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MIT Sloan Prof. Jiang Wang will take on the role of dean at the new Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, which was established at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in April 2009. "Practical ability will be highlighted throughout the curriculum," Wang says.

"It's not surprising that we ignore the future and go about our business," Peter Senge, a professor at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, said in a sobering, 45-minute lecture during the Sustainable Cleveland 2019 Summit, describing a future as frightening as it will be tough to fix."

Richard Locke, deputy dean of the Sloan School of Management at MIT, has been a consistent voice for integrating social and economic concerns into curriculum and research. He has worked with Nike on its labor and environmental standards, and spearheaded the development of MIT Sloan's Laboratory for Sustainable Business (S-Lab), which focuses on the impact of business on climate change, water scarcity, energy needs, environmental degradation and labor issues. Locke recently visited Silicon Valley to meet with groups of MIT Sloan alumni, many of whom work at tech companies, including Apple, Cisco Systems, Google, Intel and NetApp. He talked to the Mercury News about sustainability and green technology."

It's not surprising that we ignore the future and go about our business," Peter Senge, a professor at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, said in a sobering, 45-minute lecture during the Sustainable Cleveland 2019 Summit, describing a future as frightening as it will be tough to fix."

MIT Sloan alumnus and Indian social activist Deep Joshi who did pioneering work for the development of rural communities, is among six Asian achievers chosen for the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay awards for 2009, considered the Asian equivalent of the Nobel Prize.

In the middle of her second year at the Sloan School of Management, Deborah Schapira left the comfortable confines of MIT's Cambridge campus for the village of Bukasa, 20 miles east of Uganda's capital, Kampala. Schapira, who was enrolled in MIT Sloan's Global Health Delivery class, was one of 53 students in six countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The five-month course includes three weeks of living in Africa during the school's independent study period in January. "These skills are very relevant in many careers, but especially for consulting," says Schapira in this profile piece.

Prof. Simon Johnson is quoted in a recent cover story in The Investment Professional about global politics shifting during the financial crisis.

Although ethics has always been a part of curriculum at MIT's Sloan School of Management, it may soon gain a larger presence. The school is testing what it calls an "ethics module" -- not an entire class, but a synthesis of the ethics taught in other business classes. The sessions are currently optional, but may soon become required, says Deputy Dean JoAnne Yates.

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo writes, "Recent neuroscientific research has shown that what we consider to be 'rational' behavior is the outcome of a balance among several brain functions, including emotion, logical deliberation and memory."

In this last journal entry, MIT Sloan alumna Jacklyn Sing writes, "Two years ago, I was getting ready for my MBA and had high expectations about the program. Now, as I am wrapping up the end of classes, I am grateful and amazed at how much MIT Sloan has surpassed my wildest aspirations."

MIT Sloan's Open Courseware is listed among five free learning resources for "inquisitive and ambitious professionals."

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Ed Roberts writes, "Estimates based on 2006 data revealed that living MIT alumni have founded or cofounded 25,800 companies that today employ 3.3 million people worldwide. The annual sales of these companies add up to about $2 trillion--the equivalent of the 11th-largest economy in the world."

At Fudan University's School of Management, the most popular choice among students remains the full-time International MBA program jointly offered with MIT Sloan School of Management.

"We live in a world where innovation now takes many forms, some of which are mediated by the network and depend fundamentally on access to information and freedom to operate. There are entirely novel forms of innovation, like the user-driven innovation studied by Eric Von Hippel at MIT.

MIT Sloan Prof. Mark Mortensen finds that firsthand experience in global collaborations is a crucial means of engendering trust from shared knowledge among coworkers.

In this editorial piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Emeritus Robert B. McKersie writes, "Barry Bluestone has put his finger on a major challenge that union leaders face: how to engage the big financial problems that municipalities face. However, he failed to complete the sentence: and not be voted out of office."

As Edgar H. Schein of the MIT Sloan School describes in his analysis of organizations as facilitators or inhibitors of organizational learning: "therein lies a problem because we are now talking about changing our mental models, our personal habits of perceiving, thinking and acting, and our relationships with others that are thoroughly embedded. We are talking about having to unlearn some things before new things can be learned."

Just months after an epic banking collapse forced Iceland into the arms of the I.M.F., Iceland is locked in a fierce debate over how to pay off its creditors without ceding too much of its vaunted independence. "When you impose austerity, it becomes very painful and comes at a cost," says MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson, a former I.M.F. economist. But many Icelanders are blaming the I.M.F. and in this case, he says, that is not warranted.

Edward B. Roberts of MIT's Sloan School compared MIT graduates who launched new technological companies with a control group of graduates who pursued other careers. The largest factor in predicting an entrepreneurial career in technology was an entrepreneurial father. Controlling for this factor, he discovered that Jews were five times more likely to start technological enterprises than other MIT graduates.

CEO Lloyd Blankfein's decision to hand over the full amount sought by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner reflects an effort by Goldman Sachs to defuse the public's anger at firms that took taxpayer money, says Simon Johnson, a finance professor at MIT Sloan.

In an excerpt from an MIT Sloan Management Review article by MIT Sloan's Glen Urban, John Hauser, and Michael Braun they write, "Now imagine a Web site that detects a visitor's cognitive style and morphs its look and feel to suit that style. A site like this will communicate well to many different people, and therefore create more sales. In fact, this process of Web site morphing is now possible. Web pages can modify to match customers' varying cognitive styles."

Growth in utilization rather than price, particularly since 1994, has been the primary driver of increased pharmaceutical spending, writes MIT Sloan Prof. Ernst Berndt in this research paper.

"My hunch is this recovery will be about consumers; businesses are going to continue hunkering down for a while," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson.

It wasn't clear that the Treasury wanted this to be a turning point, but that's the way it's worked out," says Simon Johnson, a former chief economist with the IMF, now a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Johnson says the markets took so kindly to CIT's quest for private-sector cash that the government "would feel pretty comfortable about" threatening bankruptcy for firms with less than $100 billion in assets.

In this interview, MIT Sloan Prof. Jeanne Ross says, "To date, for whatever reasons, few companies have built a foundation of digitized processes which facilitate agility throughout an organization."

The nation's biggest banks still enjoy federal support through borrowing or debt guarantees. So how far the government is willing to go with its hands-off policy is unclear. "The question is, does it only apply to the small- and medium-sized guys, or does it apply to everyone?" asks MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson.

Open source is based around the convenient fact that for 20 to 30 years, computing has happened on a user's local computer, says Benjamin Mako Hill, a senior researcher at MIT Sloan. One result is that open source philosophy and licenses are built around this highly individualistic use of software.

"I'm strongly suggesting that my students use the end-to-end business plan and financial forecasting development tool -- TheIdeaStartup platform -- for future development of their business plans in my New Enterprise course," says MIT Sloan Prof. Howard Anderson.

A look at recent cases and new research suggests that open-innovation models succeed only when carefully designed for a particular task and when the incentives are tailored to attract the most effective collaborators. "There is this misconception that you can sprinkle crowd wisdom on something and things will turn out for the best," says MIT's Prof. Thomas Malone. "That's not true. It's not magic."

MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Gustavo Manso says that in order to be creative, managers need to have space to fail and incentives need to be tailored to reward innovation.

Statistics reported by MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson in the May 2009 edition of The Atlantic -- that between 1948 and 1982, average compensation in the financial sector ranged between 99% and 108% of the average for all domestic private industries -- are referenced.

"By protecting large institutions and not small ones, the 'too-big-to-fail problem' gets worse," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. "We can expect to see that the big guys are going to keep getting bigger and the small guys are going to have to clean up their acts or go bankrupt."

Even with the recent uptick, flying on a commercial jet remains one of the safest forms of transportation: MIT professor Arnold Barnett calculates that the odds of a passenger dying on a large jet in the U.S. are about one in 20 million.

"A lot of people in both government and the nonprofit sector are recognizing that they need the help of MBAs," says MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Andrew Wolk. "MBA programs sometimes don't recognize that a new generation is emerging that cares equally about earning a living and how they do so."

MIT Sloan Prof. Emeritus Robert McKersie, 79, says he wants the genetic test for risk of Alzheimer's because his mother died of the disease. McKersie feels the test results might help him and his wife decide whether to stay in their house or consider moving to an assisted-living facility.

MIT Sloan Prof. Joseph Doyle studied the records of people in Wisconsin who were injured in severe automobile accidents and had no choice but to go to the hospital. He estimated that those who had no health insurance received 20 percent less care and had a death rate 37 percent higher than those with health insurance.

"It is too small to make a difference," says Simon Johnson, an economist with the MIT Sloan School of Management, adding that the failure of the program to restore banks' health would ultimately slow the economic recovery.

MIT Sloan Prof. Deborah Ancona says, "It seems impossible to even consider Sarah Palin a candidate for president. How could she move beyond the Katie Couric interview, the Alaska scandals and now last week's rambling speech announcing a midstream resignation? None of this displays leadership based on intellect, perseverance or strong moral conviction."

Cape Coral, Florida has $615.9 million in debt, a potential $40 million shortfall for the upcoming budget year and $14.2 million in reserves, which MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says won't prevent the city from borrowing. "But the issue is going to be what they pay for it, what the interest rates are."

Alex Hsi and Douglas Jardine, two students at MIT's Sloan School of Management, are using their BzzAgent base of operations to build an e-commerce company.

In the past six months, a number of top MBA and Executive MBA programs -- including MIT Sloan -- have partnered with Web-based search firms to offer students another way to find jobs in addition to the traditional MBA career services office.

MIT Sloan Fellow Ting Shih, co-founder of Click Diagnostics, Inc., has been focusing on ways to get software effectively deployed in developing countries. Shih will be testing systems this summer in South Africa, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya and Botswana.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson is quoted in a WSJ story about the popularity of financial news blogs.

MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein sat down with anchor Martin Soong during a recent media tour in Hong Kong to discuss the impact of the financial crisis on business education. "MIT has always been about innovation, of course, and the Sloan School of Management stands for the idea that organizations are the way that ideas change the world," he said.

In a series of video interviews with reporter Rebecca Knight, MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein shares his philosophy on 21st century management education.

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Ed Roberts writes, "Estimates based on 2006 data revealed that living MIT alumni have founded or cofounded 25,800 companies that today employ 3.3 million people worldwide. The annual sales of these companies add up to about $2 trillion--the equivalent of the 11th-largest economy in the world."

MIT Sloan says the Wall Street meltdown has prompted many in its Class of 2009 to consider careers outside the financial industry. MIT Sloan MBA Career Development Director Jackie Wilbur estimates that 80 to 85 percent of the class had a job offer by graduation, a 5 percent reduction from a year ago.

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced the creation of a $1 million annual business plan competition which will be modeled on, among others, the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship competition. One of the competition's founders is John Harthorne, a recent MIT Sloan School MBA graduate and a former winner of the $100K Competition.

Ethan Mollick is a researcher at MIT's Sloan School and coauthor of Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson fears that hopes of an immediate recovery have been greatly exaggerated, and thinks there is still a lot of nastiness that has to work its way through the system.

In a paper co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Ernst Berndt he writes, "Immunization has been one of the great successes in global health."

The GeoRM summit drew perhaps 50 for the daylong event, which included the Technical Meeting Plenary by the MIT Sloan School's Michael Schrage.

A study co-authored by MIT Sloan Assistant Prof. Ewa Sletten found that more powerful countries and countries with high quality corporate governance systems are less likely to adopt the International Financial Reporting System.

It was announced that MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo will deliver a speech entitled "Kill all the Quants"?: Models vs. Mania in the Current Financial Crisis during the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics on July 8.

Main Street businesses can shop a virtual international bazaar of freelancers to recruit computer programmers in Russia, graphic designers in San Francisco or data analysts in India. "This is one more step in the path to leveling the playing field between small and large businesses," says Thomas Malone, a professor at MIT Sloan and author of The Future of Work.

Another potential downside of decoupling could be a tsunami of capital from developed markets washing over emerging economies and inflating values, says Simon Johnson, a former chief economist for the IMF who is now a professor at the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

The [Boston] Globe has reported that the Times Co. has hired Goldman Sachs to handle potential bids for the newspaper. "Both parties recognized that they've got to put their best foot forward to get a buyer who can be successful," says MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan.

A new generation of online service marketplaces is giving small companies more opportunities than ever to find specialized expertise and affordable labor. MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Malone says, "A small-business person in a company of one can look to the world like a very large company and have access to all kinds of services -- and that's largely because of this kind of model."

After reviewing Obama's plan, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "There appears to be no mention that corporate governance within these large banks failed totally."

"The economy has become much more volatile, not just in the past year, but over the past 10 years," says MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson. "The ability to be agile in your infrastructure is what separates the winners from the losers ... cloud computing is one of the most important technologies that affect the ability to maintain that level of flexibility."

"Congress should carefully weigh any policies that could increase healthcare costs and reduce high-paying jobs, particularly during an economic downturn," says MIT Sloan Prof. Ernst Berndt.

In this interview, MIT Sloan's Peter Senge talks about, among other things, how his most recent book, The Necessary Revolution, details the way companies, often working collaboratively with NGOs, are embracing the challenges and opportunities around sustainability.

Iridium was a technologically visionary system of 66 satellites that promised -- and delivered -- telephone connectivity between any two points on the globe. "It was a triumph of technology over business," says Howard Anderson, founder of the Yankee Group, a technology research and consulting firm, and now a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Luckily, we have an academic here in Massachusetts who has dedicated the past few years to looking at the impact of noncompetes. Matt Marx, who recently joined the faculty of MIT's Sloan School of Management, has made three important findings about what noncompetes do.

"The Federal Reserve will keep interest rates very low for a long time. If you could borrow from the Fed, you have credit of a 1 percent interest rate, and there are many interesting investments around the world that offer some gains above that," says Simon Johnson, professor at MIT Sloan School of Management.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says he isn't surprised that bond fund manager Bill Gross is such a virulent foe of nationalization. As Johnson points out, Pimco is a major bondholder in some of the biggest banks, so nationalization would hurt his portfolio.

MIT Sloan's Peter Senge says, "Even as conditions in the world change dramatically, most businesses, governments and other large organizations continue to take the same kinds of institutional actions that they always have."

According to MIT Sloan researchers Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross, as IT spending increases and virtually every business interaction becomes increasingly digitized, new levels of IT savvy will be required for all managers - both IT and non-IT -- to transform firms' technology into a strategic asset that boosts margins.

In an excerpt from an MIT Sloan Management Review interview with MIT Sloan's Andrew Lo he says, "Many corporations did a terrible job in assessing and managing their risk exposures, with some of the most sophisticated companies reporting tens of billions of dollars in losses in a single quarter."

MIT Sloan School professor Sugata Roychowdhury examines the accrual choices made by outsourcing firms with links to U.S. congressional candidates during the 2004 elections, and specifically test for income-decreasing discretionary accruals. Evidence is consistent with firms using earnings management to reduce both direct political costs and the costs associated with causing embarrassment to affiliated political candidates.

Farmers led China's first stage of market reform after 1978, a golden age for rural advancement that ended in about 1993, according to Prof. Yasheng Huang at MIT

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan writes, "One of the biggest failures of the current labor law is that even after a majority of employees vote for union representation, only 56 percent of them achieve a first contract after two years."

"Most of the president's economic policies make sense, and his fiscal stimulus push has helped stabilize financial markets," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson in this interview.

Using the term "sustainability" does not spur society on to an ultimately better solution. Rather, it is a "negative vision," says MIT Sloan's Peter Senge, founder of the Society for Organizational Learning.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says the move by the 10 banks seeking to repay federal bailout money does signal "a restoration of their ability to raise capital, which is a crucially important development in the financial recovery."

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says that "a whole generation of policymakers has been mesmerized by Wall Street, always and utterly convinced that whatever banks said was true."

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan says a potential sale could come at a greatly reduced price -- and could mean drastic cuts in the [Boston] Globe's work force.

MIT Sloan Prof. Roberto Rigobon is finalizing a new index which will change the way countries measure inflation and allow it to be done on a daily basis.

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Joe Hadzima says, "the commitment of IPVision to address core challenges to integrating intellectual property and business strategy is driven by customer executives and experts."

Labor and media experts say a protracted dispute could further damage the Boston Globe or increase the risk of its closure. "It has to be a major commitment to rebuild the organization and to work together," says MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan. "They need to reframe the negotiations, and they need to face reality."

MIT Sloan Research Scientist George Westerman says, "As businesses rethink their approach to risk management, many are realizing that IT Risk is a fundamental aspect of business risk."

Although the worst moment passed when the financial system completely froze last October, "there are many challenges ahead, principally in the real economy," says MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang.

Banks are raising account fees because of a "mix of market power and opportunism," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson.

MIT Sloan Prof. Rodrigo Verdi disputes the notion that the U.S. would be at a disadvantage if it did not adopt IFRS wholesale. "In countries like the U.S., there may be minimal room for improvement because U.S. GAAP is already considered a high-quality accounting regime."

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson writes, "That while we are likely done with a panic or 'free fall' phase, we have only just begun to deal with the deeper problems revealed by the global financial crisis."

In states that require stronger privacy safeguards for medical records than is prescribed by the Federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the adoption of electronic medical records systems was 24 percent lower than in states without stronger privacy laws, according to a study co-authored by MIT Sloan Assistant Prof. Catherine Tucker.

Dean David Schmittlein and MIT Sloan Professor Deborah Ancona appear in a series of video interviews conducted by Financial Times reporter Rebecca Knight on the FT web site. They tackle such questions as the role of business schools can play in resolving the financial crisis and leading in uncertain times.

In this in-depth profile, MIT Sloan Prof. Deborah Ancona reveals that when she first started out as an academic at a different institution, a male faculty member took her aside and told her that the purple pumps she had on 'were not tenure track shoes'. "Everyone has a purple shoe story," says Ancona. "Success at an organization is not always judged by what's in the manual -- there's an unwritten culture, unwritten rules."

MIT Sloan's Peter Senge was listed at No. 35 among the Fast Company's 100 most creative people in business.

A group of MIT graduates won a small fortune - $100,000 - for developing a way to upgrade software while the computer keeps running. Their new company, Ksplice, took top prize in the 20th annual MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition.

In an opinion piece, MIT Sloan MBAs Sombit Mishra and Brian Cantwell write that "running the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition is a lot like running a startup. We spend most of our time raising money. We are underpaid (in fact, we aren't paid). Day or night, weekday or weekend, the job never really stops."

As a sign of the video industry's growing clout, MIT Sloan hosted its first conference devoted to the video game business.

