Results for Networking:
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
Sloan Distinguished Associate Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Contact: (617) 258-9766, pazoulay@mit.edu
Expertise: Alliances; Biopharmaceutical; Biotechnology; Clinical trials; Compensation; Competitive strategy; Corporate strategy and policy; Econometrics; Economics of organizations; Employee motivation; Employment relations; Human resource management; Incentives, corporate; Incentives, customer; Industrial economics; Innovation; Intellectual property; Intellectual property law; Labor market policy; Management of technology; Non-market strategy; Patents; Pharmaceutical; Research and development; Social networks; Strategic management; Technological innovation; Technology strategy; Technology transfer
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
Associate Professor of Marketing
Contact: (617) 253-3436, braunm@mit.edu
Expertise: Applied probability; Bayesian statistics; Cable industry; Consumer measurement; Customer relationships and CRM; E-commerce; Electronic media; Insurance; Internet; Market research; Media; Online shopping; Product loyalty; Statistics; Web-based marketing
Department: Associate Professor of Management
Contact: (617) 253-0286, ecastilla@mit.edu
Expertise: Benefits; Career development; Changing work environments; Changing workforce; Compensation; Employment relations; Future of work; Gender/race issues, workplace; Hiring; Human resource management; Industrial relations; Labor market policy; Managing diversity; Organizations; Recruitment; Social networks; Sociology; Turnover; Worker / Management relations; Workplace inequality and diversity
Department: Associate Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Contact: (617) 253-6727, jasond@mit.edu
Expertise: Alliances; Artificial intelligence; Change management; Competitive strategy; Convergence; Entrepreneurial management; High technology companies; Information technology; Innovation; Management of technology; Networking, personal, business, organizational; Organization studies; Organizational behavior; Research and development; Silicon Valley; Strategic management; Technological innovation; Technology strategy; Technology transfer
Nanyang Technological University Professor of Operations Research
Department: Professor of Operations Research
Contact: (617) 253-7779, gamarnik@mit.edu
Expertise: Applied math; Applied probability; Decision making, decision support; Disaster recovery; Healthcare operations management; Mathematical programming; Operations research; Optimal control; Optimization; Probability, applied; Stochastic modeling
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
Department: Assistant Professor of Finance
Contact: (617) 253-1306, riyer@mit.edu
Expertise: Banking; Banking regulation; Contagion; Corporate finance; Social networks
Morris A. Adelman Professor of Management, Emeritus
Department: Professor of Statistics
Contact: (617) 253-2651, gkaufman@mit.edu
Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor
Department: Professor of Finance
Contact: (617) 253-0920, alo@mit.edu
Expertise: Analysts forecasts; Angel investing; Applied economics; Applied math; Applied probability; Arbitrage pricing theory; Artificial intelligence; Asset management and pricing; Banking; Banking management; Banking operations and policy; Banking regulation; Bankruptcy; Bayesian networks; Bayesian statistics; Bond markets; Bond negotiations; Bond pricing; Business education; Business intelligence; Business plans; Capital budgeting; Capital controls; Capital market; CEO compensation; Chat rooms, investment; Consumer behavior; Contagion; Corporate finance; Corporate governance; Corporate strategy and policy; Currency; Data acquisition; Data mining; Decision making, decision support; Deflation; Derivatives; Disaster recovery; Distance learning; Diversification, corporate; Dividend policy; Dot-com; E-commerce; Econometrics; Economic crisis; Economics; Economy, current conditions; Education; Emerging businesses; Entrepreneurial finance; Entrepreneurial management; Entrepreneurship / New ventures; Equities; Euro; Exchange rates; Executive compensation; Executive education; Federal Reserve; Financial econometrics; Financial engineering; Financial information technology; Financial markets; Financial reporting; Financial services; Financial statement analysis; Foreign investment; Futures; Government; Hedge funds; Hurdle rates; Inflation; Information technology; Information technology, artificial intelligence; Intellectual property; Intellectual property law; Interest rates; International finance; Intertemporal choice; Investment analysis; Investment banking; Investment risk; Investment strategies; Knowledge sharing; Law; Macroeconomics; Market, categorical structures in; Mathematical programming; MBA; Mergers and acquisitions; Mortgage funds; Mutual funds; Neural networks; New stock markets; New ventures; Non-linear dynamics; Online banking; Online feedback mechanisms; Operations research; Optimal control; Optimization; Options; Patents; Pensions; Personal finance; Portfolio choice; Portfolio design and management; Private equity; Probability, applied; Research and development; Research, academic; Retirement planning; Revenue management; Risk capital; Risk management; Sampling; Securities and Exchange Commission; Security prices; Simulation; Software agents; Startups; Statistics; Stochastic modeling; Stock exchange; Stock exchange consolidation; Stock market; Stock options; Stock trading; Sub-prime lending; Technology; Trading decisions; Treasuries; Valuation; Venture capital; Wall Street; Web-based marketing
Class of 1922 Professor of Political Science and Management
Department: Head, Department of Political Science
Contact: (617) 253-2610, rlocke@mit.edu
Expertise: Brazil; Business ethics; Corporate social responsibility; Developing countries, economics; Education; Energy; Environment; Environmental leadership; Europe; Future of work; Global entrepreneurship; Global trade standards; Globalization; Green industries; Human resource management; International entrepreneurship; Italy; Labor relations; Latin America; MBA; NGOs; Organizational change; Political economy; Social networks; Socially responsible business; Supply chain management; Sustainability; Worker / Management relations
