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Ernest J. Moniz is director of the MIT Energy Initiative More >>

Brynjolfsson is director of the MIT Center for Digital Business More >>

Castilla and Denise Lewin Loyd speak at annual MIT event More >>

James Utterback was honored by KU Leuven in Belgium More >>

Shayna Harris, cocoa sustainability manager at Mars, planting a cocoa tree in Kambori Village in Indonesia, an area where the company is increasing the productivity of local farmers' cocoa plants More >>

Professor Robert Merton is interviewed by the Investment Management Consultants Association on "Harnessing the Building Blocks of Economic Valuation" in the latest issue of The Journal of Investment Consulting. More >>

A new study by Professor Andrew Lo, James Watkins and Dimitrios Bias shows that investment in disease research brings significant returns and that there is significant variation among diseases, with some harder to diagnose and treat. More >>

Thanks to hard-to-obtain access to plant-level data retained by the U.S. Census Bureau, MIT Sloan School of Management Prof. Xavier Giroud recently found that companies invest more in plants located closer to headquarters and that those plants tend to be more productive. But proximity, he says, needs to be defined by travel time, not geographic distance. More >>

An independent study project using coconuts as a biofuel had Divya Agarwal, MBA '13, working in Fiji and Vanuatu for five weeks over winter break. More >>

Led by Drazen Prelec, research scientists use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain activity in experimental subjects making real decisions. More >>

In the webcast Elements of the Digital Transformation, Andrew McAfee, LFM '90, SM '90, MIT SB '89, MIT SB '88, of the MIT Center for Digital Business shares his take on "riding the technology wave" of cloud computing, big data, smart computers, and social business. The webcast is a conversation between McAfee and MIT Sloan Management Review. It is available in its entirety for a limited time. More >>

Award is sponsored by General Motors Corp. More >>

Collective intelligence, in some form, has been around at least as long as humans have. Families, armies, countries, and companies have all—at least sometimes—acted collectively in ways that seem intelligent. More >>

There is something broken in the way many businesses obtain the resources necessary for growth. Most companies are very good at identifying what those new resources are, and nearly all of them take that challenge seriously. More >>

As the global business community becomes more interconnected by the minute and big companies adopt a hyper-specialized model, today’s managers are caught in the middle. They feel a constant tension between the need for agility to move in this fast-paced and changing world, and the quest for purpose, direction, and meaning. More >>

In an interview with InvestmentNews, Professor Andrew Lo discusses how investors can reduce the surprises in risk through asset allocation. More >>

If Adam Smith had a mind meld with Charles Darwin, Andrew Lo might result. A professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, Lo is known for his multidisciplinary approach to finance, using everything from statistical analysis to neuroscience to better understand the markets. One of his most important ideas involves the "adaptive markets" theory. More >>

Current and former MIT students gathered at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, Tuesday night to hear one of San Diego's most renowned venture investors, Avalon Ventures founder Kevin Kinsella, SB '67, share insights from a long and adventurous career. More >>

Be among the first to follow MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein on Twitter @MITDeanDave. Just a mouse click away, you can check out Dean Dave's latest tweets about alumni, faculty, students, admissions, athletics, events, and more. Re-tweet away! More >>

Bill Audet talks about current trends in venture capital. More >>

After looking at schools with MBA programs all over the United States, Ted Chan, MBA '09, chose to enroll at MIT Sloan School of Management. He couldn't be happier with the choice he made. Today, Chan is founder and CEO of mobile education companies Noyo and Upward Mobility. More >>

Read Professor Antoinette Schoar's recent commentary. Schoar is the Michael Koerner '49 Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance at MIT Sloan School of Management. More >>

The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium is seeking nominations for its annual CIO innovations award as well as applications from startups that would like to grab some face time with CIOs at the annual event. More >>

That's according to MIT Sloan researchers Antoinette Schoar and Luo Zuo. In their working paper, "Shaped by Booms and Busts: How the Economy Impacts CEO Careers and Management Style," Schoar and Zuo write that the CEOs who enter the labor market during an economic downturn tend to enjoy less success than those who begin careers in a buoyant economy. More >>

In early March, thousands gathered at Boston's Hynes Convention Center for the very popular MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. In this article, Forbes praises MIT Sloan students "for a job well done. Great panels, competent moderators, professional presentations, and simply a well-organized event." More >>

"Unwinding Fannie and Freddie over a period of time seems the best way to go. This could happen through restructuring the overall loan support that is provided or by lowering the CLL every year by a preset amount", explains Professor Antoinette Schoar in a recently published article. More >>

MIT President Susan Hockfield leads group in Davos. More >>

Deborah Lucas, MIT Sloan Professor of Finance, recently talked to fortune magazine about government credit programs. More >>

Cusumano book lauded for use of case studies. More >>

Company aims to help clients reduce carbon footprint and cut costs. More >>

Professor Robert Merton talks about possible risks posed by hedge funds to financial markets, and Europe's sovereign debt crisis at the MIT Sloan CFO Summit. More >>

: Move to Chicago marks Bohringer's 23rd year in professional baseball. More >>

Idea was hatched while studying at MIT Sloan. More >>

Wide-ranging discussion included questions about immigration law and Latino political participation rates. More >>

Cambridges companies, including HubSpot and Akamai Technologies, credited with providing growth. More >>

Frustrated with finding deals while traveling on business spawned Lim's idea, which will compete with sites like Priceline. More >>

Lamstein first considered applying management principals to public sector issues while at MIT Sloan. More >>

Bronx Pale Ale debuts in September. More >>

A member of the MIT Corporation since 1996, Stone will continue to be involved as a volunteer. More >>

E*Trade founder William A. Porter, SF '67, is among those featured. More >>

Step one: Move, immediately, to where you want to build a life. More >>

Ginzberg joins Kogod from Yeshiva University. More >>

Boston has the energy, Peyton argues. Now it just needs some money. More >>

Acclaimed show is on display through June 17, 2011. More >>

Leach argues policymakers and communities are making no-coast states attractive to entreprenuers. More >>

Sold out conference marks expansion to two-day event. More >>

A direct report to the University president, Reinoso will focus on international education and distance-learning initiatives. More >>

The book explores a variety of industry, all with opportunity for revolutionary brand realignment. More >>

OnChip last year won second prize in the national Cleantech Open competition. More >>

Now in venture capital, Beasley began his career in the 1970s with IBM. More >>

In-depth interview covers inflation, interest rates, and emerging markets. More >>

Rubin comes to MIT from medical device manufacturer Covidien. More >>

Company would make implanted devices resistant to infection. More >>

Williams, 61, left Aetna in November. More >>

Ebata talks about health care, studying overseas, and her work with the Democratic Party of Japan. More >>

With Total since October, Sikorav's appointment is effective January 1. More >>

Interview is part of The New York Times' "Corner Office" series interviewing top executives. More >>

Katayama will manage coverage of telecommunications, media and technology, Bloomberg news reports. More >>

Spark Capital, as well as angel investors Dave McClure, John Landry and Jim Hornthal have invested in Marcaide's company. More >>

Business rules for Facebook don't vary much from personal rules. Don't be boring, don't rant, and don't be rude, Volpe says. More >>

Adm. Thad W. Allen announced that after completing his service as national incident commander of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, he will join the RAND Corporation as a senior fellow, effective Oct. 4. More >>

Innovative, rapid and cost-effective development and market share expansion are leading an increasing number of software vendors to incorporate open source, both as a technology and a business strategy, into their organizations. More >>

Assured Labor's Founder and CEO, David Reich, thought up his idea for a mobile, text-message-based employment service for low-income individuals while a graduate student at MIT's Sloan School of Management. More >>

Buzzient, a tenant of the Cambridge Innovation Center in Kendall Square, is taking a different approach to social media analytics. The startup's Web-based software is targeted directly at those in the company who make decisions about which products to offer consumers, and what features to offer within those products, says CEO and founder Timothy Jones. More >>

Sandata Technologies, LLC, a leading national provider of information technology solutions to the home healthcare community, today announced the hiring of Mark S. Rangell as its Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Rangell will be in charge of Sandata's day-to-day operations and will report directly to Sandata's CEO. He is responsible for developing and implementing Sandata's operational strategy and managing the business's recent rapid growth. More >>

In Beijing, the State Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) announced a major reshuffle yesterday in senior positions at power generator Guodian Corp, mining company Shenhua, the country's largest food trader Cofco and a leading chemical company SinoChem. Fu Chengyu is keeping his role as chairman of the company, while his CEO position has been filled by Yang Hua, the former chief financial officer. More >>

In a bid to generate entrepreneurial businesses in Russia, Rusnano, the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies, which combines an economic development body with a venture capital firm, has turned to MIT Sloan to develop an executive education programme to help it in its quest. More >>

Boston based start-up peerTransfer has been the winner in this year's HIT Barcelona World Innovation Summit Global Entrepreneurship Competition. Twenty three high potential companies from all around the world were competing for a final prize of 20,000 Euros and one of the most prestigious global awards in entrepreneurship and innovation. Judging were some of the most renowned global investors. More >>

Two MIT Sloan students offered advice in a story on new MBA graduates' tips for financial wisdom in trying times. "You have to know what you don't know. I think that's real intelligence," says MIT Sloan MBA Tom Fazzio, who encourages consumers to ask plenty of questions. MBA Mike Regan urges calm during a drop in stock prices. "If nothing has changed, and it's actually cheaper, you should buy more. You shouldn't necessarily think that you did something wrong and sell out of it," he says. More >>

Ed Roberts, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management who co-wrote a major study of MIT's contribution to the global economy in 2009, says economic impact studies like Google's usually end up with estimates much larger than the company's revenues, since the sponsoring company usually counts things like spending on local vendors and the multiplier effect from salaries, which translate into consumer spending on housing, taxes, and the like. More >>

"If we did a fundamental reform of our tax system, shifted to more of a vat, or sales tax, we could probably reduce some of our income taxes, make the overall system more efficient, and raise money in the process," says MIT Sloan Prof. Kristin Forbes in this broadcast interview. More >>

"If financial regulations do not go far enough to address the core weaknesses in our financial system, stock market worries will continue to come back. It will recede from time to time, people will feel confident, but then there'll be problems around the world and people will worry again about the stability of the financial system," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson in this radio interview. The Takeaway is a co-production of Public Radio International and WNYC Radio in collaboration with the BBC World Service, The New York Times and WGBH Boston. More >>

In this live television broadcast on the European debt crisis, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "The big question is France. Does France move from being viewed as a safe haven to being viewed as a risky sovereign borrower? That has not happened yet, and as long as that doesn't happen, I think the eurozone will come through this." More >>

"Nothing other than a balanced panel on June 2 would be acceptable. At the very least, the SEC needs to increase the panel to 10 people - 5 for and 5 against," writes MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. "And all the issues need to be on the table." More >>

"The course has evolved a lot over 20 years... The students use the best tools and modern techniques. There are more environmental concerns today," says MIT Sloan Prof. Steve Eppinger of his Product Design and Development class. MIT Sloan student Stephen Andrew Hale, who worked with design and engineering students in the course to develop products related to green living, global health, and clean transportation says, "I learned a lot working in a cross-functional team under a tight time pressure." More >>

"Apple has all these interesting products, the future is bright, and it's all tied to digital content," says MIT Sloan Prof. Michael Cusumano of Apple's new status as the world's largest technology company. More >>

MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson has a new theory on how leading companies are leveraging IT to unlock unprecedented waves of innovation -- and are reinventing research and development. More >>

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Shari Loessberg was elected to the board of directors for National Financial Partners Corp., a leading independent financial services distribution company More >>

"The Chinese fundamentals are good. All I am saying is that the policy has not changed. You cannot rely on an artificial external stimulus to keep your economy going," says MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang on China's practice of seizing people's savings to finance state projects and investments. More >>

"The Lincoln provision is likely to be removed or new higher capital requirements for the derivatives units may be eliminated," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. More >>

In this story on the recession's affect on public worker benefits, MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan says, "It's changing because so many private sector workers are taking such a big hit on their 401(k) plans and lost their defined benefit plans." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Kristin Forbes and founding member of Deworm the World (DtW) says, "One of the most cost-effective ways of getting more children in poor countries into school is deworming them with one or two tablets a year, which costs pennies per dose and reduces school absenteeism and illiteracy." More >>

"A kid who goes to the airport today is more likely to grow up to be president than die on a flight he or she takes today. The risk is on the order of one in 25 million," says MIT Prof. Arnold Barnett. More >>

