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Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management

The Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management (TIES) group at MIT Sloan offers a comprehensive exploration of technology-based innovation and entrepreneurship. For over 40 years, MIT Sloan faculty, including renowned scholars like Pierre Azoulay, Michael A. Cusumano, Danielle Li, and Fiona E. Murray, have led pioneering research and developed a robust curriculum that addresses the management of research, development, and commercialization of innovations. The TIES group also oversees the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, which provides a multidisciplinary curriculum and extensive student activities, including the prestigious MIT $100K business plan competition.  

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MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship

Fragmentation and First Principles Entrepreneurship

Who gets to build for fun? Around the world, a lot of people don’t have that luxury, especially in growth markets.” Lexi Chu, an intern at the MIT Kuo Sharper Center, had this realization during the Growth Stage Program in June where she was confronted by the purpose driven entrepreneurship that ...

Sep 23, 2026
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Pierre Azoulay

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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Michael A. Cusumano

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 and currently the faculty director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and the CoDirector of the MIT System Design and…

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Danielle Li

Danielle Li

David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology

Danielle Li is the David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology and a Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, as well as a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research interests are in economics…

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Fiona E. Murray

Fiona E. Murray

William Porter (1967) Professor of Entrepreneurship

Fiona Murray is the William Porter (1967) Professor of Entrepreneurship. She is the former Associate Dean of Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is an associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She received her BA ’89…

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