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In a bid to generate entrepreneurial businesses in Russia, Rusnano, the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies, which combines an economic development body with a venture capital firm, has turned to MIT Sloan to develop an executive education programme to help it in its quest.

Boston based start-up peerTransfer has been the winner in this year's HIT Barcelona World Innovation Summit Global Entrepreneurship Competition. Twenty three high potential companies from all around the world were competing for a final prize of 20,000 Euros and one of the most prestigious global awards in entrepreneurship and innovation. Judging were some of the most renowned global investors.

Two MIT Sloan students offered advice in a story on new MBA graduates' tips for financial wisdom in trying times. "You have to know what you don't know. I think that's real intelligence," says MIT Sloan MBA Tom Fazzio, who encourages consumers to ask plenty of questions. MBA Mike Regan urges calm during a drop in stock prices. "If nothing has changed, and it's actually cheaper, you should buy more. You shouldn't necessarily think that you did something wrong and sell out of it," he says.

Ed Roberts, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management who co-wrote a major study of MIT's contribution to the global economy in 2009, says economic impact studies like Google's usually end up with estimates much larger than the company's revenues, since the sponsoring company usually counts things like spending on local vendors and the multiplier effect from salaries, which translate into consumer spending on housing, taxes, and the like.

"If we did a fundamental reform of our tax system, shifted to more of a vat, or sales tax, we could probably reduce some of our income taxes, make the overall system more efficient, and raise money in the process," says MIT Sloan Prof. Kristin Forbes in this broadcast interview.

"If financial regulations do not go far enough to address the core weaknesses in our financial system, stock market worries will continue to come back. It will recede from time to time, people will feel confident, but then there'll be problems around the world and people will worry again about the stability of the financial system," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson in this radio interview. The Takeaway is a co-production of Public Radio International and WNYC Radio in collaboration with the BBC World Service, The New York Times and WGBH Boston.

In this live television broadcast on the European debt crisis, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says, "The big question is France. Does France move from being viewed as a safe haven to being viewed as a risky sovereign borrower? That has not happened yet, and as long as that doesn't happen, I think the eurozone will come through this."

"Nothing other than a balanced panel on June 2 would be acceptable. At the very least, the SEC needs to increase the panel to 10 people - 5 for and 5 against," writes MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson. "And all the issues need to be on the table."

"The course has evolved a lot over 20 years... The students use the best tools and modern techniques. There are more environmental concerns today," says MIT Sloan Prof. Steve Eppinger of his Product Design and Development class. MIT Sloan student Stephen Andrew Hale, who worked with design and engineering students in the course to develop products related to green living, global health, and clean transportation says, "I learned a lot working in a cross-functional team under a tight time pressure."

"Apple has all these interesting products, the future is bright, and it's all tied to digital content," says MIT Sloan Prof. Michael Cusumano of Apple's new status as the world's largest technology company.

MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson has a new theory on how leading companies are leveraging IT to unlock unprecedented waves of innovation -- and are reinventing research and development.

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Shari Loessberg was elected to the board of directors for National Financial Partners Corp., a leading independent financial services distribution company

"The Chinese fundamentals are good. All I am saying is that the policy has not changed. You cannot rely on an artificial external stimulus to keep your economy going," says MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang on China's practice of seizing people's savings to finance state projects and investments.

"The Lincoln provision is likely to be removed or new higher capital requirements for the derivatives units may be eliminated," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson.

In this story on the recession's affect on public worker benefits, MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan says, "It's changing because so many private sector workers are taking such a big hit on their 401(k) plans and lost their defined benefit plans."

MIT Sloan Prof. Kristin Forbes and founding member of Deworm the World (DtW) says, "One of the most cost-effective ways of getting more children in poor countries into school is deworming them with one or two tablets a year, which costs pennies per dose and reduces school absenteeism and illiteracy."

"A kid who goes to the airport today is more likely to grow up to be president than die on a flight he or she takes today. The risk is on the order of one in 25 million," says MIT Prof. Arnold Barnett.

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Charles Kane has joined the board of directors of Demandware, a global leader in on-demand ecommerce.

"The future winners will be those companies that used the rough times to put together intellectual property strategies that support their broader business strategies," says MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Joseph Hadzima Jr.

MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo will participate as a panelist at the 2010 International Association of Financial Engineers Annual Conference.

"Unregulated finance, the ideology of unfettered free markets, and state capture by corporate interests are what ended up undermining democracy both in North America and in Europe," writes MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson in this opinion piece.

"Technical advantage has far outstripped our capacity to manage it," says MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo in this blog entry on the increasingly complex rule-bending practices of financial innovation.

MIT Sloan will be signing an agreement with Brazil's Vale Technological Institute to collaborate on academic and research efforts directed at innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainable development.

This column describes the strengths and challenges of international business school partnerships, using MIT Sloan's collaboration with four leading Chinese business schools as a model.

As part of Bloomberg/ BusinessWeek's annual ranking of the top undergraduate business programs, senior business students from the 139 participating schools were asked to assign letter grades to their business programs in 12 specialty areas. Based on those grades, scores were calculated for each of the ranked schools in each area. Not surprisingly, the top-ranked schools in the overall ranking, published in March, have the most top-10 specialty rankings, as well. MIT Sloan was ranked #3 overall.

