is that we should have let them go bankrupt a few months ago, because it is the only way to avoid months and months of posturing." More >>

"My general sense is that lately, TSA has been kind of sensible. Frequent travelers understand the routine, and it's not so bad now," says MIT Sloan Prof. Arnold Barnett. In fact, aviation security in the U.S. has improved enough "to be on par with Western Europe, and that's a significant advance," he says. More >>

"Variety is good for consumers," says MIT management professor Michael Cusumano. "At this point, the more competition Microsoft and Intel have, the better it is for the rest of us." More >>

Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, now a professor at MIT, says the G7 was "asleep at the wheel", adding: "[The meeting] was a great opportunity for this group of leading industrial countries to reassert its leadership in the global economy." More >>

A study co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Pierre Azoulay found that the loss of a superstar scientist can be surprisingly hard on collaborators left behind, who often experience a significant and permanent loss of productivity. More >>

Even though small businesses employ about half of the nation's work force, they will get little aid from Washington in the near future according to MIT Sloan Prof. Howard Anderson. "The small businessman who looks to rely on the government for help is the one who isn't going to make it out of the recession." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "When I talk to experts, after about two minutes they say, 'We should just nationalize'. That tells me that the consensus is moving in this direction, and we are all just afraid to say it." More >>

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Peter Senge's book, The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World, is cited. More >>

Simon Johnson, an economist at MIT, estimates that the United States banks have a capital shortage of $500 billion. "In a more severe recession, it will take $1 trillion or so to properly capitalize the banks" More >>

Investors have no faith in banks' own reporting of their financial health, says MIT Sloan Prof. Jeffrey Ng. "Even when banks report positive numbers, investors still have little confidence that these assets have any significant value." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says the term "depression" refers to a significant contraction that lasts around five years. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says that to be successful, the Obama administration's program needed to be simpler and more transparent than the stabilization measures taken by the Bush administration under the unpopular TARP program. "Unless you are transparent, you'll get a massive backlash against the scheme." More >>

Edgar Schein, a professor of management at MIT, gained fame in the 1960s for his work on the concept of 'career anchors'. For Schein, people are generally motivated by eight anchors - priorities that define how they see themselves and their work. More >>

President Obama unveiled his plan to prohibit firms getting emergency aid from paying top execs more than $500,000 annually in cash. "This plan doesn't look very meaningful," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. "The issue at these companies is the lack of effective owners, and things like pay limits don't change that. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Malone, director of the CCI, says that applications like Wikipedia, Linux, and YouTube hint at the potential of collective intelligence. Malone believes similar developments could improve doctors' diagnoses and scientists' ability to address climate change. More >>

"The advantage of customization is not as great as it used to be," says Donald Rosenfield, director of the MIT Leaders for Manufacturing program. "But the direct model still has some advantages." More >>

In a live online chat, Simon Johnson of MIT says, "Nationalization means different things to different people, or different countries. In its pure form, it means government ownership and control, of a firm or bank." More >>

"You're going to see a lot more rhetoric out of leaders against protectionism, but what really matters is their policies," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. "And there are worrying signs right now that they may not be so serious about stopping protectionism." More >>

"Many forget that it is a basic right in America for workers to unionize. It's easy to lose sight after years of Reagan and Bushes, where union activity has been all but considered un-American. "People need them more than ever," says Thomas Kochan, an MIT professor of work and employment relations and a strong union supporter who spoke at the meeting. More >>

Effective IT governance translates into noticeably stronger earnings, says MIT Sloan Senior Research Scientist Peter Weill. Weill co-conducted a survey of CIOs of 256 U.S. and foreign companies and found that outfits whose boards made sure they had strong IT governance and exercised it generated profits 20% higher than those with similar business strategies but weak IT oversight. More >>

"You're going to see a lot more rhetoric out of leaders against protectionism, but what really matters is their policies," said Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and a professor of economics at MIT. More >>

Yasheng Huang, a professor at MIT, says corruption and a deeply flawed model of economic reform had led to a collapse in personal income growth and a wealth gap that could leave China looking like a Latin American economy. More >>

Recycled prose is easy for admissions officers to spot, says Julie Strong, senior associate director for MBA admissions at MIT Sloan. A word-for-word regurgitation of previous talking points is "really detrimental," she says. "It's like plagiarism of your own work." More >>

Rochelle Weichman, executive director of MIT Sloan Executive Education, discusses how the program is adapting to the economic slowdown, and which executive programs have taken a front seat in 2009. Weichman says, "Many of the companies contacting us now are asking us to be sure to include content around leadership and leading change." More >>