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Charles Kane has joined the board of directors of Demandware, a global leader in on-demand ecommerce. More >>

"The future winners will be those companies that used the rough times to put together intellectual property strategies that support their broader business strategies," says MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Joseph Hadzima Jr. More >>

An interview with Professor Robert Merton on the history and origins of the option pricing model was recently published in Nekst, the quarterly magazine of Asset | Econometrics. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo will participate as a panelist at the 2010 International Association of Financial Engineers Annual Conference. More >>

"Unregulated finance, the ideology of unfettered free markets, and state capture by corporate interests are what ended up undermining democracy both in North America and in Europe," writes MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson in this opinion piece. More >>

"Technical advantage has far outstripped our capacity to manage it," says MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo in this blog entry on the increasingly complex rule-bending practices of financial innovation. More >>

MIT Sloan will be signing an agreement with Brazil's Vale Technological Institute to collaborate on academic and research efforts directed at innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainable development. More >>

This column describes the strengths and challenges of international business school partnerships, using MIT Sloan's collaboration with four leading Chinese business schools as a model. More >>

As part of Bloomberg/ BusinessWeek's annual ranking of the top undergraduate business programs, senior business students from the 139 participating schools were asked to assign letter grades to their business programs in 12 specialty areas. Based on those grades, scores were calculated for each of the ranked schools in each area. Not surprisingly, the top-ranked schools in the overall ranking, published in March, have the most top-10 specialty rankings, as well. MIT Sloan was ranked #3 overall. More >>

Ultimately, said Bill Aulet, managing director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, the $200,000 Clean Energy Prize money is not an end in itself, but rather an incentive to learn. "The prize is a head fake to get them to eat their vegetables. We're very focused on building entrepreneurial capabilities," says MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer William Aulet...says MIT Sloan alumnus Justin Ashton, who lead a team in the 2008 competition, "Even though it didn't work out with NanoPur, the competition really galvanized my desire to be an entrepreneur. More >>

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's entrepreneurship competition, the MIT $100K, gave a new venture, C-Crete Technologies, top honors and a $100,000 cash prize on C-Crete has invented and patented a new type of cement, which it says is harder and more durable than any other on the market. The company's co-founders, Rouzbeh Shahsavari, the chief executive, and Natanel Barookhian, chief of finance, say their innovative building material will help meet a rising global demand for cement and concrete, while allowing the industry to reduce its negative impact on the environment. More >>

"Given the incentive problems in the eurozone, it is no wonder more nations want to join -- the requirement is just to appear prudent for a few years," writes MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson in this co-authored opinion piece. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Nitin Nohria has been named the new dean of Harvard Business School. He has been a professor of business administration at the school since 1988. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Adm. Thad Allen was named by the Obama administration to oversee the response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. More >>

"The US banks were definitely involved early on in the European schemes. But they probably were more of a pump and dump kind of role -- so they sold it to other people and then they got out before the balloon went up," says Simon Johnson in this live radio interview. More >>

"When everybody else was standing on the sidelines, he went deep and he went long," says MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Howard Anderson of acquisitions made in 2003 by Oracle Corp CEO Larry Ellison. More >>

MIT Sloan Associate Prof. Michelle Hanlon explains how pharmaceutical companies have been able to avoid some income taxes using transfer pricing, a process that converts sales in one country to profits in another. More >>

In questioning European Union countries' ability to contribute to a Greek financial rescue, the author of this opinion piece refers to MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson's point that Portugal, Spain, and Italy owe "a great deal of money to their EU neighbors." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan has been tapped to conduct an independent review to assist City Council in their decision to fund or reject a controversial new contract for the Boston Fire Department. More >>

"Hopefully these other nations will use this period to reduce their budget deficits and regain competitiveness so that they can avoid being in as difficult a situation as Greece is today," says MIT Sloan Prof. Kristin Forbes of Greece's European Union neighbors. More >>

"So what's the most important step entrepreneurs and innovators can take to invigorating the regional economy? That's an easy question... They have customers who appreciate the region's goods and services and will pay for them," writes MIT Sloan Visiting Scholar Michael Schrage. More >>

MIT Sloan Visiting Prof. Scott Stern will participate in a panel at a joint public workshop on the intersection of patent policy and competition policy and its implications for promoting innovation. More >>

The author quotes MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Mark Kritzman from a 2009 study: "It is very hard, if not impossible to justify active management for most individual, taxable investors, if their goal is to grow wealth." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan says most employers avoid no-layoff policies because "few organizations in America are willing to have as egalitarian a compensation system in terms of income levels from top to bottom." More >>

"It was pretty breathtaking," said MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo after the Dow experienced its worst single trading day of the past year. "People are uncertain about many things, and what we saw today was that uncertainty playing out." More >>

"It feels like a whole set of dominoes," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson on the risk of Greece's debt crisis spreading damage to other European nations. More >>

"The question is whether Continental management will bring its experience to help change the United culture and integrate the organizations, or whether Continental will get swallowed up by the adversarial traditions at United," says MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan. More >>

"I refuse to live in a world where my computer appliances are now smarter and more powerful than I am," writes MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Howard Anderson in a humorous opinion piece. More >>

"The injection of 'innovation adrenaline' can not only be incrementally beneficial economically, it can make a profound change in the spirit of the region and give it new hope for renewal," writes MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Bill Aulet in this blog posting on reinvigorating Michigan's economy. More >>

eHealth, Inc. has acquired PlanPrescriber, Inc., an online tool originally founded as Experion Systems in 2000 by MIT Sloan Prof. Glen Urban to help seniors navigate Medicare health insurance options. More >>

The author cites MIT Sloan Principal Research Scientist Andrew McAfee's SLATES model in an evaluation of SharePoint 2010. More >>

"Simplicity doesn't mean simplicity of thought," says MIT Sloan Lecturer Kara Blackburn. "Start by asking yourself what you want the person to do as a result of this e-mail. Just asking yourself that question can make your communication much clearer." More >>

The author cites excerpts from MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson's 13 Bankers in a story on the impact of the existing financial sector on the real economy. More >>

In order to counter consumer skepticism about safety and higher costs for brand-name drug manufacturers like Johnson Johnson, "they are going to have to go to greater lengths. The greater the harm to the reputation, the more expensive it is to fix it," says MIT Sloan Prof. Michael Braun. More >>

MIT Sloan's Michael Schrage outlines non-sports-related business management tips to be gleaned from the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference panel, "What Geeks Don't Get: The Limits of Moneyball." More >>

This review of 13 Bankers calls MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson's recommendation to break up big banks "a provocative prescription for avoiding a repeat of the panic of 2008." More >>

Julie Strong, MIT Sloan senior associate director of MBA admissions says, "We wanted to be able to open up our possibilities. Maybe they're taking a GRE instead of a GMAT. Do they not go to business school because they're thinking, 'Oh, I already took a GRE, I'm not going to do that'?" More >>

MIT Sloan student Ajay Kulkarni talks about his new start-up, KickFour, a web-based social network for friends to connect around their favorite television shows. More >>

Three MIT Sloan students who are among the members of finalist teams in the MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize competition appear in this story. "Everybody [on the team] brings a different philosophy to the table," says Emmanuel Magani, a member of the team Oscomp Systems with Pedro Tomas Santos. "The world is looking for simple, scalable ways to deal with the carbon footprint -- ours is probably one of the quickest and one of the most efficient ways to deal with it," says Natanel Barookhian, of the startup C-Crete Technologies. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus and internationally regarded arts management expert Michael Kaiser was interviewed following a moderated discussion co-presented by several Oregon-based arts organizations. More >>

In this interview, MIT Sloan alumna Adriane Brown says, "You have to get out of your comfort zone... It's not about giving people tough goals they can't accomplish. I believe in positive change through people." More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Shum Mukherjee was appointed chief financial officer at Immersion, a leading developer and licensor of haptics technology. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus John W. Thompson has been named CEO at Virtual Instruments, a leader in storage area network solutions. More >>

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan alumnus Andrew J. Hoffman writes, "Trust is everything in business, particularly in the construction business. Working in construction, I learned that one crooked contractor can put your entire company in the red so deeply that it could take years to pull yourself out." More >>

MIT Sloan alumna Jane Buchan, CEO of Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company, will participate in a panel discussion during 100 Women in Hedge Fund's 200th educational session. More >>

MIT Sloan is mentioned as one of an increasing number of business schools to address sustainability and corporate responsibility in their curriculum. More >>

This blog post outlines three tips for sales managers gleaned from panelists at the MIT Sloan Sales Conference. More >>

In this online video interview, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson answers questions about 13 Bankers and the 2008 financial crisis. "Everything that caused this massive financial crisis will remain undisturbed at least for the time being... That is I think almost unprecedented in the history of financial crises," he says. More >>

MIT Sloan is a potential collaborator in IBM's upcoming project using computer simulations to better understand the factors that may affect childhood obesity. More >>

"In these sorts of economies, there's not much of a bank presence, but money transfers are still important," says MIT Sloan Assistant Prof. Tavneet Suri of M-PESA, a cell-phone based money transfer system introduced in Kenya. More >>

In an assessment of The Financial Times 2010 Executive Education rankings, MIT Sloan is cited as traditionally strong in research, lending to its success in open-enrollment business education programs. More >>

"Organisations have come to understand the differences between schools and where schools have expertise. I find that reassuring. Having my tenured faculty in a classroom produces a different experience from a lecture in a hotel room or an online programme," says Rochelle Weichman, executive director of Executive Education at MIT Sloan, on the demand for short programs in business education. More >>

MIT Sloan students are working with water filter non-profit Pure Home Water to conduct product research and consumer studies, and to build a factory in northern Ghana in order to help the organization become more locally and financially self-sufficient. More >>

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson stresses that we shouldn't lose track of the broader economic and political context around the Securities and Exchange Commission case against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. In fact, the SEC lawsuit and associated discussion make clear three points. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson's co-authored book, 13 Bankers, is reviewed in the Sunday Book Review. More >>

MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein appeared in an online video interview about recent increases in consumer spending. "This is not a rising tide that's going to lift all boats, and we all know that. Innovation-driven firms, firms that have been able to find new ways to add value -- those are the firms that are going to be lifted here," he says. More >>

MIT Sloan student government presidents are among those from seven US business schools to form a new organization, the MBA Peer School Forum. The group's purpose is to discuss common challenges and goals, including promoting collaboration and student-led initiatives among participating schools. More >>

"This is very sophisticated disinformation... This group -- they call themselves 'Stop Too Big To Fail' -- is wrapping itself in some of the same appearances. Of course, when you see the TV ad there is absolutely no mistaking it. This is an anti-reform ad," says Simon Johnson in a television interview with Rachel Maddow about his experience with an anti-financial reform group that falsely represented itself as pro-financial reform. More >>

Panelists at the MIT Sloan Business in Gaming Conference discussed the slow growth of video game start-ups in Massachusetts, and the potential to beef up the industry with state tax incentives and ending employee non-compete enforcement. More >>

MIT Sloan student Jon Gensler talks about his recent op-ed piece connecting West Virginia mining practices to US dependence on foreign oil, climate change, and national security: More >>

In this television appearance, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson discusses 13 Bankers and the concept of oligarchy in America. More >>

"I'll make it easy for you. If this state doesn't find a way to bring tax credits to this industry, the best possible scenario is that this industry will stagnate in an epic way," says Red sox World Champion Curt Schilling and founder of 38 Studios while at a video game industry conference at MIT Sloan. More >>

MIT Sloan Assistant Prof. Matthew Marx is cited for his research on the effects of state enforcement of non-compete clauses on innovation and inventors' social networks. More >>

This opinion piece includes an excerpt from MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson's co-authored book, 13 Bankers. More >>

"The Internet was born on unfettered access, a strong value behind freedom. China has a different set of values, there is an emphasis on control," says MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang at an MIT panel discussion, 'Should Google Stay in China?' More >>

MIT Sloan Principal Research Scientist Andrew McAfee will keynote the second annual Spigit Innovation Summit for leaders in innovation and enterprise 2.0. More >>

It's because certain types of people fail to see the connection-or lack of connection-among individuals in their network, and consequently, they make erroneous assumptions about their network contacts," says Ray Reagans, associate professor of organization studies at MIT Sloan. More >>

"Can it make a difference? The answer is a resounding yes... We are often told the five days were transformational to the participants and it totally redirected them or at least re-energised them," says William Aulet, director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center in a story featuring two recent participants in MIT Sloan's Entrepreneurship Development Programme. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Venk Shukla is mentioned as a member of the board of directors for Emulation Verification Engineering, an electronic design automation start-up featured in this story. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson's 13 Bankers is included in a list of expert viewpoints about breaking up "too big to fail" banks. More >>