Among the topics discussed at the MIT Sloan Gaming Conference were "serious games,""digital distribution" and "MMO business models" which featured a panel that included baseball's Curt Schilling, founder of Maynard-based 38 Studios LLC.

MIT Sloan alumnus Robert Thirsk is a member of a six-person crew that will live on the International Space Station for six months. On May 27, he and two other crewmates launched from Kazakhstan to join the other three already aboard the station.

SearchCIO.com covers the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium which took place in May 2009 on the MIT Sloan campus.

In an interview on Blog Talk Radio, MIT Sloan Prof. Ed Schein shares ideas for offering, giving and receiving help that deepens business and personal relationships.

Research by Dr. James Oldroyd of SKK University in alliance with MIT Sloan shows a growth of 7.5% in inside sales positions, which amounts to 800,000 remote selling jobs annually by 2012 while traditional outside sales or field sales positions are growing at only .5%.

A research paper published by MIT Sloan Prof. Gustavo Manso suggests that a mix of long-term incentives and golden parachutes will best spark creativity and innovation. He writes, "In a controlled laboratory experiment, we provide evidence that the combination of tolerance for failure and reward for long-term success is effective in motivating innovation."

A Sloan Foundation grant established the MIT School of Industrial Management in 1952 with the charge of educating the "ideal manager". The school was renamed in Sloan's honor as the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management.

In 2006, MIT Sloan permitted the GRE for applicants to their MBA programs. The policy, while common among Executive MBA programs, is still the exception at top-ranked full-time MBA programs.

Results from a study conducted, in part, by a group of researchers from MIT Sloan concluded that an important level of trust between people can be achieved only by spending time with each other, learning each other's customs and observing how each other works and thinks.

In this interview, Dr. Ishwar Dayal of IIM-L credits the collaboration with MIT Sloan for the success of the IIIM Kolkata MBA program.

Researchers at MIT Sloan and IBM Research and found that the average e-mail contact was worth $948 in revenue.

A team of MIT Sloan MBA students chose Destiny, Florida from among many other organizations as their project in the MIT Laboratory for Sustainable Business (S-Lab).

MIT Sloan secured the 10th position in the FT 2009 Executive Education open enrollment rankings, up from 19 in 2008.

In this interview, MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson says, "The paradox of thrift is the idea that you try -- everyone tries to increase their savings, so desired savings goes up, thrift being savings, but the act of trying to save pulls down the entire economy, gives you a big recession or maybe even a depression, and total savings don't go up. Maybe they even go down. So everyone trying to save leads to a big slowdown and less savings. That's a paradox."

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says that although he thinks the economy is bottoming out, the main question is if the shape of the recovery is a "V-shape" or an "L-shape."

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson discusses the stimulus plan. "The math around the precise jobs saved is fuzzy and very much open to criticism, but the big picture is the overall financial system is stabilizing", he says.

In this commentary, a credit card study performed by MIT Sloan Profs. Drazen Prelec and Duncan Simester are cited.

"A number of U.S. companies have looked with trepidation on the situation in Finland and at the magnitude of the investment there," says Paul L. Joskow, a professor of economics at MIT, and a co-author of an influential report on the future of nuclear power in 2003. "The rollout of new nuclear reactors will be a good deal slower than a lot of people were assuming."

MIT Sloan's Peter Senge believes systems theory provides the type of discipline and toolset needed to encourage people to see "interrelationships rather than things, to see patterns of change rather than static 'snapshots.'"

Banks are raising account fees because of a "mix of market power and opportunism," says Simon Johnson, a former chief economist for the International Monetary Fund who teaches at MIT Sloan. "They are supposed to act in the interest of shareholders, so they're gouging consumers."

In an opinion piece by MIT Sloan Assistant Prof. Gustavo Manso, he asserts that a growing body of research in economics and finance shows the best way to encourage innovation is by tolerating early failure while rewarding long-term success.

"People look back now and say they overdid it; they should have raised rates earlier," MIT economist Simon Johnson says. "This is kind of a rerun. They could make mistakes on both sides."

The new dean of Stanford's Graduate School of Business is former MIT Sloan faculty member Garth Saloner, an economist, popular teacher, and a leader in management education.

MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang argues that slowing rural income growth, not high savings rates, was the main reason consumption had fallen as a percentage of GDP in the past two decades. "The theory is that Chinese save too much ... My view is that the problem is slow income growth, especially among the rural population," Huang says.

All large players, from mutual, hedge and pension funds to banks and insurance companies, should have to pay a levy in proportion to the extent to which they heighten risk in the overall system in order to prevent further financial crises, says MIT Sloan Professor Andrew Lo.

The field of System Dynamics, a discipline founded by MIT Sloan Prof. Emeritus Jay Forrester in 1956, provides insight into modern day economic problems. As abstract as the title is, the concept is simple: when you introduce an artificial construct into a natural system, the system tends to reject it.

MIT Sloan Prof. Eric Von Hippel has studied how users create new products or modify existing products to make them work in novel ways. He refutes the common perception that innovation comes from a formalized product development process managed by a company.

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Malone suggests that CIOs will become Chief Organizational Officers. That prompted Jeanne Ross, director of the MIT Sloan's Center for Information Systems Research, to say that the CIO title should be redubbed Strategy Execution Officer, not to be confused with another SEO (search engine optimization.

MIT Sloan Prof. Paul Osterman says he's been working with the Industrial Areas Foundation in the Southwest for about 15 years. "The reason I do that is because when it comes to labor market issues...economic justice, when it comes to thinking about how to fix the economy and how to improve the lives of people, there is literally no other network, no other organization in this country with a better set of ideas, a better set of models."

At SAP's annual user conference, MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson participated in a roundtable discussion for industry analysts and press in an attempt to deliver some clarity to the age-old conflict between CFO and CIO.

Change could eliminate current incentives for employers to delay and stall negotiations and will dramatically reduce the delay, frustration and animosity generated by the company-dominated system. MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan says, "The process could be set up to allow for a neutral arbitrator, an employer-chosen arbitrator and a union-chosen arbitrator."

In this opinion piece MIT Sloan Prof. Arnold Barnett writes, "There are various proposals to alter or abolish the Electoral College, perhaps the most conspicuous being a scheme to move to a national popular vote through an agreement among states."

A research paper published by MIT Sloan Prof. Gustavo Manso describes a business experiment -- involving that entrepreneurial archetype, the lemonade stand -- suggesting that a mix of long-term incentives and golden parachutes will best spark creativity and innovation

"In previous research we have found a correlation between the investment in technology and improved performance," says MIT Sloan's Erik Brynjolfsson. "The higher the investment in technology, the higher the performance in terms of productivity metrics."

MIT Sloan Prof. Eric von Hippel co-surveyed 216 members of Outdoorseiten.net, a community of 8,300 German, Austrian and Swiss hikers about their brand preferences, and found that people were very interested in buying hiking products that displayed their clubs' logos.

A study of first-contract negotiations co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas A. Kochan found that even after a majority of workers voted for a union, they actually reached a contractual agreement with management only 56 percent of the time.

Some economists, including MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson, say our financial system would be healthier if we jettisoned massive banks, instead relying on a network of regional banks and community banks

"The broad lesson for the IT shop is to look beyond the IT shop and not just focus on cutting costs there. You need to reach out and touch the other parts of the organization," says Erik Brynjolfsson of the MIT Sloan School of Management.

It was announced that MIT Sloan Assistant Prof. Tavneet Suri would participate as a discussant in a finance and development workshop on May 20 at the University of Chicago.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson believes that, in the context of low income countries having been severely affected by the global economic downturn, the G20 summit, by contributing to the stabilization of the world's financial system, has had a "positive effect."

When a state has health privacy laws in place, it reduces the likelihood a hospital will adopt an electronic medical record system by 20 to 30 percent, according to a study by MIT Sloan Prof. Catherine Tucker. "What we found is that when we were talking to hospitals, a lot of the costs came because these state laws are very different and so it meant that a vendor couldn't sell a standardized solution," she says.

You gain two types of knowledge when you spend time in another place," says MIT Sloan Prof. Mark Mortensen. "If, for example, you spend some time in Tokyo you learn about the customs, the way people work, their way of thinking. But there is also what we call reflected knowledge -- you also learn how the way they see you, the way your home office comes across."

MIT Sloan Visiting Associate Prof. Alan MacCormack will be among experts travelling to Malaysia in July to conduct courses and practical workshops on soft skills and management skills.

In an opinion piece, Simon Johnson writes, "The biggest risk now is that the Federal Reserve and the Treasury try to re-leverage our way out of a Japanese-style prolonged recession by flooding the economy with cheap credit -- like they did in 2002, but to an even greater degree."

In recent research papers, MIT Sloan Assistant Prof. Gustavo Manso asserts that, among businesses on experimentation for innovation, incentives that don't penalize failure and promote long-term success lead to more innovative business strategies than fixed-wage or pay-for-performance incentives. MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Pierre Azoulay served as a co-author on one of the papers.

"Regulators' whole strategy is 'wait and see,' to buy time for the economy to recover. It's just stall tactics," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson.

MIT Sloan Visiting Professor Irving Wladawsky-Berger was cited as an affiliate of Mercator XXI, a professional services firm helping clients engage the global economy.

A white paper released by MIT Sloan Prof. Ernst Berndt and Mark Trusheim of MIT shows that eliminating FDA's preemption protection would decrease patients' access to life-enhancing medical devices, increase health care costs and reduce medical device industry employment.

Michael Siegel, a professor at MIT Sloan, says he thought small rural hospitals in western Massachusetts "could very much benefit from an open-source system, but they're not."

"What needs to happen is a lot more coordination of these privacy laws so hospitals don't have to deal with these patchwork systems," says Catherine Tucker, assistant professor of marketing at MIT Sloan.

"Banks that are too big to fail must now be considered too big to exist," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson.

In Shanghai GDP has grown dramatically compared with the national average, but household income is not growing relative to GDP. MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang believes that a high savings rate is not the problem: low income growth is to blame.

Attrition among minorities has not been formally quantified, but anecdotal evidence from workforce specialists indicates that it is a chronic problem. This troubling trend can be mitigated through education, says MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan. "Adults don't change attitudes, but they can learn to be more effective workers with the right skills sets."

Most experts don't think a swine-flu outbreak by itself would eliminate many U.S. jobs or severely worsen the economy. MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson envisions only a "small hit" to economic activity in the United States -- just a few tenths of 1 percentage point.

The start-up company Ksplice Inc, founded by MIT engineering graduates Jeff Arnold and its chief operating officer Waseem Daher, recently beat five finalists to clinch top prize in this year's MIT Entrepreneurship Competition -- which apart from bragging rights included $100,000 in start-up funds.

MIT Sloan doctoral candidate Joe Hsueh was awarded a Beyster Fellowship at Rutgers University to build an educational computer simulation on the dynamic effects of alternative investment strategies, timing of those strategies for a technology start-up, and tradeoffs of decisions related to compensation and ownership.

"There are plenty of similarities between playing a game well and operating a successful enterprise. When we use games in controlled ways, what they do they teach well," says Ethan Mollick, a Ph.D candidate at MIT Sloan.

On a panel during MIT Sloan's recent Sports Analytics Conference, Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke admitted that all he wants from any game is for his fans to see a few goals, a donnybrook or two and, hopefully, a win.

Students from MIT Sloan were among a group of business students who participated in a 'war game' exercise whereby students take on the roles of key industry players in an effort to imagine how the battle to digitize America's health records will play out.

"The teams at the top of the standings have them," Dean Oliver, director of quantitative analysis for the [Denver] Nuggets, said at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in March. "The teams at the bottom don't."

"BlackBerry use allows for increased communication during down time, and a reduction of moment-to-moment stress," says a report by Melissa Mazmanian of MIT Sloan. ""However, expectations of responsiveness have intensified and become taken for granted. Users report an unrelenting desire for information and a drive to monitor incoming messages, which they explain as a need to reduce their anxiety of being disconnected."

Mass High Tech profiled the five finalists gearing up for the final competition in this year's MIT $100K competition.

In many ways, it wouldn't be surprising if MBA applications peaked in 2009, if that is indeed what preliminary registration numbers indicate as it is not tenable that such large increases could last for much longer. "At some point, it's going to drop," says Rod Garcia, director of MBA admissions at MIT Sloan.

Since receiving her MBA from MIT Sloan in June 2008, Talene Najarian has been pursuing various volunteer opportunities. "I hope to contribute to an organization currently making a tangible impact on the wellbeing of people in Armenia."

Broadpoint Capital, Inc., a broker-dealer subsidiary of Broadpoint Securities Group, Inc., announced that Geoffrey Harris has joined the firm's investment banking division as a Managing Director.

MIT Sloan alumnus Alexis Chevriere was listed among the GFI Informatique Board of Directors.

MIT Sloan alumnus Narendra Patni will step down as CEO from his long reign in Patni, the company he founded fresh out of MIT Sloan

The Escala Group announced that MIT Sloan alumnus Jeffrey D. Benjamin has joined its Board of Directors.

MIT Sloan alumnus Ed Parks was named Vice President of Engineering at Agilence, Inc., a leader in intelligent video analysis solutions.

MIT Sloan alumnus Daryl Morey uses statistical models for scouting and player evaluation, but don't even think about asking him to divulge details. This is proprietary, cutting-edge stuff. Or, as Mavericks owner Mark Cuban put it at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytic conference, "Everybody is looking for the secret sauce. And if we find it, we don't want to share it."

MIT Sloan alumnus Anand Daniel was chosen as a judge for The TYE Business Plan Competition. The mission of TYE is to inspire and empower today's youth to be entrepreneurs, by engaging them in an exciting mix of programs.

In a video conversation, MIT Sloan alumna Robin Chase discusses future forms of ride-sharing, car-sharing, and public transportation.

It was announced that MIT Sloan alumnus Randal Pinkett would be the keynote speaker at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore commencement on May 15.

Thirty-five participants in a business strategy-and-forecasting exercise were students from four graduate business schools including MIT Sloan.

Matthew Marx, who will be joining the MIT Sloan faculty in 2009-2010, was among the winners of the 2009 Harvard Business School Doctoral Program Wyss Awards for Excellence in Doctoral Research.

In this blog posting, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson writes, "By choosing instead forbearance and 'earn out' through high profits, the Treasury has made it much easier for financial interests to oppose re-regulation of any kind. Presumably this means we'll end up -- again -- with less regulation than is prudent or fair."

A presentation in which Eric Von Hippel showcased a number of interesting innovations that his team has uncovered in urban slums throughout the developing world is referenced.

MIT Sloan alumnus Jeffrey Stibel offers seven ways to be happier at work. First among them -- Smile.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson writes that banks will continue to receive a great deal of financial support in the form of credit from the Federal Reserve and debt guarantees from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. This is good for bank stockholders, but not necessarily helpful for the economic recovery.

MIT Sloan School professor Thomas Malone addresses the mental models that impede management progress, the role of collective intelligence in solving climate problems, and his view of how wrong people are about what business is for.

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang writes, "Shanghai trails Hong Kong in financial talent, but arguably this is the least important gap. The most significant ingredient in the making of a successful capital market is a vibrant entrepreneurial base. After all, a capital market exists to serve the needs of entrepreneurs, not the other way around."

MIT Sloan Professors Simon Johnson and Kristin Forbes were named economic advisers for 2009 and 2010 by the Congressional Budget Office.

Named for computer engineer Jay Wright Forrester, a professor at MIT Sloan and the founder of an analytical process known as System Dynamics, the Forrester Effect uses feedback to analyze supply-chain disturbances.

MIT Sloan's MBA program ranked fifth in this year's annual rankings of 426 master's programs in business accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International in fall 2008 and early 2009. Data provided by the schools was used to calculate rankings based on a weighted average of a range of indicators, including program quality as assessed by the deans and directors of peer schools as well as recruiters, graduate placement success and student selectivity

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo writes that financial engineering is no more responsible for the crisis than aerospace engineering was responsible for the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion in 1986. In both cases, incorrect human judgments involving inappropriate uses of technology led to disaster.

In this opinion piece co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson, he writes that "Bernanke has become the country's economist in chief, the banker for the United States and perhaps the world, and has employed every weapon in the Federal Reserve's arsenal."

In mid-march, eight students from MIT Sloan's China Lab teamed up with three business schools across China to provide market strategies and competitive analysis in a practice platform.

One of the most important causes of the current financial crisis is the fact that accounting -- the language in which banks and other corporations communicate, strategise, and plan -- is inherently backward-looking, writes MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo in this opinion piece.

This story examines ways that international students are financing an MBA at top-ranked colleges including MIT Sloan.

Attivio's Chief Executive Officer Ali Riaz will be delivering a luncheon keynote address at the 2009 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium where more than 500 CIOs, CTOs, and senior technology executives from across the globe will gather to confer.

MIT Sloan is among the top 10 MBA programs in the world that now accept the GRE General Test.

According to research by MIT Sloan School's Center for Information Systems, companies with mature, strong IT Governance earn at least a 20 percent higher return on assets than organizations with little or no governance.

Prestigious institutes such as the Sloan School at MIT and Kellogg are devising attractive programs to rope in students from all walks of life and have all reported double-digit rise in applications.

"There was hope with Cerberus, that they would add managerial skill, and turn Chrysler around," Antoinette Schoar, a professor at MIT, told The Times. "It's difficult to say whether the private equity firm did a good enough job, or, were they just caught in this?"

MIT Sloan's Global Entrepreneurship Laboratory is cited as a program that gives students experience working with startups in emerging markets.

MIT Sloan Assistant Prof. Gustavo Manso and a collaborator wrote, "In a controlled experiment, we provide evidence that the combination of tolerance for failure and reward for long-term success is effective in motivating innovation."

Researchers at MIT Sloan and IBM Research found that the average e-mail contact was worth $948 in revenue.

According to a global survey of more than 500 MBA programs by the Graduate Management Admission Council, 77% have reported a rise in applications from potential students this year, up from 64% last year. MIT Sloan School reported double-digit rises in applications.

The MS in Finance is growing in popularity, and the economic meltdown may create new opportunities for grads. MIT Sloan will launch a degree in finance this fall.

A new MIT Sloan study so far suggests that a greater degree of interdisciplinary collaboration within universities may lead to more entrepreneurship and technology transfer -- but only to an extent.

During this one-on-one interview with Bill Moyers, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "The government has a broader set of public policy initiatives. One of them is save the banks. Others are help consumers and some auto companies."

When it comes to America's current economic woes, MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson says that the U.S. suffers from "financial oligarchies" -- government officials and elite members of the financial sector that run the country like a profit-seeking company

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "Remember, the idea of the government is to try and force banks to sell some of these toxic assets and encourage hedge funds and other investors to buy them at a higher price than they would otherwise."

