Your own team of experts.
During your Sloan Fellows year, you will interact and brainstorm with members of the MIT Sloan Fellows faculty, who are renowned thought leaders and practitioners in their fields. Members of the MIT Sloan faculty integrate rigorous research and extensive real-world experience to solve contemporary problems in the workplace, the marketplace, and the world at large.
Working closely with these internationally respected industry leaders, you will build a prodigious set of business and leadership skills and an informed, expansive perspective on global enterprise. Members of the Sloan Fellows faculty are passionate collaborators who embrace the insights that Sloan Fellows bring to the table. Fellows and faculty often develop productive relationships, advising one another and developing joint innovations.
Here are a few of the outstanding faculty from across MIT and MIT Sloan who teach in the MIT Sloan Fellows Program:
Vivek Farias
Robert N. Noyce Career Development Professor, Associate Professor of Operations Management
Vivek Farias is interested in the development of new methodologies for large scale dynamic optimization under uncertainty, and the application of these methodologies to the design of practical revenue management strategies across various industries ranging from airlines and retail to online advertising.
Charles H. Fine
Chrysler Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management, Professor of Operations Management and Engineering Systems
Professor Charles Fine teaches operations strategy and supply chain management at MIT's Sloan School of Management and directs the roadmapping activities in MIT's Communications Futures Program.
Robert Freund
Theresa Seley Professor of Management Science, Professor of Operations Research
Robert Freund's research is in the area of large-scale mathematical models that optimize or improve the performance of management systems, such as personnel scheduling, capacity planning, transportation and routing, and portfolio selection. His practice-oriented research focuses on applying large mathematical models to complex management and engineering problems, while his more theory-oriented research concerns the underlying mathematical structure of optimization models in general.
Simon H. Johnson
Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship; Professor of Global Economics and Management
Simon Johnson is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C.; a cofounder of BaselineScenario.com; and a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Economic Advisers. He is a weekly contributor to NYT.com’s Economix and a contributing business editor at The Huffington Post.
Andrew W. Lo
Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor
Andrew Lo is a world-renowned 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.
Fiona E. Murray
Associate Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management; Faculty Director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
Fiona Murray studies science commercialization, the organization of scientific research, and the role of science in national competitiveness. She studies and teaches innovation and entrepreneurship, including the campus-wide iTeams course that is developing “go-to-market” strategies for breakthrough innovations developed in MIT labs.
Paul Osterman
Nanyang Technological University Professor; Professor of Human Resources and Management; Codirector, MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research
Paul Osterman’s research concerns changes in work organization within companies, career patterns and processes within firms, economic development, urban poverty, and public policy surrounding skills training and employment programs.
Ray E. Reagans
Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management; Associate Professor of Organization Studies
Ray Reagans studies the origin and influence of social capital on knowledge transfer, learning rates, and overall team performance. More specifically, he examines how demographic characteristics such as race, age, and gender affect the development of network relations. He also considers how particular network structures affect performance outcomes, including the transfer of knowledge among individuals and the productivity of research and development teams.
Nelson Repenning
Professor of System Dynamics
Nelson P. Repenning is an Associate Professor of Management Science and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His work focuses on understanding the factors that contribute to the successful implementation, execution, and improvement of business processes. Professor Repenning has received several awards for his work, including best paper recognition from both the California Management Review and the Journal of Product Innovation Management.
Jose Santos
Senior Lecturer, Global Economics and Management
Professor José F.P. dos (Joe) Santos started an academic career in engineering in the early seventies in his home town of Porto, but soon after moved into the managerial world. Twenty years later, Joe decided to retire from an intense and successful executive career after he held for ten years the position of MD of an Italian multinational group.
Andreas S. Schulz
Patrick J. McGovern (1959) Professor of Management; Professor of Operations Research
Andreas Schulz is a well-known expert in operations research—the science of making optimal decisions based on sophisticated mathematical models and analyses. Trained as a mathematician, his research advances the power of today’s optimization methods. His industrial collaborations include projects in telecommunications network design, vehicle routing, and scheduling.
Duncan Simester
Nanyang Technological University Professor; Professor of Marketing
Duncan Simester investigates retail pricing and how customers form inferences about competitive prices from common marketing cues. His current work explores the long-term costs of stockouts, the long-term impact of promotion decisions, dynamic catalog mailing decisions, and adaptive techniques for the optimal design of pricing and product decisions.
Ezra Zuckerman Sivan
Nanyang Technological University Professor, Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management, Chair MIT Sloan PhD Program
An economic sociologist with a focus on social network analysis, Ezra Zuckerman studies how social structures of various kinds emerge and influence behavior and key outcomes for individuals, teams, and organizations. Zuckerman's current research projects include a study of industry peer networks, exclusive groups of noncompeting peer firms from the same industry that gather on a regular basis to learn from one another's experiences and to motivate one another to achieve higher performance.
Thomas M. Stoker
Gordon Y Billard Professor in Management and Economics; Professor of Applied Economics
Thomas Stoker is a leading researcher in economic modeling, econometric methodology, and empirical analysis of economic relationships. His specialties include aggregation in economics and semi-parametric econometrics. He has done applications to a diverse range of empirical problems in economics, including consumer demand, energy demand and supply, housing wealth and consumption, and the study of unemployment.
John E. Van Maanen
Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management; Professor of Organization Studies
John Van Maanen studies groups of people the old-fashioned way: by living with them. Among the groups he has studied ethnographically are Gloucester fishermen, Disneyland ride operators, U.S. patrol officers, and London detectives and their supervisors. His recent studies examine the social history of the ethnographic understanding of work organizations and the various ways particular occupation identities take shape and change work settings.
Joseph Weber
Professor of Accounting
Joseph Weber specializes in empirical work on the importance of accounting information in financial contracts. His recent work documents how an innovation in the commercial debt market — performance pricing — allows for more efficient contracting by reducing the expected renegotiation costs of the contract. Weber's research has recently appeared in The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting Research, and the Journal of Accounting and Economics.
Supporting Senior Lecturers
Pat Bentley
Senior Lecturer, MIT Leadership Center
Pat Bentley is a business executive with more than 25 years of experience in consulting and sales. As vice president of Sapient Corporation, a technology consulting company, she spent 10 years as part of the leadership team that grew the firm from a small startup to 3,000 people with $500 million in annual revenues. She was a member of the core team that developed and led a leadership training program that was rolled out to 1,000 Sapient employees worldwide.
Neal Hartman
Senior Lecturer, Managerial Communication
Neal Hartman's teaching of management communication and intercultural communication emphasizes working in teams, conflict and conflict resolution, leadership, and cross-cultural communication. He has lectured on crosscultural, leadership, and organizational communication issues and has taught in the International MBA Programs at Tsinghua, Fudan, and Zhongshan (Lingnan College) Universities in China.
Christine Kelly
Senior Lecturer, Managerial Communication
Christine Kelly teaches management communication; communication as advocacy in workplace relationships; and organizational communication. She specializes in individual effectiveness in relation to interpersonal and communication skills, and learning and performance. Kelly has been involved in professional development programs for executives and business faculty from all over the world.
One thing that we do well at MIT Sloan is to take expert opinion and put it in terms that non-experts can not only understand, but relate to. My goal in all my teaching is to talk about economics without drawing supply and demand graphs on the blackboard or relying on mathematics. So, in a sense, that is a natural preparation for this role we are now playing, which is somewhere between public educators and advocates for what we regard as sensible policies.Simon H. Johnson
Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship, Professor of Global Economics and Management
