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Bill Aulet
Ethernet Inventors Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management
Bill Aulet is the Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is changing the way entrepreneurship is understood, taught, and practiced around the…
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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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Phil Budden
Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Phil Budden is a Senior Lecturer at MIT's Management School, in Sloan's TIES (Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management) Group, where he focuses on innovation ecosystems around the world, their key stakeholders, and…
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Paul Cheek
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan
Paul Cheek is a global expert in innovation-driven entrepreneurship. Paul is a serial tech entrepreneur, educator, software engineer, and bestselling author of Disciplined Entrepreneurship: Startup Tactics. He is currently the Executive Director of…
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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. During 2020-2024, he was Deputy Dean for Faculty and Research. He has also held a joint appointment in the MIT School of Engineering…
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Kevin D. Johnson
Senior Lecturer, Technological , Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Strategic Management
Kevin D. Johnson is a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. He teaches Building an Entrepreneurial Venture: Advanced Tools and Techniques, an intensive, project-based course which is the most advanced class in the Entrepreneurship and…
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Malia C Lazu
Lecturer, TIES
Malia Lazu is a Lecturer in the TIES Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Malia Lazu, an award winning, tenured strategist in diversity & inclusion has sparked deep economic development and investment in urban entrepreneurship for over…
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Tong Liu
Judy C. Lewent (1972) and Mark Shapiro Career Development Assistant Professor of Finance
Tong Liu is the Judy C. Lewent (1972) and Mark Shapiro Career Development Assistant Professor of Finance and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Tong’s research focuses on corporate finance, entrepreneurial…
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Fiona E. Murray
Associate Dean for Innovation
Fiona Murray is the Associate Dean of Innovation at the MIT School of Management and the William Porter (1967) Professor of Entrepreneurship. She is the Faculty Director of MIT's Office of Innovation and also Faculty Director of the MIT Legatum…
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Jacquelyn Pless
Fred Kayne (1960) Career Development Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship
Jacquelyn Pless is the Fred Kayne (1960) Career Development Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and an Assistant Professor in the Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management…
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Robert C. Pozen
Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Robert C. Pozen is currently a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.In 2012, he won acclaim for a popular book entitled Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your…
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Erin L. Scott
Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Erin L. Scott, PhD draws upon her nearly two decades of academic and practical experience to partner with groundbreaking innovators to successfully navigate the entrepreneurial journey from initial idea to commercialization. Her research focuses on…
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Tavneet Suri
Louis E. Seley Professor of Applied Economics
Tavneet Suri is the Louis E. Seley Professor of Applied Economics and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her expertise is in the role of technology in Sub-Saharan Africa.Tavneet is an editor at the Review of…
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"Cash Transfers."
Niehaus, Paul, and Tavneet Suri. Handbook of Social Protection. Forthcoming.
"Innovation Bandits: A Dynamic Portfolio Strategy with Endogenous Rewards."
Topic: Innovation
Baumgärtner, C. Lennart, Laurin Köhler-Schindler, and Jacquelyn Pless, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7278-25. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, May 2025.
Keywords: Sustainability, Portfolio Optimization, Innovation Policy, Technological Change, Experience Curves, Technology Investment
Accelerating Innovation.
Budden, Phil and Fiona Murray. The MIT Press, 2025.
"Indirect Cost Recovery in U.S. Innovation Policy: History, Evidence, and Avenues for Reform."
Topic: Innovation
Azoulay, Pierre, Daniel P. Gross, and Bhaven N. Sampat, Working Paper. March 2025. Also NBER Working Paper #33627.
Keywords: Science Policy, Economics of Science, Biomedicine, Indirect Cost Recovery, NIH
"Medical Progress and Health Care Finance: Evidence from Academic Medical Centers."
Azoulay, Pierre, Misty Heggeness, and Jennifer Kao. Research Policy Vol. 54, No. 2 (2025): 105163.
"Does Peer Review Penalize Scientific Risk Taking? Evidence from NIH Grant Renewals."
Pierre Azoulay and Wesley H. Greenblatt, Working Paper. February 2025. NBER Working Paper #33495.
Keywords: Scientific Risk, Scientific Productivity, Peer Review, NIH, Government Gunding
"Old Moats for New Models: Openness, Control, and Competition in Generative AI."
Azoulay, Pierre, Joshua L. Krieger, and Abhishek Nagaraj. Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy Vol. 4, (2025): 7-46. Article online. NBER Working Paper #32474.
"Who Stands on the Shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from Chemistry."
Qiu, Shumin, Claudia Steinwender, and Pierre Azoulay. Research Policy Vol. 54, No. 1 (2025): 105147. Also NBER Working Paper 30772.
Entrepreneurship: Choice and Strategy.
Gans, Joshua, Erin L. Scott, and Scott Stern. New York, NY: W. W. Norton and Company, 2024.
"Intel’s Fall from Grace."
Cusumano, Michael A. Communications of the ACM, December 11, 2024.
Entrepreneurship In The News
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A road map for startups, from Moderna’s co-founder
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Driving Change: Strategy, systems thinking, and the MIT EMBA
Damien Green is VP, Front Office Technology and Project Management at Tudor Investment Corporation and a member of the MIT Executive MBA Class of 2025.
How Our Fellows Utilize Ai in Their Work
Across 11 countries and 3 continents, the 2024-2025 cohort of Student Fellows at the MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship are building ventures rooted in the realities of their communities and countries. These 12 entrepreneurs are using artificial intelligence (AI) not only to ...
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