MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership

Faculty

Bridging research and practice
An extraordinary team of internationally recognized ideamakers and problem solvers, the MIT Sloan faculty combines excellent academic credentials with extensive real-world experience. Many participants develop strong bonds with members of the faculty that can form the basis of a productive, lifelong relationship with MIT.

Among the faculty from MIT Sloan and other parts of MIT who actively teach in the program are:

Deborah Ancona
Seley Distinguished Professor of Management
Ancona has devised a new organizational structure — the “X-team” — that allows teams to manage complex tasks while facilitating movement across stages of the value chain and adapting to business environment changes.

Arnold I. Barnett
George Eastman Professor of Management
Barnett’s research specialty is applied mathematical modeling with a focus on problems of health and safety. His early work on homicide was presented to President Gerald Ford at the White House, and his analysis of U.S. casualties in Vietnam was the subject of a column by William F. Buckley. He has received the President’s Award and the Expository Writing Award from INFORMS in 1996 and in 2001, and is a Fellow of INFORMS. Barnett has been called “the nation’s leading expert” on aviation safety, and in 2002 received the President’s Citation from the Flight Safety Foundation for “truly outstanding contributions on behalf of safety.” He has been honored by students at MIT Sloan for outstanding teaching on ten occasions.

Gabriel R. Bitran
Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Professor of Management
Bitran researches supply and demand in service systems, capacity planning, technology selection, pricing of perishable and seasonal products, and understanding consumer behavior in highly interactive services like the Internet.

M. Diane Burton
Michael M. Koerner '49 Career Development Professorship
Burton's field of interest is employment relations in entrepreneurial companies and human resource management practices. In ongoing research, she is studying Silicon Valley startups, entrepreneurial teams, and executives' careers.

Michael A. Cusumano
Sloan Management Review Professor of Management
Cusumano is a best-selling author and expert in technology strategy and management. His research focuses on the computer software, automobile, and consumer electronics industries.

Arnoldo C. Hax
Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management
Co-creator of the “Delta Model,” which uncovers new sources of profitability in a networked economy, Hax studies strategic management and operations research, focusing on the development and implementation of formal strategic planning systems for businesses.

S. P. Kothari
Gordon Y Billard Professor of Accounting
Kothari's research focuses on financial reporting and capital markets, diversity in international accounting practices, use of employee stock options for compensating executives, evaluating investment performance, corporate uses of derivatives for hedging and speculation, and economic policy issues in India.

Andrew W. Lo
Harris & Harris Group Professor; Director
Andrew Lo is a widely recognized expert in financial engineering and computational finance. He is the director of the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, a research partnership between academia and industry designed to support and promote quantitative research in finance...

Richard M. Locke
Alvin J. Siteman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Political Science
Faculty chair of the MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership, Locke studies entrepreneurship in non-U.S. settings, economic adjustment and development, comparative labor relations, and political economy. He is co-creator of the Global Entrepreneurship Lab, which places students in internships with startup companies in emerging markets in developing countries.

Wanda J. Orlikowski
Eaton Peabody Chair of Communication Sciences & Professor of Information Technologies and Organization Studies
Orlikowski investigates the ongoing relationship between information technologies and organizations, with particular emphasis on structures, cultures, work practices, and change.

Nelson Repenning
Associate Professor of Management, System Dynamics Group
Nelson Repenning’s work focuses on understanding the factors that contribute to the successful implementation, execution, and design of business processes. Current research interests include organizational change, process improvement applied to new product design, and the development of cross-disciplinary management theory. His work draws on a number of modeling methods including simulation, non-linear dynamics, and game and contract theory.

Roberto Rigobon
Assistant Professor of Management
Rigobon focuses on the causes of balance-of-payments crises, financial crises, and the propagation of them across countries. He also studies how the U.S. Federal Reserve changes its interest rate policy when there are shocks to the stock market.

Edward B. Roberts
David Sarnoff Professor of the Management of Technology
Chairman of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center and cofounder of the MOT Program, Roberts studies high-tech startups. He examines the entrepreneurial approaches of existing companies, including internal ventures, corporate venture capital, and alliances between larger and emerging technology enterprises.

Duncan Simester
Associate Professor of Management Science
Simester investigates retail pricing and how customers form inferences about competitive prices from common marketing cues, such as sale signs, price endings, installment billing offers, and credit card logos.

John Sterman
Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management
Director of the System Dynamics Group, Sterman uses system dynamics — a framework for understanding complex situations — to examine how people approach complex decisions and why dysfunctional dynamics persist in organizations.

Thomas M. Stoker
Gordon Y Billard Professor of Economics in the Economics, Finance, Accounting Division
Stoker is a leading researcher in a new field of theory called semi-parametric econometrics, which combines traditional economic models with flexible statistical techniques. Stoker has recently applied these methods to studying worldwide carbon monoxide emissions, household gasoline demand, British unemployment, and productivity in U.S. coal mining.

John Van Maanen
Erwin H. Schell Professor of Organization Studies
Van Maanen focuses on occupational conflicts, organizational careers, and work routines, and studies people ethnographically — by living with them under the same conditions. Among the groups he has researched are Gloucester fishermen, Disneyland employees, U.S. patrol officers, and London detectives and their superiors.