Ultimately, said Bill Aulet, managing director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, the $200,000 Clean Energy Prize money is not an end in itself, but rather an incentive to learn. "The prize is a head fake to get them to eat their vegetables. We're very focused on building entrepreneurial capabilities," says MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer William Aulet...says MIT Sloan alumnus Justin Ashton, who lead a team in the 2008 competition, "Even though it didn't work out with NanoPur, the competition really galvanized my desire to be an entrepreneur.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's entrepreneurship competition, the MIT $100K, gave a new venture, C-Crete Technologies, top honors and a $100,000 cash prize on C-Crete has invented and patented a new type of cement, which it says is harder and more durable than any other on the market. The company's co-founders, Rouzbeh Shahsavari, the chief executive, and Natanel Barookhian, chief of finance, say their innovative building material will help meet a rising global demand for cement and concrete, while allowing the industry to reduce its negative impact on the environment.

"Given the incentive problems in the eurozone, it is no wonder more nations want to join -- the requirement is just to appear prudent for a few years," writes MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson in this co-authored opinion piece.

MIT Sloan alumnus Nitin Nohria has been named the new dean of Harvard Business School. He has been a professor of business administration at the school since 1988.

MIT Sloan alumnus Adm. Thad Allen was named by the Obama administration to oversee the response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

"The US banks were definitely involved early on in the European schemes. But they probably were more of a pump and dump kind of role -- so they sold it to other people and then they got out before the balloon went up," says Simon Johnson in this live radio interview.

"When everybody else was standing on the sidelines, he went deep and he went long," says MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Howard Anderson of acquisitions made in 2003 by Oracle Corp CEO Larry Ellison.

MIT Sloan Associate Prof. Michelle Hanlon explains how pharmaceutical companies have been able to avoid some income taxes using transfer pricing, a process that converts sales in one country to profits in another.

In questioning European Union countries' ability to contribute to a Greek financial rescue, the author of this opinion piece refers to MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson's point that Portugal, Spain, and Italy owe "a great deal of money to their EU neighbors."

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan has been tapped to conduct an independent review to assist City Council in their decision to fund or reject a controversial new contract for the Boston Fire Department.

"Hopefully these other nations will use this period to reduce their budget deficits and regain competitiveness so that they can avoid being in as difficult a situation as Greece is today," says MIT Sloan Prof. Kristin Forbes of Greece's European Union neighbors.

"So what's the most important step entrepreneurs and innovators can take to invigorating the regional economy? That's an easy question... They have customers who appreciate the region's goods and services and will pay for them," writes MIT Sloan Visiting Scholar Michael Schrage.

MIT Sloan Visiting Prof. Scott Stern will participate in a panel at a joint public workshop on the intersection of patent policy and competition policy and its implications for promoting innovation.

The author quotes MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Mark Kritzman from a 2009 study: "It is very hard, if not impossible to justify active management for most individual, taxable investors, if their goal is to grow wealth."

MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan says most employers avoid no-layoff policies because "few organizations in America are willing to have as egalitarian a compensation system in terms of income levels from top to bottom."

"It was pretty breathtaking," said MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo after the Dow experienced its worst single trading day of the past year. "People are uncertain about many things, and what we saw today was that uncertainty playing out."

"It feels like a whole set of dominoes," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson on the risk of Greece's debt crisis spreading damage to other European nations.

"The question is whether Continental management will bring its experience to help change the United culture and integrate the organizations, or whether Continental will get swallowed up by the adversarial traditions at United," says MIT Sloan Prof. Thomas Kochan.

"I refuse to live in a world where my computer appliances are now smarter and more powerful than I am," writes MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Howard Anderson in a humorous opinion piece.

"The injection of 'innovation adrenaline' can not only be incrementally beneficial economically, it can make a profound change in the spirit of the region and give it new hope for renewal," writes MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Bill Aulet in this blog posting on reinvigorating Michigan's economy.

eHealth, Inc. has acquired PlanPrescriber, Inc., an online tool originally founded as Experion Systems in 2000 by MIT Sloan Prof. Glen Urban to help seniors navigate Medicare health insurance options.

The author cites MIT Sloan Principal Research Scientist Andrew McAfee's SLATES model in an evaluation of SharePoint 2010.

"Simplicity doesn't mean simplicity of thought," says MIT Sloan Lecturer Kara Blackburn. "Start by asking yourself what you want the person to do as a result of this e-mail. Just asking yourself that question can make your communication much clearer."

The author cites excerpts from MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson's 13 Bankers in a story on the impact of the existing financial sector on the real economy.

In order to counter consumer skepticism about safety and higher costs for brand-name drug manufacturers like Johnson Johnson, "they are going to have to go to greater lengths. The greater the harm to the reputation, the more expensive it is to fix it," says MIT Sloan Prof. Michael Braun.

MIT Sloan's Michael Schrage outlines non-sports-related business management tips to be gleaned from the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference panel, "What Geeks Don't Get: The Limits of Moneyball."

This review of 13 Bankers calls MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson's recommendation to break up big banks "a provocative prescription for avoiding a repeat of the panic of 2008."