A new study by MIT Sloan Prof. Rodrigo Verdi found evidence suggesting that some companies opportunistically select their peers to justify higher CEO compensation.

"The crisis hits China's private sector really hard because China's private sector accounts for a larger share of China's manufactured exports," says Yasheng Huang, an MIT professor who wrote about the rising power of SOEs in his 2008 book, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics.

The U.S. could use its antitrust laws to dictate the right size for banks, says Simon Johnson, now a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management in the May issue of The Atlantic magazine.

Most experts don't think a swine-flu outbreak by itself would eliminate many U.S. jobs or severely worsen the economy. MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson envisions only a "small hit" to economic activity in the United States -- just a few tenths of 1 percentage point.

The Godfather is a management book, writes MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Howard Anderson. "It puts Peter Drucker to shame; it makes Good to Great about as relevant as Mr. Rogers"

The Fed asked banks not to reveal their results during quarterly earnings announcements earlier this month. Regulators worry investors might punish banks without good news to announce. "Mostly, it was a buying-time strategy," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson.

Former MIT Sloan economist Fischer Black was the first of his kind -- a serious academic, with publications under his belt and a tenured position to boot -- to make the move to Wall Street, putting theory into practice and risking the scorn of his ivory tower colleagues.

In a congressional hearing this week, MIT economist Simon Johnson argued that Europe may have a weaker economic recovery than the United States because its bank assets are more concentrated in very large firms.

In this interview, MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson says, "The point is you don't throw banks into Chapter 11 because that is destructive. But you manage a bankruptcy process -- it's not nationalization, it's a government-run receivership.

Mike Grandinetti, senior lecturer at MIT Sloan, is slated to speak at the Indus Entrepreneur TiECON East conference on May 21-22, 2009. This year's theme is `Sustainable Innovation.'

A recent study by MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas A. Kochan found that among those who garnered enough support for a union election, only one in five attempts actually saw a union contract from their employer.

Deflation is not just a Spanish concern. "It doesn't mean it will spread here to the U.S., but we need to look closely at Spain and other places to understand the dynamic," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson, "It's like the front line of a new virus outbreak."

MIT Sloan Prof. Howard Anderson says, "If I were a Sun customer, I was starting to get nervous about Sun. I was worried about their viability. I'm not worried about that anymore. I know that Oracle is going to be there."

Converting preferred stock into common stock could show lawmakers how far regulators will go to buy time for financial firms that need more capital, according to MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. "In some ways, it's an appeal for money. The stress test is going to say they need capital. ... So at some level, they're communicating with Congress."

Studies by the MIT Sloan School's Erik Brynjolfsson and others show that organizations across a range of industries were able to take advantage of new IT capabilities only after making substantial changes.

"The strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown, and that's been characteristic of this crisis from the beginning," says MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo. "The traumatic events of 2008 will lead to potential damaging behavior on the part of investors unless they are aware of the hyperstimulated emotional state they're in."

A research study co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan found that only one in five cases that filed a National Labor Relations Board election petition ultimately reached a first contract between workers and management.

It was announced that Robert Faletra, CEO of Everything Channel, would speak at the third annual MIT Sloan Sales Conference on Friday, April 17 and participate on a CEO Roundtable moderated by MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Peter Kurzina.

According to MIT Professor Thomas Kochan, arbitrators make decisions that reflect what is occurring in comparable jurisdictions, and there is a widely shared norm among arbitrators that contract innovations arebest left to the parties to negotiate on their own.

A study co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Catherine Tucker suggests that there's a tradeoff between achieving fast adoption of electronic medical records and strong health-care privacy. "What we found was that privacy laws are getting in the way of hospitals trying to exchange information with each other," Tucker says.

"There is a clear correlation between economic distress and social distress," said Paul Osterman, professor of Human Resources and Management at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. "Underemployment is not good news for families."

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson points out that a key gauge of investor confidence -- the market for credit default swaps -- shows that some investors have been making big bets that the risk is growing that struggling banks like Citigroup and Bank of America will collapse.

It was announced that remarks from MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson would be featured at the Smart Globalization conference, hosted by the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, on April 23.

"Energy entrepreneurship is different. You can't treat it the same as other types of entrepreneurship," says William Aulet, senior lecturer at MIT, which sponsors an annual $100K Entrepreneurship Competition that includes a clean-energy award.

Forte and its member schools have talked to thousands of women to explain the value of the MBA. "We market not just the schools," says Julie Strong, an admissions officer at MIT Sloan. "We market the MBA as a whole."

Research by MIT Sloan Visiting Scholar M. Shayne Gary found that the "boom and bust" dynamics experienced by many businesses are caused by decision errors and biases that can be avoided.

President Obama recently selected former MIT Sloan Associate Prof. Lael Brainard as undersecretary for international affairs in the Treasury Department.

"We and others are funding start-ups as slowly as possible, or not at all," says Howard Anderson, a founding partner of Battery Ventures and a senior lecturer at MIT.

In this interview, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson states that "The IMF was set up as part of a U.S.-run postwar system and those traditions last. So, the IMF would always be extremely reluctant to do anything that would seem like criticism of any current administration."

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says that despite the banking collapse, financial leaders such as Warren Buffett have retained surprising control over the government. "There's this general presumption that Wall Street knows best. But they may not know best for the taxpayer," he says.

In addition to his hefty agenda at home, Obama "is trying to prevent the rest of the world from imploding," says Simon Johnson, a former International Monetary Fund economist who is now a professor at MIT Sloan.

Europeans and Americans don't always see eye to eye -- and how to solve the global financial crisis is no exception. "The Europeans think there's a danger of overdoing it," says Simon Johnson, a former International Monetary Fund chief economist, now a professor at MIT Sloan.

MIT Sloan Prof. Edgar Schein has described two principles for organizations that want to transform to a new business process: the "survival anxiety" or guilt must be greater than the "learning anxiety."

A number of applicants turned out for a recent online chat with Julie Strong, senior associate director for MBA Admissions at MIT Sloan, and Jennifer Burke Barba, assistant director of MBA Admissions at MIT Sloan.

Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of One Laptop per Child, is the slated keynote speaker at MIT Sloan's XII Annual Latin Conference on May 2, 2009.

MIT Sloan School of management will kick off its first Business in Gaming Conference with a keynote from 2K Boston president and BioShock creator Ken Levine, student organizers announced.

Digital distribution, marketing, and in-game advertising are the themes of MIT Sloan School of Management's inaugural Business in Gaming Conference being held on Friday, May 8, 2009 on the business school's campus.

In this blog entry, MIT Sloan MBAs Carter Dunn and Mahesh Konduru write, "In our conversations with a select pool of people, there was a near unanimous agreement that MIT Sloan is indeed a fertile ground for aspiring entrepreneurs."

It was announced that on Wednesday, May 27, 2009, the Russian space agency (Roskosmos) will launch a Soyuz rocket into space from Baikonur, Kazahkstan, for Expedition 20/21. Sitting inside will be MIT Sloan alumnus Robert Thirsk, the first Canadian astronaut to launch with Russia as well as the first Canadian to undertake a long-duration mission in space.

In the aftermath of one of the most devastating years in financial market history, many investors tend to doubt whether their investment strategies have really helped them achieve their objectives, writes Bancha Serngadichaivit, a graduate of MIT Sloan, and an executive at Bangkok Bank and a director and the public awareness chair of the CFA Society of Thailand.

PIMCO announced that MIT Sloan alumnus Guillermo Osses has been promoted to executive vice president.

MIT Sloan alumnus Andrew Luan, a former CDO trader at Deutsche Bank in New York, quit his job to go work as a tour guide around the city's financial district.

MIT Sloan alumnus William H. Rodgers III passed away on March 19 after a 6-year battle with cancer. He was 64.

The achievements of MIT Sloan alumnus Kofi Annan are highlighted on his 70th birthday. Annan's unwavering dedication to human rights earned him a Nobel Peace Prize, among many other accolades.

Corn Products International, Inc. announced that its board of directors has appointed MIT Sloan alumna Ilene Gordon chairman, president and chief executive officer.

It was announced that MIT Sloan alumnus George Weyerhaeuser Jr. will make a keynote presentation at the 2009 International Conference on Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry on June 23-26, 2009 in Edmonton, Alberta Canada.

MasterCard Worldwide announced the appointment of MIT Sloan alumnus Vicky S. Bindra, 44, as president, Asia/Pacific Middle East Africa region. Mr. Bindra, will join MasterCard on June 1, 2009.

"The NCAA tournament, in 63 games, makes more TV money than the local TV money for the entire NBA regular season of 1,200-plus games," MIT Sloan alumnus and Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey said at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in March. "It would be hard to tell the owners you'd have to take a revenue hit, but you might get it back later because more people are tuning in."

MIT Sloan alumna Robin Chase, the CEO of carpooling venture GoLoco.org and co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, will speak at SUNY Oswego's dual Commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 16, 2009.

Simon Johnson, economist and professor at MIT Sloan School of Management, says he's in favor of FDIC-style takeover resolutions, "which is different from coming in and taking the situation as is and putting in a crony."

The Washington Post today launches "The Hearing," a blog that discusses the key economic policy questions being debated in Washington. Simon Johnson and James Kwak will write the blog.

Simon Johnson, as a professor at MIT, says that the BRIC coordination is both noteworthy and a good sign. "If the BRIC came together, they'd be stronger relative to the G7."

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson questions whether leading financial institutions have enough capital to muddle through, or if, instead, their solvency problems are so serious that we will experience continuing reduction in lending (often known as deleveraging), a deeper recession and a slower recovery.

MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson argues that the U.S. should invoke anti-trust laws to break up Wall Street, whose power poses a material threat to the American economy.

A blog posting reads: In a fascinating piece in the latest issue of The Atlantic, Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, outlines what he sees as the alarming influence of Wall Street firms over the American economy. He expounds on his thesis in our interview, making several points.

Joint Economic (9:30 a.m.): Holds a hearing on "Too Big to Fail or Too Big to Save? Examining the Systemic Threats of Large Financial Institutions." Joseph Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel Prize recipient, professor at Columbia University and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers; Simon Johnson, professor of entrepreneurship at MIT's Sloan School of Management; and Thomas Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, testify.

The International Monetary Fund's forecast is a "bottom up" aggregation of macroeconomic views on specific countries, put together in a mutually consistent manner by experienced economists, blogs MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson.

An article that cites MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson's piece in The Atlantic is listed as one of the top stories of the week.

Do such rallies indicate anything more than investors desperate to find good news anywhere? Or do they suggest a real return of confidence? The editors at the NYT asked MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson for his analysis.

The IBM collaboration with MIT Sloan tracked the electronic communications of over 7,000 volunteers for three years. The aim of the work was to put a dollar amount on the effect of those electronic and virtual relationships.

MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson expounds on his recent article in The Atlantic, explaining how Wall Street and Washington, D.C., have come together to form the "most advanced oligarchy" in the world, why the stress tests on the nation's biggest banks fall short, how he thinks nationalization will take place, and why we're most likely to suffer an "L" shaped recovery.

A January MIT Sloan Management Review interview with MIT Sloan Prof. John Sterman is posted. It reads, "The personal isn't always part of the conversation, but I really do believe that we can't have a sustainable society if people are constantly overworked, burned out, sleep deprived, and don't have time for friendships or relationships or community, for participating in civil society.

In this interview, MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein shares his thoughts about the recession's impact on corporate America, entrepreneurs, and the ambitions of business school students.

The current crop of business school students faces decidedly different prospects than their predecessors did, says MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein. "It's tough. This is not an easy time to come out of any kind of school environment, undergrad or MBA."

A working paper co-authored by MIT Prof. Stephen Ross on contrarian traders is referenced.

"In its depth and suddenness, the U.S. economic and financial crisis is shockingly reminiscent of moments we have recently seen in emerging markets (and only in emerging markets): South Korea (1997), Malaysia (1998), Russia and Argentina (time and again)," writes MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson in this opinion piece.

While many advisors suggest holding tight until the stock market recovers, MIT Sloan visiting professor Zvi Bodie says investors need to face some painful facts. "Stocks are risky," says Bodie, "To rely on them for what you really need is a bad idea."

In better times, generous paychecks and computational challenges attracted physicists and engineers to Wall Street, but some experts now blame them for the crash. Andrew Lo, a financial engineer at MIT, discusses why Wall Street needs these number crunchers more than ever.

Simon Johnson writes, "Even before the G20 summit begins, world leaders have decided not to address the major questions of the day: how to adjust monetary policy around the world, how to save Europe from itself (difficult but still doable), and how to break the political and economic power of major banks."

In this opinion piece, co-writer Simon Johnson asserts, "The problem in the market today is that the prices demanded by the banks are much higher than the prices that private buyers (hedge funds, private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds) are willing to pay."

In this opinion piece co-written by Simon Johnson, he says, "The argument that AIG's traders are the people that we must depend on to save the United States economy is as weak and self-serving as it was in Thailand, Korea or Indonesia. AIG is essentially advocating survival of the weakest. Thankfully, the American people are not buying it."

An MIT Sloan study finding that 44 percent of the time America's newly unionized workers lack a collective bargaining agreement a year after voting for union representation is referenced.

In a piece examining the leadership agenda among business schools, The Financial Times recent rankings are cited (MIT Sloan came in at No. 9).

MIT Sloan Management Review, which is published at MIT Sloan, has launched a multi-year collaboration with The Boston Consulting Group that will "explore emerging thinking on sustainability and its implications for business strategy and organization.

The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium recognized Vivek Kundra, Federal Chief Information Officer at the White House, among outstanding IT innovators.

Newly elected Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim participated in inter-disciplinary work at MIT Sloan.

Skolkovo and MIT Sloan announced a series of joint programs that will strengthen the Russian school's international capacity, while exposing Sloan's faculty and students to different global challenges.

MIT launched its Transportation@MIT program, a two-year pilot program that combines the efforts of the Institute's School of Engineering, the School of Architecture and Planning, and MIT Sloan.

LFM Senior Lecturer, Steven Spear, discusses the prospects for General Motors Corp.'s restructuring plan.

Amitay Kalmar, MIT Sloan MBA '10, discusses the 2009 Israel Trek during which students gained a better understanding of Israel and its economy and business landscape.

MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson spars with host Stephen Colbert Simon Johnson while explaining why America's economy resembles an unstable, emerging market.

The median net worth of the average black family is 10 times less than that of the average white family, a 2006 National Urban League report found. Those reasons make good sense, says Zvi Bodie, a visiting professor at MIT.

In this interview, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says that things in Great Britain and Europe are very bad.

"[Obama's] obviously got a lot of charisma and it's his first big meeting. And I think people tend to be very polite in these situations but there could also be a level of awkwardness there," says Simon Johnson, a former IMF chief economist who is now a professor at MIT.

Many manufacturing companies turn to outsourcing to save labor costs, however cost-saving measures are available right on their factory floors, according to research by MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer John Carrier.

Given the inevitability that these countries will have a growing influence, the London summit meeting is likely to be remembered "as the last hurrah for the U.S. and Europe rescuing the world economy," says Simon Johnson, a professor at MIT.

MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson is slated to share his view on the global financial crisis in a conference call hosted by Wall Street Access.

In 1996, MIT Sloan's Lester Thurow described the state of the global economy as "punctuated equilibrium", a metaphor for the evolutionary biology term meaning a sudden change in the order of things.

"There is a clear correlation between economic distress and social distress," says MIT Sloan Prof. Paul Osterman. "Underemployment is not good news for families."

Visible Measures, Inc. has raised $10 million in a Series C round bringing its total venture investment to $29.3 million --- with a 2006 seed round from five angel investors, including MIT Entrepreneurship Center Chairman Edward Roberts.

Increasingly during the current financial crisis, reporters have been banking on Simon Johnson of MIT Sloan for analysis and advice.

Andrew Lo, head of the MIT's Financial Innovation Laboratory, has merged behavioral and efficient markets theory using Darwinian biology. In his 'adaptive markets hypothesis', markets behave efficiently during periods of calm.

Looking at the U.S. crisis, Beijing feels its economic philosophy vindicated, says Yasheng Huang of MIT. "Today's situation is much more severe. Today you have the most efficient private enterprises in trouble, not Communist relics."

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Ken Zolot says "I am delighted to be joining the Kauffman Foundation team as a senior fellow as we look out over the economic future and embark on a new approach for increasing both the number of new companies formed and the chances of success for these ventures."

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo says, "Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism. Financial losses are a byproduct of innovation, but disruptions and dislocations are greatly magnified when risks have been incorrectly assessed and incorrectly assigned."

"The political reality has changed," says Simon Johnson, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund who is now at MIT. "The new bailout climate is troubling. It could make it difficult for the Obama team to sell its plan."

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johns believes the TALF program could help revive the consumer credit market, but at this point, "most Wall Street bankers would rather be attacked by wild dogs than take part."

"If I were running a country, I wouldn't want the IMF in a headline unless it's something like, 'Poland tells the IMF to stuff it,' says Simon Johnson, a former IMF chief economist who is now a professor at MIT."

Research by two MIT economists, Drazen Prelec and Duncan Simester, found that a group using credit cards offered much more for items--in one case, more than twice as much--despite the fact that the experiment was arranged so as to make paying in cash easy and convenient"

Global open innovation marketplace InnoCentive, Inc. appointed MIT Sloan's Eric von Hippel to its advisory board.

In this interview, MIT Sloan Prof. Emeritus Jay Forrester speaks about the intersection of sustainability and management.

If it acquired Sun, I.B.M. "would unify those warring groups and make for a stronger front against Microsoft," says MIT Sloan Prof. Michael A. Cusumano.

MIT Sloan Prof. Glen Urban plans to analyze Web users' surfing habits to determine their thinking styles -- such as whether they are most influenced by verbal or visual messages or if they are more holistic or analytical -- and how to tailor ads accordingly.

MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang argues that what visitors see when they visit Shanghai is a mirage. He says that far from being a free-market paradise, Shanghai is the creation of a controlling communist government.

At the moment, equities are moving too early, says Andrew Lo, professor of finance at MIT. "We are not yet seeing any glimmers of an economic recovery."

MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang's book, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics, is reviewed. The book relates the epic tale of rural Chinese entrepreneurship between 1980 and 1990, in which striving businessmen built firms of substantial scale in the poorest provinces.

There's widespread agreement among the world's biggest countries that the current global financial and economic crises require global solutions. But as leaders from twenty of those countries gathered to offer solutions, that may be about all they can agree on. "I think they're pretty disunified," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. "But they don't obviously want to present that too publicly."

