Executive Education

The MIT Sloan Custom Learning Experience

An MIT Sloan custom program is a joint venture created by a team of executives from your organization in collaboration with top faculty from across the MIT community. Together we develop a set of strategic frameworks to address your company's key priorities.

Programs can last two days, three months, an entire year—the length of time that is appropriate for achieving your learning objectives. Often, programs include multiple residential sessions for a group of participants or “cadre.” Our experience has shown that a cadre size of approximately 30 participants provides optimal discussion and meaningful interaction among faculty and participants. Programs frequently draw participants from around the world who connect — often for the first time — in the classroom and then work virtually on company-related team projects that translate newly acquired frameworks into action strategies for your company.

Over the course of the custom program, participants from your company will witness a dramatic evolution in their perspectives and their ability to meet new challenges.

We recommend that programs be delivered at MIT, either on the campus or at MIT Endicott House, our executive conference facility. Participants live and work together in an environment designed to foster challenging discussion and extensive interaction and take them away from the daily obligations and distractions of their positions. Coming to MIT allows participants to absorb MIT's unique culture of innovation and offers them wide access to the resources of the world's leading research institution.

MIT Sloan approaches each of our custom engagements as a long-term, mutually productive relationship, not an isolated educational transaction. We look for companies that are interested in making fundamental, strategic changes in the way they do business. For a custom program to have meaningful impact on the organization, it must be sponsored and championed by senior management. Companies looking to forge creative long-term educational partnerships would be well-served by developing a relationship with MIT Sloan.