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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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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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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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Executive Director, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and 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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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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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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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 twenty…
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
"The Evolution of Research on Industry Platforms."
Cusumano, Michael A. Academy of Management Discovery Guidepost. Forthcoming.
"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.
"Are Complementary Policies Substitutes? Evidence from R&D Subsidies in the UK."
Pless, Jacquelyn (Conditionally accepted, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy), MIT Sloan Working Paper 5788-18. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, July 2024.
Keywords: R&D, Innovation, Policy Interactions, Difference-in-discontinuities, Regression Discontinuity Design
"Private Equity in Healthcare."
Howell, Sabrina, and Tong Liu. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Private Equity, edited by Benjamin Hammer and Douglas Cumming, 1-6. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2024.
"Can Digitalization Improve Public Services? Evidence from Innovation in Energy Management."
Topic: Economics
Meeks, Robyn, Jacquelyn Pless, and Zhenxuan Wang (R&R at Management Science), MIT Sloan Working Paper 6490-21. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, June 2024.
Keywords: Digitalization, Smart Grid, Energy Management, Electric Utilities, Public Service
"Old Moats for New Models: Openness, Control, and Competition in Generative AI."
Topic: Artificial Intelligence
Azoulay, Pierre, Joshua L. Krieger, and Abhishek Nagaraj, Working Paper. May 2024. Also NBER Working Paper #32474.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Competition, Appropriability, Complementary Assets
"Paper Tiger? Chinese Science and Citation Home-bias."
Topic: Productivity
Azoulay, Pierre, Shumin Qiu, and Claudia Steinwender, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6977-23. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, May 2024. Also NBER Working Paper #32468.
Keywords: International Economics, Trade, Health, Education, and Welfare
"Greening to Grow: Evidence from Environmental Regulation and Industrial Firm Productivity in China."
Lu, Yangsiyu, and Jacquelyn Pless, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6487-21. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, April 2024.
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The War Between Technological Productivity and Human Skill
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Matt Beane, SM ’14, PhD ’17, argues those using artificial intelligence will become incrementally de-skilled unless they are consciously upskilling at the same time.
Nobel Laureate Praises MIT Students and Classrooms
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MIT Sloan Professor Simon Johnson, PhD ’89, credits the success of his and his fellow Nobel laureates’ research to their students.