This story cites a 2002 MIT Sloan study, which found that "Legislators' votes depend almost entirely on their own beliefs and the preferences of their voters and their party. Contributions explain a minuscule fraction of the variation in voting behavior in the U.S. Congress." More >>

The 7th Annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium announced the finalists for its first Innovation Showcase, which highlights ten outstanding early-stage companies that provide cutting-edge technology and new levels of advancement to Enterprise IT. More >>

"Clearly, they've become a toxic asset," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson of the now tainted reputation of Goldman Sachs alumni hoping to work in government service. More >>

"From a marketing perspective, they need to differentiate their process going forward in order to stem the tide of these outflows," says MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo regarding Janus Capital Group Inc.'s recent client withdrawals of $6.7 billion. More >>

In a story on new methods of bringing products to market on time and on budget, MIT Sloan Prof. Steve Eppinger says that spiral development can offer greater flexibility during the review process "because you aren't doing the whole product definition up front." More >>

Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and now at MIT, has insisted for months that large banks need to be downsized. Some of the largest U.S. banks have $2 trillion in assets, or 20 percent of the economy. More >>

Former MIT Sloan Associate Prof. Lael Brainard was confirmed as undersecretary of the Treasury for international affairs. More >>

"Responsible policymakers in other G-20 countries are very clear on this point: no one will agree ex ante to a specific way of handling the failure of any global bank," writes MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson in this opinion piece More >>

"You would think that the more people you talk to about a new product, the greater the number of people who'd adopt it. But it turns out that that's not always true," says MIT Sloan Visiting Assistant Prof. P.J. Lamberson. More >>

"You start with a small exemption and later you will have big businesses built all around it. It's all just as dangerous as it sounds," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson of end-user exemptions from proposed derivatives-trading rules. More >>

"Once we know what is in fact patentable, firms can then focus their attention on those investments that will lead to protectable innovations that can be the basis for their competitiveness," says MIT Sloan Prof. Fiona Murray regarding gene patents. More >>

MIT Sloan admissions officials answered questions about the application process, what they look for in applicants, and what sets the school apart. More >>

A story on a graduate student's research on physics and basketball mentions the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, where the student recently presented his paper. More >>

MIT alumnus Dan Smolnik was a key member of the committee formed to oversee the distribution of funds to survivors and victims' family members after the April 3, 2009 shooting at an immigrant aid center in Binghamton, NY that killed 13 and wounded 4. More >>

At the MIT Sloan Business in Gaming Conference, former professional baseball player and 38 Studios founder Curt Schilling encouraged state financial incentives for video game start-ups in order to prevent industry stagnation. More >>

"Social media has become an important tool that helps new companies grow and expand successfully," says MIT Sloan student and $100K Entrepreneurship Competition managing director Daniel Vannoni on the Twitter sales pitch contest. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus William C. Mills was appointed to the board of directors at Interleukin Genetics, Inc., a developer of genetic tests that allow consumers to prevent chronic diseases. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus and Wharton professor Alex Edmans will join a team of academic advisors for RHReward.com in order to answer homeowners' questions about strategic default and negative equity. More >>

"MIT Sloan Professor John Sterman asked 212 MIT grad students about global warming," writes this blogger. "When queried as to how much we needed to reduce carbon emissions in order to stop accumulation in the atmosphere, 84% of the students dramatically underestimated the severity of the problem." More >>

"There are technical solutions that can contribute to solving climate change and improving health care, but they aren't sufficient. There is no purely technical solution for these problems," says MIT Sloan Prof. John Sterman at the IBM Almaden Institute 2010 conference. The blog post also contains a clip from Sterman's keynote speech, in which he compares elements of the civil rights movement to climate change and health reform efforts. More >>

"On the panel was John Sterman of MIT Sloan School of Management whom I met last December when he was in Los Angeles giving a talk," writes this blogger. "I found his presentation shockingly interesting, so when he invited me on Thursday to take part in his Climate Interactive simulation exercise the next morning, I figured why not." More >>

"Our research has shown that distributed leadership is more complicated than we originally anticipated," writes MIT Sloan Prof. Deborah Ancona in a co-authored blog entry. More >>

Modern Internet technology "allows you to do things faster and be much more responsive than in the past. That's true for big companies as well as small ones," says MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson. More >>

"The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium doesn't happen until May 19, but today they're announcing the ten start-up companies that'll be part of the 'innovation showcase at the event," writes this blogger. More >>

Simon Johnson, an MIT professor, has been leading the intellectual charge to break up banks. In his book 13 Bankers, he urges that no financial institution be permitted to control more than 4 percent of G.D.P. and no investment bank more than 2 percent. All six of the big financial institutions exceeds those limits. More >>

"Why would anyone think that today's size of banks is the right place to stop? After all, it is the banks at their current size who brought us such disaster," writes MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson in response to questions about financial reform proposals. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Michael Birnberg, a candidate for the Millburn district school board, is profiled More >>

And today, the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition (@MIT100k) announced it will also offer a "twitch" prize of $500. MIT's Twitch competition will run from April 20th until May 10th and be open to submissions from anyone at least 18 years old who is following the competition on Twitter. The event is meant to challenge contestants to summarize their plans and incite as many people as possible to re-tweet their ideas during the contest. The competition's organizing committee will choose a winner. More >>

The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium announced four finalists for the 2010 Award for Innovation Leadership. More >>

In this adaptation of a Winter 2010 MIT Sloan Management Review article, the authors outline four ways to effectively differentiate a supply chain from its competitors. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Dr. BP Agrawal, whose initiative for providing clean water and medical services to rural Indian villages won the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability, is proflied in this blog post. More >>

MIT Sloan ranked #3 in this year's US News World Report MBA rankings, up two places from last year. U.S. News surveyed 426 MBA programs to secure the information used in the ranking of top business schools More >>

China's "exchange rate adjustment itself is not going to do it. It's going to depend on the domestic tightening of the bank lending, coupled with the exchange rate adjustment. These two things together may actually pop the real estate bubble," says MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang in this live television interview. More >>

Sarah Slaughter, MIT Sloan senior lecturer and coordinator of the Sustainability Initiative, says businesses are looking for MBAs with the skills to address environmental and social issues, thus creating a new market for MBA talent. MIT Sloan sustainability efforts also include a new certificate program and sustainability-oriented internships. More >>

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson writes, "For Teddy Roosevelt, it did not matter how important you were, or claimed to be, to the economy. If you were too powerful, and if your actions were hurting other people in the economy, Roosevelt wanted to take you on -- and he instructed his lawyers accordingly." More >>

"There is no evidence that anybody else in the economy benefits when banks are above $100 billion. So these banks are ten times too big, from a social point of view," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson in this interview with Matt Lauer. More >>

In order to prevent another financial meltdown, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson recommends setting a hard size cap of about $100B on the largest banks, enforcing capital requirements of 20% or more, and exchange-trading all derivatives. More >>

In this radio broadcast, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson questions how Citigroup's senior adviser was unaware of mortgage investment risks. More >>

"Big banks are dangerous in this country and in the financial scene right now, and the last thing we need is an even bigger JP Morgan Chase," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. More >>

"The tax will be far too small to make a difference. It will just institutionalize the too-big-to-fail dimension of our systems. You really need... to reduce the size of our biggest banks if you're going to make any progress at all," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson on the prospects of a global bank levy. More >>

"'Dangerous and deliberately misleading' would be my headline...What this legislation tries to do -- and I think it should be tougher -- is more akin to an FDIC resolution structure. It doesn't protect management; it boots them out," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson regarding characterization of new finance legislation. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says that aftershocks from the Greek financial crises are still causing problems throughout Europe. More >>

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Mark Kritzman will present a paper on how to measure financial system fragility at the April 20 Quantitative Work Alliance for Applied Finance, Economics and Wisdom meeting More >>

According to MIT Sloan Prof. Michael Cusumano, manufacturing in New England is gaining strength. "It may not be the smokestack manufacturing like we saw in the past, but it's happening," he says. More >>

"Once we know what is in fact patentable, firms can then focus their attention on those investments that will lead to protectable innovations that can be the basis for their competitiveness," says MIT Sloan Prof. Fiona Murray regarding gene patents. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson argues against end-user exemptions from derivatives-trading rules in proposed bank-reform legislation. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says that Euro region governments should consider "pre-emptive" economic aid for Portugal. More >>

"This is not fixing the issue. The Greeks could seize the opportunity. You have taken away their incentive to solve the problem," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson on the EU's economic rescue package for Greece. More >>

Anjali Sastry, a global health delivery and system dynamics researcher who lectures at the MIT Sloan School of Management, says her MBA students are increasingly using what they learn to experiment with different models for care delivery. "Ghana tried a national health insurance system, for instance," she says. "What can the U.S. learn from Ghana?" More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson hopes that 13 Bankers will lead to further discussions about financial policy. "The broad, mainstream consensus on what is good finance and bad finance is shifting," he says. More >>

"This country is based on our ability to take risks, to create new things -- and our ability to fail, individually and in a corporate setting," MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson said at the kick-off event for his book tour. More >>

In a post on the newly released 13 Bankers, a blogger cites MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson's online faculty profile. More >>

This story on a recent paper co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo describes his proposal for a five-tiered categorization of uncertainty to more effectively understand and calculate risk in economic systems. More >>

In this Q+A, MIT Sloan Research Scientist Andrew McAfee says, "We're asking people to rethink how they think about technology and collaboration. There's a lot of shift in perspective required. Companies will be transformed. It will be a quiet, subtle transformation, though." More >>

"Failure can and should be a productive managerial resource," writes Michael Schrage, visiting scholar at MIT Sloan, taken from an excerpt from one of his blog postings. More >>

In a story about MIT faculty and departmental research and reactions to health care reform, MIT Sloan Associate Prof. Joseph J. Doyle says, "I don't like the idea that if you get sick, you might stop working, and if you do that, you will lose your insurance." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang attended a monthly seminar discussion of China's Western Returned Scholars Association to compare the economies of China and India. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Rahul Swani was promoted to vice president at the investment firm Harris Williams and Company More >>

At a roundtable discussion on the future of manufacturing, MIT Sloan Prof. Charles Fine discussed lightweight cars as an area for the US to re-establish a competitive advantage in manufacturing. More >>

In a story on the debate about whether smaller publicly traded companies in the US should stay exempt from an independent audit review of internal controls for financial reporting, MIT Sloan Associate Prof. Michele Hanlon says, "In terms of a cost-benefit analysis, we know this regulation is costly to implement, and there are fixed costs, so it's disproportionately costly for a small firm. That's always the issue with this type of regulation." More >>

On April 24, top business leaders, government figures, and academics will gather under MIT's iconic dome in Cambridge to explore the fundamentals of shaping a new development cycle during the XIII Annual MIT Latin Conference. More >>

"Without an aggressive push to diversify the options for our Appalachian workers, they will be forced to continue the work of their fathers and grandfathers, and we will see more tragedies like this in the future," says MIT Sloan student Jon Gensler in this opinion piece. More >>

MIT Sloan student Allen Breed is engaged to be married in June to Tarah Donoghue. More >>

The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference is mentioned in a story on the growing field of baseball analytics. More >>

MIT Sloan MBA Chris Lin was interviewed about his G-Lab trip to Jakarta to work with Mercy Corps on a business model to expand their pilot program, which offers healthier food choices from popular street carts. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang and other experts weigh in on the effects of China's new exchange rate policy. "China is already in the middle of a huge real estate bubble. A gradual exchange rate adjustment will make it worse -- and thus will make its eventual bursting even more of a calamity," he writes. More >>

"There remains sharp disagreement on what exactly would end 'too big to fail'," blogs MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson in an outline of the three camps of financial reform strategy. More >>

MIT Sloan Visiting Scholar Michael Schrage participated in an online video interview for a 13-part series on transportation innovation. "There is a tension between disruptive innovation, and rapid, iterative, incremental innovation. But if you have enough incremental innovation in a short period of time, you've got a revolution," he says in this first segment. More >>

MIT Sloan Visiting Scholar Michael Schrage and Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson are featured in an analysis of their interviews with the Sloan Management Review on business intelligence. More >>

MIT Sloan student and Cambridge City Council member Leland Cheung is quoted in this blog post. "It's important to realize what you do in your backyard has a really immediate impact," he says. More >>

