Women at MIT Sloan

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.

"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.

"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.

"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.

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

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?"

Panache brings additional scale to its operations with Executive Vice President Cheryl Kellond.

BJ Hess, a former Senior Vice President of Global Operations for Arrow Electronics, Inc., spoke at MIT Sloan in March 2010 at the invitation of SWIM (Sloan Women in Management) and the MIT Leadership Center.

In this first-person account, MIT Sloan Prof. Renee Richardson Gosline says she became interested in the implications of counterfeit consumption when a friend invited her to a "purse party" at her neighbor's house. The event, she writes, was attended by a loose network of friends, coworkers and other neighbors. The hostess served wine, appetizers and ... fake, illegal designer handbags.

A new study, co-authored by Catherine Tucker of MIT Sloan School of Management, suggests ways companies can better target individuals without crossing a line. This article was adapted from "How Not to Market on the Web," appeared in the Winter 2010 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review.

Christa Bouwman, MIT Sloan visiting assistant professor, was a collaborator in Bangor University's research on the effects of financial regulations on banks.

A new group, Graduate Women at MIT, will collaborate with events for departmental groups, such as MIT Sloan Women in Management (SWIM). SWIM President Veena Jayadeva says, "GWAMIT is a much more formalized way to go to one place and say 'Ya, this is what's going on.'"

Heather Tow-Yick, MIT Sloan alumna, will be the new state executive director for Teach for America, a teacher placement program serving low-income and minority students. "[Business school] gave me insight about how business leaders effect change in their own industry, and how they could be leveraged in the efforts to achieve education reforms," says Tow-Yick.

Christa Bouwman, MIT Sloan visiting assistant professor, is noted in this article for her research collaboration on the effects of financial regulation on banks.

MIT Sloan Prof. Fiona Murray conducted research with her students to learn how the recession has affected funding for scientific research. "The generation of ideas still seems to be strong, but the mingling of ideas and people and money just isn't happening at the same rate," she says.

MIT Sloan Prof. Renee Richardson Gosline's research on consumer views of authentic and counterfeit luxury goods is still securing press, with coverage in this popular New York fashion publication this month.