Faculty
The diverse group of thinkers that comprise the MIT Sloan Faculty are working in a wide array of disciplines and industries. Business today is complex, fast-moving, and global, and MIT Sloan is uniquely positioned to provide the thought leadership and management solutions necessary to successfully navigate this complex landscape.
Current and former faculty include:
- Joshua Ackerman, among Poets & Quants’ World’s 40 Best Business-School Professors Under the Age of 40
- Thomas J. Allen, inventor of the Allen Curve, co-author of Lean Enterprise Value
- Arnold Barnett, leading expert on statistics and airline safety
- Richard Beckhard, pioneer in the field of Organizational Development
- Warren Bennis, leading expert on leadership and author of Leaders
- Fischer Black, co-inventor of the Black-Scholes option pricing model
- Erik Brynjolfsson, leading expert on information technology productivity
- Alberto Cavallo, co-founder of the Billion Prices Project
- John C. Cox, co-inventor of binomial options model and author of Options Markets
- Michael A. Cusumano, author of Competing on Internet Time
- Rudi Dornbusch, co-author of Macroeconomics and the Dornbusch Overshooting Model
- Stanley Fischer, co-author of Macroeconomics and Governor of the Bank of Israel
- Kristin Forbes, youngest-ever member of Council of Economic Advisers
- Jay Wright Forrester, system dynamics pioneer
- Renee Richardson Gosline, among Poets & Quants’ World’s 40 Best Business-School Professors Under the Age of 40
- Michael Hammer, creator of business process reengineering theory
- John R. Hauser, co-founder of Marketing Science
- Jerry A. Hausman, economist, 1985 John Bates Clark Medal recipient
- Thomas Kochan, leading expert on industrial relations
- S. P. Kothari, editor of the Journal of Accounting and Economics
- John Little, Institute Professor, founder of Marketing Science
- Thomas W. Malone, founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, author of The Future of Work, and original Wired magazine columnist
- Robert C. Merton, 1997 Nobel Laureate in Economics
- Douglas McGregor, inventor of “Theory X and Theory Y”
- Franco Modigliani, 1985 Nobel Laureate in Economics and co-author of the Modigliani-Miller theorem
- Stewart Myers, inventor of real option theory and author of Principles of Corporate Finance
- Roberto Rigobon, leading expert on Applied Economics and co-founder of the Billion Prices Project
- Edward B. Roberts, founder and chair of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center
- Stephen Ross, inventor of arbitrage pricing theory
- Paul Samuelson, first American Nobel Laureate in Economics, 1970
- Edgar Schein, inventor of the term “corporate culture”
- Myron S. Scholes, 1997 Nobel Laureate in Economics
- Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline, Fortune magazine top management guru
- George P. Shultz, former United States Secretary of State
- Robert Solow, 1987 Nobel Laureate in Economics
- John Sterman, leading expert on System Dynamics
- Tavneet Suri, among Poets & Quants’ World’s 40 Best Business-School Professors Under the Age of 40
- Zeynep Ton, among Poets & Quants’ World’s 40 Best Business-School Professors Under the Age of 40
- Eric von Hippel, leading authority on user innovation
“At MIT Sloan you have a lot of opportunities to explore entrepreneurship. Especially in a place like Kampala where you have a lot of development, entrepreneurship can be very exciting.”
"After we gave our recommendations, the great part was that the very next day the CEO was in the boardroom implementing them with his top vice presidents."
“Because of the diversity of our backgrounds, when we hit the ground in Tanzania it almost was a natural play where different people assume different roles.”
“It was really rewarding that they wanted to know what we thought. We left there being fairly certain that they will do some of the things that we suggested.”
“For 35 years, we’ve been studying how companies get value from information. … We try to help organizations take a more holistic view of what they are trying to do.”
“I came to Sloan because of its high rankings within the sustainability community, specifically the professors. The S-Lab class itself is part of what drew me to Sloan. And the reason I came to business school was to learn the business speak that really is what connects with people."
“I knew about American business, but not enough about what’s really become a global economy. … You can read about it all you want, but there’s no substitute for being there and seeing the context and seeing how completely different these [other countries] are.”
“The assistant to the CEO was like our host mom while we were there. She arranged our housing for us, she took us out to her friend’s game farm, and we got driven around in 4x4s. She was just wonderful to meet, and we developed a personal as well as professional relationship with her.”
“Our mission, along with the mission of MIT Sloan, is to both develop leaders who make a difference in the world, and also to make a contribution to thinking about the topic of leadership.”
“I love being in a place that is such a nexus of people and ideas — people coming to learn something new and to define themselves. Being a part of that process is a real honor and a real gift.”
“[The India Lab] program is one of the reasons I came to Sloan. ... The hands-on learning that MIT offers was a huge differentiator.”
“One of the reasons I came to Sloan was because I wanted to be at a top MBA institution worldwide. But I also wanted access to working with the latest innovations and the highest technology that was coming out of the MIT labs.”
“We’re very interdisciplinary. Among the faculty in the group are an economist, a political scientist, a sociologist, and an industrial relations specialist. We’ve always made a big effort to be open to a variety of perspectives, but also to go beyond being open to them, to want to bring them in, because it makes for a richer environment.”
“The conditions in the neighborhoods we were visiting were different than what we realized before getting there. Beyond that, what was surprising was that there weren’t surprises!”
“As the world begins to rebuild its financial infrastructure from the ashes of this economic crisis, I believe MIT is primely positioned to play a leadership role in shaping the future through its research and educational programs.”
Phillip James Cohen, MBA '13, talks about faculty at MIT Sloan