MIT Sloan Director of Career Development Jackie Wilbur says ,"We are encouraging our students to create parallel search paths to broaden their options this year." More >>

Friday Night Supper Program, a local nonprofit organization serving approximately 200 guests every Friday, was the recipient of $8,365, proceeds raised from an auction held by members of the 2010 class at MIT Sloan. More >>

Meghan Gallery enrolled at MIT Sloan in September with hopes of working on mergers and acquisitions at an investment bank. Now, she would consider a summer job at a start-up company, ideally in corporate finance. "I've literally had people say, 'Hopefully, when you get out it will be different. But if not, there will still be a lot of bodies floating around who have been in finance for five to 10 years more than you." More >>

"It's just too bad that gaming still has this stigma attached to it in the modern workplace," says Ethan Mollick. A researcher at MIT's Sloan School of Management and coauthor of Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business, Mollick believes that many employers view video games as some scarlet "S" for slackery. More >>

Students from MIT were among the competitors in the 8th annual Leeds Net Impact Case Competition on February 20-21. The competition hosts rising business leaders from MBA programs from around the nation to help find innovative solutions to corporate sustainability issues. More >>

During MIT's mid-semester Independent Activities Period in January, a group of students participated in a hummus making contest. Israeli native Yoav Danenberg, whose wife, Amit, attends MIT Sloan, says the thick and garlicky Zinger seems most authentic. "It reminds me of the hummus I used to prepare at home." More >>

CrossTech Partners and New Marketing Labs announced a strategic partnership with the MIT Sloan Alumni Club of Boston, creators of the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium program, to launch an online community program, regional MIT Sloan CIO event programs, and increased sponsorship opportunities within the community. More >>

MIT Sloan alumna Almudena Arcelus was appointed as principal to Analysis Group, Inc. More >>

The American Friends of Hebrew University honored Los Angeles Dodgers team president and MIT Sloan alumna Jamie McCourt with its SCOPUS award for her philanthropic efforts. "My heritage is important. That organization has achievements that are outstanding. They are entrepreneurial and are finding solutions," McCourt explains. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus and Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey believes there is no statistic that a basketball player accumulates that cannot be amassed selfishly. "We think about this deeply whenever we're talking about contractual incentives. We don't want to incent a guy to do things that hurt the team", Morey says More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Virgil Chan joined GAMCO to manage its Asia operations. Chan will be based in Hong Kong and will oversee all sales and research management functions in Asia. More >>

The Board of Directors of PNG Ventures, Inc. appointed MIT Sloan alumnus Cem Hacioglu as president and chief executive officer. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus and Hyundai American CEO John Krafcik opened the media breakfast at the 2009 Chicago Auto Show with a quote by Thomas Jefferson who said that "a government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." More >>

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Peter Senge, says, "Failure to sustain significant change recurs again and again despite substantial resources committed to the change effort (many are bankrolled by top management), talented and committed people 'driving the change,' and high stakes." More >>

MIT Sloan students competed in the 2008-2009 New England Research Investment Challenge on 2/10/09. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Perry Solomon provides background on Microsoft's enterprise search business and his work with its customers and weighs in on how search engines will evolve over the next few years. More >>

"They must disclose fully exactly what the government is buying, or insuring, or providing financing for," says Simon Johnson, a professor at MIT and former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund. More >>

"Paul Osterman's 'The Truth About Middle Managers' paints a portrait of business as it is lived by the non-CEO class -- that is, the rest of us." More >>

MIT Sloan announced the global launch of a new Web site, MIT Sloan Teaching Innovation Resources (MSTIR), which offers a collection of creative teaching materials developed by MIT faculty and students including free case studies, teaching videos, and other innovative instructional resources. MIT Sloan Deputy Dean JoAnne Yates says, "Our goal is to spread knowledge and make a difference in the world of business education -- to have an impact on business education and where it is going in the future." More >>

A number of leading business schools were dealt a serious blow this fall when big private lenders suddenly terminated their popular "no co-signer" student loan programs. Of the schools that had the CitiAssist loan program, only MIT Sloan has announced a replacement lender. More >>

John Marcus III, who's in his second year at Sloan, supplies a nice explanation of the intent behind the Tech Trek. More >>

