Action Learning
Entrepreneurship and innovation impact stories
Creating a Live Bird Price Engine for Chickin Indonesia
Chicken is one of the most popular options in Indonesia’s meat industry, valued at $17.5 billion and growing. It’s an affordable, widely available source of protein, as well as a promising market with plenty of room for growth. However, pricing is extremely volatile, as there is no agreed-upon bench...
Coming full circle
MacroCycle Technologies, a startup co-founded by MIT alumni Stwart Peña Feliz, MBA '23 and Dr. Jan-Georg Rosenboom turns plastic and polyester waste into virgin-grade PET (a type of plastic) using a process that consumes 80% less energy than traditional methods—providing a pathway where plastics are...
Music with a mission
“Telem” means “safe space” in Sierra Leone. The music collective Telem Uncommon Sounds is trying to create just that, nurturing a more open and experimental creative community in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Working with musicians, government, and other ecosystem stakeholders, Telem works to provide more...
From Malaysia to Brazil: Action Learning team reunites to make an impact
Sometimes, an MIT Sloan Action Learning team is so successful that it calls for an encore. That’s what happened for MBA ’25 students Shawn George, Neha Golakia, Trung Nguyen, and Nisha Patel when they teamed up again for a Global Entrepreneurship Lab (G-Lab) project in Brazil after a successful ASEA...
Helping CDS create an experiential offering for Costco online
Club Demonstration Services (CDS), the powerhouse partner behind retail giant Costco, provides product samples and demos in more than 800 Costco warehouses across 12 countries, with a strong focus on food. There’s just one problem: Demonstrations, food especially, appeal to in-person customers. The ...
Sparking change: Students help startup expand EV solutions in cities
Atlanta, Georgia-based EnviroSpark Energy Solutions designs, installs, and operates EV charging solutions, typically at multi-family housing and corporate office centers. As the growing startup continued expanding its national footprint, they enlisted MIT Sloan Enterprise Management Lab (EM-Lab) stu...
Where and how to launch 'Bobocabins' in the United States
Bobobox, Indonesia’s largest outdoor accommodations operator, is looking to expand into the United States, one of the world’s most developed lodging markets. To help them decide where and how to launch its high-tech, glamping Bobocabins, the company collaborated with a team of four MIT Sloan Global ...
Discovering new market segments for startup's ESG datasets
Floodlight, a geospatial data intelligence company that provides ESG governance insights, asked a team of E-Lab students to identify potential new market segments and design potential customer discovery interviews. According to CEO and co-founder Nate Wyne, the project resulted in a "full redirectio...
Bringing MIT entrepreneurship and innovation to Tunisia's ecosystem
BRAIN (Bridging Research and Innovation)— co-developed by Open Startup and entities throughout MIT and the Tunisian Innovation Ecosystem — is establishing scalable deep-tech ventures in Africa through a bootcamp for 28 PhD entrepreneur-scientists focused on advanced AI, biotech, the Internet of Thin...
From AI to entrepreneurship: How Gowri Kannan’s project with a tech startup solidified her ambitions
Gowri Kannan, MBA ’24, originally studied engineering and AI as an undergraduate — but she realized that she wanted to have greater influence on product creation and customer experience, and maybe even launch her own company someday. A hands-on MIT Sloan Action Learning project with a nascent startu...