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Beginning in 2008, MIT Sloan students honor the achievements of their classmates through the Peer Recognition Awards. Given out at the monthly Town Hall meetings, the awards recognize individuals or teams whose contributions to the MIT Sloan community are novel or innovative; start new traditions or improve existing ones and expand opportunities; or are significantly beyond the usual call of duty.
Over the summer of 2009, four MIT Sloan students — Amanda Peyton, Ariel Santos, Brian Cantwell, and Sarah Park — approached the Career Development Office to ask for support in offering a social media workshop for MIT Sloan students.
Learn more about the social media workshops>>
In Spring 2009, the MIT Sloan-wide committee formerly known as Professional Standards began re-evaluating its mission and rebranded itself as the Values@MIT Sloan Committee. A key goal for the committee was to identify the core values of MIT Sloan's culture, which were ultimately recognized as Respect, Integrity, Collaboration, Innovation, and Positive Impact.
Learn more about the Values@MIT Sloan Committee >>
In the academic year's final Peer Recognition Award celebration, organizers of the MIT Sloan Sustainability Summit are distinguished for bringing together the April event capping off MIT's Earth Week activities. The summit focused on the growing awareness and need for businesses, governments, and academia to incorporate concepts of sustainability in their planning.
Learn more about MIT Sloan Sustainability Summit >>
Awilda Mendez and Haihong Sun, both MBA ’10, decided they wanted to take a group of students to the Middle East to learn more about the venture capital and private equity opportunities in that part of the globe. Organizing the trip took some work, but it paid off in the end — and earned the organizers a Peer Recognition Award. The companies the MIT Sloan contingent met were very interested in showing the group the nature of the VCPE climate in both Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The companies involved also indicated that they are looking forward to another visit by Sloanies in the future.
Learn more about MBA Program Spring Trips >>
MoMIT Lab launched its inaugural session of the mobile lab program, which pairs students interested in broadening their mobile industry experience with several mobile start-ups. The leadership team of MoMIT, Ayusman Sarangi, MBA ’10, Murali Govindaswamy, MBA ’10, and Dev Sengupta, MBA ’09, organized the student-run group to provide experience for students within the niche world of the mobile industry. MoMIT's ability to harness MIT Sloan's commitment to entrepreneurship and concept-based action learning has lead to positive feedback from both students and the companies involved, which will further benefit new participants as the program expands in Spring ’09.
When Shimrit Ben-Yair, MBA ’09, and Indrajit “Indy” Sen, MBA ’09, took the reins of MarketLab in Spring of 2008 they changed the scope of the student-run marketing and strategy consulting program to meet the broadening needs of its members. In 2008 MarketLab worked on 22 projects with companies like Estee Lauder, HBO, Reebok and more. From creating a new “Marketing Boot Camp” with Prof. Sharmila Chatterjee to recruiting new clients like Apple, HBO, and Time; MarketLab has seen some dynamic shifts this year which Sloanies can definitely use to better their relationship with the marketing and strategy world at large.
The MIT Sloan Management Consulting Club (MCC) has retooled and expanded its core programs in order to provide greater opportunity to its membership. As the financial crisis became more pronounced the MCC officers took it upon themselves to help members find ways to become more competitive in the tightening marketplace. With a mentor-matching program, alumni panels focused on boutique consulting firms, and a new program aimed at helping students gain practice at the day-to-day proceedings of consulting; the MCC has stepped up its game to better serve those interested in a career in the consulting world.
The weekly student-organized C-Function normally celebrates the food and music of a particular culture or country, but the organizers of the first ever Sustainability C-Function chose to show that ‘sustainability’ and ‘zero-waste’ are a culture in their own right. Events included a recycling relay race, a Project Runway-style competition highlighting recycled clothing, and a video on what sustainability means to the MIT Sloan community. With recycling and composting the Sustainability C-Function ended the night with only one bag of garbage and the organizers created a handbook on planning a sustainable event, trusting that future C-Functions will strive to be as sustainable.
Learn more about the Sustainability C-Function from the organizers of the event >>
MIT Sloan isn't just about business suits and study groups. Among the many annual activities students can count on to engage in some fun and fashion is the Fall Ball. In the midst of a busy first semester, the ball is an opportunity for new and returning students — and their significant others — to get to know one another over fine food, good music, and, of course, a little dancing.
Learn from the organizers on how the ball got rolling >>
The first MBA Sales Competition, held on Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007, and organized by the MIT Sloan Sales Club, gave 21 MBA students from leading business schools a chance to answer that question for themselves. Students came from HBS, Wharton, Yale, Kellogg, Babson, and MIT Sloan to compete for bragging rights and shiny trophies.
For more on the competition and the club, check out a report from the sales club >>
In only its second year, the Sports Business Conference has become one of the most popular and influential student-run conferences on campus. Addressing professional sports' growing reliance on analytics, the conference has attracted high-profile executives from the major sports and is a valuable resource for any student looking to break into sports management.
This student-driven calendar was created in response to the need to organize the myriad initiatives taking place at MIT Sloan. Cited by many Sloanies as “the most tangible improvement in their day-to-day lives this year,” the calendar has helped students discover — and choose — between the numerous activities that take place on campus every day.
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