While waiting to attend a reception for the annual MIT Sloan Tech Trek, five students discussed their job prospects and their strategies for securing work in a tight labor market. They see their employment cups as half-full despite the recession, and agree that networking is more important than ever. More >>

Silicon Valley Tech Trekkers Chris Walti and Chizoba Nnaemeka are interviewed for "Your Money" by Lynn Jimenez. More >>

MIT Sloan MBA Saleem Hussain, who helped organize this year's treks, says, "As far as internships go, there are lots of opportunities at big companies." More >>

MBA Andrew Budd says while the economic slowdown has had an impact on hiring, there are still a lot of interesting projects available to graduates, especially in start-ups companies More >>

More than 100 MIT Sloan MBA students made the annual Tech Trek to the West Coast eager to tap into Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial spirit. "I'm hoping to learn a lot about what mistakes, what problems they could have had starting up, and challenges and opportunities," said MIT Sloan MBA Pedro Santos. More >>

"I think that startups will be hiring a significant number of talented individuals who would have been taken by larger corporations," says MIT Sloan MBA Pedro Santos who feels MBA graduates could offer an "infusion of energy and talent" to such companies. More >>

MIT Sloan ranked 9th among full-time global MBA programs and 5th for the second year in a row among U.S. programs. More >>

MIT Sloan's new building project will be solar-ready, allowing for the installation of solar panels at a later date. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Antoinette Schoar was awarded the Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship. More >>

Although MIT anticipates spending cuts on the order of 10 to 15 percent over the next several years, the MIT Sloan School expansion should proceed on schedule, according to officials. More >>

An MIT Sloan study found too much Blackberry use can cause serious stress. MIT Sloan's Melissa Mazmanian is interviewed. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "If you clean up the banks' balance sheets and create some better banks to resume lending to the real economy, that's the heart of the strategy". More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo says, "So when you're making money, you're actually engaged in a kind of activity that generates a drug-induced stupor in much the same way that having a few drinks or being on cocaine would actually make you relax and be a lot less concerned about risk." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson describes his testimony to Senate Budget Committee on 1/29/09 in which he noted that the Senators expressed frustration that while substantial further amounts will most likely be needed to shore up the banking system, little has been done for the underlying issues in housing. More >>

Former MIT Sloan faculty member Jeremy Stein will is slated to take a position with the Obama administration. More >>

Popular applications such as Wikipedia, Linux and YouTube only scratch the surface of what is possible with collective intelligence, says Thomas Malone, director of the CCI and professor at the MIT Sloan. More >>

In an opinion piece, MIT Sloan Simon Johnson says that the government has already essentially guaranteed the system's liabilities, bank assets at market value must be massively lower than liabilities and a severe global recession may yet turn into the Greatest Depression. More >>

A visiting team from MIT Sloan working on the new Global Health Delivery course concluded an assessment of the Connaught hospital in Sierra Leone, West Africa, describing staff performance as commendable. More >>

Simon Johnson is quoted in an NYT article about steps the Obama team can take to resolve the banking crisis. More >>

MIT Sloan Dean Emeritus Lester Thurow predicted decades ago that in the 21st Century there was bound to be "historical shifts" in wealth away from nations whose source of wealth and power is natural resources and physical capital, to those who possess "brain power and imagination." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Daniel Nyhart passed away on December 6 at the age of 77. A memorial service is planned for March 7 in the MIT chapel. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang says the modernist skyline of Shanghai's Pudong marks the moment when things started to go wrong. He argues that the economic crisis is exposing weaknesses in China's interventionist, top-down style of capitalism. More >>

The hiring of former MIT Sloan economist Fischer Black is described as Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin's most influential decision of his caree. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo describes a confrontation in 2004 between the head of Lehman and its chief risk officer. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Edgar Schein says: "We go through cycles. Every few years we rediscover formal planning, then we rediscover the importance of people, and then in another few years we discover cost control." More >>

The U.K. government "is gambling that the global economy improves and they don't have to go all the way to nationalize, but that is the direction in which they are heading," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson believes it will take $1 trillion to really do the trick -- money, presumably, the government will get back once the banking system is healthy again, and private capital comes in to replace the government's capital. "It's not rocket science," Johnson says. "When you do a recap, you need overkill. But then, you also have to take the bad assets off the books." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo, chairman and chief scientific officer of AlphaSimplex, says, "AlphaSimplex is excited to be working with Thomson Reuters in bringing the NewsScope Event Indices to market. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo has demonstrated that if stock traders make a series of apparently good picks, the dopamine released into their brains creates a stupor that causes them to under perceive danger ahead. More >>