Department: Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Contact: (617) 253-5070, loess@mit.edu
Expertise: Angel investing; Corporate governance; Cross-cultural awareness; Eastern Europe; Emerging markets; Entrepreneurial finance; Entrepreneurship / New ventures; Financial services; Global entrepreneurship; International entrepreneurship; New stock markets; Non-profits; Russia; Social networks; Venture capital; Vietnam
Institute Professor
Department: Professor of Operations Research
Contact: (617) 253-6604, magnanti@mit.edu
Expertise: Operations research; Optimization
Patrick J. McGovern (1959) Professor of Management
Department: Professor of Information Technology
Contact: (617) 253-6843, malone@mit.edu
Expertise: Artificial intelligence; Blogs; Business intelligence; Business process modeling; Change management; Changing work environments; Changing workforce; Climate change; Climate policy; Computer industry; Digitization; Dot-com; E-commerce; E-mail; Education; Employee motivation; Enterprise information systems; Future of work; Global warming; Groupware; High technology companies; Information systems; Information systems; Information technology; Information technology for management; Information technology, artificial intelligence; Information technology, impact of; Information technology, social aspects; Innovation; Internet; Internet governance; Internet privacy issues; Internet security; Internet software/applications; Internet strategy; Intranet; Knowledge management; Knowledge sharing; Leadership; Management of information technology; Managerial communication; Managing change; Medical decision making; Motivation; Networking; Open source software; Organization studies; Organizational communication; Organizational design and performance; Organizational psychology; Social networks; Software; Software agents; Sustainability; Telecommuting; Wikipedia; Working virtually; World Wide Web
Alvin J. Siteman (1948) Career Development Professor of Entrepreneurship
Department: Assistant Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Contact: (617) 253-5539, mmarx@mit.edu
Expertise: Entrepreneurship / New ventures; Patents; Silicon Valley; Software; Technology strategy
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
Fred Kayne (1960) Career Development Professor of Entrepreneurship
Department: Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management
Contact: (617) 253-7782, obukhova@mit.edu
Expertise: China; Global entrepreneurship; Globalization; Networking, personal, business, organizational; Organization studies; Semiconductors; Social networks
E. Pennell Brooks (1917) Professor in Management
Department: Professor of Operations Research
Contact: (617) 253-6606, jorlin@mit.edu
Expertise: Airlines; Data mining; Decision making, decision support; Logistics; Mathematical programming; Operations research; Optimization; Transportation
Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management
Department: Professor of Organization Studies
Contact: (617) 715-4154, rreagans@mit.edu
Expertise: Diversity; Knowledge management; Managing diversity; Organizational communication; Organizational learning; Social networks; Teams
Department: Senior Lecturer, Operations Management
Contact: (617) 253-1064, donrose@mit.edu
Expertise: Applied probability; Automotive; B-school; Business education; Computers; Consumer electronics; Facility location; Globalization; Inventory; Logistics; Manufacturing education; Manufacturing management; Manufacturing systems; MBA; Microeconomics; Operations management; Operations research; Production; Supply chain management; Transportation
Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management Emeritus
Department: Professor Emeritus
Contact: (617) 864-7540, scheine@comcast.net
Expertise: Career development; Change management; Downsizing; Employee motivation; Industrial economics; Leadership; Management of engineers and scientists; Managing change; Networking; Organizational behavior; Organizational change; Organizational culture; Organizational learning; Organizational psychology; Organizational studies; Teams
Patrick J. McGovern (1959) Professor of Management
Department: Professor of Operations Research
Contact: (617) 258-7340, schulz@mit.edu
Expertise: Applied mathematics; Decision making, decision support; Game theory; Mathematical programming
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
Class of 1948 Career Development Professor
Department: Associate Professor of Marketing
Contact: (617) 452-2790, jjzhang@mit.edu
Expertise: Channel Management; Competitive Strategy; Customer Relationship Management; Information and Incentives; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Popularity, Fads and Trends; Product Development; Social influence; Social Networks
Nanyang Technological University Professor
Department: Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Contact: (617) 253-1918, ewzucker@mit.edu
Expertise: Diversity; Entertainment, business of; Market, categorical structures in; Organizational learning; Social networks; Teams
Silos are fairly common things in large organizations. While bridging those silos can lead to innovation and increased productivity, making those connections can be a tough thing to do. It’s easier to develop networks within the familiar silos than reach out to people in disparate areas. And even if you do decide to reach out to new people, who do you select and from how many departments? It’s not like you can say you will have strong ties only with people who matter because you don’t know who those people will be and, even if you do know, there will be so many of them that you still will have to make choices. In research focused on this issue, I studied the knowledge transfer relationships among several hundred scientists and found that when it comes to creating the right network for facilitating knowledge transfer, not all networks are equal. It’s … Read More »The post Going Outside of Comfort Zones to Bridge Silos — Ray Reagans appeared first on MIT Sloan Experts.
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