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo is sharing a five-year, $22 million BofA grant with the Center for Future Banking at MIT's Media Lab. BofA is supporting research on technological and quantitative themes, such as data mining and behavioral economics.

Because Bank of America has rescinded job offers it had made to students requiring H-1B sponsorship, some fear students who have traditionally studied in the US to get a job in North America may go elsewhere. "There might be an inclination for people from around the world to vote with their feet," says MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein.

"I'm worried about what happens when you see that a Greece or an Ireland that might need bailouts," says Simon Johnson, an MIT economics professor and former IMF chief economist. "Where is the money going to come from?"

In an interview, MIT Sloan Prof. Paul Osterman discusses his new book, The Truth About Middle Managers and the plight of middle managers in a down economy.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "This country is very good at producing great engineers and recruiting them from all around the world. I'm predicting a wave of entrepreneurship. It will kick in right away, but you won't see the full impact for five years."

Letting insolvent institutions linger results in a "massive destruction in value [of the banks and a] looting in these companies by management," says MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson.

A study co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Damon Centola found that Internet users gravitate to the same social cliques online that they occupy in the real world. On the bright side, Centola says, cliquishness can actually be good for the world.

If the nation makes the switch from oil to natural gas to run its vehicles, will it simply be trading one foreign-dependent fuel for another? The answer is, probably. But to what extent is very hard to say. "Welcome to uncertainty," says Gordon Kaufman, a professor emeritus and oil and gas expert at the MIT Sloan School.

In an extract from the sustainability section of the book, The 80 Minute MBA: Everything You'll Never Learn at Business School, MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein says, "It's not a story of 28-year-olds trying to save the world, it's a story of managing cataclysmic change."

The 30 or so students taking MIT Sloan Prof. Fiona Murray's Innovation Team (I-team) course divide into three- or four-person teams that analyze inventions' potential and recommend a means of bringing it to market.

According to a government-sponsored survey, only about 17 percent of the nation's physicians are using computerized patient records. "This is really not a technology problem," observes MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson. "It's a matter of incentives and market failure."

In testimony before the House Financial Services Committee last fall, MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo called for establishing a permanent, independent government agency modeled on the National Transportation Safety Board to study failures in the financial markets.

According to Debbie Berechman, executive director of the MBA program at MIT Sloan, "Obama's commitment to lessen the US dependence on fossil fuel and MIT's alternative energy initiatives are good examples of a potential partnership forged from a common vision."

"Wall Street's not going to be a great place to work for the next couple of years," says Chad Lovell, 29, a second-year student at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Lovell interned at Barclays Capital in New York last summer but passed on a full-time job offer there in favor of a strategic planning post at industrial conglomerate Emerson Electric Co. in St. Louis after he graduates in June.

A team of MBA students from MIT Sloan and international MBA program of China's Tsinghua University are teaming up in Beijing on an interactive project to help Chinese money-lender CreditEase sharpen its marketing strategies.

On Friday, April 3, the 6th Annual MIT Sloan Private Equity Symposium will address the evolution of investment strategies in a changing economic and financing environment.

The MIT Sloan Sales Conference, taking place on 4/17/09, will offer an agenda geared towards selling in the current economic crisis, as well as sessions on CEO leadership challenges, lessons from past recessions, innovative sales models, and workshops on technology.

MIT Sloan student Jimmy Bartolotta was among the 2009 recipients of the Jostens Trophy, which recognizes outstanding student-athletes in NCAA Division III basketball for excellence in the classroom, on the playing court, and in the community.

MIT Sloan students participated in the "2009 Antigua Study Tour" from March 18-27 to investigate and resolve issues facing senior management in local organizations rooted in the Antiguan economy.

Students from MIT Sloan were among the competitors in the Association for Corporate Growth, Inc. Cup, a regional Mergers and Acquisitions case competition.

The Baseball Analytics panel was excellent and gave amazing insight into how analytics are used not only by people who write about them, but also by the teams themselves.

The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference brought analytics and fact-driven decision-making to the world of sports. Or, in the words of ESPN writer Bill Simmons, "it's a complete dorkapalooza."

At the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, front office executives discussed potential strategies for gathering and analyzing data on such things as a player's passion, defense skills, and team chemistry, as well as on the fan experience.

At the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, Dallas Maverick's owner Marc Cuban said that a win is only worth about a half million dollars to a team's bottom line, so that rebuilding teams with low salary structures are often the most profitable.

The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, which brought a total of five ESPN.com writers and editors to town, resulted in extra coverage of the two Boston Celtics home games played that weekend.

At the MIT Sloan Sports Analytic Conference, participants learned that as statistics become more prevalent, NBA teams will become better at making informed decisions about which players to trade, which ones to draft, which ones to put on the floor together, and when.

The 20th MIT $100K Business Plan Competition has attracted 260 submissions -- a $100K record, according to co-managing directors Sombit Mishra and Brian Cantwell. The two first-year MIT Sloan students say they've seen a surge in the energy and web/IT services categories.

MIT student Geoffrey von Maltzahn, co-founder of startup company Resonance Therapeutics, was awarded the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Inventions. The startup is working with a team from MIT Sloan on developing its business plan.

MIT Sloan student Mahesh Konduru writes, "Notwithstanding the lull in traditional hiring, industries recruiting for general management, operations, marketing, strategy and sales functions has been active. Some students who had their minds set on traditional MBA internships are re-evaluating their interests and strengths and are finding other avenues to learn during summer."

Students from MIT Sloan were among the competitors in the 8th annual Leeds Net Impact Case Competition on February 20-21. The competition hosts rising business leaders from MBA programs from around the nation to help find solutions to corporate sustainability issues.

Offshore energy explorer Cnooc appointed MIT Sloan alumnus Yang Hua as its president.

MIT Sloan alumnus Alex Min is among the founders of Terrafugia, a company which is developing The Transition, a "roadable" aircraft.

MIT Sloan alumnus Joseph Skerritt and the company he founded, Proper Cloth, are profiled. Proper Cloth is a New York-based e-commerce dress shirt company that allows shoppers to mix and match fabrics while using computer-generated tailoring for the right fit.

When asked what brought him to an MIT Enterprise Forum's event, MIT Sloan alumnus Michael Parduhn said, "I'm looking for a job."

In February 2003, MIT Sloan alumna Robin Chase, founder of Zipcar, was forced out by the company's Board of Directors. "I'm gleeful about the engine of capitalism, but it has some very negative, destructive aspects," she says. "We see it around us now: Extreme greed. Shocking arrogance."

Randy Avent, a graduate of MIT Sloan's Greater Boston Executive Program, is a finalist in Texas Tech University's vice presidential search.

It's a difficult time for a brand new biotech firm to be drumming up interest in a novel approach to delivering drugs, with investors snubbing so many firms with drugs already in clinical trials. But the market conditions haven't stopped MIT Sloan alumna Elisabet de los Pinos from raising more than $3 million in an initial financing for her new company Aura Biosciences.

At their Annual General Meeting in Hong Kong, the members of International Stainless Steel Forum elected MIT Sloan alumni Pascal Payet-Gaspard to succeed Dr. Staffan Malm as Secretary General.

Energy Conversion Devices Inc., a manufacturer of thin-film flexible solar laminate products for the building integrated and commercial rooftop markets, named MIT Sloan alumnus Ken Fox Chief Marketing Officer.

MIT Sloan alumnus George Peel Chandler passed away on March 6 in a car accident in San Diego. Chandler headed the U.S. Small Business Administration's San Diego district office for 25 years and retired in September 2005.

MIT Sloan alumna Dayna Cunningham says, "Without a prior agenda-setting discourse enabling African American communities to arrive at some collective decisions about their shared future, I can't imagine either innovation in support of, or accountability to, black concerns."

MIT Sloan alumnus William Reinhardt is a candidate for the Office of Selectman for the town of St. George, Maine.

Simon Johnson, an MIT professor and former IMF chief economist, has been particularly smart and scary on both upcoming policy decisions and wider structural problems that still need to be addressed in the economy.

According to a recent study by MIT Sloan Prof. Jared Curhan, money played a lesser role in job satisfaction and retention.

MIT Sloan Prof. John Sterman and Dr. Bob Corell presented the Climate-Rapid Overview and Decision Support Simulator (C-ROADS), a user-friendly, interactive computer model of the climate system, in an event hosted by the American Meteorological Society. Senator John Kerry provided the introduction and context.

A chart by Simon Johnson of MIT shows the price you have to pay if you want insurance against a company such as Citigroup who is defaulting on a bond you might own. The higher the price, the worse shape the market thinks that company is in.

MIT Sloan School of Management is extending its international influence through an agreement with Skolkovo, the Moscow-based business school set up by entrepreneur Ruben Vardanian.

Dean David Schmittlein says that the Skolkovo effort "ties into MIT Sloan's mission, which is to develop principled, innovative leaders who improve the world.

MIT Sloan Prof. Lester Thurow defines the American middle class as the group with incomes lying between 75% and 125% of the median.

MIT Sloan Prof. Leigh Hafrey is among faculty from leading business schools who have visited IIPM as part of its global exposure initiative.

According to Yasheng Huang, an economist at MIT, explicitly state-controlled firms make up half the economy. That probably understates the true effect, because even private firms understand that their existence depends on their relations with the state.

MIT Sloan ranked number seven among the 2009 BusinessWeek Best Undergraduate Business Schools, up two spots from 2008.

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan senior lecturer Neal Hartman writes that it is important to understand that people perceive uncertainty in different ways and managers should nurture the idea among stakeholders that uncertainty brings possibilities, rather than seeing it just as a threat.

The MIT Admissions Office predicts that total applications will be up 15 percent from last year. The figure does not include MIT Sloan, which has yet to report its numbers and, if it follows the trend for other business schools, promises its own impressive set of applicant growth.

Arnold Barnett, an MIT professor and expert in accident statistics, says the risk of dying on a flight has not changed markedly by the recent crashes. The odds of a passenger dying on a jet flight in developed nations is less than one in 20 million, he says.

InsideSales.com was awarded a patent for the invention of Web based phone services. The company pioneered the concept and technology behind lead response management in conjunction with research done at MIT Sloan.

MIT Sloan is cited among a group of top business schools using the Education Testing Service GRE-GMAT comparison tool that allows a student to apply to business school with a GRE score.

Dean Bernard Ramanantsoa of HEC Paris discusses HEC's global push including its new partnership with MIT Sloan.

One school that has found a replacement lender is MIT Sloan School of Management.

OpenCourseWare business offerings like those provided by MIT Sloan have seen an increase, says Steve Carson, external relations director for MIT OpenCourseWare.

MIT Sloan's new building on Main Street, aimed to serve as the central nexus of the Sloan campus, is among the major construction projects on the MIT campus. The building is slated for completion in the summer of 2010.

In an interview with Bill Moyers, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says that the U.S. financial system reminds him more of the embattled emerging markets he encountered in his time with the International Monetary Fund than that of a developed nation.

MIT's Simon Johnson says, "What many Indians really need is access to the kinds of technology, capital, infrastructure, that would allow them to increase productivity ten times. They would still be considerably poorer than we are, but this would lift hundreds of millions out of poverty and save many children's lives."

MIT's Simon Johnson says, "I'd like to give people money. And if they choose to save it, or use it to reduce their credit card debt, that would be fine with me. Remember that we have a pretty serious 'balance sheet' problem in this economy."

Last year, private-equity firm Lone Star Funds bought up nearly $6.7 billion of Merrill Lynch's credit debt obligations at 22 cents on the dollar. Could that be the private model the Treasury Department wants others to duplicate? Simon Johnson, a professor at MIT and a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, offers his insights.

MIT's Simon Johnson thinks that if the government didn't overpay for the bad assets, the "Bad Banks" idea has some merit.

MIT economist Simon Johnson warns that we're in for an 'L-shaped' recession that could, if we're lucky, become a 'bathtub-shaped' recession.

By the time regulators get a handle on one investment class, a slew of new ones have been created. "This is a cycle that goes on and on--and will continue to get repeated," says MIT Sloan Prof. Peter Wysocki.

Dean David Schmittlein says that these are times of change and challenge all over the country, and management education is no exception.

Dean David Schmittlein says, "Any firm that is involved in the cutting edge of providing new kinds of value is very much of interest to our students."

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says that it's definitely tougher to get a loan these days. "If you think of there being three types of borrowers: Really creditworthy, medium creditworthy, and somewhat dubious."

In his new book, The Truth About Middle Managers, MIT Sloan Prof. Paul Osterman writes, "Middle managers are the glue that holds organizations together.

"Most Wall Streeters agree that a large number of such bonds--amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars, perhaps trillions--are worth far less than their stated, or par, value. How much less is central to resolving the financial crisis. "It's an informational nightmare," says Andrew Lo, director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering.

Simon Johnson says, "The main Chinese concern is with exchange rate policy rather than voting weights."

The Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, and other banking regulators say they can convert the government's stock in the banks from preferred shares to common shares. "I don't think this is the end solution. It is a very haphazard way of trying to deal with the problems and simply postponing the inevitable -- more bank failures and takeovers by the FDIC," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson.

According to MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson, "It's one big trans-Atlantic money market out there, and these banks lend money to each other all the time. Deutsche Bank and UBS and Goldman Sachs and Citi are all intertwined."

Simon Johnson, a former IMF chief economist at MIT, says: "We are seeing the consequences of the lack of IMF resources. Programs are probably undersized because the IMF is worried about running out of money."

A study by MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Mark Kritzman measuring the long-term impact of all expenses involved in investing in a mutual fund or hedge fund is referenced.

"It's a European issue, but the U.S. can show leadership," said Simon Johnson, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and now a professor at MIT.

"Given the magnitude of market movements caused by hedge funds in 2007 and 2008, it is now known that hedge funds are no longer a little niche industry for sophisticated investors and have come of age," says MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson expects more students will become entrepreneurs, especially those with a "tech story," mirroring a trend seen in 2001.

Simon Johnson, an economics professor at MIT and a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, says many people might take a dim view of the TALF program because it provided government subsidies to investors like hedge funds.

The MIT Sloan executive education course, Implementing Radical Innovation, uses company visits and team projects to help managers identify new opportunities in a shaky economy. "Innovation is the only real answer in tough economic times -- see GM today as a crystal clear example," says senior lecturer Bill Aulet.

According to the new study by Ed Roberts and Charles Eesley entitled, "Entrepreneurial Impact: The Role of MIT," if the active companies founded by MIT graduates formed an independent nation, their revenues would make that nation at least the seventeenth largest economy in the world.

"It's very difficult to imagine that the manufacturers or the unions will give up what they need to give up if they each think the government, ultimately, will bail them out," says MIT Sloan Prof. Michael Cusumano. "The bottom line is that we should have let them go bankrupt a few months ago, because it is the only way to avoid months and months of posturing."

"My general sense is that lately, TSA has been kind of sensible. Frequent travelers understand the routine, and it's not so bad now," says MIT Sloan Prof. Arnold Barnett. In fact, aviation security in the U.S. has improved enough "to be on par with Western Europe, and that's a significant advance," he says.

"Variety is good for consumers," says MIT management professor Michael Cusumano. "At this point, the more competition Microsoft and Intel have, the better it is for the rest of us."

Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, now a professor at MIT, says the G7 was "asleep at the wheel", adding: "[The meeting] was a great opportunity for this group of leading industrial countries to reassert its leadership in the global economy."

A study co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Pierre Azoulay found that the loss of a superstar scientist can be surprisingly hard on collaborators left behind, who often experience a significant and permanent loss of productivity.

Even though small businesses employ about half of the nation's work force, they will get little aid from Washington in the near future according to MIT Sloan Prof. Howard Anderson. "The small businessman who looks to rely on the government for help is the one who isn't going to make it out of the recession."

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "When I talk to experts, after about two minutes they say, 'We should just nationalize'. That tells me that the consensus is moving in this direction, and we are all just afraid to say it."

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Peter Senge's book, The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World, is cited.

Simon Johnson, an economist at MIT, estimates that the United States banks have a capital shortage of $500 billion. "In a more severe recession, it will take $1 trillion or so to properly capitalize the banks"

Investors have no faith in banks' own reporting of their financial health, says MIT Sloan Prof. Jeffrey Ng. "Even when banks report positive numbers, investors still have little confidence that these assets have any significant value."

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says the term "depression" refers to a significant contraction that lasts around five years.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says that to be successful, the Obama administration's program needed to be simpler and more transparent than the stabilization measures taken by the Bush administration under the unpopular TARP program. "Unless you are transparent, you'll get a massive backlash against the scheme."

Edgar Schein, a professor of management at MIT, gained fame in the 1960s for his work on the concept of 'career anchors'. For Schein, people are generally motivated by eight anchors - priorities that define how they see themselves and their work.

President Obama unveiled his plan to prohibit firms getting emergency aid from paying top execs more than $500,000 annually in cash. "This plan doesn't look very meaningful," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. "The issue at these companies is the lack of effective owners, and things like pay limits don't change that.

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Malone, director of the CCI, says that applications like Wikipedia, Linux, and YouTube hint at the potential of collective intelligence. Malone believes similar developments could improve doctors' diagnoses and scientists' ability to address climate change.

"The advantage of customization is not as great as it used to be," says Donald Rosenfield, director of the MIT Leaders for Manufacturing program. "But the direct model still has some advantages."

In a live online chat, Simon Johnson of MIT says, "Nationalization means different things to different people, or different countries. In its pure form, it means government ownership and control, of a firm or bank."

"You're going to see a lot more rhetoric out of leaders against protectionism, but what really matters is their policies," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. "And there are worrying signs right now that they may not be so serious about stopping protectionism."

"Many forget that it is a basic right in America for workers to unionize. It's easy to lose sight after years of Reagan and Bushes, where union activity has been all but considered un-American. "People need them more than ever," says Thomas Kochan, an MIT professor of work and employment relations and a strong union supporter who spoke at the meeting.

Effective IT governance translates into noticeably stronger earnings, says MIT Sloan Senior Research Scientist Peter Weill. Weill co-conducted a survey of CIOs of 256 U.S. and foreign companies and found that outfits whose boards made sure they had strong IT governance and exercised it generated profits 20% higher than those with similar business strategies but weak IT oversight.

"You're going to see a lot more rhetoric out of leaders against protectionism, but what really matters is their policies," said Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and a professor of economics at MIT.

Yasheng Huang, a professor at MIT, says corruption and a deeply flawed model of economic reform had led to a collapse in personal income growth and a wealth gap that could leave China looking like a Latin American economy.

Recycled prose is easy for admissions officers to spot, says Julie Strong, senior associate director for MBA admissions at MIT Sloan. A word-for-word regurgitation of previous talking points is "really detrimental," she says. "It's like plagiarism of your own work."