"The government has got itself in a position where they have to do something, and they have to help close this deal, so they have to provide additional subsidy to Bank of America," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. More >>

A paper by MIT Sloan Prof. Kristin Forbes stating that foreigners are willing to invest in the United States because they have less developed financial markets at home is referenced. More >>

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Peter Senge will kick off the 2009 Three Talks series of speaking forums by discussing how senior managers can make their organizations more adaptive to change. More >>

"The better we can understand how fear and greed are represented in individuals and how they react to market circumstances, the more likely we are to be able to avoid crises of these sorts," says MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo. More >>

A union contract study co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan is referenced. The study found that of 22,000 organizing campaigns between 1999 and 2004, only 38 percent of new unions get a contract within a year. More >>

"The days of the PND as a separate device category are numbered," says Michael Davies, a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan. More >>

In a study published in the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo contends that too often what passes for risk management at many financial companies is really risk measurement. More >>

Without root-and-branch political reform, MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang argues in his new book Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics, China faces "monumental odds" in rebalancing an urban, state-driven economy where consumption has been sacrificed on the altar of investment. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang says, "Rural China represents a vast pool of entrepreneurial capabilities and substantial business opportunities." More >>

MIT Sloan's Anjali Sastry says her favorite gadgets are Skype, a Nokia E71 with a built-in 3G modem and a Flip Mino camera for video blogging. More >>

MIT Sloan Director of Career Development Jackie Wilbur says recruitment opportunities began to disappear at the beginning of October. Certain areas of finance, such as risk, remain strong, says Ms Wilbur. Technology recruiting is stable but she says recruitment into the energy sector is not as buoyant as she would wish and venture funding is stalling. More >>

Daryl J. Carter has been appointed to Whitestone REIT's Board of Trustees. Carter serves on the Dean's Advisory Council at MIT Sloan. More >>

As the first member of her family to go to college in the United States, Awilda Mendez said it's a special point of pride to be getting her MBA from MIT Sloan. More >>

I am an MBA student at MIT Sloan and a self-professed entrepreneur, writes Ryan Buckley. Lately it hasn't been easy. I find myself pondering the unthinkable: Getting a real job. I write to suggest four things that the Mass High Tech community can do to help me and other still-hopeful MIT entrepreneurs. More >>

Twenty MIT Sloan MBAs offered their advice to five leading Thai organizations as part of a Global Entrepreneurship Lab (G-Lab) project. MIT Sloan Lecturer Jonathan Lehrich says many G-Lab projects conducted elsewhere in the world have produced remarkable results. More >>

Melissa J. Webster, who plans to graduate from the MIT Sloan this spring, had her sights on the clean energy sector, working as a project manager for a solar or wind company. But in today's economy, she's also open to another kind of job, or a different employer. More >>

PIMCO announced the promotion of MIT Sloan alumnus Jon Short to the level of managing director. More >>

The Election Committee at Active Biotech proposed that MIT Sloan alumnus Tomas Nicolin be elected to its Board of Directors. More >>

Microbia Precision Engineering, Inc. has named MIT Sloan alumna Gaye Bok as senior director of commercial development. More >>

Anark Corporation announced the addition Chris Garcia as senior vice president of business development. Garcia attended the MIT Sloan Executive Education program. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Eugene Maxwell Moore, Jr., age 91, of Southport, passed away in his home on January 15, 2009. More >>

According to MIT Sloan alumnus David Reich, one of the founders of the newly launched Assured Labor, the problem with Craigslist is that there's no way to tell whether someone you find there is going to be trustworthy. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Bill McCullen, a co-founder of Launch Capital says, "I actually think we are very fortunate to be able to be starting a company in 2008 and 2009." More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus John Thompson was one of two candidates under consideration to be U.S. commerce secretary, the last vacancy in President-elect Barack Obama's prospective cabinet, a source familiar with the Obama transition team's deliberations said. More >>

Assured Labor, founded by recent MIT Sloan graduates, creates jobs by instantly connecting urban employers with affordable and trustworthy service providers in their area, compelling them to hire others for tasks they don't know how to do themselves or don't have time to do themselves. More >>