A blogger cites MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson's Baseline Scenario post recommending Tom Hoenig as a candidate to succeed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner if he steps down. More >>

A quote from MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson's blog appeared in a Times blog entry comparing banks' reputations in Washington and the media. "The public relations machines of today's bankers may be even more effective than those of Morgan and Rockefeller," he wrote. More >>

An ongoing column highlights emerging trends in technology leadership, including subjects that will be discussed in May at the 2010 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. More >>

A blogger cites MIT Sloan Principal Research Scientist Andrew McAfee's recent interview, "Putting the science in management science," for the Sloan Management Review, part of a series of interviews geared for business intelligence practitioners. More >>

MIT Sloan is ranked number four in the top five undergraduate business programs for return on investment at private schools, based on annual tuition and median base salary at graduation. More >>

MIT Sloan is cited as one of a small selection of business schools offering courses on Shakespeare as a way to foster creativity in communication and leadership skills. More >>

In a list of ten ways to promote productivity and success among virtual work teams, the authors cite research from MIT Sloan showing that virtual teams using specific processes for goal setting, planning, problem solving, and role assignment outperform other teams. More >>

MIT Sloan's Marketing Lab will conduct a survey of Kendall Square retail establishments and identify potential sites for new retailers in support of collaborative efforts to expand the area's business-oriented reputation. More >>

An ongoing column highlights emerging trends in technology leadership, including subjects that will be discussed in May at the 2010 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. More >>

Doron Harlev, an MIT Sloan alumnus, is preparing to launch a clinical trial of Rhythmia's catheter-based heart mapping system in Europe. MIT Sloan Prof. Ed Roberts is also mentioned as one of the start-up's investors. More >>

In this editorial interview, MIT Sloan alumnus and Aetna Inc. CEO Ron Williams says, "The notion of corporate social responsibility at Aetna goes beyond our work with the Aetna Foundation and community relations. It also includes leadership in public policy, valuing diversity, and a commitment to the environment." More >>

MIT Sloan alumna Andrea Waller is a candidate for the Branchburg schools' board of education. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Eran Shavelsky's Boston area startup, MedMinder Systems, offers an electronic pill box called "Maya" that alerts patients when they do not take their pills on time. "Within a week they report more of a feeling of control, greater confidence and peace of mind," he says. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Laurie Slap was elected as a member of the Belmont School Committee, with about 37% of the vote in a four-way race. More >>

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang writes, "Thanks to the Internet, Chinese citizens have acquired the technological means -- although not yet the full legal protections -- of free speech, defined as the ability to question and criticize the government" More >>

Prof. Johnson thwarts Stephen Colbert's notoriously contrary interviewing style to explain the tie between "too-big-to-fail" banks and the ongoing boom-bust cycle. More >>

Big bank leaders "managed their way into an enormous crisis that cost us trillions of dollars, and yet we kept every one of them in their jobs. We kept their board of directors, they got to keep their pensions, their bonuses, their empires. In fact, they're bigger now than they were before," says Prof. Johnson. More >>

Prof. Johnson says, "What we're talking about here is a system of incentives and beliefs in and around Wall Street that leads into big trouble both for the firms involved and for the country." More >>

[Translation] MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein and Deputy Dean Richard Locke are featured in a story on Spain's economic challenges. "The real challenge lies in restoring the confidence of the population," says Schmittlein. Locke adds that the recovery of confidence will lead to "the creation of new jobs, and also an increase in job stability in segments of the youth population." More >>

Four MBA students from MIT Sloan's India Lab are interning at the online entertainment portal, 'Buzzintown.' "The experience I gathered here will help me become an entrepreneur," says MIT Sloan MBA Olivia Hui-Salva. Sloan MBA students Christy Trang, Jai Ashvin Kapadia and Terry Chun-Hong Yee are also quoted. More >>

MIT MBA students participating in India Lab are featured in a video broadcast about the collaboration between universities and global start-up businesses. The broadcast is available on YouTube More >>

Shari Loessberg, a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan, asks, "One of the real bastions of male control -- access to money -- remains at that early stage investment level in venture capital...Does anybody have insights on venture capital, either here in the states or abroad, in how women can increase or enhance their profile in that small, vital sector?" More >>

CSPAN covered Gregory Zuckerman's talk at MIT Sloan on his new book, The Greatest Trade Ever More >>

Kenyan university students debated issues affecting their country at the University of Nairobi during an event organized by MIT MBA students. This video broadcast is available on YouTube. More >>

"There is almost nothing here that will address the central problem, which is that we built large banks that are too big to fail, and well on their way to becoming too big to save," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. More >>

The Boston Globe announced the release of MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson's co-authored 13 Bankers, and his appearance at the Harvard Book Store on April 2. More >>

Health care reform, according to this article, is a potential opportunity for private equity firms to turn charity hospitals into competitive lower-cost for-profit businesses. "Caritas becomes the template for elsewhere, and if it works, they can expand it," says MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Howard Anderson. More >>

[Translated] "This is the most historic social reform in this century," says MIT Prof. Thomas Kochan on the passage of health care reform in the US. More >>

This story cites a recent New Republic article by MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. More >>

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Leigh Hafrey is stepping down after 18 years as a Harvard University Mather House Master. More >>

"If we believe the economy is going to respond in the next couple of years, it's not going to be a bad time to be dean," says MIT Sloan Prof. and Dean Emeritus Glen Urban of top business schools' search for new deans. More >>

"What we thought was diversified became very highly correlated because of the global integration of the financial markets. Assets we thought were uncorrelated have moved together, so we have to be much more thoughtful about asset allocation," says MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo. More >>

"A strong lobby of real-estate developers, the investors who bought the bank bonds, and politicians with links to the failed developments (and their bankers) have managed to ensure that taxpayers rather than creditors will pay," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. More >>

"One policy lever the Chinese have, but the Americans do not, is they can restrict the operations of U.S. companies operating in China. There are not that many Chinese companies operating in the United States and the legal processes here are more complicated," says MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang. More >>

"We know that there are huge piles of money on the sideline. The problem is everyone is kind of looking at each other and saying: 'You go first,' says MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer John DeTore. More >>

MIT Sloan Principal Research Scientist Andrew McAfee's book, Enterprise 2.0, is cited in this commentary on the effects of Web 2.0 on accounting firms. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson co-authored this opinion piece on potential solutions to the European debt crisis. More >>

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Bill Aulet was appointed managing director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, which works with students, faculty, and others to foster entrepreneurship. MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein says, "With his depth of experience and dedication to entrepreneurship, Bill Aulet will be a great asset to the Center as it continues to develop and support MIT's many entrepreneurial programs and activities." More >>

"Economies evolve, dictated by the behaviours of individuals, who learn from experience and positive feedback," explains MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo in a story on the use of biological ecology principles in financial models. More >>

"One person's 'discretion' is another person's 'dishonest.' It's getting harder to determine where one ends and the other begins," writes Michael Schrage, visiting scholar at MIT Sloan, in an excerpt from one of his blog posts. More >>

A blog post from MIT Sloan Principal Research Scientist Andrew McAfee is featured in the third-annual Blogging Idol competition as one of the ten "best-ever" blog posts about enterprise IT. More >>

"Ten years ago, powerful research teams, both in investment firms and on Wall Street, had a deep understanding of the major public firms...Now, we're left with a bunch of bloggers who just want to know if you meet your quarter or not," says MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer John DeTore. More >>

"While the EU Emissions Trading Scheme has its problems, it has had a great deal more success than its alternatives... Those considering a similar cap-and-trade system in the U.S. can learn a lot from the E.U.'s experiment," writes Denny Ellerman, former senior lecturer at MIT Sloan, in this opinion piece. More >>

In this coverage of his new book, The Delta Model, MIT Sloan Prof. Emeritus Arnoldo Hax says, "Following the conventional ways of thinking about management strategy is not an option because those ways are anchored on competitors and rivalry. This is a new approach with powerful concepts and tools to help managers make this model a reality." More >>

Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan Prof., says U.S. manufacturing never has developed a close community of private industry and technical schools in any systematic way, although pockets of success exist. "There is underinvolvement in training because we leave it to the individual manufacturers," he says. More >>

"IT has created a platform that makes data analysis a lot easier. If something works they can do more of it, and if not, there's a bunch of other experiments running. It's a rapid-feedback system. That's the new type of innovation, and it's very much driven by IT," says MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson describes how tech companies' large cash accumulation allows them to take risks that smaller companies can't in a fragile economy, creating a bifurcated tech landscape. More >>

"We're asking people to rethink how they think about technology and collaboration. There's a lot of shift in perspective required. Companies will be transformed. It will be a quiet, subtle transformation, though," says MIT Sloan Research Scientist Andrew McAfee in this Q+A. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Glen Urban is part of a committee overseeing the Google and WPP Marketing Research Awards Program, and will help to guide the project implementation process for winning submissions. More >>

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Peter Senge and MIT Sloan Prof. Emeritus Jay Forrester are cited for their work in systems thinking and systems dynamics in this opinion piece on the application of dynamical systems to disciplines such as management, sociology, and psychology. More >>

Last week, a group of MIT Sloan MBAs were in Europe to visit some of the top luxury brand companies. While the company visits were ostensibly for the students to explore career opportunities, Renée Richardson Gosline, assistant professor of marketing at MIT Sloan, says companies aim to get student feedback as well. More >>

A story on the recent MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference focuses on finding a balance in sports between objective statistical analysis and more subjective measures, such as fans' attachment to players. More >>

MIT Sloan operations research students Douglas Fearing and Jason Acimovic, along with MIT Sloan Prof. Stephen Graves, developed ShotLink, a new metric designed to measure golfers' putting performance. More >>

"I decided that if we could build the world's greenest, most energy-efficient building, and showcase the technologies used, it would serve as a model for all future buildings," says MIT Sloan alumnus Kamal Meattle. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Joel Wachtler was appointed as director of strategy and business development at the communications firm Eircom Group. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus George Li is cited as one of China's prominent private equity princelings, whose father was one of the country's senior leaders from the late 1980s until 2003. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Robert L. Sarno announces his candidacy for Town Meeting member in Precinct 3 of Belmont, MA. More >>

MIT Sloan alumni Lorenzo Pagani and Melody Rollins were promoted as executive vice presidents of PIMCO, a global investment management firm based in Newport Beach, CA. More >>

"The scouts vs. stats thing that you see written about in some places, we try to integrate it and see that both parts are brought to bear," MIT Sloan alumnus John Abbamondi said at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Christos Ioannou was appointed to the Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company S.A. board of directors and was also nominated to be a member of their audit committee. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Douglas Lowry has completed half of his project, that of providing to the public with a searchable, online, and current version of the US health care reform legislation. More >>

The author of this opinion piece on the controversial building of housing units in East Jerusalem cites Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an alumnus of MIT Sloan, a credential he feels that should make others take him seriously. More >>

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. hired MIT Sloan alumnus Takashi Masuda to head its convertible bond underwriting business in Japan. More >>

Rhythmia Medical Inc., a medical device maker founded by MIT Sloan alumnus Doran Harlev, has raised $2.7 million in equity financing, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Eran Shavelsky's Boston area startup, MedMinder Systems, offers an electronic pill box called "Maya" that alerts patients when they do not take their pills on time, potentially saving the US healthcare system $290 billion per year. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Joseph Gleeson was appointed President of EMCOR Government Services. More >>

"Innovation expands the productive capacity of the economy by increasing output, consumption, and wages. However, it also has a dark side that creates risks, particularly for older businesses and workers," blogs MIT Sloan Prof. Leonid Kogan. More >>

"There is just no question, the current transportation model does not scale. It isn't going to happen -- because everybody wants to be as rich as we are, and we all want to be richer than we are today," says MIT Sloan's John Sterman. More >>

This blog posting highlights the "What Geeks Don't Get" session of the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, including video of the panel. More >>

The author blogs about some of the panels and speakers at the 2010 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics leadership training. More >>

"When a major bank fails, in the years after the Dodd bill passes, we will face the exact same potential chaos as after the collapse of Lehman," writes MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson in this blog post. More >>

"The C-ROADS climate policy model we developed runs essentially instantly, so people get immediate feedback on the consequences of their assumptions and can try many experiments in a short time," says MIT Sloan's John Sterman in an interview about climate models. More >>

