Sloan Stories
MIT Sloan’s Building the Future was a historic gathering of the School’s alumni, students, and friends. To commemorate this momentous occasion, many MIT Sloan alumni sat down to capture their favorite memories on film. From shared memories of the student experience to individual stories of life-long career impact, these videos illustrate the impact of the MIT Sloan experience.
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Why I came to MIT Sloan
Community, diversity, and Cambridge: Alumni explain why they chose MIT Sloan. -
Memories of MIT Sloan
As MIT Sloan celebrated its largest alumni event ever, alumni shared their best memories of the School. Travel and friends amongst the faculty came up time and again. -
What are you doing today?
Members of the MIT Sloan community are solving problems worldwide in every imaginable industry. Today they are changing the world and helping the next generation of MIT Sloan graduates to do the same. -
What impact did your MIT Sloan experience have on your life?
How did MIT Sloan change your life? Alumni reveal how a two-year program becomes a lifelong influence. -
MIT Sloan is …
MIT Sloan alumni complete this thought, providing insights into the essence of the School and its impact on their own career paths. -
What did you want to be when you grew up?
Alumni discuss goals from their early years—from journalist to pilot—and share where their careers have taken them. -
Learn how MIT Sloan helped Marion Surette, SM ’92, manage her own apparel importing business.
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Nitin Nohria, PhD ’88, is dean at Harvard Business School. But MIT Sloan had him first. Find out how the School informs his choices as a leader.
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Olav Junttila, MBA ’01, uses his management education at a firm that develops sustainable infrastructure. Learn how his time at MIT Sloan led him to a job on the cutting edge of green development.
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“Brilliant thinkers” brought Reed MacMillan, SF ’09, to MIT Sloan as part of the esteemed Sloan Fellows program. She was not disappointed.
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MIT Sloan is celebrated worldwide. Ricardo Betti, MBA ’86, explains how the School is a “powerhouse” in Brazil, where a network of MIT graduates support and promote each other.
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Roman Lubynsky, MOT ’89, found teamwork everywhere he looked at MIT Sloan. Today, he promotes that same sense of group support with his work at the MIT Venture Mentoring Service.
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MIT Sloan graduates consistently find jobs they love. But Sheryl Sligh, SM ’91, says the School also made her a better leader and a better person.
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“If you come to MIT, you will grow forever,” Vanessa Chioffi, SF ’03, says about the lasting impact MIT Sloan has on its students.
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Trips to Portugal and India were the highlights of Yiting Shen’s, MBA ’07, time at MIT Sloan—so much so that she went to India to work after graduation.
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Lewis Williams, SM ’76, describes MIT Sloan as an “access point” for getting where he wanted to be.
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Growing up around nature, Kerry Bowie, SB ’94, MBA ’06, was ahead of the curve in the green movement, putting his MIT Sloan education to immediate use in environmental affairs.
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In the spirit of George Bernard Shaw, James Stoner, PhD ’67, SM ’61, says that MIT Sloan prompted him to ask “how could I take another step?”
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Jose-Maria Fernandez, SF ’10, remembers how Professor Andrew Lo changed his perception of finance.
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Eric Silverman, SM ’91, says that having the right partner can make or break an investment deal—and it was finding those right people that brought him to MIT Sloan.
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George Emmanuel, SF ’95, remembers being “a kid in an intellectual candy store” when he arrived at MIT Sloan. The result, he said, was having a variety of management tools to solve problems with.