Julie Strong, MIT Sloan senior associate director of MBA admissions says, "We wanted to be able to open up our possibilities. Maybe they're taking a GRE instead of a GMAT. Do they not go to business school because they're thinking, 'Oh, I already took a GRE, I'm not going to do that'?"

MIT Sloan student Ajay Kulkarni talks about his new start-up, KickFour, a web-based social network for friends to connect around their favorite television shows.

Three MIT Sloan students who are among the members of finalist teams in the MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize competition appear in this story. "Everybody [on the team] brings a different philosophy to the table," says Emmanuel Magani, a member of the team Oscomp Systems with Pedro Tomas Santos. "The world is looking for simple, scalable ways to deal with the carbon footprint -- ours is probably one of the quickest and one of the most efficient ways to deal with it," says Natanel Barookhian, of the startup C-Crete Technologies.

MIT Sloan alumnus and internationally regarded arts management expert Michael Kaiser was interviewed following a moderated discussion co-presented by several Oregon-based arts organizations.

In this interview, MIT Sloan alumna Adriane Brown says, "You have to get out of your comfort zone... It's not about giving people tough goals they can't accomplish. I believe in positive change through people."

MIT Sloan alumnus Shum Mukherjee was appointed chief financial officer at Immersion, a leading developer and licensor of haptics technology.

MIT Sloan alumnus John W. Thompson has been named CEO at Virtual Instruments, a leader in storage area network solutions.

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan alumnus Andrew J. Hoffman writes, "Trust is everything in business, particularly in the construction business. Working in construction, I learned that one crooked contractor can put your entire company in the red so deeply that it could take years to pull yourself out."

MIT Sloan alumna Jane Buchan, CEO of Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company, will participate in a panel discussion during 100 Women in Hedge Fund's 200th educational session.

MIT Sloan is mentioned as one of an increasing number of business schools to address sustainability and corporate responsibility in their curriculum.

This blog post outlines three tips for sales managers gleaned from panelists at the MIT Sloan Sales Conference.

In this online video interview, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson answers questions about 13 Bankers and the 2008 financial crisis. "Everything that caused this massive financial crisis will remain undisturbed at least for the time being... That is I think almost unprecedented in the history of financial crises," he says.

MIT Sloan is a potential collaborator in IBM's upcoming project using computer simulations to better understand the factors that may affect childhood obesity.

"In these sorts of economies, there's not much of a bank presence, but money transfers are still important," says MIT Sloan Assistant Prof. Tavneet Suri of M-PESA, a cell-phone based money transfer system introduced in Kenya.

In an assessment of The Financial Times 2010 Executive Education rankings, MIT Sloan is cited as traditionally strong in research, lending to its success in open-enrollment business education programs.

"Organisations have come to understand the differences between schools and where schools have expertise. I find that reassuring. Having my tenured faculty in a classroom produces a different experience from a lecture in a hotel room or an online programme," says Rochelle Weichman, executive director of Executive Education at MIT Sloan, on the demand for short programs in business education.

MIT Sloan students are working with water filter non-profit Pure Home Water to conduct product research and consumer studies, and to build a factory in northern Ghana in order to help the organization become more locally and financially self-sufficient.

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson stresses that we shouldn't lose track of the broader economic and political context around the Securities and Exchange Commission case against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. In fact, the SEC lawsuit and associated discussion make clear three points.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson's co-authored book, 13 Bankers, is reviewed in the Sunday Book Review.

MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein appeared in an online video interview about recent increases in consumer spending. "This is not a rising tide that's going to lift all boats, and we all know that. Innovation-driven firms, firms that have been able to find new ways to add value -- those are the firms that are going to be lifted here," he says.

MIT Sloan student government presidents are among those from seven US business schools to form a new organization, the MBA Peer School Forum. The group's purpose is to discuss common challenges and goals, including promoting collaboration and student-led initiatives among participating schools.

"This is very sophisticated disinformation... This group -- they call themselves 'Stop Too Big To Fail' -- is wrapping itself in some of the same appearances. Of course, when you see the TV ad there is absolutely no mistaking it. This is an anti-reform ad," says Simon Johnson in a television interview with Rachel Maddow about his experience with an anti-financial reform group that falsely represented itself as pro-financial reform.

Panelists at the MIT Sloan Business in Gaming Conference discussed the slow growth of video game start-ups in Massachusetts, and the potential to beef up the industry with state tax incentives and ending employee non-compete enforcement.

MIT Sloan student Jon Gensler talks about his recent op-ed piece connecting West Virginia mining practices to US dependence on foreign oil, climate change, and national security:

In this television appearance, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson discusses 13 Bankers and the concept of oligarchy in America.

"I'll make it easy for you. If this state doesn't find a way to bring tax credits to this industry, the best possible scenario is that this industry will stagnate in an epic way," says Red sox World Champion Curt Schilling and founder of 38 Studios while at a video game industry conference at MIT Sloan.

MIT Sloan Assistant Prof. Matthew Marx is cited for his research on the effects of state enforcement of non-compete clauses on innovation and inventors' social networks.

This opinion piece includes an excerpt from MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson's co-authored book, 13 Bankers.