Rochelle Weichman, executive director of MIT Sloan Executive Education, discusses how the program is adapting to the economic slowdown, and which executive programs have taken a front seat in 2009. Weichman says, "Many of the companies contacting us now are asking us to be sure to include content around leadership and leading change."

MIT Sloan Director of Career Development Jackie Wilbur says ,"We are encouraging our students to create parallel search paths to broaden their options this year."

Friday Night Supper Program, a local nonprofit organization serving approximately 200 guests every Friday, was the recipient of $8,365, proceeds raised from an auction held by members of the 2010 class at MIT Sloan.

Meghan Gallery enrolled at MIT Sloan in September with hopes of working on mergers and acquisitions at an investment bank. Now, she would consider a summer job at a start-up company, ideally in corporate finance. "I've literally had people say, 'Hopefully, when you get out it will be different. But if not, there will still be a lot of bodies floating around who have been in finance for five to 10 years more than you."

"It's just too bad that gaming still has this stigma attached to it in the modern workplace," says Ethan Mollick. A researcher at MIT's Sloan School of Management and coauthor of Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business, Mollick believes that many employers view video games as some scarlet "S" for slackery.

Students from MIT were among the competitors in the 8th annual Leeds Net Impact Case Competition on February 20-21. The competition hosts rising business leaders from MBA programs from around the nation to help find innovative solutions to corporate sustainability issues.

During MIT's mid-semester Independent Activities Period in January, a group of students participated in a hummus making contest. Israeli native Yoav Danenberg, whose wife, Amit, attends MIT Sloan, says the thick and garlicky Zinger seems most authentic. "It reminds me of the hummus I used to prepare at home."

CrossTech Partners and New Marketing Labs announced a strategic partnership with the MIT Sloan Alumni Club of Boston, creators of the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium program, to launch an online community program, regional MIT Sloan CIO event programs, and increased sponsorship opportunities within the community.

MIT Sloan alumna Almudena Arcelus was appointed as principal to Analysis Group, Inc.

The American Friends of Hebrew University honored Los Angeles Dodgers team president and MIT Sloan alumna Jamie McCourt with its SCOPUS award for her philanthropic efforts. "My heritage is important. That organization has achievements that are outstanding. They are entrepreneurial and are finding solutions," McCourt explains.

MIT Sloan alumnus and Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey believes there is no statistic that a basketball player accumulates that cannot be amassed selfishly. "We think about this deeply whenever we're talking about contractual incentives. We don't want to incent a guy to do things that hurt the team", Morey says

MIT Sloan alumnus Virgil Chan joined GAMCO to manage its Asia operations. Chan will be based in Hong Kong and will oversee all sales and research management functions in Asia.

The Board of Directors of PNG Ventures, Inc. appointed MIT Sloan alumnus Cem Hacioglu as president and chief executive officer.

MIT Sloan alumnus and Hyundai American CEO John Krafcik opened the media breakfast at the 2009 Chicago Auto Show with a quote by Thomas Jefferson who said that "a government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Peter Senge, says, "Failure to sustain significant change recurs again and again despite substantial resources committed to the change effort (many are bankrolled by top management), talented and committed people 'driving the change,' and high stakes."

MIT Sloan students competed in the 2008-2009 New England Research Investment Challenge on 2/10/09.

MIT Sloan alumnus Perry Solomon provides background on Microsoft's enterprise search business and his work with its customers and weighs in on how search engines will evolve over the next few years.

"They must disclose fully exactly what the government is buying, or insuring, or providing financing for," says Simon Johnson, a professor at MIT and former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.

"Paul Osterman's 'The Truth About Middle Managers' paints a portrait of business as it is lived by the non-CEO class -- that is, the rest of us."

MIT Sloan announced the global launch of a new Web site, MIT Sloan Teaching Innovation Resources (MSTIR), which offers a collection of creative teaching materials developed by MIT faculty and students including free case studies, teaching videos, and other innovative instructional resources. MIT Sloan Deputy Dean JoAnne Yates says, "Our goal is to spread knowledge and make a difference in the world of business education -- to have an impact on business education and where it is going in the future."

A number of leading business schools were dealt a serious blow this fall when big private lenders suddenly terminated their popular "no co-signer" student loan programs. Of the schools that had the CitiAssist loan program, only MIT Sloan has announced a replacement lender.

John Marcus III, who's in his second year at Sloan, supplies a nice explanation of the intent behind the Tech Trek.

While waiting to attend a reception for the annual MIT Sloan Tech Trek, five students discussed their job prospects and their strategies for securing work in a tight labor market. They see their employment cups as half-full despite the recession, and agree that networking is more important than ever.

Silicon Valley Tech Trekkers Chris Walti and Chizoba Nnaemeka are interviewed for "Your Money" by Lynn Jimenez.

MIT Sloan MBA Saleem Hussain, who helped organize this year's treks, says, "As far as internships go, there are lots of opportunities at big companies."

MBA Andrew Budd says while the economic slowdown has had an impact on hiring, there are still a lot of interesting projects available to graduates, especially in start-ups companies

More than 100 MIT Sloan MBA students made the annual Tech Trek to the West Coast eager to tap into Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial spirit. "I'm hoping to learn a lot about what mistakes, what problems they could have had starting up, and challenges and opportunities," said MIT Sloan MBA Pedro Santos.

"I think that startups will be hiring a significant number of talented individuals who would have been taken by larger corporations," says MIT Sloan MBA Pedro Santos who feels MBA graduates could offer an "infusion of energy and talent" to such companies.

MIT Sloan ranked 9th among full-time global MBA programs and 5th for the second year in a row among U.S. programs.

MIT Sloan's new building project will be solar-ready, allowing for the installation of solar panels at a later date.

MIT Sloan Prof. Antoinette Schoar was awarded the Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship.

Although MIT anticipates spending cuts on the order of 10 to 15 percent over the next several years, the MIT Sloan School expansion should proceed on schedule, according to officials.

An MIT Sloan study found too much Blackberry use can cause serious stress. MIT Sloan's Melissa Mazmanian is interviewed.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "If you clean up the banks' balance sheets and create some better banks to resume lending to the real economy, that's the heart of the strategy".

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo says, "So when you're making money, you're actually engaged in a kind of activity that generates a drug-induced stupor in much the same way that having a few drinks or being on cocaine would actually make you relax and be a lot less concerned about risk."

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson describes his testimony to Senate Budget Committee on 1/29/09 in which he noted that the Senators expressed frustration that while substantial further amounts will most likely be needed to shore up the banking system, little has been done for the underlying issues in housing.

Former MIT Sloan faculty member Jeremy Stein will is slated to take a position with the Obama administration.

Popular applications such as Wikipedia, Linux and YouTube only scratch the surface of what is possible with collective intelligence, says Thomas Malone, director of the CCI and professor at the MIT Sloan.

In an opinion piece, MIT Sloan Simon Johnson says that the government has already essentially guaranteed the system's liabilities, bank assets at market value must be massively lower than liabilities and a severe global recession may yet turn into the Greatest Depression.

A visiting team from MIT Sloan working on the new Global Health Delivery course concluded an assessment of the Connaught hospital in Sierra Leone, West Africa, describing staff performance as commendable.

Simon Johnson is quoted in an NYT article about steps the Obama team can take to resolve the banking crisis.

MIT Sloan Dean Emeritus Lester Thurow predicted decades ago that in the 21st Century there was bound to be "historical shifts" in wealth away from nations whose source of wealth and power is natural resources and physical capital, to those who possess "brain power and imagination."

MIT Sloan Prof. Daniel Nyhart passed away on December 6 at the age of 77. A memorial service is planned for March 7 in the MIT chapel.

MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang says the modernist skyline of Shanghai's Pudong marks the moment when things started to go wrong. He argues that the economic crisis is exposing weaknesses in China's interventionist, top-down style of capitalism.

The hiring of former MIT Sloan economist Fischer Black is described as Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin's most influential decision of his caree.

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo describes a confrontation in 2004 between the head of Lehman and its chief risk officer.

MIT Sloan Prof. Edgar Schein says: "We go through cycles. Every few years we rediscover formal planning, then we rediscover the importance of people, and then in another few years we discover cost control."

The U.K. government "is gambling that the global economy improves and they don't have to go all the way to nationalize, but that is the direction in which they are heading," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson believes it will take $1 trillion to really do the trick -- money, presumably, the government will get back once the banking system is healthy again, and private capital comes in to replace the government's capital. "It's not rocket science," Johnson says. "When you do a recap, you need overkill. But then, you also have to take the bad assets off the books."

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo, chairman and chief scientific officer of AlphaSimplex, says, "AlphaSimplex is excited to be working with Thomson Reuters in bringing the NewsScope Event Indices to market.

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo has demonstrated that if stock traders make a series of apparently good picks, the dopamine released into their brains creates a stupor that causes them to under perceive danger ahead.

"The government has got itself in a position where they have to do something, and they have to help close this deal, so they have to provide additional subsidy to Bank of America," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson.

A paper by MIT Sloan Prof. Kristin Forbes stating that foreigners are willing to invest in the United States because they have less developed financial markets at home is referenced.

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Peter Senge will kick off the 2009 Three Talks series of speaking forums by discussing how senior managers can make their organizations more adaptive to change.

"The better we can understand how fear and greed are represented in individuals and how they react to market circumstances, the more likely we are to be able to avoid crises of these sorts," says MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo.

A union contract study co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan is referenced. The study found that of 22,000 organizing campaigns between 1999 and 2004, only 38 percent of new unions get a contract within a year.

"The days of the PND as a separate device category are numbered," says Michael Davies, a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan.

In a study published in the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo contends that too often what passes for risk management at many financial companies is really risk measurement.

Without root-and-branch political reform, MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang argues in his new book Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics, China faces "monumental odds" in rebalancing an urban, state-driven economy where consumption has been sacrificed on the altar of investment.

MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang says, "Rural China represents a vast pool of entrepreneurial capabilities and substantial business opportunities."

MIT Sloan's Anjali Sastry says her favorite gadgets are Skype, a Nokia E71 with a built-in 3G modem and a Flip Mino camera for video blogging.

MIT Sloan Director of Career Development Jackie Wilbur says recruitment opportunities began to disappear at the beginning of October. Certain areas of finance, such as risk, remain strong, says Ms Wilbur. Technology recruiting is stable but she says recruitment into the energy sector is not as buoyant as she would wish and venture funding is stalling.

Daryl J. Carter has been appointed to Whitestone REIT's Board of Trustees. Carter serves on the Dean's Advisory Council at MIT Sloan.

As the first member of her family to go to college in the United States, Awilda Mendez said it's a special point of pride to be getting her MBA from MIT Sloan.

I am an MBA student at MIT Sloan and a self-professed entrepreneur, writes Ryan Buckley. Lately it hasn't been easy. I find myself pondering the unthinkable: Getting a real job. I write to suggest four things that the Mass High Tech community can do to help me and other still-hopeful MIT entrepreneurs.

Twenty MIT Sloan MBAs offered their advice to five leading Thai organizations as part of a Global Entrepreneurship Lab (G-Lab) project. MIT Sloan Lecturer Jonathan Lehrich says many G-Lab projects conducted elsewhere in the world have produced remarkable results.

Melissa J. Webster, who plans to graduate from the MIT Sloan this spring, had her sights on the clean energy sector, working as a project manager for a solar or wind company. But in today's economy, she's also open to another kind of job, or a different employer.

PIMCO announced the promotion of MIT Sloan alumnus Jon Short to the level of managing director.

The Election Committee at Active Biotech proposed that MIT Sloan alumnus Tomas Nicolin be elected to its Board of Directors.

Microbia Precision Engineering, Inc. has named MIT Sloan alumna Gaye Bok as senior director of commercial development.

Anark Corporation announced the addition Chris Garcia as senior vice president of business development. Garcia attended the MIT Sloan Executive Education program.

MIT Sloan alumnus Eugene Maxwell Moore, Jr., age 91, of Southport, passed away in his home on January 15, 2009.

According to MIT Sloan alumnus David Reich, one of the founders of the newly launched Assured Labor, the problem with Craigslist is that there's no way to tell whether someone you find there is going to be trustworthy.

MIT Sloan alumnus Bill McCullen, a co-founder of Launch Capital says, "I actually think we are very fortunate to be able to be starting a company in 2008 and 2009."

MIT Sloan alumnus John Thompson was one of two candidates under consideration to be U.S. commerce secretary, the last vacancy in President-elect Barack Obama's prospective cabinet, a source familiar with the Obama transition team's deliberations said.

Assured Labor, founded by recent MIT Sloan graduates, creates jobs by instantly connecting urban employers with affordable and trustworthy service providers in their area, compelling them to hire others for tasks they don't know how to do themselves or don't have time to do themselves.

Struggling drug maker Alseres Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has raised $1 million in a private stock sale to former director, MIT Sloan alumnus Robert Gipson.

MIT Sloan alumnus Eugene Lee discusses wikis, collaboration and enterprise 2.0.

MIT Sloan alumnus Eduardo Alvarez has teamed with the MIT Media Lab and the industrial design firm Ideo, Inc. in Cambridge to create a new kind of vending machine -- one that enables consumers in airports or malls to buy MP3 players, cell phones or related accessories without having to walk into a retail store.

MIT Sloan alumnus David Spector, who started a sales club three years ago when he was a student at Sloan says, "It was shocking that in an environment that teaches the core principles of being a successful businessperson, there were no courses on the most fundamental skill. No one gives sales the respect it deserves."

This blog posting details how MIT Sloan Prof. John Sterman devised various tools akin to flight simulators to help corporate leaders understand the nature of a variety of problems and choose among various remedies.

"Psychologically, the Chinese New Year is very important to people, and afterwards the feeling in China will be very different than before," says MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang. "The usual slowdown will happen, but the post holiday pickup will not."

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "We had a feeling that we had understood how bad it was... but now people fear the losses are going to be much greater than anticipated."

MIT Sloan MBA Frederic Kerrest says, "You don't need an MBA to start a company, but getting an MBA from MIT Sloan not only doesn't hurt, but can strengthen your determination to become an entrepreneur while providing you with tools that might take years to acquire otherwise."

A presentation and Q&A that was held at MIT Sloan by Cisco CEO John Chambers is cited.

Endeavor, a US-based non-profit that identifies and supports entrepreneurs in developing countries, is expanding its program to MIT Sloan.

The mood at a recent MIT Sloan-sponsored meeting of corporate financial officers was said to be sober but not panicked.

The MIT Sloan School of Management has begun supplying free teaching materials, including case studies and videos, through its latest website, MIT Sloan Teaching Innovation Resources (MSTIR). Most business schools, including Sloan's local rival, Harvard, charge for their case studies and teaching packages.

MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang writes about the hype surrounding economic decoupling in an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal.

In an opinion piece MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson lists five things that beyond Mr. Obama's control as he formulates an economic stimulus package.

"Financial crises, historic elections, and a 'flat as a pancake' world-what a time to be in business school!" writes MIT Sloan MBA Ash Martin, class of 2010, in this opinion piece.

Despite the cyclical downturn in the Chinese economy and concerns over the discovery of melamine in mainland milk products, Dean Schmittlein says he believes the Chinese economy would remain strong for the foreseeable future.

MIT Sloan and HEC Paris have announced a global academic collaboration. MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein says the latest alliance is a natural extension of MIT's strategy to develop ties with leading management institutions worldwide.

Many B-schools are putting funds into video podcasting with the explicit aim of using their online presence to turn browsers into fee-paying students who want the full MBA experience. MIT Sloan has been releasing its lectures via its MIT World service since 2001.

At a benefit held at MIT Sloan, members of the Boston4Bhopal Coalition and MIT Amnesty International mourned the recent tragedy in Mumbai, India.

Even as companies look for ways to slim down, they need to take care not to cut too deep warns MIT Sloan Prof. Paul Osterman.

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo says some investors may have been aware of the fraudulent investments of Bernard Madoff's Ponzie scheme, but still chose to participate.

MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang discusses how China's economic reforms will affect the country as the world heads into recession.

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo says he sees human psychology very much at work in the history of market of prices. "I view that as a very rich fossil record of the different kinds of individuals that have engaged in these kinds of market dynamics."

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson explains why countries may or may not create government-funded economic jump starts.

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan says that Congress should be able help carry over the automakers in the short run, and help them restructure for the long run.

Boston Business Journal's Lisa van der Pool reports that MIT Sloan expects to see a 10% uptake in applications this year, topping the number of applications received during the last B-school application boom following 9/11.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says trust could be a factor in some countries if the government was responsible both for running insurance programs and compiling the data that would trigger payouts.

"When we make money, the same reward circuitry [in the brain] gets stimulated as when you're on cocaine," says MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo.

According to a study co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Ernst Berndt, the growth, size and composition of prescription drug spending is likely to change dramatically in future years, raising significant healthcare policy implications.

"Hedge funds have become such a big factor in financial markets that in order to make sure your students' knowledge base is current, you really have to cover hedge funds somewhere in the curriculum," says MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew W. Lo.

In regards to the timing of President-elect Obama's proposed economic stimulus, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "I think in this case it is right. A lot of U.S. infrastructure is run down. Compared to other rich countries, the U.S. is lagging behind".

The growth, size and composition of prescription drug spending is likely to change dramatically in future years, raising significant healthcare policy implications, according to co-author Ernst Berndt, professor of applied economics, MIT Sloan.

A article cites a 2001 MIT Sloan study that held an auction for tickets to a sold-out Celtics game, and divided subjects into those who must pay cash within 24 hours and those who must pay with credit cards. The credit-card buyers were willing to bid on average up to twice as much as the cash buyers.

"I guarantee that over the next couple of years you are going to see lots of papers on banking crises and financial blowups," says Andrew Lo, a financial economist at MIT's Sloan School.

MIT Sloan's Michael Cusumano believes that the U.S. automakers should file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

One of the few economists of note to advocate this policy out loud is Simon Johnson, who left the chief economist post at the International Monetary Fund earlier this year and is now a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Johnson believes that only a significant nominal inflation -- which will mean negative real interest rates -- will provide sufficient monetary stimulus to reflate the economy.

"Everyone wants to export their way out of this" recession, says MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson.

According to MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang, China has not seen a gradual transition from state control to capitalism over the last three decades. Instead, the real boom in entrepreneurship came in the 1980s when controls in rural areas were relaxed.

Online retailers who open a physical store during the holiday shopping season could see more than a 15% decrease in online sales, according to a study co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Duncan Simester.

The Fed is buying assets and the money for them is not coming from its balance sheet. "The Fed doesn't like to talk about this," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. "They think it will scare people."

