MFin Alumni Events
MIT Sloan MFin on the Road receptions are a great way for applicants to get to know MIT Sloan by speaking with people who know it best — our alumni! Please join us for one of our MIT Sloan MFin on the Road presentations this year.
MIT Sloan MFin on the Road presentations are our best way to attract high quality applicants and deliver our message that MIT Sloan is the leader in finance education. Your presence is critical to the evening’s success, as applicants will look to you to get a feel of what their experience might be like.
At the end the presentation you will be asked to assist the MIT Sloan Admissions representative with the question-and-answer session. The Admissions Officers may ask you to focus on:
1. Your path before and after MIT Sloan,
2. Specific highlights about your time at MIT Sloan, and
3. How you have drawn upon the MIT Sloan network.
We encourage you to share your personal stories and highlight your achievements and the achievements of your classmates. We ask you not to speak about other schools, as this tends to leave a negative impression. Have fun, meet and greet the prospective applicants, and speak with as many as you can. They want to hear from you!
Registration and further details on times and locations of these events can be found at the links below.
MIT Sloan MFin on the Road 2012 |
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| Date | Location |
| June 18, 2012 | Hong Kong, SAR |
| June 26, 2012 | New York, NY |
| July 10, 2012 | London, UK |
| July 17, 2012 | Cambridge, MA |
| September 5, 2012 | New York, NY |
| September 12, 2012 | Paris, France |
| September 14, 2012 | Madrid, Spain |
| September 15, 2012 | Zurich, Switzerland |
| September 30, 2012 | Moscow, Russia |
| October 5, 2012 | Chicago, IL |
| October 6, 2012 | London, UK |
| October 18, 2012 | Cambridge, MA |
| October 25, 2012 | New York, NY |
| November 1, 2012 | Los Angeles, CA |
| November 3, 2012 | San Francisco, CA |
“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.”
“You could talk about watershed management and conservation of energy all you want. But until you put numbers to it and financial analysis to it, you’re not going to get much done. I came to business school to speak that language, speak with people in terms of numbers, financial numbers so that I can get projects done.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
"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."
“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!”
“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.”
“I can honestly say that when I was planning on coming to business school I never thought that witnessing the birth of a child would be included in the education. It was definitely an experience.”
“The concept behind enterprise architecture is that you have all these machines, you have all these business processes, you have all these people doing things, how do you make sure they all come together and achieve business objectives that make you more competitive.”
"The classroom itself is filled with so much collective brain power . . . it's obvious that I'm caught up in a room full of 124 of the brightest, most curious people from around the world."
“These companies are really excited to work with MIT students.They reach out to the community to set up these projects and are great to work with. They give us access to all their resources and are very open to us.”
“I took finance courses from Nobel laureates Franco Modigliani, Myron Scholes, and Robert Merton. That unbelievable experience led me to seek a PhD in finance and build a consulting and money management business that utilized options and hedging insights first taught to me by those legendary professors at MIT Sloan.”