"The Internet was born on unfettered access, a strong value behind freedom. China has a different set of values, there is an emphasis on control," says MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang at an MIT panel discussion, 'Should Google Stay in China?'

MIT Sloan Principal Research Scientist Andrew McAfee will keynote the second annual Spigit Innovation Summit for leaders in innovation and enterprise 2.0.

It's because certain types of people fail to see the connection-or lack of connection-among individuals in their network, and consequently, they make erroneous assumptions about their network contacts," says Ray Reagans, associate professor of organization studies at MIT Sloan.

"Can it make a difference? The answer is a resounding yes... We are often told the five days were transformational to the participants and it totally redirected them or at least re-energised them," says William Aulet, director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center in a story featuring two recent participants in MIT Sloan's Entrepreneurship Development Programme.

MIT Sloan alumnus Venk Shukla is mentioned as a member of the board of directors for Emulation Verification Engineering, an electronic design automation start-up featured in this story.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson's 13 Bankers is included in a list of expert viewpoints about breaking up "too big to fail" banks.

This story cites a 2002 MIT Sloan study, which found that "Legislators' votes depend almost entirely on their own beliefs and the preferences of their voters and their party. Contributions explain a minuscule fraction of the variation in voting behavior in the U.S. Congress."

The 7th Annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium announced the finalists for its first Innovation Showcase, which highlights ten outstanding early-stage companies that provide cutting-edge technology and new levels of advancement to Enterprise IT.

"Clearly, they've become a toxic asset," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson of the now tainted reputation of Goldman Sachs alumni hoping to work in government service.

"From a marketing perspective, they need to differentiate their process going forward in order to stem the tide of these outflows," says MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo regarding Janus Capital Group Inc.'s recent client withdrawals of $6.7 billion.

In a story on new methods of bringing products to market on time and on budget, MIT Sloan Prof. Steve Eppinger says that spiral development can offer greater flexibility during the review process "because you aren't doing the whole product definition up front."

Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and now at MIT, has insisted for months that large banks need to be downsized. Some of the largest U.S. banks have $2 trillion in assets, or 20 percent of the economy.

Former MIT Sloan Associate Prof. Lael Brainard was confirmed as undersecretary of the Treasury for international affairs.

"Responsible policymakers in other G-20 countries are very clear on this point: no one will agree ex ante to a specific way of handling the failure of any global bank," writes MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson in this opinion piece

"You would think that the more people you talk to about a new product, the greater the number of people who'd adopt it. But it turns out that that's not always true," says MIT Sloan Visiting Assistant Prof. P.J. Lamberson.

"You start with a small exemption and later you will have big businesses built all around it. It's all just as dangerous as it sounds," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson of end-user exemptions from proposed derivatives-trading rules.

"Once we know what is in fact patentable, firms can then focus their attention on those investments that will lead to protectable innovations that can be the basis for their competitiveness," says MIT Sloan Prof. Fiona Murray regarding gene patents.

MIT Sloan admissions officials answered questions about the application process, what they look for in applicants, and what sets the school apart.

A story on a graduate student's research on physics and basketball mentions the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, where the student recently presented his paper.

MIT alumnus Dan Smolnik was a key member of the committee formed to oversee the distribution of funds to survivors and victims' family members after the April 3, 2009 shooting at an immigrant aid center in Binghamton, NY that killed 13 and wounded 4.

At the MIT Sloan Business in Gaming Conference, former professional baseball player and 38 Studios founder Curt Schilling encouraged state financial incentives for video game start-ups in order to prevent industry stagnation.

"Social media has become an important tool that helps new companies grow and expand successfully," says MIT Sloan student and $100K Entrepreneurship Competition managing director Daniel Vannoni on the Twitter sales pitch contest.

MIT Sloan alumnus William C. Mills was appointed to the board of directors at Interleukin Genetics, Inc., a developer of genetic tests that allow consumers to prevent chronic diseases.

MIT Sloan alumnus and Wharton professor Alex Edmans will join a team of academic advisors for RHReward.com in order to answer homeowners' questions about strategic default and negative equity.

"MIT Sloan Professor John Sterman asked 212 MIT grad students about global warming," writes this blogger. "When queried as to how much we needed to reduce carbon emissions in order to stop accumulation in the atmosphere, 84% of the students dramatically underestimated the severity of the problem."

"There are technical solutions that can contribute to solving climate change and improving health care, but they aren't sufficient. There is no purely technical solution for these problems," says MIT Sloan Prof. John Sterman at the IBM Almaden Institute 2010 conference. The blog post also contains a clip from Sterman's keynote speech, in which he compares elements of the civil rights movement to climate change and health reform efforts.

"On the panel was John Sterman of MIT Sloan School of Management whom I met last December when he was in Los Angeles giving a talk," writes this blogger. "I found his presentation shockingly interesting, so when he invited me on Thursday to take part in his Climate Interactive simulation exercise the next morning, I figured why not."

"Our research has shown that distributed leadership is more complicated than we originally anticipated," writes MIT Sloan Prof. Deborah Ancona in a co-authored blog entry.

Modern Internet technology "allows you to do things faster and be much more responsive than in the past. That's true for big companies as well as small ones," says MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson.