MIT Sloan Prof. Tom Allen says, "The way people interact together is influenced by both organizational structure and space. If you bring the two together, then managers have a more effective way of structuring their interactions that leads to innovation."

MIT Sloan Associate Prof. Fiona Murray says PhD science students are often shy and introverted compared with the more confident MBAs. Most scientists have worked alone and so initially struggle with team work and the notion there are not always "right" answers in business.

The role of technology entrepreneurs in rebuilding the U.S. energy economy was the main theme at an Xconomy forum, which was moderated by MIT Sloan's Bill Aulet and included MIT Sloan Prof. Donald Lessard as a panelist.

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan had a clear message for chastened automobile executives as they try to salvage their efforts to win support in Washington: Set "aggressive and achievable" targets to produce energy-efficient vehicles and lay out cost-saving plans that go well beyond further cuts and wages and benefits.

"Chrysler is in a different situation from the other two [automakers]," says MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan. "It doesn't have the resources to invest in research and development for hybrids and other fuel-efficient vehicles, and it's further behind the others. I think Chrysler has to find a merger partner."

A study conducted by MIT Sloan Prof. Emilio Castilla indicates that even when women and minorities receive the same starting salaries and performance ratings for doing the same job under the same supervisor, their merit increases are smaller than those awarded to their white male counterparts.

MIT Sloan student Ethan Mollick is interviewed about his book, Changing the Game, which examines the use of games in business.

Thomas J. Herzfeld Advisors, Inc. announced that MIT Sloan alumna Brigitta Herzfeld, daughter of firm's founder and chairman, has joined the firm.

MIT Sloan alumnus John Puma, a retired executive with the former Boston Edison Co., died Dec. 6 at the age of 82. He helped establish the Greater Boston Executive Program, which provided local executives access to management training at the MIT Sloan School.

Microbia has expanded its senior management team and bioproduct commercialization capabilities by appointing Gaye Bok as senior director of Commercial Development. Bok holds an MBA in Finance and International Management from MIT Sloan.

MIT Sloan alumna Elizabeth Monrad, the convicted ex- finance chief of General Reinsurance Corp. who faces possible life in prison for her role in a $597 million fraud, says she should have testified at her trial to proclaim her innocence.

MIT Sloan alumnus Greg Moeller co-founded the nanotechnology company QD Vision.

MIT Sloan alumnus Amir Hasson founded United Villages, a company that attempts to bridge the social divide by bringing rural people into the technological era.

MIT alumnus Jon S. Ogg has been appointed to DSPCon's board of directors.

MIT Sloan alumna Ilene Gordon, president and chief executive officer, Alcan Packaging, has been named Best Executive by the prestigious Stevie Awards for Women in Business competition.

In an online discussion about the financial crisis, a blogger (Mike #6) says, "relatively early on, I went to a panel discussion at the MIT Sloan school, and they basically laid it out as you did. The things I read before and have read since (at least by actual economists) have supported this."

MIT Sloan Prof. John Sterman's systemic perspective of healthcare plans is referenced.

MIT Sloan Prof. Eric von Hippel recounts his experience as a survivor of the recent Mumbai attack. At the time of the attack he was in the Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai on a business trip.

Catharina Lavers, a second-year student at MIT Sloan and volunteer in the Prison Entrepreneurship Program, has advised an inmate on his plan to start a metal shirring and crimping business. Since the inmates do not have Internet access, she provided market research and pricing information.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson explains his decision to launch the blog BaselineScenario.com and his Global Crisis lecture series.

MIT Sloan Prof. Rebecca Henderson is described by author Rosabeth Moss Kanter as a woman management thinker who merits watching.

"The good news is that there is clearly strategic thinking at the very highest level of business and government with both acting in close confidence to manage brand structuring and brand positioning," says MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein. "In most countries that is simply not the case."

MIT Sloan came in ninth in BusinessWeek's annual ranking of the best U.S. business schools.

In an address at the MIT Sloan CFO Summit, Cardinal Health CFO Jeffrey Henderson said, "This [crisis] really is about lack of confidence, every time Washington changes gears, it lowers that confidence one notch further."

Chief financial officers and financial decision makers gathered on Nov. 19 for MIT Sloan's annual CFO Summit hoping to learn how to deal with an increasingly volatile environment.

The MIT Sloan construction project will continue despite the Institute's plan of a general spending cut of 5% next fiscal year.

MIT Sloan is among 25 business schools participating in Food Fight, an annual food drive contest, which pits top business schools against each other in a friendly competition to collect food and monetary donations for Feeding America.

Frank Edelblut was announced as a featured panelist at the 2008 MIT Sloan CFO Summit.

Researchers at MIT have been looking into cap and trade programs under consideration in the U.S. and have come to an encouraging solution: that such systems can reduce emissions efficiently without a significant economic impact. MIT Sloan Prof. Denny Ellerman is the lead author of a report and is interviewed at the end of the segment.

In an interview, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "All sorts of things we thought we could take for granted have been thrown into question, and we desperately need to get some stability back. Some positive, more assertive measures from the government would be helpful. I think we'll regain the psychological equilibrium in January or February."

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson helps put listeners' personal situations into a larger global context

MIT Sloan Prof. Tom Kochan says a shaky economy scares people into looking for second jobs in an interview with NPR.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson is interviewed about the G20 gathering.

MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang discusses China's economic stimulus plan, whether it can stave off a recession at home, and how it might affect the global economy.

"The new information tools symbolized by the Internet are radically changing the possibility of how we can organize large-scale human efforts," said Thomas Malone, director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.

Simon Johnson thinks the Treasury should start purchasing common equity instead, as the British government has done. Johnson suggests creating an arm's length control board to oversee the government's ownership, free of political meddling.

Michael Schrage, an MIT Sloan School research associate and former director of Ticketmaster, who has advised businesses as diverse as Accenture, MasterCard, BP, Mars and Fujitsu, recently wrote in the FT.

MIT Professor Andrew Lo and two colleagues reviewed 31 years of market data in a March 2000 paper and concluded that patterns cited by technical analysts were useful in providing signals of future market moves.

MIT Sloan Senior Research Scientist Peter Weill says CIOs must learn to consolidate systems so the IT department can "do fewer things better."

"Computers have given us the power to do things we could never have done before. But technology has got ahead of our ability to use it wisely," says MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says Tim Geithner, President Elect Obama's new treasury secretary appointment, has been at the center of all the efforts to handle the problems on Wall Street over the last 18 months.

In an online debate with faculty from Harvard Business School on whether or not business schools are largely responsible for the U.S. financial crisis, MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo writes, "By training tomorrow's leaders to manage the risks of the financial system effectively and ethically, we'll have a fighting chance of surviving even the largest crises. This is what business schools do, and we need to do more of it, not less."

At the Indian Institute of Management annual business summit, MIT Sloan Prof. S.P. Kothari gave his views on the current financial crisis.

MIT Sloan Prof. Lester Thurow speaks to a "third way", that of seeing government and business working more closely together, rather than being at odds with each other.

MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson wrote in 1997, at the dawn of the Internet age, that what they called "contact expansion" might well lead to a form of cultural "balkanization" that would "fragment interaction and divide groups by leading people to spend more time on special interests and by screening out less preferred contact."

Home mortgages, credit card loans, commercial real estate debt -- all are likely to deteriorate further now that a recession is at hand. Banks that have already lost billions of dollars could lose billions more. "All the danger signs are flashing red," says MIT Sloan's Simon Johnson.

In the labor arena, Obama has appointed MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan to the review team for federal mediation and conciliation.

MIT Sloan Prof. Howard Anderson says he expects more companies to follow GE's lead in reaching out directly to markets: "People follow GE whatever they do. Even if they're dead wrong, they follow GE."

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan researcher Michael Schrage writes, "For better or worse, banks that are 'too big to fail' -- with government equity investment -- will soon dominate global finance. Whatever institutions emerge from the current crisis, it is clear that traditional corporate governance of financial institutions is dead."

Congress is considering aid for the struggling Big 3 automakers during a special, lame-duck session. MIT Sloan Prof. Michael Cusumano says, "Like the airlines, I think they should go into Chapter 11 bankruptcy and start with a clean slate."

"Hedge funds generally are the tip of the spear in good times and they are also the canary in the cage in tough times," says MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo.

MIT Sloan Prof Simon Johnson says that while housing prices do have to fall to rational levels, it is in everyone's interest for prices not to overshoot on the downside.

MIT Sloan Deputy Dean JoAnne Yates talks about information overload, the stress of 'always being on' and 'CrackBerry' addicts hiding out in the bathroom.

"There was some valuable symbolism in having leaders from emerging markets at the same table as leaders from industrialized countries--apparently for the first time ever on these issues," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson about the G20 Summit.

"This is plain-vanilla stuff they could have agreed on without holding a meeting," says Simon Johnson, an economist at MIT and a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund. "What's new, except that this is the G-20 instead of the G-7?"

MIT Sloan Prof. Bill Aulet is slated to lead a panel on energy innovation at the Forum on Energy Innovation on December 2, 2008.

MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein states that 3,000 people vied for about 375 spots in the MBA class that entered the school in September 2008.

Global innovation marketplace InnoCentive, Inc. announced the appointment of MIT Sloan Prof. Eric von Hippel to its Strategic Advisory Board.

While testifying before the U.S. Congress, MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo acknowledged the need for new regulation of the industry.

"Are the Europeans or the Chinese going to take advantage of this interregnum in the U.S. to set the tone for the future of financial regulation?" asks Simon Johnson, an economist at MIT and a former chief economist of the IMF.

"A sea change in hedge funds could even be healthy for the industry," says MIT's Andrew Lo, who draws an analogy from biology. "We've just seen a big meteorite hit. It will kill a number of species. But in the wake of that death, whole new species will arrive."

A September 2008 lecture given by MIT Sloan Professor Rebecca Henderson entitled "Getting Unstuck: How to Promote More Sustainable Practices in Our Organizations" is cited.

"This seems like a really clever way of using data that is created unintentionally by the users of Google to see patterns in the world that would otherwise be invisible," says MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Malone. "I think we are just scratching the surface of what's possible with collective intelligence."

The idea of using computer models to support decision-making was given a boost by a popular book published in 1990, The Fifth Discipline, written by MIT academic Peter Senge, which argued that the ability to use models to experiment with corporate structure and behaviour would be a key skill in the future.

"There's been effervescence in the air around here as we've watched this election," says MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Leigh Hafrey who describes a hunger for a new leadership style. "What happens in the White House has a huge impact on attitudes and practices."

Sloan Prof. Deborah Ancona says, "In times of stress, people want to know what's going on, what's going to happen to us, and how are we going to get through this. So it's very important for leaders to be visible and communicate."

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says European officials have been behind the curve in understanding the severity of the financial crisis and its impact on the broader economy. "The European banks are recognizing the problem, but they're recognizing it late," he says.

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan says salary cuts are a feasible alternative to job cuts if it is certain that a onetime reduction in costs will allow the company to weather the economic crisis and if employees are engaged in the decision and willing to support each other.

Former MIT Sloan Visiting Prof. Raghuram Rajan has been named honorary economic advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Rajan, a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, will hold the rank of secretary, Government of India.

More investors are gravitating to private equity since early-stage venture investing is riskier and involves longer lead times, says MIT Sloan Prof. Howard Anderson.

MIT Sloan Prof. Arnold Barnett proposes an intriguing alternative to the Electoral College called "Weighted Vote Share," essentially a weighted average of the popular vote.

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan predicts a moderate increase in union representation, but said higher wages could lead to productivity improvements and enhanced labor-management cooperation rather than job losses.

"I think we probably have a month or perhaps two months to really see the direction of the economy. I would agree completely with people who think that now is the time to prepare a large fiscal stimulus," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson.

In a speech at the annual International Trade Partners Conference, MIT Sloan Prof. Charlie Fine cautioned that when dominant firms think they have a lock on the supply chain, they may become complacent and the supply chain relationships damaged.

Robert McLean III, chairman of the Cambridge Institute, an advisory body at MIT Sloan, passed away on November 11, 2008.

A student group at MIT Sloan has been named one of three national finalists in a contest seeking YouTube video proposals for the creation of a new X Prize in energy and the environment.

The MIT Sloan Venture Capital and Private Equity Club and the MIT Entrepreneurship Center will host the 2008 Venture Capital conference on December 6, 2008.

Some companies are delaying start times for new associates fresh out of business school. "I can respect that because it's better to (be told to wait) than be given an offer now and have it revoked in the springtime when they realize they don't have the budget to do any hiring," says Todd Rakow, a student at MIT Sloan who is weighing an offer he would not disclose.

MIT Sloan alumnus Bancha Serngadichaivit says that teaching is a great way to get in touch with financial markets.

HealthMarkets, Inc. announced that MIT Sloan alumnus Anurag Chandra has joined the company as executive vice president and chief administrative officer.

Mohr Davidow Ventures announced the addition of MIT Sloan alumnus Dan Riskin to the firm as Entrepreneur-in-Residence.

MIT Sloan alumnus Virgil Chan will oversee all sales and research management functions for GAMCO in Asia.

RevEurope Payments Limited, announced the appointment of MIT Sloan alumna Anne Cobb, to the company's Board of Directors.

The Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund, Inc. announced the appointment of MIT Sloan alumnus Erik Herzfeld as co-portfolio manager of the Fund.

Robert Chapman joined MPR Associates as the director of marketing for MPR's Product Development business sector. Chapman has executive management training from MIT Sloan.

Testimony at a U.S. Senate hearing by MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo is cited in this posting. "It is unrealistic to expect that market crashes, manias, panics, collapses, and fraud will ever be completely eliminated from our capital markets," Lo says, "but we should avoid compounding our mistakes by failing to learn from them."

Following the fresh declines in markets, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson argues that the Troubled Asset Relief Program is no longer succeeding in stabilizing markets.

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo testified to Congress that the veil of secrecy surrounding hedge funds makes it difficult to determine what kind of oversight should be exercised. "It is not at all clear that we need more regulation," Lo said. "We need more effective regulation. But it's not clear what is needed unless there is transparency in the marketplace."

Despite dipping into a deep well of energy, MIT Sloan alumna Jamie McCourt told students she doesn't know how she balanced work and family life the way she did.

In a story on billionaire Mark Cuban's insider trading charges, a reader posted a link to BaselineScenario.com, calling it a "great non- partisan information source written by MIT Sloan School of Management professor Simon Johnson."

MIT Sloan alumnus Clay Johnson III was slated to present "The Challenges of a Presidential Transition" at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

The G-20 was created in 1999 as a more permanent international economic body that includes representation from emerging countries. "I don't think it's a club you can join except by having a lot of economic growth," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson.

Armando Garza Sada has joined Deutsche Bank's Latin American Advisory Board. Garza Sada is a member of the Dean's Advisory Council of MIT Sloan.

Richard Wexler, executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, offers several arguments in favor of family preservation, including a study by MIT Sloan that found children placed in foster care for marginal reasons have worse long-term outcomes than children left with their families.

In an update to their well-received research on the quantitative hedge fund meltdown of August '07, Andrew Lo and Amir Khandani of MIT try to piece together the event that heralded the start of the credit crunch, says a reader in this posting.

MIT Sloan student Ethan Mollick, who studies innovation and entrepreneurship in the game industry, explains why games have a place everywhere and will soon affect the way we work, how we sell products, how we do our jobs and even how we're hired.

MIT Sloan is teaming up with four international business schools to offer a one-year Masters in Management Studies degree, beginning in the 2009-2010 academic year. The four schools are HEC Paris, Tsinghua in Beijing, Fudan in Shanghai, and the SKK Graduate School of Business at Korea's Sungkyunkwan University.

MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein discusses how MIT aims to lead the pack in management education.

In an online question and answer session, Financial Times Business Education Editor Della Bradshaw says, "At the FT, we define an EMBA as a degree for working managers -- that is, participants are studying and working at the same time."

The Multimedia Development Corporation announced the winner of the Prime Minister's Award at the MSC-Apicta awards event who is being awarded a week-long business coaching program at MIT Sloan.

Sungkyunkwan University Graduate School of Business introduced the first global MBA program in Korea in partnership with MIT Sloan in 2004. The school has developed its curriculum in collaboration with MIT Sloan and plans to launch an Executive MBA program in the fall of 2009.

According to a 2003 study by researchers at MIT Sloan, graduates of the job training program Year Up can expect to earn about $11,000 more each year than their counterparts with only a high school diploma.

Israeli opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu, an alumnus of MIT Sloan, is quoted in a story regarding the Isreali economy.

A detailed analysis of power plants in China, which was supported by the MIT Sloan China Program, debunks the widespread notion that outmoded energy technology or the absence of government regulation is to blame for that country's air-pollution problems.

MIT Sloan Prof. Tom Kochan is interviewed for a story about workers looking for supplemental employment.

MIT Sloan Prof. Jiang Wang is scheduled to present "Liquidity of Corporate Bonds."

Google and WPP announced that they will jointly fund a grant program to support research into how online media influences consumer behavior, attitudes and decision making. The program will be overseen, in part, by MIT Sloan Prof. Glen Urban, former MIT Sloan Dean.

MIT Sloan alumnus Maurizio Melzi has been appointed to the position of senior investment director at Industry Funds Management.

MIT Sloan alumna Yeona Jang has joined the faculty at McGill University.

MIT Sloan Prof. Arnold Barnett is quoted in a story about an MIT conference about the electoral college.

MIT Sloan Prof. Eric von Hippel's research in the fields of user innovation and free and open source software is outlined.

It was announced that MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Peter Senge would discuss his book, Necessary Revolution

A recent graduate of MIT Sloan, who asked not to be identified in order to avoid jeopardizing her current position, says she joined a Wall Street firm just in time to see the finance world collapse.

Jonathan Karelse has been named director of marketing at Yokohama Tire Inc. Karelse is a graduate of the MIT Sloan Executive Management program.

It was announced that MIT Sloan Prof. Lester Thurow would present the 2008 Harold and Priscilla Gilkey Executive Lecture.

According to MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson, "Productivity growth comes from new technologies and new ways of doing things."

This is a good time for investors to consider including a hedge fund beta replication fund in their portfolio," says MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo.

Prof. Thomas Kochan is quoted in an article about how the creation of green jobs can help the ailing economy.

Prof. Andrew Lo is quoted in a piece arguing that computer models and other technology led to the financial crisis.

MIT Sloan Prof. Kristin Forbes is quoted in a story about the history surrounding Bretton Woods.

"Incentives are often the key to understanding why a system is working or not working," says MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Malone. "One of the benefits of markets in general is, when they work right, they do a good job of aligning the good of the individual with the good of the group."

