MIT Sloan's Climate Catalysts Thrive on Collaboration
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The MIT Sloan Climate Catalysts event included lightning talks by three community members making a difference in the climate space.
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The MIT Sloan Climate Catalysts event included lightning talks by three community members making a difference in the climate space.
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Stories of entrepreneurs changing the story of Africa. According to one, "People like us — the founders, the movers and the shakers – our stories should also be told widely,” she said. “That story of Africa, we are the face of it. And it is hopeful, it is so much possibility. And hope has to be told...
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2023 marked the 50th anniversary of Mary P. Rowe’s tenure at MIT, where she began as the Special Assistant to the President and Chancellor for Women and Work—a role that evolved into an early organizational ombuds, listening to workplace concerns, from both men and women, throughout the Institute.
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Africa’s financial landscape is undergoing a seismic shift driven by the rapid ascent of digital banking. However, as its influence grows, it is imperative to critically assess whether digital banking authentically fulfills its pledge of inclusivity or inadvertently perpetuates the pre-existing disp...
Siddharth Nagarkatti is Senior Vice President, Business and Payment Analytics at Bank of America and a member of the MIT Executive MBA Class of 2017.
Check out the top three highlights of 2023 in every area of our work and get practical takeaways for how you can get involved in 2024. Thanks to everyone who helped us make such a significant impact last year!
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In the U.S., eighty percent of people are locked out of the solar market because they can’t put solar on their rooftop. Solstice, co-founded by Sandhya Murali, MBA ’15, and Stephanie Speirs, MBA ’17, is changing the system with an inclusive model of community solar.
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Rubén Lozano Aguilera, MBA ’13 identified pollution as a key challenge for the future of transportation in urban areas. With the introduction of eco-friendly routes on Google Maps, Lozano Aguilera and team have prevented an estimated 2.4MM+ metric tons of CO2 emissions—equivalent to removing 500K fu...
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A majority of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo lack access to electricity. At Nuru, Juliana Kerrest, MBA ‘18, Chief People and Sustainability Officer, is dedicated to enhancing connectivity. Nuru builds mini solar grids allowing those in remote areas to tap into a power source.
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Deepak Dugar, SM ’11, MBA ’13, PhD ’13, is leading a transformative effort in material production, by replacing petroleum not just as a fuel but as a material. He’s doing this through combining synthetic biology with chemical catalysis to reinvent the way the world makes things—and reducing gigatons...