"The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium doesn't happen until May 19, but today they're announcing the ten start-up companies that'll be part of the 'innovation showcase at the event," writes this blogger.

Simon Johnson, an MIT professor, has been leading the intellectual charge to break up banks. In his book 13 Bankers, he urges that no financial institution be permitted to control more than 4 percent of G.D.P. and no investment bank more than 2 percent. All six of the big financial institutions exceeds those limits.

"Why would anyone think that today's size of banks is the right place to stop? After all, it is the banks at their current size who brought us such disaster," writes MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson in response to questions about financial reform proposals.

MIT Sloan alumnus Michael Birnberg, a candidate for the Millburn district school board, is profiled

And today, the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition (@MIT100k) announced it will also offer a "twitch" prize of $500. MIT's Twitch competition will run from April 20th until May 10th and be open to submissions from anyone at least 18 years old who is following the competition on Twitter. The event is meant to challenge contestants to summarize their plans and incite as many people as possible to re-tweet their ideas during the contest. The competition's organizing committee will choose a winner.

The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium announced four finalists for the 2010 Award for Innovation Leadership.

In this adaptation of a Winter 2010 MIT Sloan Management Review article, the authors outline four ways to effectively differentiate a supply chain from its competitors.

MIT Sloan alumnus Dr. BP Agrawal, whose initiative for providing clean water and medical services to rural Indian villages won the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability, is proflied in this blog post.

MIT Sloan ranked #3 in this year's US News World Report MBA rankings, up two places from last year. U.S. News surveyed 426 MBA programs to secure the information used in the ranking of top business schools

China's "exchange rate adjustment itself is not going to do it. It's going to depend on the domestic tightening of the bank lending, coupled with the exchange rate adjustment. These two things together may actually pop the real estate bubble," says MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang in this live television interview.

Sarah Slaughter, MIT Sloan senior lecturer and coordinator of the Sustainability Initiative, says businesses are looking for MBAs with the skills to address environmental and social issues, thus creating a new market for MBA talent. MIT Sloan sustainability efforts also include a new certificate program and sustainability-oriented internships.

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson writes, "For Teddy Roosevelt, it did not matter how important you were, or claimed to be, to the economy. If you were too powerful, and if your actions were hurting other people in the economy, Roosevelt wanted to take you on -- and he instructed his lawyers accordingly."

"There is no evidence that anybody else in the economy benefits when banks are above $100 billion. So these banks are ten times too big, from a social point of view," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson in this interview with Matt Lauer.

In order to prevent another financial meltdown, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson recommends setting a hard size cap of about $100B on the largest banks, enforcing capital requirements of 20% or more, and exchange-trading all derivatives.

In this radio broadcast, MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson questions how Citigroup's senior adviser was unaware of mortgage investment risks.

"Big banks are dangerous in this country and in the financial scene right now, and the last thing we need is an even bigger JP Morgan Chase," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson.

"The tax will be far too small to make a difference. It will just institutionalize the too-big-to-fail dimension of our systems. You really need... to reduce the size of our biggest banks if you're going to make any progress at all," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson on the prospects of a global bank levy.

"'Dangerous and deliberately misleading' would be my headline...What this legislation tries to do -- and I think it should be tougher -- is more akin to an FDIC resolution structure. It doesn't protect management; it boots them out," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson regarding characterization of new finance legislation.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says that aftershocks from the Greek financial crises are still causing problems throughout Europe.

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Mark Kritzman will present a paper on how to measure financial system fragility at the April 20 Quantitative Work Alliance for Applied Finance, Economics and Wisdom meeting

According to MIT Sloan Prof. Michael Cusumano, manufacturing in New England is gaining strength. "It may not be the smokestack manufacturing like we saw in the past, but it's happening," he says.

"Once we know what is in fact patentable, firms can then focus their attention on those investments that will lead to protectable innovations that can be the basis for their competitiveness," says MIT Sloan Prof. Fiona Murray regarding gene patents.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson argues against end-user exemptions from derivatives-trading rules in proposed bank-reform legislation.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson says that Euro region governments should consider "pre-emptive" economic aid for Portugal.

"This is not fixing the issue. The Greeks could seize the opportunity. You have taken away their incentive to solve the problem," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson on the EU's economic rescue package for Greece.

Anjali Sastry, a global health delivery and system dynamics researcher who lectures at the MIT Sloan School of Management, says her MBA students are increasingly using what they learn to experiment with different models for care delivery. "Ghana tried a national health insurance system, for instance," she says. "What can the U.S. learn from Ghana?"

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson hopes that 13 Bankers will lead to further discussions about financial policy. "The broad, mainstream consensus on what is good finance and bad finance is shifting," he says.

"This country is based on our ability to take risks, to create new things -- and our ability to fail, individually and in a corporate setting," MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson said at the kick-off event for his book tour.

In a post on the newly released 13 Bankers, a blogger cites MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson's online faculty profile.

This story on a recent paper co-authored by MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo describes his proposal for a five-tiered categorization of uncertainty to more effectively understand and calculate risk in economic systems.

In this Q+A, MIT Sloan Research Scientist Andrew McAfee says, "We're asking people to rethink how they think about technology and collaboration. There's a lot of shift in perspective required. Companies will be transformed. It will be a quiet, subtle transformation, though."