Investor Analytics, a provider of risk analysis and risk management solutions to the hedge fund industry, has announced plans to offer advanced analytics based on research by MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo, chief scientific officer of AlphaSimplex Group, an asset management firm specializing in alternative investments.

MIT Sloan Prof. Eric von Hippel is quoted in a story about 'mash-up' technology.

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Val Livada is quoted in a story regarding troubles for holders of pension funds and endowments.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson is quoted in a story about the widening financial crisis.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson is quoted in a story regarding the IMF, an organization he previously led.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson is quoted in a story about European reaction to the financial crisis.

MIT Sloan Prof. Michael Cusumano is quoted in a story regarding what's next for Microsoft.

A new study by MIT Sloan Prof. John Sterman reveals that 84% of the subjects who participated greatly underestimated the degree to which greenhouse gas emissions need to fall.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson writes an opinion piece regarding European markets.

MIT Sloan Prof. Michael Cusumano says that software vendors will have to find new ways to charge for their wares.

MIT Sloan Prof. Kristin Forbes is slated to participate in a summit on global agendas in Dubai.

MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang is quoted in a story about the state of the Chinese economy.

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Michael Davies is quoted in a story regarding portable navigation devices.

MIT Sloan Prof. Eric von Hippel is quoted in a story regarding the application of the open source software model to computer hardware.

In an opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang compares China's Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces.

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo notes that hedge funds are the Galapagos Islands of the financial services industry.

Before the economy gets better, it'll probably get worse, says MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo. "In the short term, more banks and businesses might close."

New venture groups thinking about raising money for entirely new funds may find it very difficult until the financial environment settles down, says MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Joe Hadzima.

MIT Sloan Deputy Dean Steve Eppinger and MIT Sloan Prof. Charles Fine will conduct a five-day orientation program at MIT on product design and development for CEOs from Indian automobile component companies.

MIT Sloan Prof. Bill Aulet makes reference to MIT Sloan Prof. Ed Roberts' equation for innovation: innovation = invention + commercialization.

The software and hordes of competing banks that engage in automated bidding may prove attractive to some consumers, says MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo. "There are many competitors trying to snap up the customers at MoneyAisle, while LendingTree has far fewer competitors for loans."

MIT Sloan Prof. Edgar Schein says, "We go through cycles. Every few years we rediscover formal planning, then we rediscover the importance of people, and then in another few years we discover cost control."

In an opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson writes, "Highly leveraged countries are at risk of substantial private or public defaults. They need to assess their ability to cover their debts and decide which entities to protect and which to let fail."

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson is quoted in a story regarding the fear that as the economy falters humanitarian aid will dry up.

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo says the underlying concept of "securitization" of mortgages -- the creation of a secondary market in mortgage-backed paper that helped to create definable levels of risk -- "is a good one, in fact a brilliant one."

MIT Sloan Prof. Howard Anderson says, "At times like these, the most important person in your company is your credit manager, and if you don't have one, you've got to become one yourself."

"What we're scared about is not the bad news. It's rather the news that we haven't gotten yet. And human imagination is nothing if not limitless in its ability to create disastrous scenarios," says MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo. "Right now, everybody's imagination is working overtime."

The difficulty of obtaining credit will "affect innovation," predicts MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo. "The capital is not there, and all investors will have a harder time raising funds."

MIT Sloan Prof. John Sterman will serve on MIT's Environmental Research Council in order to elevate and expand the institute's leadership in this area of study.

MIT Sloan Prof. Mozaffar Khan is quoted in an article examining the ban on short selling.

"European central banks and governments have refused to see that there was any systemic problem," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. "If the Europeans keep mishandling this, a big nasty global recession is coming."

MIT Sloan Prof. Tom Kochan is quoted in a story that shows how work affects personal health.

"For a small business, access to capital is like oxygen," says MIT Sloan Prof. Howard Anderson.

Brightstar Corp., distributor and integrator of supply chain solutions for the wireless industry, announced the appointment of MIT Sloan Prof. Charles Fine to its board of directors.

According to results of a study by MIT Prof. Jared Curhan, when people try to make a positive impression they may behave in ways that contradict gender stereotypes, but not necessarily to their benefit.

A study by MIT Sloan Prof. Emilio Castilla entitled Gender, Race, and Meritocracy in Organizational Careers found that despite being in the same job with the same supervisor and receiving the same performance ratings, white men often received higher bonuses than minorities.

MIT Sloan Prof. Howard Anderson told his class that they should forget Wall Street this year when looking for jobs. But he was pretty optimistic about their chances elsewhere: "You guys are like stem cells, you can be anything."

An article cites research by MIT Sloan Prof. Kristen Forbes found that a lack of financial development at home makes foreigners keener to invest in America.

"John McCain has professed disdain for 'so-called economists', and for some the feeling has become mutual," says MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson. "Obama's team is mainstream and non-ideological but extremely talented," Brynjolfsson added.

Research by MIT Sloan Prof. Emilio Castilla found that employees recruited through employee referral programs have higher performance over employees recruited through other means.

In reference to the $700 billion dollar bailout plan, MIT Sloan Prof. Kristin Forbes says, "This may not be a perfect bill, but the risks of not passing it are greater than passing it. If we wait too long, it might cost us much more."

In an interview, MIT Sloan Prof. Rick Locke says, "We define sustainability in a broad way. It is not just about the environment and climate change and energy, but includes issues such as labor and social sustainability."

At MIT Sloan, more than 200 foreign students will have fewer options for borrowing, and tighter requirements that include getting a U.S. citizen or permanent resident to co-sign loans, said Elizabeth Hicks, executive director of student financial services at the school.

Jackie Wilbur, director of career development at MIT Sloan, says MBA students are showing an increased interest in investment-banking firms in Hong Kong, London, Shanghai and the Middle East. For the first time, the school is organizing a Hong Kong job search trip for January.

MIT Sloan Director of MBA Career Development Jackie Wilbur reports increased interest in consulting jobs among students. Wilbur also says 20% more second-year students will be applying for strategic consulting jobs than last year.

Julie Strong, senior associate director of MBA Admissions, is quoted in a story regarding the relationship between a down economy and MBA admissions.

MIT Sloan MBA Steven Aller married Jamie Lynn Bartholomew.

MIT Sloan student Ash Martin (MBA '10) describes the experiences which led him to MIT Sloan.

Students from MIT Sloan attended a presentation at Harvard Business School given by the COO of the Democratic National Convention Finance Organization

MIT Sloan MBA Inaki Berenguer comments on the 2nd annual Elevator Pitch Competition -- the first leg of the year -- long MIT $100K Business Plan Competition

Changing the Game, co-authored by MIT Sloan student Ethan Mollick, reveals how leading-edge organizations are using video games to reach new customers more cost-effectively.

Second-year MIT Sloan MBA Jacklyn Sing writes that her summer internships with J.P. Morgan and McKinsey put her in a better, more informed position to know what she would like to pursue upon graduation.

A first-year student MIT Sloan (name withheld) is already fretting about finding a job.

MIT Sloan student Inaki Berenguer says that Ubitrack, a start-up turned research project, still plans to commercialize its technology.

MIT Sloan students Ignacio Diaz Candia, Raphael Girardoni, Burt LaFountain, Irina Starikova and Damian Wisniewski were among those chosen as recipients of the 2009 Siebel Foundation scholarship awards.

An MIT Sloan graduate student (name withheld) says that students at MIT and other colleges probably don't think and talk too much about the mortgage, credit and banking crisis because they are not active participants in the market yet, and therefore are not directly affected by these events.

Benjamin Mako Hill, a PhD candidate MIT Sloan, is developing free software called Selectricity that he hopes will increase the popularity of web-based voting for non-governmental groups and organizations.

MIT Sloan alumnus Matthew Gardiner examines the case of security policies for Web services and for traditional Web sites and describes how the two can be administered and enforced together to improve the cost of administration as well as the strength and flexibility of the security system.

MIT Sloan alumnus Bob Summers is interested in commercializing the winner of the Southeastern Universities Research Association's first annual Intellectual Property to Market competition.

Hawker Beechcraft appointed MIT Sloan alumnus Sidney E. Anderson as the company's CFO.

Citing the current financial crisis, MIT Sloan alumnus Don Hunter says, "There is a lot of confusion. This is because there is a loss of trust. Confusion happens when there is no trust. Without trust, the marketplace cannot function as it should. We must create trust."

MIT Sloan alumna Dawn Zier was promoted to president, global consumer marketing, at The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.

Amadeus North America announced the appointment of Scott Gutz as Chief Operating Officer for Amadeus North America. Gutz returns to Amadeus after completing the MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership.

For the second consecutive year, MIT Sloan alumna Ilene Gordon, president and chief executive officer of Alcan Packaging, has been named to Fortune magazine's "International Power 50" list.

MIT Sloan alumnus Alan Cooke has been named Chief Financial Officer at Attivio, Inc.

America's rigorous reporting requirements have made U.S. finance talent attractive for years, says MIT Sloan alumnus Dave Lemus, CFO of German biotechnology company MorphoSys.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson has spent the past couple of months tirelessly analyzing events and hammering out policy proposals aimed at restoring confidence in the credit markets.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson said that during the financial crisis "it's important for people to remain calm and go about their lives and to persuade people in political power to do the right thing."

MIT Sloan Simon Johnson says that in order to turn things around, governments need to put together a huge fiscal stimulus to try to jump start the world economy.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson examines the factors driving the recession speculation and offers possible solutions to the crisis on the NewsHour.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson described the proposal made by the Bush administration. "Seven hundred billion dollars of taxpayer money has been put on the table at the express request of a Republican administration to bail out banks, bank managers, bank shareholders, bank creditors," Johnson said.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson writes that while the US government has moved dramatically to counteract serious problems in the financial system, and to reduce the risk of a serious recession or worse, the Eurozone policymakers are far more reluctant to intervene.

European central banks and governments have refused to see that there was any systemic problem," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. He is quoted in a Boston Globe story about the financial crisis: "If the Europeans keep mishandling this, a big nasty global recession is coming."

"It looks pretty ugly down the road," MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson tells the New York Times. "Everybody is going to get caught up in this."

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson is quoted in an NPR story about the government bailout of financial institutions.

"I think the mortgage-backed security auction is a sideshow," said MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson in a Wall Street Journal article. "I think we're beyond that."

For all the shortcomings of Paulson's recent efforts, few political leaders have shown any insight into how to fix the nation's economic problems, says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson to CNN Money.

"The crisis of confidence is spreading, but the Europeans don't get it. They need to act, and act decisively," MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson is quoted in the New York Times.

"The crisis of confidence is spreading, but the Europeans don't get it. They need to act, and act decisively," said MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson in the Dallas Morning News.

By taking securities off the banks' hands, the bailout plan seeks to restore confidence in the financial system and ensure that banks can still carry on their fundamental role of handling payments and offering credit to the masses. "Maybe they can restore confidence with the program," said MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. "It may work, and it could get us through the election in November," Johnson said to the New York Times.

"[The government] is saying that there are no alternatives to [its] plan, but the reality is that there are plenty of alternatives out there," said MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson.

A proposal suggested by MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson is cited. The proposal suggests the lending of money to troubled financial institutions with taxpayers getting interest in return along with warrants.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says it would be better to adopt a two-stage process, in which the government initially acquired illiquid assets at a price determined by private bids then recapitalized the banks as needed in a transparent way.

With regard to the government bailout plan, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson, said, "I think the main problem is what they have on the table is not truly comprehensive, and I think it's probably not decisive for that reason."

"They presented this as a comprehensive, decisive solution, but it's clearly not comprehensive and probably not decisive," said MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson of the proposed government bailout plan.

Some economists said the proposed $700 billion may not be enough to address all the problems stretching across the financial landscape. "You only show up if you can win, and this is not that package," said MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson reports that The Federal Reserve set new currency swap lines worth $30 billion with central banks in Scandinavia and Australia to boost short-term U.S. dollar liquidity and help drive down interbank lending rates.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson said, "it would be better to have long-term repo arrangements" that would allow banks to exchange problem assets for government securities for a few years as in the U.K."

"The impact of the financial crisis on the real economy can be divided into two periods: before September 15, and after September 15," writes professor MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson on the financial-crisis.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson blogs that the government plans to bail out the banking sector by buying up to $700bn (for now) of "impaired assets" ... but at what price?

A research paper co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Mozaffar Khan which finds evidence of a significant increase in short sales immediately prior to large stock sales by corporate insiders, is referenced.

At MIT Sloan and other schools, professors see a classic "teachable moment" in Wall Street's woes.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson is quoted in an NYT story about the government bailout of financial institutions.

MIT Sloan Prof. Paul Asquith is quoted in a story about short selling.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson is interviewed in a story about the government bailout of financial institutions.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says that he would have preferred Paulson had proposed lending money to firms and taking the securities as collateral instead of offering to buy distressed mortgage securities.

MIT Sloan professor Andrew Lo is quoted in a story regarding the credit markets.

In MIT President Susan Hockfield's State of the Institute address, she highlighted MIT's continued growth amidst troubled times. Among the topics discussed by Hockfield and MIT Provost L. Rafael Reif were MIT Sloan's introduction of a new Master of Finance Program, MIT Sloan's research in sustainable economic development and the new MIT Sloan building.

MIT Sloan appeared in the Economist Intelligence Unit's latest survey for full-time MBA programs.

MIT Sloan is among many area colleges and universities that are tacking on new courses around green technologies and sustainability in business.

MIT Sloan will add two degree programs next year to meet demand for specialized business education. The one-year offerings, leading to master of finance and master of management science diplomas, are the first new degree programs to be added by the school in 20 years, said MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein.

MIT issued a $325 million bond, the largest in its history, to help finance a building campaign which includes a six-story building for MIT Sloan.

Malaysia's Multimedia Development Corp has secured a business coaching session at MIT Sloan for the recipient of the Prime Minister's Award at its upcoming MSC-Malaysia Asia Pacific ICT Awards. While at MIT Sloan, the award recipient will learn to create, identify and evaluate new venture capital opportunities.

A major trend in top business schools is providing students with real world, practical experience. Students at MIT Sloan have access to different labs where they participate in projects to get hands-on experience.

MIT student Gary Shu offers job-seeking advice to members of the class of '09. Shu says, "School is by far the best place to find a job. Business schools, including Sloan, are packed like sardines with people who are looking for that opportunity only found at school."

Global industry leaders and MIT faculty are slated to speak at MIT's Systems Thinking conference on October 23-24, 2008.

The S-Lab curriculum is highlighted in the Technology Review.

MIT Sloan Visiting Prof. Zvi Bodie talks about employee pension exposure when a corporation collapses.

MIT Sloan first year student Hassani Turner was among the wave of applicants which contributed to a 28% application increase at the school in 2008. Turner explains why layoffs in the financial sector have some of her peers thinking this might just be a good time to go back to school.

Bank of America announced a collaboration with MIT Sloan's Laboratory for Financial Engineering (LFE) that will utilize cutting-edge financial analysis to spur innovation in financial services.

A sampling of students beginning their studies at MIT Sloan is hopeful that the election of a new president will translate into fresh career opportunities for MBA graduates.

Amy DiMattia, associate director of MBA student affairs at MIT Sloan, is quoted in a story about first-year orientation programs at business schools.

MIT Sloan was selected as number two among America's best undergraduate business programs.

MIT Sloan is among top ranked business schools seeing sharp increases in application volume. Applications at MIT Sloan were up 28% in 2008, up from about a 10% increase in the previous year.

The Automotive Component Manufacturer's Association of India has signed up with MIT Sloan for a program on product design and development, specially tailored for the auto component sector.

MIT Sloan is slated to launch an MBA ethics program which shifts the focus away from the case study approach to teaching ethics to one that voices values. The program, Giving Voice to Values, will be presented to all incoming students during MBA orientation.

The Arkansas Venture Forum outlined the importance of entrepreneurship citing figures from the MIT Sloan Entrepreneurship Center. The article stated that 70 percent of a nation's economic growth is typically attributed to entrepreneurship.

MIT Sloan professor Eric von Hippel, an expert in innovation management, says online design is becoming a substitute for in-house research and development while voting takes the place of conventional market research.

Prof. Drazen Prelec is quoted in a story regarding consumer psychology and credit.

Prof. Paul Osterman is quoted in a story about why worksharing and how it may not be a wash for companies.

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer John Reilly says that extracting oil from rock releases a lot of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas in an NPR interview.

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Michael Davies concludes that the personal navigation device space could eventually become lucrative territory for rival products and services from cell phone makers and automobile manufacturers.

MIT Sloan Assistant Prof. Jason Davis' neurotech innovation project was referenced in an article about neurotechnology innovations.

Prof. John Sterman is quoted in a story about the public complacency regarding climate change.

An article in The Globe and Mail describes howa study co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Mozaffar Khan found a surge in short sales of stocks immediately prior to large insider sales.

The National Urban League announced that MIT Sloan alumnus Paul McKinnon of Citi has been elected to its Board of Trustees.

MIT Sloan is among a group of business schools whose faculty participate in the Indian Institute of Planning and Management executive development programs.

An MIT Sloan report which shows that improving customers' medication adherence by 25% can benefit a community pharmacy with increased gross revenues of $1.7 M, is cited.

On corporate governance in IT, MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynolfsson says, "In the long run productivity is everything."

MIT Sloan's Charles Kane, One Laptop Per Child's president and COO, isn't too concerned by the news of a lower-tech computer that would cost as little as $12.

A 28 percent increase in MIT Sloan MBA applications is cited in a story regarding how the down economy affects applications to business school.

"Recent Gifts to the Student Loan Art Collection" will be on display at the MIT Sloan Dean's Gallery through Friday, Nov. 21. Artists on view include: Darren Almond, Carlos Amorales, William Bailey, Will Barnet, David Claerbout, Warrington Colescott, April Gornik, Arata Isozaki, Julian Lethbridge, Markus Muntean, Cindy Sherman, Audra Skuodas, Joan Snyder, Alice Vlcek, John Walker and June Wayne.

"At the entrepreneurship development programme (EDP) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, the recipients of the Prime Minister's Award will learn to create, identify and evaluate new venture opportunities, as well as how to enhance and expand their business networks."

Prof. Pindyck tells NPR host Steve Inskeep that there is a proposal that McCain supports but Obama opposes that may have an immediate affect on gasoline prices.

MIT Sloan Prof. S.P. Kothari is listed among the prominent alumni of India's Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Rajasthan.

Prof. Schmalensee is quoted in a story about the search engine behemoth.

Prof. Yasheng Huang is quoted in a story regarding the growth of the Indian economy.

An MIT Sloan study about Blackberry dependence is cited in an article about work efficiency.