This blog post focuses on the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference panel, "What the Geeks Don't Get," including full video coverage of the debate over the value of statistics. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Eric von Hippel and a colleague are surveying kayakers for insight on the history of innovation in whitewater kayaking according to this post. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo authored this opinion piece supporting the creation of a "Capital Markets Safety Board" (CMSB) patterned after the National Transportation Safety Board, dedicated to investigating, reporting, and archiving the "accidents' of the financial industry." More >>

In this TV interview, MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo says, "The first thing I think we ought to do is to create an independent agency, whose sole function is to sift through the wreckage of every financial disaster, and to be able to produce publicly available reports as to what happened, why it happened, and what may need to be done in order to prevent it from happening again." More >>

"The data set is spectacular. It gives us a chance to try out new analytic tools and experiment with complex concepts," says MIT Sloan operations research student Douglas Fearing of ShotLink, a new metric designed to measure golfers' putting performance. Fellow student Jason Acimovic and MIT Sloan Prof. Stephen Graves teamed up with Fearing to develop the new tool. More >>

"One area that's really grabbing students' interest is consumer product companies, which include medical devices and clean energy technology, which are growth areas," says Jackie Wilbur, senior director of the career development office at MIT Sloan, in this interview. More >>

MIT Sloan student and Iraq war veteran Jon Gensler authored an opinion piece on U.S. energy policy. "Our energy policy is limiting our global competitiveness, hurting our national security, and destroying our heritage of wild, natural beauty," writes Gensler More >>

The 2010 MIT Sloan Sports Analytic Conference attracted a record 1,000 participants this year, double the 2009 participants, with 400 on the waiting list. The post also cites other bloggers' coverage of the event. More >>

A columnist cites a research paper presented at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference on the value of a blocked shot. More >>

MIT Sloan's collaboration with the Fudan International MBA Program has been named one of the country's most successful b-school joint ventures. "It is the longest-running joint program at Fudan and we have benefitted from it immensely," says Forkson Fu, executive director of the Fudan IMBA program. More >>

"Working with the Lisbon MBAs provides our faculty and students with opportunities for overseas experience, co-operation and research that is increasingly important in the global economy," says MIT President Susan Hockfield of MIT Sloan's collaborative MBA program with two of Portugal's business schools. More >>

MIT Sloan rounds out the top three in BusinessWeek's 2010 top undergraduate business school rankings, up four spots from number seven in 2009. More than 90% of Sloan undergrad students boast summer internships, and its graduates' median starting salary -- $62,000 -- is the highest in the ranking. Students say, "Sloan undergraduates always joke about not having to worry about getting an MBA because they've already finished the curriculum. We are given ample opportunity to mingle with the MBA students and learn from the best." More >>

In this live interview, MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan explains contrasting reports on job prospects for new MBAs. "What we're witnessing here is the variation. At the very top tier business schools and the very top tier large banks there are lots of job opportunities coming back, because there were none last year. So those opportunities are getting better. But the regional banks, the other parts of financial services, the manufacturing sector that many of our state schools and business schools around the country rely on for the large number of jobs, are still in the doldrums." More >>

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer John Parsons attributes increased oil market volatility to the dramatic growth in futures and options trading. More >>

MIT Sloan Visiting Scholar Michael Schrage recommends using employees' e-mails to identify best practices or problem areas in their ability to communicate and initiate ideas. More >>

"IT has created a platform that makes data analysis a lot easier. If something works they can do more of it, and if not, there's a bunch of other experiments running. It's a rapid-feedback system. That's the new type of innovation, and it's very much driven by IT," says MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson. More >>

"We're asking people to rethink how they think about technology and collaboration. There's a lot of shift in perspective required. Companies will be transformed. It will be a quiet, subtle transformation, though," says MIT Sloan Research Scientist Andrew McAfee in a Q+A. More >>

Andrew Lo, director of the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, posted his commentary on a recent economics book in this online Q+A. More >>

"It's the speech for which we have been waiting," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson of Sen. Ted Kaufman's address to the Senate regarding financial reform. More >>

MIT Sloan Research Scientist Andrew McAfee is cited as a keynote speaker in a story on the themes and messages of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference. More >>

MIT's Yasheng Huang says that China's system for documenting rural citizens who work in the city of Beijing is "inhumane and economically damaging." More >>

The U.S. Treasury data almost certainly understate Chinese holdings of our government debt because they do not reveal the ultimate country of ownership when instruments are held through an intermediary in another jurisdiction," according to testimony by Simon Johnson at the February U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission hearing. More >>

"As John McKean points out in his compelling new book, successful firms have built a core competency in leveraging information technology not only to survive economic transitions but thrive in an ever-changing economy," says MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson. More >>

"Maybe we should provide more government support for financial PhDs, as we already do for engineers, so the pay scales would seem less skewed and government service not look such a poor choice," says MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo. More >>

This commentary cites Peter Senge, director of MIT Sloan's Center for Organizational Learning, for his single-question approach to reinventing business, and his book, The Fifth Discipline. More >>

Denny Ellerman, MIT Sloan senior lecturer and lead author of a report on emissions trading schemes says, "The European experience confirms that cap and trade systems can be constructed, that markets emerge to facilitate trading, that emissions are reduced efficiently, and that the effects on affected industries are less than predicted." More >>

"Capabilities are the source of their competitive advantage, and the gap between business growth and capability growth is the source of their vulnerability," says Steven Spear, senior lecturer at MIT. More >>

Using Google search volume to forecast home sales, MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson predicted two months in advance that National Association of Realtors' reading of home-sales volume would rise 6.4% in the third quarter, compared with a forecast of 8% by the NAR. The actual rise was 6.1%. More >>

"We need more TV shows with women forensic and other scientists. We need female doctor and scientist dolls," says MIT Sloan Prof. Lotte Bailyn, who has studied the stereotypes that create barriers for women in science. More >>

Eric von Hippel, MIT Sloan professor, blamed the rise in mobile patent lawsuits on "patent trolls" -- companies or people who obtain patents they have no intention of using, then wait for someone else to become successful with similar technology, and sue them. More >>

"Sarkozy absolutely does not want Strauss-Kahn to do anything that can be presented as a statesman-like contribution to the world," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson of IMF head Strauss-Kahn's potential candidacy in the 2012 French presidential election. More >>

Michael Schrage, a visiting scholar with MIT Sloan's Center for Digital Business, will be featured April 7 in the series, "The Future in Motion," a set of interviews with innovators and entrepreneurs on the theme of transportation More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Paul Osterman's class, Urban Labor Markets and Public Policy, is cited in a story on government's increasing role in business and the economy, and the implications for business education. "They don't intend to go into public policy, but they are interested in issues and hope to bring these lessons into traditional, mainstream businesses," says Osterman. MIT Sloan MBA student Michael Norman took Osterman's course to discover how to create businesses that help low-income communities. "When talking about policy, you can ask big questions, such as 'What kind of society would you like to have?' And there are no right or wrong answers," says Norman. More >>

MIT Sloan Associate Prof. Joseph Doyle co-authored a study examining what kind of difference great doctors can make for their patients' health. "As a patient myself, I always hope to go to a prestigious hospital, but I wonder how much more of an advantage that is," asks Doyle. More >>

MIT Sloan Senior Research Scientist and chairman of Sloan's Center for Information Systems Research Peter Weill co-authored a report on the three key elements of successful global IT management. More >>

Charles Kane, MIT Sloan senior lecturer and board member of One Laptop Per Child, will speak about the organization at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business. More >>

Howard W. Johnson, who became MIT's 12th president in 1966 after seven years as dean of MIT Sloan, died December 12 More >>

MIT Sloan student Thomas H. Martin Jr. and Meaghan Schmitt McCormick were married December 31, 2009 in Longmeadow, MA More >>

MIT Sloan student Leland Cheung shared his experiences as the first Asian American Cambridge Councilor with a group of students and community leaders in Boylston Hall for an event hosted by the Harvard Radcliffe Asian American Association and the Asian Pacific Americans for Progress. Cheung said that the most important vision he has for the Asian American community is to encourage this demographic to run for public office, because although Asian Americans typically outperform other minorities in areas like education and income, they are severely underrepresented in leadership roles More >>

Internet censorship "runs exactly counter to what Google is all about," says Debby Soo, an MIT Sloan student and former content acquisition associate at Google, during a panel discussion at Harvard's Kennedy School on the ongoing conflict between Google and China More >>

MIT announced the launch of the MIT Entrepreneurship Review, a free online publication produced and written by MIT students dedicated to analyzing trends in entrepreneurship at MIT and beyond. More >>

This year's BioInnovations Conference, sponsored by the MIT Sloan BioMedical Business Club, brings together more than 300 healthcare pioneers to discuss life sciences technology, policy. More >>

A blogger and moderator of the Baseball Analytics Panel blogged about the debate on how defensive metrics came into play for the Red Sox this winter. More >>

Panache brings additional scale to its operations with Executive Vice President Cheryl Kellond. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Bruce Jamerson was elected to Osage Bio Energy's board of directors More >>

Elizabeth McVay Greene: During a panel discussion on using technology to solve the world's food problems, MIT Sloan student Elizabeth McVay Greene said, "It won't require some radical new technology, but it will just require an application of existing technologies." More >>

"We're really excited about the quality of the entries this year. The teams are extremely committed to turning these fledgling ventures into real businesses, creating real jobs, and ultimately having a real impact on society," says Janet Lin, MIT Sloan student and co-managing director of the Clean Energy Prize. More >>

MIT Sloan undergraduates' median starting salary of $62,000 is lower than average salaries for undergraduates in engineering programs, according to a new survey. More >>

Robert Akerlof, a postdoctoral associate at MIT Sloan, discussed his research on what managers sometimes do to undermine their own authority. "Ideally, showing confidence, ability and intelligence will help a manager establish a deeper sense of authority over time," he says. More >>

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Bill Aulet finished the 2010 MIT Energy Conference on an optimistic note, saying that entrepreneurs are the most valuable 'renewable resource.' "We need to solve this problem not with dictates from above but from innovation from below," he says. More >>

"You cannot tell a Chinese college graduate, 'you've invested years and money in a college education, but your job prospects are in your home village.' So there is now a geographic mismatch between locations of jobs and locations of college graduates," writes MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang in his commentary on China's employment problems. More >>

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Peter Senge says, "The 800 lb. gorilla behind virtually all of the 'sustainability challenges' is you and me, the consumer. The problem is not that we are bad, but that we have been blind to the impacts of our everyday choices, which are about to change." More >>

"It is not the power of big finance to control everything that has us worried — except maybe in some movies. Rather it's the ability of major banks to generate the conditions that make major international financial crises possible," blogs MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Eric Von Hippel blogs about a new genre of patent lawsuits that has changed the nature of disputes. In the past, companies "would usually come to an agreement to simply share each other's patents. But now they hope instead to reap large sums of money from the lawsuits." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Eric Von Hippel says, "Only 5 percent of these types of cases actually go through the judicial system, and that the patent system is "a bad scene right now." More >>

MIT Sloan Research Scientist Andrew McAfee will serve as a keynote speaker at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in June 2010 More >>

This article cites a collaborative study with MIT Sloan faculty that found a higher percentage of successful venture capital backed companies have strong patent portfolios. More >>

MIT Sloan is cited as one of few US business schools to offer a brand management course. More >>

HSM's 2010 World Innovation Forum, set for June 8-9 in NYC, is sponsored in part by MIT Sloan. More >>

On May 19, the seventh annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium will include MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson and Jeanne W. Ross, director of MIT Sloan's Center for Information Systems Research More >>

"I decided that if we could build the world's greenest, most energy-efficient building, and showcase the technologies used, it would serve as a model for all future buildings," says MIT Sloan alumnus Kamal Meattle. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus and Venezuelan businessman Lorenzo Mendoza is featured as one of the wealthiest people in the world based on a Forbes magazine list, jumping to 258 from 334 in 2009 More >>

BJ Hess, a former Senior Vice President of Global Operations for Arrow Electronics, Inc., spoke at MIT Sloan in March 2010 at the invitation of SWIM (Sloan Women in Management) and the MIT Leadership Center. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson co-authored an essay on Greece's economic crisis, and the European Central Bank's deliberations to continue providing financial support across the European Union. "If these problems are not addressed quickly and effectively, Europe's economy will be derailed -- with serious, if hard to quantify, implications for the rest of the world," he writes. More >>

In this first-person account, MIT Sloan Prof. Renee Richardson Gosline says she became interested in the implications of counterfeit consumption when a friend invited her to a "purse party" at her neighbor's house. The event, she writes, was attended by a loose network of friends, coworkers and other neighbors. The hostess served wine, appetizers and ... fake, illegal designer handbags. More >>