"Failure can and should be a productive managerial resource," writes Michael Schrage, visiting scholar at MIT Sloan, taken from an excerpt from one of his blog postings.

In a story about MIT faculty and departmental research and reactions to health care reform, MIT Sloan Associate Prof. Joseph J. Doyle says, "I don't like the idea that if you get sick, you might stop working, and if you do that, you will lose your insurance."

MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang attended a monthly seminar discussion of China's Western Returned Scholars Association to compare the economies of China and India.

MIT Sloan alumnus Rahul Swani was promoted to vice president at the investment firm Harris Williams and Company

At a roundtable discussion on the future of manufacturing, MIT Sloan Prof. Charles Fine discussed lightweight cars as an area for the US to re-establish a competitive advantage in manufacturing.

In a story on the debate about whether smaller publicly traded companies in the US should stay exempt from an independent audit review of internal controls for financial reporting, MIT Sloan Associate Prof. Michele Hanlon says, "In terms of a cost-benefit analysis, we know this regulation is costly to implement, and there are fixed costs, so it's disproportionately costly for a small firm. That's always the issue with this type of regulation."

On April 24, top business leaders, government figures, and academics will gather under MIT's iconic dome in Cambridge to explore the fundamentals of shaping a new development cycle during the XIII Annual MIT Latin Conference.

"Without an aggressive push to diversify the options for our Appalachian workers, they will be forced to continue the work of their fathers and grandfathers, and we will see more tragedies like this in the future," says MIT Sloan student Jon Gensler in this opinion piece.

MIT Sloan student Allen Breed is engaged to be married in June to Tarah Donoghue.

The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference is mentioned in a story on the growing field of baseball analytics.

MIT Sloan MBA Chris Lin was interviewed about his G-Lab trip to Jakarta to work with Mercy Corps on a business model to expand their pilot program, which offers healthier food choices from popular street carts.

MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang and other experts weigh in on the effects of China's new exchange rate policy. "China is already in the middle of a huge real estate bubble. A gradual exchange rate adjustment will make it worse -- and thus will make its eventual bursting even more of a calamity," he writes.

"There remains sharp disagreement on what exactly would end 'too big to fail'," blogs MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson in an outline of the three camps of financial reform strategy.

MIT Sloan Visiting Scholar Michael Schrage participated in an online video interview for a 13-part series on transportation innovation. "There is a tension between disruptive innovation, and rapid, iterative, incremental innovation. But if you have enough incremental innovation in a short period of time, you've got a revolution," he says in this first segment.

MIT Sloan Visiting Scholar Michael Schrage and Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson are featured in an analysis of their interviews with the Sloan Management Review on business intelligence.

MIT Sloan student and Cambridge City Council member Leland Cheung is quoted in this blog post. "It's important to realize what you do in your backyard has a really immediate impact," he says.

A blogger cites MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson's Baseline Scenario post recommending Tom Hoenig as a candidate to succeed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner if he steps down.

A quote from MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson's blog appeared in a Times blog entry comparing banks' reputations in Washington and the media. "The public relations machines of today's bankers may be even more effective than those of Morgan and Rockefeller," he wrote.

An ongoing column highlights emerging trends in technology leadership, including subjects that will be discussed in May at the 2010 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium.

A blogger cites MIT Sloan Principal Research Scientist Andrew McAfee's recent interview, "Putting the science in management science," for the Sloan Management Review, part of a series of interviews geared for business intelligence practitioners.

MIT Sloan is ranked number four in the top five undergraduate business programs for return on investment at private schools, based on annual tuition and median base salary at graduation.

MIT Sloan is cited as one of a small selection of business schools offering courses on Shakespeare as a way to foster creativity in communication and leadership skills.

In a list of ten ways to promote productivity and success among virtual work teams, the authors cite research from MIT Sloan showing that virtual teams using specific processes for goal setting, planning, problem solving, and role assignment outperform other teams.

MIT Sloan's Marketing Lab will conduct a survey of Kendall Square retail establishments and identify potential sites for new retailers in support of collaborative efforts to expand the area's business-oriented reputation.

An ongoing column highlights emerging trends in technology leadership, including subjects that will be discussed in May at the 2010 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium.

Doron Harlev, an MIT Sloan alumnus, is preparing to launch a clinical trial of Rhythmia's catheter-based heart mapping system in Europe. MIT Sloan Prof. Ed Roberts is also mentioned as one of the start-up's investors.

In this editorial interview, MIT Sloan alumnus and Aetna Inc. CEO Ron Williams says, "The notion of corporate social responsibility at Aetna goes beyond our work with the Aetna Foundation and community relations. It also includes leadership in public policy, valuing diversity, and a commitment to the environment."

MIT Sloan alumna Andrea Waller is a candidate for the Branchburg schools' board of education.

MIT Sloan alumnus Eran Shavelsky's Boston area startup, MedMinder Systems, offers an electronic pill box called "Maya" that alerts patients when they do not take their pills on time. "Within a week they report more of a feeling of control, greater confidence and peace of mind," he says.

MIT Sloan alumnus Laurie Slap was elected as a member of the Belmont School Committee, with about 37% of the vote in a four-way race.

