Results for Competition:
Bill Porter (1967) Distinguished Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship
Department: Senior Lecturer, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
Contact: (617) 253-9631, handerson@mit.edu
Expertise: $100K Entrepreneurship competition; Communication; Elevator pitch; Entrepreneurship / New ventures; High technology; High technology companies; Internet; Silicon Valley; Startups; Telecommunications; Venture capital
Department: Senior Lecturer
Contact: (617) 253-2473, aulet@mit.edu
Expertise: $100K Entrepreneurship competition; Alternative energy; Analysts forecasts; Angel investing; Blogs; Breakthrough management; Business plans; Capital controls; Career development; Change management; Communication; Compensation; Competitive strategy; Computer; Computer-aided software; Corporate governance; Customer satisfaction; Customer service; Eastern Europe; Elevator pitch; Emerging businesses; Employee motivation; Energy; Entrepreneurial finance; Entrepreneurial management; Entrepreneurship / New ventures; Global entrepreneurship; Incentives, corporate; Innovation; Intellectual property law; International entrepreneurship; Lead users; Leadership; Management effectiveness, measuring; Managerial communication; Managing change; Marketing strategy; Mergers and acquisitions; Middle East; New ventures; Oil; Organizational communication; Pakistan; Positioning; Pricing; Real estate; Recruitment; Sales and sales processes; Sarbanes-Oxley compliance; Software; Startups; Sustainability; Technological innovation; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom; Venture capital
Sarofim Family Career Development Professor
Department: Assistant Professor of Applied Economics
Contact: (617) 253-7190, bonatti@mit.edu
Expertise: Advertising; Applied economics; Auctions; Competition; Economics; Electronic media; Europe; European Union; Game theory; Google; Industrial economics; Industrial organization; Insurance; Internet; Italy; Media; Microeconomics; Online shopping; Optimal control; Political economy; Price fixing; Pricing; Social networks; Teams; Turkey
Department: Academic Head, Enterprise Management Track Senior Lecturer, Marketing
Contact: (617) 253-8214, schatterjee@mit.edu
Expertise: Franchises; Marketing channels; Sales and sales processes; Trust-based marketing
Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor of Management
Department: Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management and Engineering Systems
Contact: (617) 253-2574, cusumano@mit.edu
Expertise: $100K Entrepreneurship competition; Angel investing; Asia Pacific; Automotive; Business plans; Competitive strategy; Computer Industry; Computer-aided software; Consumer electronics; Corporate strategy and policy; Cultural differences; Electronic media; Electronic software; Engineering management; Entrepreneurship / New ventures; Google; High technology companies; Information systems; Information technology; Information technology for management; Information technology, history of; Information technology, impact of; Innovation; International management; Internet; Internet software; Internet software/applications; Internet strategy; Japan; Korea; Management of engineers and scientists; Management of information technology; Management of technology; Manufacturing management; Media; Microsoft; Mobile computing; Open source software; Operations management; Productivity; Project management; Quality; Research and development; Sales and sales processes; Semiconductors; Service industry; Software; South Korea; Startups; Strategic management; Strategic planning; Technological innovation; Technology; Technology strategy; Technology transfer; Telecommunications; Total quality management; World Wide Web
Department: Senior Lecturer, Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
Contact: (617) 357-7474, jfleming@oxbio.com
Expertise: $100K Entrepreneurship Competition; Alliances; Analysts forecasts; Angel investing; Applied economics; Biopharmaceutical; Biotechnology; Business plans; Cancer, multi-drug therapy models; Capital budgeting; Capital market; CEO compensation; Corporate diversification; Corporate finance; Corporate governance; Economic history; Economics; Economics of organizations; Emerging businesses; Entrepreneurial finance; Entrepreneurship / New ventures; Euro; Federal Reserve; Finance; Financial engineering; Financial reporting; Foreign investment; Genetics; Germany; Health management; Healthcare industry; Hedge funds; HIV, multi-drug therapy models; Industrial economics; Investment analysis; Knowledge management; Medical devices; Medicine; Mergers and acquisitions; Microeconomics; Middle East; New ventures; Patents; Political economy; Research and development; Sarbanes-Oxley compliance; Startups; Technological innovation; Venture capital