Senior Lecturer Michael Davies is quoted in a story regarding personal navigation devices.

Sloan Fellow Paul Cofoni, SE '89, has been elected to serve as chairman of the board of the AFCEA International.

Remembrance of former MIT Sloan professor Alex d'Arbeloff who passed away in early July.

IIM-Calcutta, which was established by the Government of India in November 1961 with active support from MIT Sloan, is profiled.

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan is quoted in a story about labor relations in the airline industry.

MIT Sloan Prof. Eric von Hippel is quoted in a story user innovation in automotive innovation.

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer A. Denny Ellerman is quoted in a story regarding the University of Texas System's plan to sell a portion of its oil field holdings.

Researchers at the Center for Information Systems Research at MIT Sloan Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross are quoted in a story about IT in South America.

MIT Sloan Prof. Arnold Barnett discusses a plan for replacing the Electoral College. The plan, which would retain the electoral advantages small states currently have but would remove the winner-take-all system, is outlined in a paper Barnett co-authored entitled A Cure for the Electoral College?

MIT Sloan's A. Denny Ellerman is quoted in a story about oil prices

MIT Sloan alumnus Nattawut Amornvivat, president of the Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau, feels more marketing will help the meeting, incentive, convention and exhibition businesses.

A paper co-authored by MIT Sloan Assistant Prof. Carola Frydman is cited in an article regarding executive compensation.

A study co-authored by MIT Sloan Mozaffar Khan is cited in an article regarding short selling.

A. Denny Ellerman is quoted in a story

Kristin Forbes is quoted in a story regarding about personal spending habits in the down economy.

MIT Sloan Prof. Leigh Hafrey was cited as one of the professors who, in the past few years, has visited the Indian Institute of Planning and Management and interacted with students and industry leaders.

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Malone is co-author of an opinion piece on gamers whom he cites as honing their leadership skills in multiplayer online situations with the tools and techniques they're using that is changing how leaders function.

Putting a purchase on a credit card with a zero interest rate may seem like a good deal, but you're less likely to shop frugally when you're using it or any kind of credit card. MIT researchers Drazen Prelec and Duncan Simester ran an experiment in which two groups of subjects were allowed to bid on tickets to sporting events.

Speakers at the Entrepreneurs' Organization's EO University Boston will include Bill Aulet, senior lecturer at MIT Sloan.

MIT Sloan Prof. Eric von Hippel will be visiting the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), in November to promote the importance of user-based innovations in creating successful companies.

"While many companies have privacy policies that explicitly allow the monitoring of employees, the heart of the case hinges on the police department's lack of a policy regarding the text-messaging service, says Sinan Aral, an affiliated professor at MIT Sloan."

MIT Sloan professor Michael Cusumano is quoted in a NYT story about Google.

Senior Lecturer A. Denny Ellerman is quoted in an article about the European cap-and-trade system.

An article references a WSJ article co-written by Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson regarding IT and growth in market share.

Eric von Hippel is quoted in a story about design and research and development.

Research by Prof. Thomas Malone regarding collective intelligence and football is highlighted.

Eric von Hippel is cited in article about innovation and research and development.

Prof. Thomas A. Kochan is quoted in a story about international unions.

Prof. Richard Schmalensee is quoted in a story about Microsoft and its founder.

Erik Brynjolfsson is quoted in a story about Bill Gate's retirement from Microsoft.

Director of Career Development, Jackie Wilbur is quoted in a story regarding specialized MBA programs.

Matthew McGarvey, an MIT Sloan MBA student, is quoted in a story regarding yoga as a means of stress relief for MBA students.

Laura (Souza) Capone, senior associate dean of the Division of Student Life at MIT, died of pancreatic cancer at 47. In 2003, she earned credits from MIT Sloan.

Article about Nobel Peach Prizer winner, Muhammad Yunus, and his commencement address at MIT.

Power-One, Inc. announced the appointment of MIT Sloan alumna Linda C. Heller as Senior Vice President, Finance, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer.

Christopher Maloney is a republican candidate for state representative for the state of Michigan in the 38th District. Maloney attended the Executive Education program at MIT Sloan.

MIT Sloan alumnus Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General, has been appointed Chancellor of the University of Ghana.

MIT Sloan alumnus Clay T. Whitehead, Nixon administration official who laid the groundwork for Open Skies, the policy that led to the creation of the domestic satellite system that brought cable television and lower-cost long-distance telephone service into millions of American homes, died in Washington on July 23. He was 69.

MIT Sloan alumnus Thomas E. Richards has been appointed as chief operating officer of Qwest Communications International.

Keppel Corporation Limited (Keppel Corporation) announced the appointment of MIT Sloan alumnus Ko Kheng Hwa as Chief Executive Officer of its new Sustainable Development and Living Business Division.

MIT Sloan alumnus Stuart Grief was appointed as senior vice president, Strategy and Business Integration at Textron Systems.

Among the many issues MIT Sloan alumna Carly Fiorina is now addressing on presidential candidate John McCain's behalf are the multiple shake-ups involving his top assistants in the past year. Fiorina says the changes show McCain's strengths, not his weaknesses.

Offering prizes for scientific achievements is hardly new. "It has been around for centuries," said MIT Sloan alumnus Karim R. Lakhani.

MIT Sloan alumnus Charles Yardley Chittick passed away on July 18, 2008 at the age of 107. Yardley was a retired patent lawyer who turned down a job offer from Thomas Edison and feuded with Humphrey Bogart as a teenager.

Bruce S. Gordon has been appointed to the Barnes Foundation Board of Trustees. He holds a master's of science degree from MIT Sloan School of Management.

MIT Sloan alumnus Patrick Shanahan, the managing director for Boeing's 787 program, said that the problem in the software for the braking system would not delay production, but that it was using up the cushion the company had allowed for holdups.

Loren Hitt has been appointed Class of 1942 Term Professor. He earned a PhD (1996) in management from MIT Sloan, with a concentration in information technology and economics.

What began as an academic pursuit by two committed physicians resulted in a transforming technology that has significantly increased medical adherence in both trial and commercial environments. One of the doctors, Murat Kalayoglu, is a graduate of MIT Sloan.

Birzhan Kaneshev, an MIT Sloan alumnus, has been appointed the new assistant akim of the Western Kazakhstan oblast.

Retail newcomer Aswaaq intends to offer shares in an initial public offering in October, says Abdul Baset Al Janahi, an MIT Sloan alumnus and CEO of ritual newcomer Aswaaq. He says the company aims to have its first supermarket up and running by the end of the year and plans to build and run 35 outlets in Dubai over the next seven years.

Aura Biosciences is an MIT student startup that has developed an ingenious new means of delivering cancer-killing drugs to liver (and other) tumors.

MIT Sloan alumnus Henry "Bud" K. Hebeler says that if we expect to reach our financial retirement goals, we're going to have to put the kibosh on extraneous spending and make savings a priority in our lives.

Michael L. Tushman, who was awarded his PhD from MIT Sloan, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva.

Zurich Financial Services has named John Parker as the new chief marketing officer for its North America Commercial business division.

Khazanah Nasional Bhd's managing director Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar addressed reporters from the Khazanah-facilitated MIT Sloan Global Entrepreneurship Program in Malaysia, saying that government-linked companies are much stronger now compared to four years ago in overcoming an economic crisis amid escalating costs.

In an article on unhealthy habits, a research study from MIT Sloan revealing that some 90 percent of BlackBerry users compulsively check it for work messages on their own time was referenced.

As Obama and McCain square off over a troubled economy, MIT Sloan Prof. Robert Pindyck looks at their economic plans, and what each might mean for America.

According to a study by MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the first price we encounter for a given item shapes how we view every price we encounter after that.

MIT Sloan alumnus and Harvard Prof. Michael Tushman was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Geneva.

Jack Welch, former MIT Sloan lecturer, was chosen among celebrity retirees to have the best retirement based on how he nurtures varied interests and stays connected to what he loves most about work.

MIT Sloan alumnus Sanjay Swani has been appointed to the board of directors of Mobile Mini

MIT Sloan Prof. Eric Von Hippel says that T-shirt shirt design company Threadless is a "perfect example" of a new way of thinking about innovation, and that it has tapped into a fundamental economic shift, a movement away from passive consumerism.

Research by MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson indicates that in a digital age spending on tangible assets like IT alone is not sufficient to be a market leader.

MIT Sloan Prof. Charles H. Fine is quoted in a story about business process management.

MIT Sloan lecturer A. Denny Ellerman is interviewed in a story about carbon emissions "cap-and-trade" systems.

MIT Sloan alumnus Paul Dumay is praised as being one of the Web's most respected marketing and social media bloggers.

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Kristin Forbes says that in order to pay for its current account deficit and capital exports, the United States needs $2 trillion of additional foreign investment in 2008.

At the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, the topic that took center stage was collaboration tools.

Research by MIT Sloan Prof. Mozaffar Khan shows some compelling evidence that significant front-running does exist on Wall Street.

MIT Sloan Prof. Dan Ariely discusses his book Predictably Irrational and how people can use his research to stop making poor economic and social choices and start making better ones.

As an alternative to the Electoral College, this blog posting cites MIT Sloan Prof. Arnold Barnett's suggestion of a weighted vote share system.

MIT Sloan Prof. Rebecca Henderson discusses whether or not new technology can stimulate the US economy.

MIT Sloan Prof. Joseph Doyle calls Massachusetts's new tougher booster seat law feel-good legislation.

In an article on the legal implications of excessive Blackberry use and overtime pay, MIT Sloan Deputy Dean JoAnne Yates said in a research paper she co-authored that many people check their e-mails as often as every seven or eight minutes.

MIT Sloan Prof. Michael Cusumano is quoted in a story about Microsoft's retiring founder Bill Gates.

MIT Sloan Prof. Michael Cusumano is quoted in a NYT story about Bill Gate's retirement.

MIT Sloan Prof. Kristin Forbes is quoted in a storby about foreign investments in U.S. capital markets.

Professor Sikander Khan of Fudan University School of Management, which has a partnership with MIT Sloan, will be discussing energy resources and its impact on the economic growth of China at an upcoming event.

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan is a member of the five-person independent compensation review board that recommend large pay raises -- some up to 70 percent -- for the state's top politicians and judges.

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan is quoted in a story regarding a hike to the minimum wage in Connecticut.

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer David Pelly is quoted in a story regarding a MIT-developed solar power system.

MIT Sloan Profs. Drazen Prelec and Duncan Simester is quoted in a story about credit card usage.

MIT Sloan Prof. John Sterman was among the researches who concluded that there is a fundamental flaw in how well-educated adults, including MIT Sloan students, understand accumulation.

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan is quoted in a story regarding gasoline prices on business practices.

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan, a member of Catholic Scholars for Worker Justice, is among a group of Catholic academics and clergy who want to reinvigorate unions.

According to an MIT study co-authored by MIT Sloan's Denny Ellerman and Paul Joskow, the EU "cap-and-trade" system has operated well and has had little or no negative impact on the overall EU economy.

A review of Peter Senge's new book, The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World.

MIT Sloan Prof. Kristin Forbes is quoted in a story about actions by the Treasury Secretary Harry Paulson.

Research by MIT Sloan Prof. John Hauser regarding online retail is profiled in the MIT Technology Review.

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer John Reilly is quoted in a story about solar energy and the rising cost of energy.

MIT Sloan Prof. Kristin Forbes is quoted in a story about flucuation in the value of the dollar.

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Bill Aulet's basketball abilities are praised.

MIT Sloan Prof. Sarah Slaughter is quoted in a story regarding the looming water shortage crisis.

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan spoke about the UAW strike, GM, and labor unions along with their impact on the economy.

MIT Sloan Prof. Dan Ariely writes that the field of behavioral economics, in particular research by MIT Sloan Prof. Drazen Prelec, has rather convincingly shown that money given in different forms can have fundamentally different effects.

MIT Sloan Prof. Dan Ariely says that identification with Israel can have different shadings for American Jews and Israelis.

MIT Sloan Prof. Gordon Kaufman is quoted in a story about the untapped petroleum reserves in the United States.

MIT Sloan Prof. Dan Ariely has designed a survey on procrastination. The results will be published in the September 2008 issue of O, the Oprah Magazine.

Will O'Brien, MBA '08, is profiled in a story about young entrepreneurs.

MIT Sloan MBA '08 Brian Glenn writes about his decision to accept a position in the high-yield and distressed debt sector.

Research co-authored by MIT Sloan PhD candidate Rodrigo Canales concerning lending in an environment of decentralized banking is highlighted.

MIT is among a group of business schools that have a mock trading room to bring experience from Wall Street into the classroom.

An MIT Sloan survey of nearly 400 MBA students shows that the downturn in the economy has made a potential employer's record on sustainability less of a priority.

Dave Menachery, MBA '09, is quoted in a story about the Celtics fan culture.

MIT Sloan PhD student Melissa Mazmanian is profiled in a story about PhD candidates pursuing both their academics and motherhood.

Zurich, one of the world's largest property-casualty insurance companies, announced that MIT Sloan alumnus John Parker has joined its North America Commercial business division as chief marketing officer.

The Sept-Iles Port Authority has appointed Avit Ouellet to its board of directors. Ouellet attended the Program for Senior Executives at MIT Sloan.

MIT Sloan alumnus Thomas R. Rosen is joining Sagent Advisors Inc. as a managing director on the Energy and Power team in New York.

Lehman Brothers Holdings appointed MIT Sloan alumnus John Goff as the head of corporate structuring for Asia-Pacific ex-Japan.

MIT Sloan alumnus Yishai Knobel is quoted in a story about the efforts of technology companies headquartered in Cambridge to recruit recent graduates.

Among additions to its senior management team, HealthCareSources HR hired MIT Sloan alumnus Burt Rubenstein as its Chief Technology Officer.

Mobivox announced the appointment of MIT Sloan alumnus Peter Diedrich as Chief Executive Officer. Diedrich was also appointed to Mobivox's board of directors.

Naverus, Inc. said MIT Sloan alumna Dottie Hall has been named Chief Marketing Officer. Hall will lead the company's worldwide marketing and communications strategy.

When MIT Sloan alumnus Scott Bush launched his rye whiskey company, he was following the advice of a business professor -- do what you love.

Walgreens named MIT Sloan alumna Sona Chawla to the new position of senior vice president of e-commerce.

MIT Sloan alumnus Rich Wong will speak at MobileBeat 2008, a half-day conference that will explore where the mobile industry is headed.

MIT Sloan alumnus Sanjeev Verma is slated to participate in a webinar entitled "The Business Case for Femtocells".

MIT Sloan alumna Kara Dyer was ready for the tough queries of a panel interview. She had practiced case-study presentations before groups of fellow students at MIT Sloan and says the rehearsals made her less nervous during the interview.

The Boston Globe covers the winner of the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, Diagnostics For All, a not-for-profit that seeks to deliver affordable point-of-care diagnostic solutions to the global medical community.

Audio: Two representatives from Diagnostics for All, this year's winner of the $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, are interviewed in a PRI radio broadcast.

MIT Sloan was cited as one of BusinessWeek Magazine's top 10 U.S. business schools that offers a course in Cross Cultural Management with a multi-national focus.

MIT Sloan is praised as the only local university that organizes a tech trek of Massachusetts companies.

The MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) recently unveiled its new study, The Future of the CIO, on the present and future roles of CIOs worldwide.

The microfluidic testing device designed by $100K winners Diagnostics For All is discussed in the MIT Technology Review.

MIT Sloan is mentioned in an article about the peer-editing wiki program Confluence.

This article, which looks at b-school rankings, concludes that while American business schools - including MIT Sloan - are the top-ranked in the world, a number across Europe are rapidly progressing.

When we make decisions, we think we're in control and making rational choices. But are we? MIT Sloan Prof. Dan Ariely unmasks the subtle but powerful tricks our minds play on us in an NPR interview.

Douglas Breeden, MIT Sloan alumnus and member of MIT Corporation's Visiting Committee for the Sloan School of Management, offers his opinions on MBA admissions, b-school education, and his experiences as dean of the Fuqua School of Business.

MIT Sloan alumna Karina Drees discusses the Fourth Space Investment Summit, the timing for commercial space investments, Generation Y and the reasons she is involved in space commerce.

Robert Pindyck, an MIT Sloan professor of economics and finance, shares where he stands on McCain and Clinton's proposed suspension of federal gas taxes for the summer in this interview hosted by Tom Ashbrook.

This posting highlights an exchange between MIT Sloan Profs. Michael Cusumano and Thomas Malone in which they debate whether CIOs can succeed in a process-improvement role.

"I think what we have here is a social and political problem, not a technological problem," MIT Sloan's Rebecca Henderson told the MIT News Office, which was surveying MIT staff about trends they see in the future.

In a podcast, MIT Sloan Prof. Eric Brynjolfsson discusses how businesses are finding ways to get a return on social networking by enabling a better understanding of how information flows.

Don Rosenfield is quoted in an article about the computer manufacturer's customer service.

MIT Sloan alumnus Brad Feld puts out a request to readers for software imagery that he can use at his MIT Sloan 20th reunion presentation. His slated presentation is part of the "Back to the Classroom" series, which will include MIT Sloan Deputy Dean JoAnne Yates and MIT Sloan Profs. Roberto Rigobon, Anjali Sastry, and Drazen Prelec.

An article describing a study called "How Communities Support Innovative Activities," co-conducted by MIT Sloan, shows that 37 percent of people in the U.S. report having conceived an innovation, and nine percent of these report building product prototypes or even marketable products.

Productivity can take a hit when folks try to juggle too many tasks at once, as evidenced in a study co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson.

Research by MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson is cited in this posting about IY's effect on creativity.

MIT Sloan Prof. Richard Schmalensee is listed among the signers of an open statement opposing proposals for a gas tax holiday.

MIT Sloan Prof. Deborah Ancona is listed as No. 2 among top female business gurus in this blog entry.

This blog entry asks, "Could your television's next set-top box be made by Nintendo?" According to MIT Sloan Prof. Pai-Ling Ying, the idea is not as inconceivable as you may think.

Reporter Todd Bishop posts an excerpt of an interview he conducted with MIT Sloan Prof. Michael Cusumano regarding Microsoft's withdrawal of its bid for Yahoo!.

An article describing how a research paper co-written by MIT Sloan's Mark Mortensen entitled, "Friends and Enemies Within: the Role of Subgroups, Imbalance, and Isolates in Geographically Dispersed Teams" has been posted.

The NYT cites a study by MIT Sloan's Joseph J. Doyle that found that children removed from their parents and taken into foster care, even for a relatively short period, were three times as likely to grow up to be juvenile offenders or have a teenage