MIT Sloan Fellows Leadership Blog

Capt. Brian Erickson, SFMBA ‘21, was recently named the United States Coast Guard’s first Chief Data Officer (CDO). Erickson takes this assignment following his time with the MIT Sloan Fellows MBA. Read more of his interview.

A globally focused leader from Port au Prince, Haiti, Clifford Reginald Nau, SFMBA '22, managed the tech incubator Alpha Haiti and was a professor of public policy at the Centre de Techniques de Planification et d’Economie Appliquee before joining the MIT Sloan Fellows MBA. He has an extensive backg...

Percival Barretto-Ko, SF ’11 on the ways companies can build effective and sustainable DEI initiatives.

Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Ray Reagans on the three lenses on diversity.

“Employers must realize that COVID-19 and the racial reckoning in the U.S. have permanently transformed people’s perspectives on work and life,” says Monster CEO Scott Gutz, SF ’08. “From safety protocols and flex schedules to salary protections and diversity, equity, inclusion, and access (DEIA) in...

It is no small vision. Entrepreneurship guru and Juli Founder/CEO Bettina Hein, SF ’08 and her spouse Andreas Goeldi, SF ’08—a venture capital investor and successful serial entrepreneur—have embarked on an ambitious mission to help create 5,000 jobs in new enterprises that thrive on diversity of le...

Tana Utley, SF ’07, would like to make a pitch for curiosity. In fact, she might say it’s her fuel source, a perspective not to be taken lightly by the woman who leads the production of some of the most powerful engines in the world.

A rountable Q&A with SFMBA Alumni Aayush Giri, Morten Bay Jensen, Venkat Maroju, and Aline Oliveira Pezente.

“Individuals vary in the extent to which they acknowledged it, but every business connected to global supply chains recognized that a disruption such as the COVID-19 pandemic could occur at some point,” says Jim Rice, deputy director of MIT’s Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL).

Why do people make the decisions they do? How are those decisions influenced by friends and family? And how can we go about getting answers to such questions? MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Abdullah Almaatouq, a computational social scientist who is also affiliated with the MIT Center for Computation...