Department: Senior Lecturer, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
Contact: (617) 475-6009, jgh@mit.edu
Expertise: $100K Entrepreneurship competition; Angel investing; Benefits and compensation; Business education; Business plans; CEO compensation; Conflicts of interest; Corporate governance; Emerging businesses; Entrepreneurial finance; Entrepreneurial management; Entrepreneurship / New ventures; Executive pay; High technology companies; Innovation; Intellectual property; Intellectual property law; Intellectual property strategy; Law; Management of technology; New ventures; Non-profits; Patents; Private equity; Research and development; Sarbanes-Oxley compliance; Securities and Exchange Commission; Software; Startups; Stock options; Venture capital
Department: Lecturer, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
Contact: (617) 253-8653, thynes@mit.edu
Expertise: $100K Entrepreneurship competition; Angel investing; Business plans; Elevator pitch; Emerging businesses; Entrepreneurial management; Entrepreneurship / New ventures; Innovation; New ventures; Startups; Technological innovation
J. Spencer Standish (1945) Professor of Management
Department: Associate Professor of Operations Management
Contact: (617) 253-4155, retsef@mit.edu
Expertise: Applied math; Applied probability; Business intelligence; Competition; Convergence; Decision making, decision support; Facility location; Healthcare operations management; Infrastructures; Inventory; Logistics; Manufacturing management; Manufacturing systems; Mathematical programming; Medical decision making with technological advances; Medicine; Middle East; Operations management; Operations research; Optimal control; Optimization; Price fixing; Probability, applied; Process control; Production; Project management; Revenue management optimization; Sampling; Statistics; Stochastic modeling; Supply chain management; Terrorism; Vehicle routing
David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology
Department: Associate Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Contact: (617) 253-3681, fmurray@mit.edu
Expertise: $100K Entrepreneurship competition; Biopharmaceutical; Biotechnology; China; Clinical trials; Drug models; Emerging businesses; Energy; Entrepreneurial management; Entrepreneurship / New ventures; Gender issues; Genetics; Healthcare operations management; Human resource management; India; Innovation; Institutional partnerships; Intellectual property; Intellectual property law; Knowledge management; Law; Lead users; Management of engineers and scientists; Management of technology; Medical decision making; New ventures; Patents; Pharmaceutical; Research and development; Social networks; Startups; Technological innovation
Nanyang Technological University Professor
Department: Professor of Human Resources and Management
Contact: (617) 253-2667, osterman@mit.edu
Expertise: Career development; Changing work environments; Changing workforce; Collective bargaining; Compensation; Competition; Diversity; Downsizing; Economy, current conditions; Employee motivation; Employment relations; Firing; Future of work; Hiring; Human resource management; Industrial relations; Labor market policy; Labor unions; Managing diversity; Negotiation and conflict resolution; Non-profits; Public policy, employment relations; Recruitment; Spain; Unemployment; Urban poverty
David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology
Contact: (617) 253-4934, eroberts@mit.edu
Expertise: $100K Entrepreneurship competition; Alliances; Angel investing; Business plans; Emerging businesses; Entrepreneurial management; Entrepreneurship / New ventures; Global entrepreneurship; High technology companies; Management of technology; Startups; Technological innovation; Technology strategy; Technology transfer
Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management, Emeritus
Department: Professor of Economics, Emeritus
Contact: (617) 253-2957, rschmal@mit.edu
Expertise: Antitrust; Applied economics; Business ethics; Climate change; Climate policy; Competition; Competitive strategy; Corporate strategy and policy; Credit cards; Economics; Economy; Electronic publishing; Energy; Environment; Global climate change; Global warming; Government; High technology companies; Industrial economics; Industrial organization; Macroeconomics; Managerial economics; Microeconomics; Microsoft; Non-market strategy; Options; Political economy; Price fixing; Pricing; Public utilities; Publishing; Software; Stock exchange; Stock exchange consolidation; Tax policy; United States
Nanyang Technological University Professor
Department: Professor of Marketing
Contact: (617) 258-0679, simester@mit.edu