In this opinion piece, MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang writes, "Thanks to the Internet, Chinese citizens have acquired the technological means -- although not yet the full legal protections -- of free speech, defined as the ability to question and criticize the government"

Prof. Johnson thwarts Stephen Colbert's notoriously contrary interviewing style to explain the tie between "too-big-to-fail" banks and the ongoing boom-bust cycle.

Big bank leaders "managed their way into an enormous crisis that cost us trillions of dollars, and yet we kept every one of them in their jobs. We kept their board of directors, they got to keep their pensions, their bonuses, their empires. In fact, they're bigger now than they were before," says Prof. Johnson.

Prof. Johnson says, "What we're talking about here is a system of incentives and beliefs in and around Wall Street that leads into big trouble both for the firms involved and for the country."

[Translation] MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein and Deputy Dean Richard Locke are featured in a story on Spain's economic challenges. "The real challenge lies in restoring the confidence of the population," says Schmittlein. Locke adds that the recovery of confidence will lead to "the creation of new jobs, and also an increase in job stability in segments of the youth population."

Four MBA students from MIT Sloan's India Lab are interning at the online entertainment portal, 'Buzzintown.' "The experience I gathered here will help me become an entrepreneur," says MIT Sloan MBA Olivia Hui-Salva. Sloan MBA students Christy Trang, Jai Ashvin Kapadia and Terry Chun-Hong Yee are also quoted.

MIT MBA students participating in India Lab are featured in a video broadcast about the collaboration between universities and global start-up businesses. The broadcast is available on YouTube

Shari Loessberg, a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan, asks, "One of the real bastions of male control -- access to money -- remains at that early stage investment level in venture capital...Does anybody have insights on venture capital, either here in the states or abroad, in how women can increase or enhance their profile in that small, vital sector?"

CSPAN covered Gregory Zuckerman's talk at MIT Sloan on his new book, The Greatest Trade Ever

Kenyan university students debated issues affecting their country at the University of Nairobi during an event organized by MIT MBA students. This video broadcast is available on YouTube.

"There is almost nothing here that will address the central problem, which is that we built large banks that are too big to fail, and well on their way to becoming too big to save," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson.

The Boston Globe announced the release of MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson's co-authored 13 Bankers, and his appearance at the Harvard Book Store on April 2.

Health care reform, according to this article, is a potential opportunity for private equity firms to turn charity hospitals into competitive lower-cost for-profit businesses. "Caritas becomes the template for elsewhere, and if it works, they can expand it," says MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Howard Anderson.

[Translated] "This is the most historic social reform in this century," says MIT Prof. Thomas Kochan on the passage of health care reform in the US.

This story cites a recent New Republic article by MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson.

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Leigh Hafrey is stepping down after 18 years as a Harvard University Mather House Master.

"If we believe the economy is going to respond in the next couple of years, it's not going to be a bad time to be dean," says MIT Sloan Prof. and Dean Emeritus Glen Urban of top business schools' search for new deans.

"What we thought was diversified became very highly correlated because of the global integration of the financial markets. Assets we thought were uncorrelated have moved together, so we have to be much more thoughtful about asset allocation," says MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo.

"A strong lobby of real-estate developers, the investors who bought the bank bonds, and politicians with links to the failed developments (and their bankers) have managed to ensure that taxpayers rather than creditors will pay," says MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson.

"One policy lever the Chinese have, but the Americans do not, is they can restrict the operations of U.S. companies operating in China. There are not that many Chinese companies operating in the United States and the legal processes here are more complicated," says MIT Sloan Prof. Yasheng Huang.

"We know that there are huge piles of money on the sideline. The problem is everyone is kind of looking at each other and saying: 'You go first,' says MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer John DeTore.

MIT Sloan Principal Research Scientist Andrew McAfee's book, Enterprise 2.0, is cited in this commentary on the effects of Web 2.0 on accounting firms.

MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson co-authored this opinion piece on potential solutions to the European debt crisis.

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Bill Aulet was appointed managing director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, which works with students, faculty, and others to foster entrepreneurship. MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein says, "With his depth of experience and dedication to entrepreneurship, Bill Aulet will be a great asset to the Center as it continues to develop and support MIT's many entrepreneurial programs and activities."

"Economies evolve, dictated by the behaviours of individuals, who learn from experience and positive feedback," explains MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew Lo in a story on the use of biological ecology principles in financial models.

"One person's 'discretion' is another person's 'dishonest.' It's getting harder to determine where one ends and the other begins," writes Michael Schrage, visiting scholar at MIT Sloan, in an excerpt from one of his blog posts.

A blog post from MIT Sloan Principal Research Scientist Andrew McAfee is featured in the third-annual Blogging Idol competition as one of the ten "best-ever" blog posts about enterprise IT.

"Ten years ago, powerful research teams, both in investment firms and on Wall Street, had a deep understanding of the major public firms...Now, we're left with a bunch of bloggers who just want to know if you meet your quarter or not," says MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer John DeTore.

"While the EU Emissions Trading Scheme has its problems, it has had a great deal more success than its alternatives... Those considering a similar cap-and-trade system in the U.S. can learn a lot from the E.U.'s experiment," writes Denny Ellerman, former senior lecturer at MIT Sloan, in this opinion piece.