MIT Sloan alumna Camila Merino Catalán and former MIT Sloan lecturer Ricardo Raineri Bernain will take office in the new Chilean president-elect's minister cabinet. Catalán will serve as Labor Minister, and Bernain as Energy Minister starting March 11. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Michael Cusumano is quoted on Toyota's recent fumble over global recalls due to defects in gas pedals and floor-mats that resulted in faulty braking. "As far as we know, Toyota is still the best manufacturing company in the world when it comes to production management. Workers have nothing to do with this," Cusumano says. More >>

MIT Sloan analysis spearheaded by Prof. John Sterman shows pledges submitted to the UN falls short of reduction targets by at least 11bn tons of CO2. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Robert Akerlof's new research on "how bosses stay in charge" recommends avoiding the hiring of overqualified employees. "An overqualified person may be difficult to maintain authority over. They can have a bad attitude that's infectious," he says. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang is quoted in an analysis of China's economy that predicts an imminent bubble burst within the next five years. For electricity consumption to drop in a supposedly growing economy is "an extraordinary pattern, a pattern, I might add, that is absent in all other countries," Huang says. More >>

Robert Laubacher, director of MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence, co-authored a report showing that the influx of Hollywood filmmakers in Massachusetts provides big benefits for local businesses. More >>

"I don't begrudge success and wealth, but I would like for it to be socially productive and socially constructive, not massively damaging," MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says in response to Obama's recent, more moderate comments about executives' bonus pay, with the administration's stated intent to curb big banks. More >>

Participants in an MIT panel discussion on the outcome of the December Copenhagen conference, including MIT Sloan Prof. Henry Jacoby, who co-directs MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, are optimistic despite early negative reactions. Any action is worthwhile "because almost anything we do plays a part in reducing the risk" of severe climate change effects, Jacoby says. More >>

In this opinion piece, the author cites MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson as having said, "Unless and until we break the political power of our largest banks, the middle class will be hammered down." More >>

The MIT Sloan Management Review published video interviews with Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson and Research Affiliate Michael Schrage describing their long-term research project. They are exploring the ways that IT components such as measurement, experimentation, sharing, and replication drive innovation in various markets and industries. More >>

"In physics, it takes three laws to explain 99% of the data; in finance, it takes more than 99 laws to explain about 3%," says MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo. More >>

"He walked into a $12 billion loss in 2006," says MIT Sloan Prof. Michael Cusumano of Ford's top executive, Alan Mulally in a story about the company's economic resurgence despite a rough road for the auto industry in recent years. MIT Sloan Prof. Emeritus Arnoldo Hax, who taught Mulally at MIT in the 1980s adds, "Ford is bringing a sense of confidence under his direction that no other major car manufacturer has." More >>

A new study, co-authored by Catherine Tucker of MIT Sloan School of Management, suggests ways companies can better target individuals without crossing a line. This article was adapted from "How Not to Market on the Web," appeared in the Winter 2010 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review. More >>

"They have no easy option," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson of Europe's debt dilemma against a backdrop of the changing credit ratings of global superpowers. "They can cut spending or raise taxes." More >>

"It isn't a healthy economy," says MIT Sloan Prof. Paul Osterman on the bleak short- and long-term outlook for wages and incomes. "There is a broad sense that it's a precarious labor market." More >>

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Andrew Wolk is cited as the co-founder of Inner City Entrepreneurs, which provided MBA-level training and networking opportunities to City Fresh owners in 2004. More >>

Two Scottish business people won top prizes during MIT Sloan's weeklong Entrepreneurship Development Program. "I was very impressed by the whole Scottish group... Their capability and confidence grew throughout the week as a result of their hard work," says Bill Aulet, managing director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center. More >>

Christa Bouwman, MIT Sloan visiting assistant professor, was a collaborator in Bangor University's research on the effects of financial regulations on banks. More >>

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Bill Aulet is cited as a board member of XL Hybrid, a startup that helps organizations manage fleets of hybrid or electric vehicles. The company has collected $850K of its proposed $1.2 million in capital. More >>

This article features MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo's Adaptive Market Hypothesis, which attempts to update Modern Portfolio Theory. "The MPT model is not wrong, it's just incomplete," says Lo. More >>

A new group, Graduate Women at MIT, will collaborate with events for departmental groups, such as MIT Sloan Women in Management (SWIM). SWIM President Veena Jayadeva says, "GWAMIT is a much more formalized way to go to one place and say 'Ya, this is what's going on.'" More >>

Pixable, a social media photo storing, sharing and printing tool created by three MIT Sloan students, launched the new Photo Mosaics tool today, which allows users to create digital photo mosaics for digital use, with an option to buy poster prints. This article cites MIT Sloan Prof. Edward Roberts as one of the key investors in the year-old company. More >>

The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference kicks off its fourth year on March 6, 2010 with a new presenting sponsor and a roster of speakers that will include NFL, MLB, NHL, MLS, EPL and NBA owners, coaches, and industry leaders, and the journalists that follow them. ESPN has agreed to become the presenting sponsor of Sloan's most popular conference, says Daryl Morey, an MIT Sloan alumnus and general manager of the Houston Rockets, who co-chairs the conference. More >>

The Asian America MultiTechnology Association, a business network for entrepreneurship and capital investment, has named MIT Sloan alumnus David J. Lam as its president. More >>

Heather Tow-Yick, MIT Sloan alumna, will be the new state executive director for Teach for America, a teacher placement program serving low-income and minority students. "[Business school] gave me insight about how business leaders effect change in their own industry, and how they could be leveraged in the efforts to achieve education reforms," says Tow-Yick. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Charles Murphy has joined the board of directors for Conseco, an insurance provider targeting the middle income market and seniors. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Matthew Gardiner describes six ways enterprises can improve cloud security. "Enterprises must never forget that they will face the majority of the blame if security breaches occur," he writes. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson is quoted in an article about the strength of the U.S. dollar's effect on efforts to double U.S. exports. If the dollar continues to increase in strength, rather than weaken, "it would wipe out all the other bits and pieces [the president] is putting together to encourage exports," Johnson says. More >>

MIT Sloan provided legal and business plan support to Indian farmer Mansukhbhai Jagani to produce his innovative tilling, weeding, and sowing invention called Santi, a tractor built from his old motorcycle. More >>

In a list of ten ways to promote productivity and success among virtual work teams, the authors cite research from MIT Sloan showing that virtual teams using specific processes for goal setting, planning, problem solving, and role assignment outperform other teams. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Andrew Phillip Bechtel will marry Casey Jackman Russell in June 2010. More >>

MIT Sloan hosted the "Loaned Executive" training program coordinated by the Charitable Campaign Coalition and Action for Boston Community Development program. More >>

The new certificate program is open to all MIT Sloan graduate students who fulfill five required core courses and two elective class requirements with a focus on strategies for sustainable business, global climate change, and system dynamics. More >>

3Play Media, the Somerville-based company founded by MIT Sloan alumni Josh Miller, Chris Johnson, Chris Antunes, and Jeremy Barron, received $450,000 in angel funding, according to a lead investor. More >>

MIT Sloan ranked eighth among 100 full-time global MBA programs, moving up one spot from last year's Financial Times rankings. More >>

The past year has seen a whole raft of new business school ventures set up across the Middle East and Asia, as the regions' corporations, governments and students develop a taste for formalised management training....MIT Sloan set the trend for these ventures, helping schools in China in the 1990s and, more recently, in Portugal. Dean David Schmittlein and CDO Director Jackie Wilbur are quoted in this piece. More >>

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson writes, "After more than a year of tough argument, Paul Volcker has finally persuaded top aides to President Barack Obama that the unconditional bailouts of 2008-09 planted the seeds for another major economic crisis. Unfortunately, in their scramble to announce this major policy shift ahead of Wall Street's bonus season, the administration didn't line up all relevant details." More >>

In this opinion piece on next steps for the Obama Administration on curbing financial risk, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson recommends two key elements of successful regulation: tripling capital requirements and shrinking big banks. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson co-authored an opinion piece on the latest developments in regulating the American-European financial system. "Rather than recognising the dangerous systemic failures in our financial system, their leaders are proposing bandages that can - at best - only postpone another, possibly much larger, meltdown," he writes. More >>

MBA students from MIT's Sloan School recently took their annual "tech trek," testing out the demand for summer internships for the class of 2011 and full-time jobs for this year's graduates. Students fanned out across Boston, Silicon Valley and Seattle, meeting with energy and high-tech enterprises. In December others visited six Boston-area biotechnology companies. And what they found gave them reason to hope; tech outfits are finally seeing demand pick up, energy companies are pushing hard to develop renewable fuels and together the two sectors could lead the way out of a job market morass..."The general consensus is that things are better, particularly in Silicon Valley." MBAs Jacklyn Loo and Mike Norelli are quoted. More >>

MIT Sloan MBAs Hilda Tang and Ryan Thurston were interviewed about their experiences during the Seattle Tech trek. "It's very competitive right now. So we have to make sure that during the recruiting process we're aware of the skill set they are looking for, and we target towards those," says Tang. Thurston noted the broad range of positions that are available to job seeking MBAs, "They want someone who has done technical development, who has done management, who knows what a balance sheet looks like... someone who is optimistic. They need all these pieces to drive their products forward." More >>

The new certificate program is open to all MIT Sloan graduate students who fulfill five required core courses and two elective class requirements with a focus on strategies for sustainable business, global climate change, and system dynamics. More >>

Simon Johnson, MIT professor and economist, spoke with host Guy Raz about the Move Your Money campaign. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo discusses the pros and cons of proprietary trading in light of proposed strict new regulations on banks. "We have to recognize that proprietary trading has a number of positive benefits, which if we end up constraining it, we will have to face those consequences," he says. More >>

The biggest shortcoming of the Obama's business plan overall is that it won't significantly help young entrepreneurial companies, according to Edward Roberts, founder of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Drazen Prelec has joined the advisory board at Micronotes, an outbound interactive marketing company. More >>

During his presentation at the Linux.Conf.Au 2010 for open-source software developers, MIT Senior Researcher Benjamin Mako Hill criticized proprietary software's use of "antifeatures," such as spyware and code limitations, to exploit users and prevent the use of third-party accessories. "The world of proprietary software is a world full of software that people hate," Mako Hill says. More >>

In a report on reactions to Obama's strict financial policy announcement from Wall Street, bankers, the United Kingdom, international media, and expert economists, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "they think the big banks should just carry on as usual." More >>

"It's a fundamental shift," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson on Obama's policy move in favor of stronger financial regulations. "This is coming from the political side. There are classic signs of major policy changes under pressure...but in a new and much more sensible direction." More >>

Yasheng Huang, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, estimates that China's absolute levels of poverty and illiteracy have doubled since 2000. In India, he says, they've been halved. More >>

Christa Bouwman, MIT Sloan visiting assistant professor, is noted in this article for her research collaboration on the effects of financial regulation on banks. More >>

Rama Ramakrishnan, MIT Sloan senior lecturer and data-mining expert, will provide one of the keynote presentations at a conference exploring how to capitalize on customer and employee engagement. More >>

"I want to stress one more time that technologies that are not freeform are not bad or shortsighted or somehow deficient," writes MIT Sloan's Andrew McAfee in this opinion piece. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Michael Cusumano is quoted in a story about whether Google's threat to close their operations in China due to censorship and account hacking is likely to affect China's policies. "I don't think they have any leverage," he says. "The Chinese government has been pretty clear in the past that it does not cave in to outside pressure of any sort." More >>

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Charles Kane spoke to Carnegie Mellon University students about the business world in this lecture series. More >>

"Consumption as a proportion of GDP has declined to levels not seen anywhere else in the world. This is the root of global imbalances," says Yasheng Huang, an economist at MIT. "The stimulus plan is probably only making things worse." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Malone provided the keynote presentation at the 2010 Annual Conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education. He addressed how new information technologies affect collaboration in business, government, and academia. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Malone is featured in an article about the growing trend of freelance, temporary, and self-employed workers, and other changes in how we define careers. "What I'm just now realizing is that many people today see their career portfolio including a combination of jobs at the same time," he says. More >>

