Miro Kazakoff

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Work and Organization Studies

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Behavioral and Policy Sciences

Miro Kazakoff is a Senior Lecturer in Managerial Communication at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he focuses on how individuals use data to persuade others.

At MIT, he developed MIT Sloan’s Communicating and Persuading With Data courses. His courses help individuals improve their ability to persuade within their organizations by speaking, writing, and visualizing data more effectively. He teaches a number of courses in the MBA, EMBA, Sloan Fellows and MFIN programs including Communication for Leaders, Communicating with Data, and Communication and Persuasion through Data for Executives.

Miro co-founded Testive, an education technology company that combines an adaptive online learning platform with live human coaching to help students meet their educational goals. Prior to that he worked in a variety of sales and client service roles at Hubspot, Compete.com (sold to media conglomerate WPP), and Bain & Co.

Miro holds a BA from Georgetown University where he studied English and Computer Science and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Honors

Kazakoff wins 2021 digital teaching award

Miro Kazakoff, Joseph Doyle, Kristin Forbes, Andrew Lo, Arathi Mehrotra, Nikolaos Trichakis, Adrien Verdelhan, and Sean Willems have each won a 2021 Teaching with Digital Technology Award from MIT for their work teaching on campus and/or remotely. These student-nominated awards recognize faculty and instructors who have used digital technology to improve teaching and learning for MIT students. This recognition also gives the MIT community the opportunity to learn from their innovative practices.

The awards are co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice Chancellor. This year students submitted a total of 230 nominations for 104 faculty and instructors, and 23 winners (35% from MIT Sloan) were selected by Dean for Digital Learning Krishna Rajagopal and Vice Chancellor Ian Waitz, in partnership with a panel of MIT students.

Kazakoff wins teaching award

Miro Kazakoff has won a 2020 Teaching with Digital Technology Award from MIT for his work teaching on campus and/or remotely. Kazakoff won the award along with fellow Sloan faculty members Kara Blackburn, Vivek Farias, Michelle Hanlon, Alexandre Jacquillat, Ben Shields, and Rodrigo Verdi. These student-nominated awards recognize faculty and instructors who have used digital technology to improve teaching and learning for MIT students. This recognition also gives the MIT community the opportunity to learn from their innovative practices. The awards were co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice Chancellor. This year, students submitted a total of 487 nominations for 232 faculty and instructors, and 30 winners were selected by Dean of Digital Learning Krishna Rajagopal and Vice Chancellor Ian Waitz, with help from MIT Open Learning staff.

Publications

Persuading with Data.

Kazakoff, Miro. MIT Press, 2022.

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The curse of knowledge: Why experts struggle to explain their work

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To be an effective actuary, it's not enough to calculate probability and risk accurately. You also need to accurately communicate your results.

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From numbers to narrative: How CPAs can tell stories with data

"One of the fundamental things accounting does is create these time frames so we can analyze data and make decisions."

Feb 1, 2023

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Press Source: TechRepublic

Why data storytelling in business matters more than ever

"Would-be data storytellers are coached to anticipate an audience's likely response to analysis."

Jul 20, 2021

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Kazakoff wins 2021 digital teaching award

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Recent Insights

MIT Sloan reading list: 7 books from 2022

The curse of knowledge: Why experts struggle to explain their work

Media Highlights

Delivering the facts

From numbers to narrative: How CPAs can tell stories with data

Why data storytelling in business matters more than ever

2020 Best & Brightest MBAs: Alfonso Martinez, MIT (Sloan)

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Kazakoff wins 2021 digital teaching award

Kazakoff wins teaching award

Publications

Recent Insights

MIT Sloan reading list: 7 books from 2022

The curse of knowledge: Why experts struggle to explain their work

Media Highlights

Delivering the facts

From numbers to narrative: How CPAs can tell stories with data

Why data storytelling in business matters more than ever

2020 Best & Brightest MBAs: Alfonso Martinez, MIT (Sloan)

Executive Education

Communicating Data Through Storytelling

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