Struggling drug maker Alseres Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has raised $1 million in a private stock sale to former director, MIT Sloan alumnus Robert Gipson. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Eugene Lee discusses wikis, collaboration and enterprise 2.0. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Eduardo Alvarez has teamed with the MIT Media Lab and the industrial design firm Ideo, Inc. in Cambridge to create a new kind of vending machine -- one that enables consumers in airports or malls to buy MP3 players, cell phones or related accessories without having to walk into a retail store. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus David Spector, who started a sales club three years ago when he was a student at Sloan says, "It was shocking that in an environment that teaches the core principles of being a successful businessperson, there were no courses on the most fundamental skill. No one gives sales the respect it deserves." More >>

This blog posting details how MIT Sloan Prof. John Sterman devised various tools akin to flight simulators to help corporate leaders understand the nature of a variety of problems and choose among various remedies. More >>

"Psychologically, the Chinese New Year is very important to people, and afterwards the feeling in China will be very different than before," says MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang. "The usual slowdown will happen, but the post holiday pickup will not." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "We had a feeling that we had understood how bad it was... but now people fear the losses are going to be much greater than anticipated." More >>

MIT Sloan MBA Frederic Kerrest says, "You don't need an MBA to start a company, but getting an MBA from MIT Sloan not only doesn't hurt, but can strengthen your determination to become an entrepreneur while providing you with tools that might take years to acquire otherwise." More >>

A presentation and Q&A that was held at MIT Sloan by Cisco CEO John Chambers is cited. More >>

Endeavor, a US-based non-profit that identifies and supports entrepreneurs in developing countries, is expanding its program to MIT Sloan. More >>

The mood at a recent MIT Sloan-sponsored meeting of corporate financial officers was said to be sober but not panicked. More >>

The MIT Sloan School of Management has begun supplying free teaching materials, including case studies and videos, through its latest website, MIT Sloan Teaching Innovation Resources (MSTIR). Most business schools, including Sloan's local rival, Harvard, charge for their case studies and teaching packages. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang writes about the hype surrounding economic decoupling in an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal. More >>

In an opinion piece MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson lists five things that beyond Mr. Obama's control as he formulates an economic stimulus package. More >>

"Financial crises, historic elections, and a 'flat as a pancake' world-what a time to be in business school!" writes MIT Sloan MBA Ash Martin, class of 2010, in this opinion piece. More >>

Despite the cyclical downturn in the Chinese economy and concerns over the discovery of melamine in mainland milk products, Dean Schmittlein says he believes the Chinese economy would remain strong for the foreseeable future. More >>

MIT Sloan and HEC Paris have announced a global academic collaboration. MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein says the latest alliance is a natural extension of MIT's strategy to develop ties with leading management institutions worldwide. More >>

Many B-schools are putting funds into video podcasting with the explicit aim of using their online presence to turn browsers into fee-paying students who want the full MBA experience. MIT Sloan has been releasing its lectures via its MIT World service since 2001. More >>

At a benefit held at MIT Sloan, members of the Boston4Bhopal Coalition and MIT Amnesty International mourned the recent tragedy in Mumbai, India. More >>

Even as companies look for ways to slim down, they need to take care not to cut too deep warns MIT Sloan Prof. Paul Osterman. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo says some investors may have been aware of the fraudulent investments of Bernard Madoff's Ponzie scheme, but still chose to participate. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang discusses how China's economic reforms will affect the country as the world heads into recession. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo says he sees human psychology very much at work in the history of market of prices. "I view that as a very rich fossil record of the different kinds of individuals that have engaged in these kinds of market dynamics." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson explains why countries may or may not create government-funded economic jump starts. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan says that Congress should be able help carry over the automakers in the short run, and help them restructure for the long run. More >>

Boston Business Journal's Lisa van der Pool reports that MIT Sloan expects to see a 10% uptake in applications this year, topping the number of applications received during the last B-school application boom following 9/11. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says trust could be a factor in some countries if the government was responsible both for running insurance programs and compiling the data that would trigger payouts. More >>

"When we make money, the same reward circuitry [in the brain] gets stimulated as when you're on cocaine," says MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo. More >>

According to a study co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Ernst Berndt, the growth, size and composition of prescription drug spending is likely to change dramatically in future years, raising significant healthcare policy implications. More >>

"Hedge funds have become such a big factor in financial markets that in order to make sure your students' knowledge base is current, you really have to cover hedge funds somewhere in the curriculum," says MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew W. Lo. More >>

In regards to the timing of President-elect Obama's proposed economic stimulus, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "I think in this case it is right. A lot of U.S. infrastructure is run down. Compared to other rich countries, the U.S. is lagging behind". More >>

