Alumni

Reunion Weekend 2012

Thursday, June 7
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.	Registration/Check-In Alumni and guests can pick up registration materials, sign up for open events and find other information.
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.	Boston Duck Tour This family-friendly activity is a favorite. All aboard! Learn about Boston, its history, and its landmarks, via land and sea. Tour departs from MIT Sloan (100 Main St.).
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Admissions Workshop Who Gets In? Behind the Scenes at MIT Admissions
5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.	Prelude to Pops Buffet Dinner Enjoy an elegant buffet and complimentary glass of wine before the Tech Night at the Pops.
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.	Tech Night at the Pops Now in its 115th year, Tech Night at Pops is one of the Institute's most beloved traditions. Join generations of MIT alumni, guests, graduating students, and their families for an exclusive concert of timeless classics, contemporary hits, and a stirring rendition of our alma mater, “In Praise of MIT.” Shuttle bus service to and from Symphony hall will be provided. Tech Night at Pops is an annual tradition you won't want to miss! Please note: Children under the age of five are not allowed to attend Boston Pops concerts.

Friday, June 8
10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.	Registration/Check-In Alumni and guests can pick up registration materials, sign up for open events, and find other information.
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.	Alumni Sustainability Workshop Expanding Your Bottom Line in More than Just Dollars Workshop moderated by Professor Jason Jay Sustainability has become a driving force in business innovation. From supply chains to new business ventures, your classmates have been capitalizing on the growing emphasis on sustainability. Come hear how your classmates have reshaped business operations, started new companies and framed their careers within a context of sustainability. Find out what MIT Sloan is doing to train the next generation of business leaders and the school’s efforts to connect alumni to heighten their impact on sustainability.
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.	Career Workshop Positioning Yourself Using a Strengths-Based Framework Workshop moderated by Jackie Wilbur, Executive Director for the Master’s Programs This interactive session uses a framework (your career contribution) to work on the process of identifying your professional strengths and using these to position yourself for your next career move. This model and the session’s activities will help you create an understanding of your contributions and provide a framework to create compelling positioning statements, based on your contributions.
12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.	Fenway Park Tour Tour the historic home of the Boston Red Sox. Fenway Park is celebrating its 100 Anniversary. Ticket price includes round trip bus from MIT Sloan (100 Main St.).
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.	Alumni Entrepreneur Workshop Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Emerging Markets Today, entrepreneurship in emerging markets is based on networks and marginal improvements of current solutions. There is a great opportunity for entrepreneurship in emerging economies by “thinking out of the box” and implementing innovative and disruptive solutions. This will require big changes such as the creation of a solid financial infrastructure that will provide resources to entrepreneurs (today VC industry is very young and not willing to take early stage risks) and cultural changes, where society will accept failure as a learning process. Entrepreneurship in emerging markets offers a great opportunity to become a new and relevant player in economies with a very large potential and lack of new ideas and solutions.
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.	Alumni Global Leaders Workshop Leadership Today, How Global Executives Manage in a Changing World Workshop moderated by Professor Peter Senge Obtain a firsthand account of how an executive responds to the challenges of a changing world while invigorating the corporate architecture to become resilient, adaptable, and entrepreneurial. Designed as a “fire side chat,” Professor Peter Senge has a conversation with a global executive at OCP. Get a birds-eye view of two leaders in their field discussing the challenges of a globalized market, increasing environmental sensitivities, designing a resilient organization and the impacts of the Arab Spring.
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.	Professor Andrew Lo Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer?
6:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.	Alumni C-Function Reception The Consumption Function (C-Function) is a tradition at MIT Sloan began in the late 70s. Join all returning classes for a fun-filled reception in E62. Includes heavy hors d’oeuvres (You won’t need dinner after), beer and wine.

Saturday, June 9
8:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.	Registration/Check-In Alumni and guests can pick up registration materials, sign up for open events and find other information. Back to the Classroom with MIT Sloan Faculty Head back to the classroom to learn the latest from MIT Sloan faculty in their fields of expertise. Ticket price includes Continental Breakfast and Dean’s Luncheon.
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m	Professor Jason Jay Sustainability Unleashed: Amplifying the Impact of Student and Alumni Sustainability Projects
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m	Professor Retsef Levi Sloan’s Faculty and Students Improving Healthcare Delivery in the U.S.
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.	Professor Arnold Barnett Trial Runs
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.	Professor Roberto Rigobon The Billion Prices Project
12:30p.m. – 2:30 p.m.	Dean’s Luncheon Join former MIT Sloan deans and all returning alumni for a luncheon with a fireside chat type discussion between David Schmittlein, John C Head III Dean and Dean Emeritus Bill Pounds.
2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.	MIT Sloan Family Splash @ Z Center Pool Enjoy time at the Zesiger Center pool with family and alumni. Towels are included.
2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.	Free Time/Class-Specific Activities Take this time to reconnect classmates or to show your family around Boston and Cambridge. Your class or program may schedule class-specific activities, as well.
7:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.	Class-Specific Dinners Check your class page to find the location of your class dinner.

Sunday, June 10
12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.	MIT Sloan Family Barbeque Join all returning alumni and their families for a fun-filled BBQ with activities for kids of all ages, including arts and crafts, face painting, Toddler Town, carnival games, more. Children under 10 are free.

In addition to these activities, your class may be planning class-specific events. Check your Class Page to see what events in addition to this schedule your class may have planned.

Schedule subject to change.