Expertise: Branding; Channels; Competition; Consumer behavior; Consumer measurement; Consumer packaged goods; Database marketing; Marketing; Marketing channels; Marketing strategy; Microeconomics; New Zealand; Online feedback mechanisms; Online shopping; Optimization; Pricing; Product loyalty; Retail; Strategic management
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Economics Emeritus
Department: Coordinator, Asia-Pacific Initiatives
Contact: (617) 253-2932, lthurow@mit.edu
Expertise: $100K Entrepreneurship competition; Applied economics; Asia; China; Climate change; Defense, military; Deflation; E-commerce; Healthcare; High technology companies; Hong Kong; Human resource management; Industrial economics; Inflation; Interest rates; Japan; Korea; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Microsoft; Monetary policy; National security; Oil; Outsourcing; Pakistan; Russia; Semiconductors; Singapore; South Korea; Southeast Asia; Sustainability; Unemployment
Department: Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Contact: (617) 258-6101, hbweil@mit.edu
Expertise: Aircraft / Aviation; Airlines; Alliances; Asia; Banking; Banking management; Bermuda; Business process modeling; Capital budgeting; China; Competition; Competitive strategy; Computer industry; Consumer behavior; Convergence; Corporate strategy and policy; Credit cards; Customer relationships and CRM; Customer service; Data acquisition; Digitization; Dot-com bubble bust; E-commerce; Electronic media; Emerging businesses; Emerging markets; Energy; Entrepreneurial management; Entrepreneurship / New ventures; Ethanol; Europe; European Union; Financial services; France; Globalization; Hong Kong; Industrial economics; Information technology; Innovation; International corporate strategy; International management; Internet telephony; Lead users; Management of technology; Marketing strategy; Media; Microeconomics; Mobile computing; New ventures; Nonlinear dynamics; Oil; Online banking; Online media; Pharmaceutical; Pricing; Research and development; Retirement planning; Singapore; Startup; Startups; Strategic management; Strategic planning; System dynamics; Taiwan; Technological innovation; Technology strategy; Technology transfer; Trust-based marketing; Wi-Fi; Wireless communication
Richard S. Leghorn (1939) Career Development Professor
Department: Assistant Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Contact: (617) 253-7998, pyin@mit.edu
Expertise: Applied economics; Auctions; China; Competition; Competitive strategy; Consumer electronics; Convergence; E-commerce; eBay; Econometrics; Economics; Enterprise information systems; Europe; European Union; Financial markets; Financial services; France; Germany; Google; High technology companies; Industrial economics; Industrial organization; Industry evolution; Internet; Internet software; Internet software/applications; Microeconomics; Microsoft; Online feedback mechanisms; Signaling; Stock exchange; Strategic management; Taiwan; Technology strategy; Wireless communication; World Wide Web
MIT Engineering PhD candidate Rouzbeh Shahsavari and MIT Sloan's own Natanel Barookhian, MBA '10, were recently awarded first prize in the 20th annual MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition. Their startup, C-Crete Technology, has created a nanoengineered concrete that reduces CO2 emissions and is stronger than any other cement currently on the market. Shahsavari and Barookhian talk about the genesis of their idea, as well as where they go from here.
Cooperation may be making us "a little bit too nice" when it comes to innovation, suggests Fiona Murray. She believes there's nothing like competition for injecting energy into the process of solving key innovation problems, whether in business or society.
Why an MBA is conducive to launching a startup A lot of discussion in the media recently has focused on whether or not entrepreneurs should spend valuable time and money pursuing an MBA degree versus gaining experience on the front lines of a startup. Some commentators such as Vivek Wadhwa even insist that an MBA subtracts from a candidate’s value. Shortly after earning an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management, I co-founded a startup called ThriveHive (http://thrivehive.com ), which offers a guided marketing solution for small business owners. I met my co-founder Adam Blake, a fellow Sloan MBA candidate, in an entrepreneurial-focused course at the School. While neither of us believes an MBA can transform someone into an entrepreneur, earning an MBA provides a great framework for tackling the uncertainties that inevitably occur at a startup. Here’s why: Tools for Thriving amongst ‘Structured Chaos’ A startup is a completely … Read More »The post Why an MBA is conducive to launching a startup — Max Faingezicht appeared first on MIT Sloan Experts.