PhD
Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
The Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management (TIES) group at MIT Sloan offers a comprehensive exploration of technology-based innovation and entrepreneurship. For over 40 years, MIT Sloan faculty, including renowned scholars like Pierre Azoulay, Michael A. Cusumano, Danielle Li, and Fiona E. Murray, have led pioneering research and developed a robust curriculum that addresses the management of research, development, and commercialization of innovations. The TIES group also oversees the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, which provides a multidisciplinary curriculum and extensive student activities, including the prestigious MIT $100K business plan competition.
Research from TIES Faculty
Balance AI innovation and risk with ‘minimum viable governance’
As organizations scale generative AI, traditional governance models prove to be too rigid or too loose. Minimum viable governance calibrates oversight to risk, enabling responsible innovation.
In tomorrow’s AI economy, what’s the role of humans?
MIT Sloan School of Management researcher Christian Catalini found that AI can now produce complex work at near-zero cost, but the time it takes a human to check that work is fixed by biology.
Why Is Europe’s Economy Falling Short?
PROJECT SYNDICATE | MIT’s Simon Johnson sat down with fellow Nobel laureate economist Philippe Aghion to examine what ails Europe and how to revive its dynamism. Their conversation addresses the costs of excessive regulation, the role of creative destruction in fostering competition, and the case fo...
Inflation Needs a Short Leash and 4 More Lessons From the Fed’s Powell Era
BARRON'S | Kristin Forbes, Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Global Economics at MIT Sloan, does the math on Jerome Powell's tenure.
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Faculty
Pierre Azoulay
International Programs Professor of Management
Pierre Azoulay is the International Programs Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on the impact of different funding regimes on the…
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Michael A. Cusumano
Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor of Management
Michael A. Cusumano is the SMR Distinguished Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and currently the faculty director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and the CoDirector of the MIT System Design and…
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Danielle Li
David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology
Danielle Li is the David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology and a Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, as well as a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research interests are in economics…
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Fiona E. Murray
William Porter (1967) Professor of Entrepreneurship
Fiona Murray is the William Porter (1967) Professor of Entrepreneurship. She is the former Associate Dean of Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is an associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She received her BA ’89…
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Lindsey Raymond (2024)
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Wesley Greenblatt (2023)
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Soomi Kim (2023)
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Jane Wu (2022)
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Caroline Viola Fry (2020)