In a climate in which Americans have come to expect perfection in consumer goods, companies are better off overreacting than underreacting when product problems arise, says Michael Braun, an assistant professor of marketing at MIT Sloan School of Management. Such an extreme measure as Johnson and Johnson's nationwide recall of Tylenol in 1982 may not have been warranted for safety reasons, he says, but it reflected well on the company. "These kinds of actions have tremendous public relations value and that can protect a brand because it engenders trust. They probably haven't done that in this case," he says. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Michael Cusumano noted that China's strong infrastructure makes starting businesses easier. "There is corruption in China," he says. "But it doesn't compare with the levels of corruption you see in India." More >>

The Accord, a 12-paragraph statement of intention, mentions a global ambition to keep the average global temperature rise to two degrees Celsius. However, Professor John Sterman of MIT notes that the average global temperature may increase by 3.9 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2100. More >>

MIT Sloan MBA Oscar Pedroso interviewed Jerome Mahone, executive director of the Rochester Institute of Technology's high-technology incubator Venture Creations, about entrepreneurship. More >>

MIT Sloan MBA and Boston Tech Trek energy track organizer James Luong blogged about his visits to energy companies during this year's treks on the West Coast and in Greater Boston tech treks. "Each company has found disruptive technology-driven solutions for new or developing market spaces," Luong says. More >>

The MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition and the MIT Clean Energy Prize were featured in a summary of 15 small business competitions open to students and entrepreneurs. More >>

At MIT Sloan School of Management, a popular elective for students returning from their summer internship involves reflection on the practice of management. As part of the course, students are asked to think of their internship as a project, and consider what they would do differently and what they learned. At Sloan, about 35 per cent of students who are offered a full-time position as a result of their internship accept a job. More >>

MIT's Sloan School of Management is one of the few that has consistently given students a chance to visit local companies, but Harvard Business School is joining in this year. More >>

In this blog post, MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson analyzes President Obama's new, tough demeanor in confronting big banks. "If the Obama proposal is the start of a serious debate on these issues, we are at last moving in the right direction," he writes. More >>

This blog entry on Obama's shift to more controlled banking highlights comments made by MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson, which appeared in The Washington Post's 1/22/10 story. More >>

"Bernanke is an airline pilot who pulled off a miraculous landing, but didn't do his preflight checks and doesn't show any sign of being more careful in the future -- thank him if you want, but why would you fly with him again?" asks MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. More >>

"Now that the administration and the president himself have recognized the danger inherent in big banks and defined a new reality, what is Ben Bernanke's view?" asks MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. More >>

In this blog posting, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson authors looks at the political backdrop of the Obama Administration's proposed limits for big banks, exploring the implications for bank regulation after the Republican Senate victory in Massachusetts, application of antitrust theory, and how politicians might play the issue in upcoming elections. More >>

MIT Sloan School of Management was one of four schools to have launched credit union loan programs in 2009, and all were ranked in the top ten global MBA schools. More >>

Federal regulators proposed a limit on energy commodity trading to prevent higher oil costs that can result from excessive speculation. John Parsons, executive director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at MIT Sloan says, "This is preventing an individual trader from capturing a large enough position to manipulate or impact the price in an outsized way." More >>

Denise Loyd, an African-American professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, said that while she does not believe her race has hindered her, minorities must constantly process how much their experience has to do with race, versus factors such as personality or expertise. She recalled attending an MIT event where she felt she was mistaken for a member of the wait staff. "There's a reality of being in that kind of environment that can represent a challenge," Loyd says. "Do people really think I belong here? You are navigating the world with that in the back of your mind." More >>

"Since the 1991 recession, you began to see more white-collar workers laid off than you had in previous recessions. That's gotten more widespread with each one," says MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas. More >>

Daniel Ross, who has lectured at MIT Sloan and other business schools, was recently named president and CEO of the developer Illume Software. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Michael Cusumano was quoted in this article about the implications for other U.S. businesses following Google's threat to China over censorship and e-mail security. Although he doubts that other companies will follow, "All of the eyes of the world are on Google right now. They have planted the idea that someone can stand up and say we are not going to take this anymore to the Chinese government. And somebody has to be first," he says. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Vishal Mehta Pi has unveiled his Infibeam Pi, an e-book reader that looks like the Amazon Kindle, has the same e-Ink screen that the Kindle sports, and has a rights architecture than is more open than the Kindle. The Infibeam Pi, which can now be ordered online, supports, among other things, 13 Indian languages. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Craig J. Barberio was appointed as director of investor relations for First American Corporation's Financial Services group. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Brian Halligan authored this piece about how marketing teams can keep up with changing consumer viewing and shopping habits. "Is your company ready to cope with the fundamental changes happening in your prospect base? Here are a few actionable suggestions that will help you change the way you market today," he writes. More >>

Yasheng Huang, a professor of international management at MIT Sloan School of Management, heard the news about Google's threat while traveling in China. Reached by e-mail, he said his concern was not for Google, or other US companies with investments in China, but for China itself. "I think that this is a highly significant development," he wrote. "Google is one of the most admired technology companies in the world, and indeed, in China." Huang said Google's statement "signals in very concrete terms the vast gulf between China's current environment and the environment that has created the kind of technological miracles such as Google." Noting that China has its own technology ambitions, Huang said its success so far has been mainly as a manufacturer, and mostly of low-tech products. "For the country to move to the next level and for the country to make true technological breakthroughs as Google has done in this country," he said, "it has to revamp its system in some fundamental ways." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Bill Aulet authored this piece about the collaborative approach to innovation that he and this year's Seattle Tech Trekkers espouse. "We can all gain by a mindset of working together," he writes. More >>

The author quotes MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson's latest assessments that have appeared in the media: "The market is very clearly saying that they think there is going to be another bailout... And those expectations of course are self-fulfilling," Johnson says. More >>

MIT Sloan MBA Libby Putman is featured in this article for her G-Lab project in Indonesia with the Mercy Corps. She is working to expand a pilot program designed to improve nutrition by training local food carts to provide healthy food options. More >>

The New York Times opinion page editors asked MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson and other experts what questions they would ask the CEOs of the four big banks under review by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. More >>

MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson argues that the administration's $120 billion tally for TARP losses is 'low ball.' TARP is a direct cost, he says. But the country needed a fiscal stimulus to restart the economy, which "was only needed because of what the banks did. They should pay for that also. There is no logic that says: reimburse us for TARP but the rest is on the house." More >>

Lee Holcomb, an MIT Sloan alumnus, will participate in a radio panel on February 3 about best practices and new developments in cyber security technology. More >>

J.P. Morgan announced the appointment of Frank Troise, MIT Sloan alumnus, as Global Head of Equities Electronic Client Solutions. More >>

Simon Johnson, MIT Sloan professor and economist, blogs about Citi's conspicuous absence from the first day of hearings for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. "The bank CEOs interviewed Wednesday may reasonably be considered the current kings of Wall Street. But Weill and Rubin are the titans who built the modern Citi," Johnson writes. More >>

MIT Sloan MBAs Rob Lemos and Erdin Beshimov provide five observations on the entrepreneurial and industry trends, local investment perspective, and Silicon Valley culture after their visit. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Craig Rottengerg works in finance for his family's business, Long Jewelers, which was recently inducted into National Jeweler's 22nd Annual Retailer Hall of Fame. More >>

In this video broadcast and online news piece, MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson addresses anticipated bonuses for big bank employees. "People working at our largest banks - say over $100 billion in total assets - should get zero bonus for 2009," Johnson says. More >>

Voltaire surveyed more than 120 members of the Global CIO and Executive IT Group who attended the 2009 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, and reported that IT executives plan to use both InfiniBand and Ethernet technologies to maximize efficiency while building new data centers. More >>

In an opinion piece on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson asks, "Did the extraordinary size and irresponsible structure of bonuses in 2007 help lead the financial system into trouble? Don't today's stunning bonuses point in the same direction?" More >>

MIT Sloan's peer school relationship with the Kellogg School of Management is cited in this story on an upcoming Kellogg Africa Business Conference. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan says, "It is true that diversity can have positive effects, but only if we manage it in a creative way to draw out the different experiences people bring to bear from their backgrounds. It's not an automatic kind of thing." More >>

This article highlights MIT Sloan Professors' Pierre Azoulay and Gustavo Manso's research on how scientific researchers' output and motivation are affected by funding streams. More >>

Grace Ueng, a faculty member of the MIT Sloan MBA joint venture at Fudan in Shanghai, offers the 11th and 12th steps in her 12-step marketing guide for new and existing businesses. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Paul Osterman will participate in a panel discussion on Texas' economic competitiveness and education. More >>

Doug Lowry, MIT Sloan alumnus and a retired professor, is featured in a story about his work to create a searchable copy of the Senate and House bills on health care reform. "I'm not plugging either party at all. I'm trying to equip both sides. Let's get everything out in the open. Let's be more transparent," Lowry says. More >>

In a follow-up with MIT Sloan Tech Trekkers about their Silicon Valley experience, students report continued optimism. "My class is very confident that we're actually on the upswing and that the economy is turning around. Given that we'll be interning next summer and graduating in 2011, we're very bullish about our job prospects," says Marc Piette. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Tavneet Suri discusses the economic impact of the mobile money transfer system on struggling Kenyans in this podcast. "I think they have completely embraced it, because so many people use it," Suri says. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Fiona Murray conducted research with her students to learn how the recession has affected funding for scientific research. "The generation of ideas still seems to be strong, but the mingling of ideas and people and money just isn't happening at the same rate," she says. More >>

Michael Shellman, MIT Sloan alumnus, and Mary Bombardier have announced their engagement to be married in May 2010. More >>

MIT Sloan Tech Trekkers are optimistic about their degree and job prospects, as this blogger reports. "Some of the people at the larger companies we've been meeting with do have MBAs, so it's great to see their progression," says MIT Sloan student Jackie Loo. More >>

In this live television interview, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "All of the big banks left standing believe that they are immune from any future failure...crazy things happen when you have a financial system like that". More >>

In this radio interview, MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson talks about the risks of re-nominating Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Despite Bernanke's assertion that he plans to avoid future bailout scenarios, "The market is very clearly saying that they think there is going to be another bailout, more bailouts, unlimited bailouts, as necessary. And those expectations of course are self-fulfilling," Johnson says. More >>

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan MBA Ash Martin writes about the experience of an MBA internship. "The MBA internship is like a test-actually it's not like a test, it is a test. It is an opportunity for a company to evaluate you in a particular role," he writes. More >>

Xconomy Seattle invited readers to join MIT Sloan Tech Trekkers for an evening of networking and a discussion of their activities in Seattle. More >>

Deepali Abhyankar, MIT Sloan alumnus and senior vice president, recently purchased a home in the Burlingame neighborhood of San Francisco. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson blogs about the risks of employing finance sector experts, who often also work for major broker-dealers, as government advisors on financial derivatives. "It would be great if people from hedge funds or other financial institutions were willing to step forward and play this role...but while these independent people eloquently criticize the major broker-dealers in private, very few of them are willing to step forward in public," he says. More >>

MIT Sloan research scientist Andrew McAfee authored a blog post explaining the importance of relying more on evidence than intuition when making important decisions. "Intuition is similar to what I think of Tom Cruise's acting ability: real, but vastly overrated and deployed far too often," McAfee says. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Renee Richardson Gosline's research on consumer views of authentic and counterfeit luxury goods is still securing press, with coverage in this popular New York fashion publication this month. More >>

"You are Harrison Ford or Matt Damon and you've been dropped into an alien world. Your mission: find the Golden Key which will save the comely damsel and/or unlock the next Billion Dollar Idea from Fortress MIT," blogs MIT Sloan's Howard Anderson. "You know it's hidden behind one of the 1,000 doors, each of which is virtually identical. Your time is limited...and evil competitors are racing against you for that exact Golden Key! What would you do first? Second? That's exactly what Bill Aulet and I are exploring in an upcoming class at MIT's Sloan School of Management, 15.390A: New Enterprizes". More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. John Sterman and the C-ROADS climate simulation model are highlighted in this update on the recent Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. "C-ROADS is both grounded in and consistent with the best available climate science, as well as transparent, fast and easy to use," Sterman notes. More >>

MIT Sloan's John Sterman is quoted in another opinion piece on the results of the climate change conference in Copenhagen. "The longer we delay ... the more costly it will be to cut emissions, the worse warming will be, and the more the people of the world, rich and poor, will suffer," Sterman says. More >>

MIT Sloan's Andrew Lo is cited in this blog post about preventing future oversight of economic warning signs by the Federal Reserve chairman. Lo had proposed an independent body to review and report on crashes or busts. More >>

MIT Sloan is among the top five business schools whose graduates pull in the highest salaries, according to a recent study from Admissions Consultants, a group that provides counseling to prospective students. More >>