The growth, size and composition of prescription drug spending is likely to change dramatically in future years, raising significant healthcare policy implications, according to co-author Ernst Berndt, professor of applied economics, MIT Sloan. More >>

A article cites a 2001 MIT Sloan study that held an auction for tickets to a sold-out Celtics game, and divided subjects into those who must pay cash within 24 hours and those who must pay with credit cards. The credit-card buyers were willing to bid on average up to twice as much as the cash buyers. More >>

"I guarantee that over the next couple of years you are going to see lots of papers on banking crises and financial blowups," says Andrew Lo, a financial economist at MIT's Sloan School. More >>

MIT Sloan's Michael Cusumano believes that the U.S. automakers should file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. More >>

One of the few economists of note to advocate this policy out loud is Simon Johnson, who left the chief economist post at the International Monetary Fund earlier this year and is now a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Johnson believes that only a significant nominal inflation -- which will mean negative real interest rates -- will provide sufficient monetary stimulus to reflate the economy. More >>

"Everyone wants to export their way out of this" recession, says MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson. More >>

According to MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang, China has not seen a gradual transition from state control to capitalism over the last three decades. Instead, the real boom in entrepreneurship came in the 1980s when controls in rural areas were relaxed. More >>

Online retailers who open a physical store during the holiday shopping season could see more than a 15% decrease in online sales, according to a study co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Duncan Simester. More >>

The Fed is buying assets and the money for them is not coming from its balance sheet. "The Fed doesn't like to talk about this," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. "They think it will scare people." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Tom Allen says, "The way people interact together is influenced by both organizational structure and space. If you bring the two together, then managers have a more effective way of structuring their interactions that leads to innovation." More >>

MIT Sloan Associate Prof. Fiona Murray says PhD science students are often shy and introverted compared with the more confident MBAs. Most scientists have worked alone and so initially struggle with team work and the notion there are not always "right" answers in business. More >>

The role of technology entrepreneurs in rebuilding the U.S. energy economy was the main theme at an Xconomy forum, which was moderated by MIT Sloan's Bill Aulet and included MIT Sloan Prof. Donald Lessard as a panelist. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan had a clear message for chastened automobile executives as they try to salvage their efforts to win support in Washington: Set "aggressive and achievable" targets to produce energy-efficient vehicles and lay out cost-saving plans that go well beyond further cuts and wages and benefits. More >>

"Chrysler is in a different situation from the other two [automakers]," says MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan. "It doesn't have the resources to invest in research and development for hybrids and other fuel-efficient vehicles, and it's further behind the others. I think Chrysler has to find a merger partner." More >>

A study conducted by MIT Sloan Prof. Emilio Castilla indicates that even when women and minorities receive the same starting salaries and performance ratings for doing the same job under the same supervisor, their merit increases are smaller than those awarded to their white male counterparts. More >>

MIT Sloan student Ethan Mollick is interviewed about his book, Changing the Game, which examines the use of games in business. More >>

Thomas J. Herzfeld Advisors, Inc. announced that MIT Sloan alumna Brigitta Herzfeld, daughter of firm's founder and chairman, has joined the firm. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus John Puma, a retired executive with the former Boston Edison Co., died Dec. 6 at the age of 82. He helped establish the Greater Boston Executive Program, which provided local executives access to management training at the MIT Sloan School. More >>

Microbia has expanded its senior management team and bioproduct commercialization capabilities by appointing Gaye Bok as senior director of Commercial Development. Bok holds an MBA in Finance and International Management from MIT Sloan. More >>

MIT Sloan alumna Elizabeth Monrad, the convicted ex- finance chief of General Reinsurance Corp. who faces possible life in prison for her role in a $597 million fraud, says she should have testified at her trial to proclaim her innocence. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Greg Moeller co-founded the nanotechnology company QD Vision. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Amir Hasson founded United Villages, a company that attempts to bridge the social divide by bringing rural people into the technological era. More >>

MIT alumnus Jon S. Ogg has been appointed to DSPCon's board of directors. More >>

MIT Sloan alumna Ilene Gordon, president and chief executive officer, Alcan Packaging, has been named Best Executive by the prestigious Stevie Awards for Women in Business competition. More >>

In an online discussion about the financial crisis, a blogger (Mike #6) says, "relatively early on, I went to a panel discussion at the MIT Sloan school, and they basically laid it out as you did. The things I read before and have read since (at least by actual economists) have supported this." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. John Sterman's systemic perspective of healthcare plans is referenced. More >>