In this coverage of his new book, The Delta Model, MIT Sloan Prof. Emeritus Arnoldo Hax says, "Following the conventional ways of thinking about management strategy is not an option because those ways are anchored on competitors and rivalry. This is a new approach with powerful concepts and tools to help managers make this model a reality."

Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan Prof., says U.S. manufacturing never has developed a close community of private industry and technical schools in any systematic way, although pockets of success exist. "There is underinvolvement in training because we leave it to the individual manufacturers," he says.

"IT has created a platform that makes data analysis a lot easier. If something works they can do more of it, and if not, there's a bunch of other experiments running. It's a rapid-feedback system. That's the new type of innovation, and it's very much driven by IT," says MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson.

MIT Sloan Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson describes how tech companies' large cash accumulation allows them to take risks that smaller companies can't in a fragile economy, creating a bifurcated tech landscape.

"We're asking people to rethink how they think about technology and collaboration. There's a lot of shift in perspective required. Companies will be transformed. It will be a quiet, subtle transformation, though," says MIT Sloan Research Scientist Andrew McAfee in this Q+A.

MIT Sloan Prof. Glen Urban is part of a committee overseeing the Google and WPP Marketing Research Awards Program, and will help to guide the project implementation process for winning submissions.

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Peter Senge and MIT Sloan Prof. Emeritus Jay Forrester are cited for their work in systems thinking and systems dynamics in this opinion piece on the application of dynamical systems to disciplines such as management, sociology, and psychology.

Last week, a group of MIT Sloan MBAs were in Europe to visit some of the top luxury brand companies. While the company visits were ostensibly for the students to explore career opportunities, Renée Richardson Gosline, assistant professor of marketing at MIT Sloan, says companies aim to get student feedback as well.

A story on the recent MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference focuses on finding a balance in sports between objective statistical analysis and more subjective measures, such as fans' attachment to players.

MIT Sloan operations research students Douglas Fearing and Jason Acimovic, along with MIT Sloan Prof. Stephen Graves, developed ShotLink, a new metric designed to measure golfers' putting performance.

"I decided that if we could build the world's greenest, most energy-efficient building, and showcase the technologies used, it would serve as a model for all future buildings," says MIT Sloan alumnus Kamal Meattle.

MIT Sloan alumnus Joel Wachtler was appointed as director of strategy and business development at the communications firm Eircom Group.

MIT Sloan alumnus George Li is cited as one of China's prominent private equity princelings, whose father was one of the country's senior leaders from the late 1980s until 2003.

MIT Sloan alumnus Robert L. Sarno announces his candidacy for Town Meeting member in Precinct 3 of Belmont, MA.

MIT Sloan alumni Lorenzo Pagani and Melody Rollins were promoted as executive vice presidents of PIMCO, a global investment management firm based in Newport Beach, CA.

"The scouts vs. stats thing that you see written about in some places, we try to integrate it and see that both parts are brought to bear," MIT Sloan alumnus John Abbamondi said at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.

MIT Sloan alumnus Christos Ioannou was appointed to the Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company S.A. board of directors and was also nominated to be a member of their audit committee.

MIT Sloan alumnus Douglas Lowry has completed half of his project, that of providing to the public with a searchable, online, and current version of the US health care reform legislation.

The author of this opinion piece on the controversial building of housing units in East Jerusalem cites Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an alumnus of MIT Sloan, a credential he feels that should make others take him seriously.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. hired MIT Sloan alumnus Takashi Masuda to head its convertible bond underwriting business in Japan.

Rhythmia Medical Inc., a medical device maker founded by MIT Sloan alumnus Doran Harlev, has raised $2.7 million in equity financing, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

MIT Sloan alumnus Eran Shavelsky's Boston area startup, MedMinder Systems, offers an electronic pill box called "Maya" that alerts patients when they do not take their pills on time, potentially saving the US healthcare system $290 billion per year.

MIT Sloan alumnus Joseph Gleeson was appointed President of EMCOR Government Services.

"Innovation expands the productive capacity of the economy by increasing output, consumption, and wages. However, it also has a dark side that creates risks, particularly for older businesses and workers," blogs MIT Sloan Prof. Leonid Kogan.

"There is just no question, the current transportation model does not scale. It isn't going to happen -- because everybody wants to be as rich as we are, and we all want to be richer than we are today," says MIT Sloan's John Sterman.

This blog posting highlights the "What Geeks Don't Get" session of the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, including video of the panel.

The author blogs about some of the panels and speakers at the 2010 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics leadership training.

"When a major bank fails, in the years after the Dodd bill passes, we will face the exact same potential chaos as after the collapse of Lehman," writes MIT Sloan Prof. Simon Johnson in this blog post.

"The C-ROADS climate policy model we developed runs essentially instantly, so people get immediate feedback on the consequences of their assumptions and can try many experiments in a short time," says MIT Sloan's John Sterman in an interview about climate models.

This blog post focuses on the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference panel, "What the Geeks Don't Get," including full video coverage of the debate over the value of statistics.

MIT Sloan Prof. Eric von Hippel and a colleague are surveying kayakers for insight on the history of innovation in whitewater kayaking according to this post.