Credit is due to the members of MIT Sloan's Media Tech Club for organizing a Massachusetts Tech Trek at all. Most business schools in the area focus exclusively on journeys out west -- and don't offer any opportunities at all to visit companies here. More >>

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson and London School of Economics' Peter Boone warn about the "dangerous financial system in Europe and the U.S." resulting from bank bailouts, excessive risk-taking, and the dynamics of global lending practices. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson's recent presentation on economic recovery is featured in this story. His "conclusion is that we may be entering a period of great instability, with more frequent crises and more serious ones," writes the author. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson is quoted in this opinion piece weighing economists' varying predictions about the recession. Says Johnson, "The crisis is just beginning. Have bankers won? In the short term, absolutely. The immediate opportunity for change has already been missed". More >>

"If global warming produced the same results as smog, we would be working at a faster rate to find a solution," said MIT Sloan Prof. John Sterman who was among participants on a panel on sustainable business and sports held at Fenway Park. More >>

The relationship between information technology and productivity is a matter of serious debate. In the 1980s and early 1990s, empirical research generally did not significant productivity improvements associated with IT investments, Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, says. More >>

This article looks at themes from the MIT Sloan CFO Summit, held in November 2009, with an eye on 2010. More >>

Ajay Kulkarni, MIT Sloan alumnus and CEO of Cambridge-based tech startup Sensobi, discusses a new application designed to organize Blackberry users' contacts. "We realized your phone knows more about you than anything else does," says Kulkarni. More >>

MIT Sloan is one of several schools to recently make deals with credit unions to provide no-co-signer loans for international MBA students, making it easier for them to obtain financial support. More >>

Construction at MIT Sloan is among the major projects set to be completed over the next two years, despite the decline in endowment. More >>

Yasheng Huang, MIT Sloan professor and author of Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics, is cited in an opinion piece about China's global influence in the climate debate, economy, and production and labor. "He is optimistic the present leadership... whose rhetoric has championed equality and opposed corruption, may restore a better balance," the author notes. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Timothy Driscoll was inducted into the Boston College High School Athletic Hall of Fame for his talents on the varsity hockey team. More >>

MIT Sloan Assistant Prof. Catherine Tucker co-authored a report on an investigation of online targeted advertising. "Don't try to both complement and compete with a Web site's content," says Tucker. More >>

The MIT Sloan Management Review interviews Professor Andrew McAfee about his latest book, Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges. More >>

In the United States, workers on the first rungs of the job market run the risk of lower earnings even after the recovery gets going, says Paul Osterman, a professor at the Sloan School of Management at MIT who also teaches at the Institute de Empresa business school in Madrid. More >>

Because the deal envisions emissions cuts no bigger than what countries pledged coming into Copenhagen, U.S. experts say the world's temperature is already on track to increase by 3.9 degrees Celsius (7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels, says John Sterman of MIT. More >>

Peter Weill, director of MIT Sloan's Center for Information Systems Research, is interviewed in this Web cast about the research behind his new book, IT Governance. "We looked at how the key five decisions in IT were made," Weill says. More >>

MIT Sloan professor and transportation expert Arnold Barnett provides insight on developing airport security solutions without sacrificing timeliness and consumer privacy. "If we act, even belatedly, to close loopholes in security, we might force aviation terrorists to adapt new methods that have a lesser chance of success," he says. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson reviews three recent books detailing the key events and players of the 2008 bank crisis, and cautions against a repeat fiasco in the future. "Without really serious reform, we have every reason to start counting down to the next financial crisis," he says. More >>

"While explaining the growth differences between China and India by pointing to this difference in infrastructures and FDI, this Indian observer--and many others like him in India--committed a classic analytic error known as reverse causality, i.e., he thinks that it is infrastructures or FDI that caused the Chinese growth when in reality it is the growth that caused China to have infrastructures and FDI," writes MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang in this opinion piece. More >>

"There is a cohort of people who are condemned to a permanently stagnant career path in Spain. It's very worrisome," says MIT Sloan Prof. Paul Osterman, who also teaches at the Institute de Empresa business school in Madrid. More >>

MIT Sloan's Andrew McAfee's recent McKinsey interview is cited in this opinion piece about the importance of businesses using social media. More >>

Grace W. Ueng, a faculty member of the MIT Sloan MBA joint venture at Fudan in Shanghai, offers the tenth step in her 12-step marketing guide for new and existing businesses. More >>

InnoCentive, Inc., a Waltham-based technology company, appointed Thomas Malone, Patrick McGovern professor of management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, to its strategic advisory board. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson will provide the keynote address at the annual Cayman Business Outlook conference in January 2010. This year's theme, "Prospering in a Grave New World," and attendees can expect a big--picture view of the latest economic and social issues impacting Cayman. More >>

Alessandro Bonatti, assistant professor at MIT Sloan, describes the paradox of online advertising that occurs when technology advances spur more affordable and targeted ads. More >>

Recent layoffs have resulted in an increase in productivity among those still employed, and contributes to the delay in new hiring. MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan says the jump in productivity is stronger than in many past economic recoveries. More >>

This article quotes a study co-authored by MIT Sloan's Yasheng Huang titled, "Business: Can India Overtake China?" More >>

Systems dynamics expert John Sterman of MIT compares our carbon problem to a bathtub. Each year we pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, much of it remains there. It lasts for about a century, although about half of the carbon dioxide produced is removed each year by forests and oceans. Sterman figures the world can afford to churn out another 920 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide between now and 2050. Holding emissions to that level offers a better than even chance at keeping the world under 450 parts per million and avoiding a crucial temperature rise. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Michael Cusumano's contributions to an article about the browser wars and the incentives for companies to offer free Internet browsers to their customers is cited. More >>

According to new research by MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Michael Grubb, consumers may overestimate the precision of their demand forecasts. This overconfidence creates an incentive for both monopolists and competitive firms to offer tariffs with included quantities at zero marginal cost, followed by steep marginal charges. This matches observed cellular phone service pricing plans in the United States and elsewhere. More >>

Jessica Mazonson, an MIT Sloan MBA student, was one of five MIT and 80 worldwide students to be named a Siebel Scholar. The Siebel Foundation recognizes students with outstanding academic performance and leadership at top graduate schools of business, computer science, and bioengineering. More >>

MIT Sloan MBA candidate Leland Cheung is the first Asian-American to be elected to the Cambridge City Council. Cheung tapped fellow students and the Asian community using traditional campaigning and social networking to build support. More >>

Timothy Lawton, an MIT Sloan MBA and a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, provides commentary on U.S. troop deployment in Afghanistan. More >>

This story from the Times focuses on Johnson's leadership at MIT during the late sixties, with admiration for his diplomacy through protests of the Vietnam War. More >>

Hungarian businessman and MIT Sloan alumnus Krisztian Orban, with business partner Bert Walker, have created a $20 million private equity fund to buy Eastern European businesses. More >>

Scott V. Seidewitz, MIT Sloan alumnus and principal at the New York-based boutique consulting firm The Seidewitz Group, bought a five-bedroom, five-bath home in Las Vegas in November. More >>

Research by MIT Sloan's John Sterman and Peter Senge are cited an ongoing series on the recent climate talks in Copenhagen. The blog entry also provides a link to Senge's video summary about MIT's work with Climate Interactive on climate simulation tools. More >>

Simon Johnson, MIT Sloan professor, shares his thoughts on potential economic crises for the year 2010. More >>

MIT Sloan's yearlong master's program in finance is featured in this article about specialized alternatives to two-year MBA programs. Shane Torchiana, a student in the new finance program, talks about how the program supports his career goals. Says Debra Luchanin, program manager of the program, "The master's in finance degree isn't designed for broader management positions. We're gearing students up for more specialized quantitative positions, such as asset management." More >>

So would people be prepared to pay to avoid future disasters? And if so, how much? That is the question tackled by Robert Pindyck of MIT's Sloan School in a recent paper he co-authored titled, "The Economic and Policy Consequences of Catastrophes." More >>

This article describes MIT Sloan Assistant Prof. Renee Richardson Gosline's recent study, which showed that shoppers can more accurately distinguish between real or fake designer bags if the product owners "look authentic to the brand." More >>

MIT Sloan's Howard Anderson predicts the coming year to be challenging for start-ups seeking venture capitalist investors. "When the market is rational, and right now it is rational, then you're going to find it very hard to start companies," he says. More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Eric von Hippel is quoted in an article about new applications of the Open Source Development Model. More >>

Former MIT President Howard Wesley Johnson, who drew upon his management acumen to guide the Institute during the tumultuous late 1960s, has died. More >>

MIT Institute Professor Emeritus and Nobel Prize laureate Paul Samuelson, who had held a joint appointment with MIT Sloan and the Department of Economics, died Sunday at his home in Belmont. More >>

MIT Sloan's Neal Hartman provides insight on why American executives have unique methods of operation. "One trademark of the American style is a focus on achieving results, short-term and long-term," he says. More >>

A new study suggests that funding with a long-term focus and more freedom results in more innovative and influential research. Study co-author MIT Sloan Prof. Peter Azoulay says, "If you want people to branch out in new directions, then it's important to provide for their long-term horizons, to give them time to experiment and potentially fail." More >>

Ernst Berndt, MIT Sloan professor of applied economics, is part of the faculty team for a teleconference and webcast program offered by the American Bar Association Center for Continuing Legal Education. More >>

MIT Sloan's Andrew Lo received the first Market Technicians Association Educational Foundation (MTAEF) Mike Epstein Award in honor of his long-term support of technical analysis in academia and practice. More >>

Glen Urban and John Hauser, professors at MIT Sloan, developed an "ad morphing" system designed to tailor website banner ads to individual users. The program uses cookies to monitor users' click patterns and predict the types of advertising cues to which they are likely to respond. More >>

The president is putting "a little more skin in the game," says MIT Sloan's John Sterman, of Obama's scheduled delay in attending the climate summit in Copenhagen. "The closer to the end of it that he attends, the more he's connected to whatever the outcome is." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Antoinette Schoar explains why the best CEOs manage to make struggling businesses more profitable just 60% of the time. She says, "Our results show that managers do matter, but they don't change everything." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan debates the Employee Free Choice Act with former Department of Labor Solicitor Eugene Scalia in a recent panel. He describes the union process as "clearly broken," and says, "we ought to fix the law and fix it systematically." More >>

Dr. S.P. Kothari, MIT Sloan professor and finance expert, gave a lecture on "Economic Recovery: Global Trends and Implications for India" at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science -- BITS Pilani. He highlighted recovery trends and ongoing challenges worldwide More >>

Companies are increasingly affected by their employees' high expectations for sustainability in the workplace. MIT Sloan Prof. John Sterman says, "People are hungry for the opportunity to work professionally in a way that is consistent with building a sustainable world instead of one that undermines it". Adds Deputy Dean Richard Locke, "The risk of asking people to care is that you have to then walk the talk." More >>

MIT Sloan Prof. Michael Cusumano was named one of Silicon.com's most influential people in technology. Cusumano shares this year's honor with distinguished leaders such as the CEOs of Apple, Google and Twitter, the founder of Facebook, and President Barack Obama. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Kimberly Picciola authors this piece on the increasing uncertainty of the J.C. Penney department store chain's fair value rating. More >>

Hossein Askari, an MIT Sloan alumnus and former economics instructor, is co-author of a recently released book, Globalization and Islamic Finance: Convergence, Prospects and Challenges. More >>

MIT Sloan alumnus Tim Rowe reflects on the Cambridge Innovation Center's history while celebrating its 10th year as an office rental facility for small and start-up technology companies. "One thing led to another, and we never looked back," says Rowe More >>

Kristyn Desjardins, MIT Sloan alumnus and project director for Applied Marketing Science, was featured in a November 25, 2009 article in the London Times about MBA students studying abroad. More >>

IT Sloan alumnus Pragash Pillai was promoted to senior vice president of engineering and technology at the broadband communications firm, Bresnan Communications. More >>

MIT Sloan's John Sterman will use the newly released Climate Scoreboard, a tool for understanding and tracking climate change negotiations, to analyze proposals during the United Nations talks in Copenhagen on December 7-18. More >>

MIT Sloan Visiting Professor Christa Bouwman analyzed a quarter century of US bank performance data to determine how capital affected banks' profitability, market share, and ability to survive. More >>

MIT Sloan is one of several business schools offering training in improvisation as a way to learn how theater skills can be applied on the corporate stage. More >>

The article notes that the new MIT Sloan building is also on track for LEED-Silver (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification. More >>