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MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Program

Navigating the Hairpin Turns of the Motorcycle Industry

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“I shrug when people lament these changing times. When, in the last 2,000 years, haven’t we been living in changing times?” laughs Costantino Sambuy, SF ’06, CEO of Peugeot Motocycles, the world’s oldest manufacturer of scooters.

Nov 30, 2020
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MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Program

Creativity in a Time of Crisis

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For nearly two decades, Google has been working on technology that helps people collaborate across continents. “We want to connect people all over the world so that they can to do great things together,” says Suzanne Frey, SF ’06, vice president of engineering and product at the global dynamo.

Nov 30, 2020
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MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Program

Mitigating the Pitfalls of Remote Work

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An old New Yorker cartoon features a man sitting at a desk in his home office. He turns to his wife with evident angst and posits, “I can’t remember, do I work at home or live at work?” It is this conundrum that worries Sebastián Castañeda Arbeláez, SF ’14, Corporate Manager of Financial Planning an...

Nov 30, 2020
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MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Program Operations Management

Building A Better Watercooler

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MIT Sloan professor Thomas Malone is one of the world’s go-to experts on the way we work—and how we might work smarter.

Nov 30, 2020
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MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Program Innovation

MIT CSAIL Researchers Set Ridesharing Afloat

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Some of the most tragic ferry accidents in recent years have been the result of pilot error. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have found a solution—remove the pilot. Their new autonomous vessel, Roboat II, relies on algorithms, similar to those in ...

Dec 16, 2020
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MBA Gender

Navigating the MBA and Motherhood

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Deirdre shares her thoughts on being a Sloanie and mother-to-be, how the MIT community helped her achieve work/life balance, tips on what classmates can do to support other expectant mothers—and strategies for navigating the journey with a baby onboard.

Feb 22, 2021
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MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Program Leadership

Acknowledge Uncertainty And Learn As You Go

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“The foundation of successful leadership during turbulent times is trust—gaining it and granting it,” says Antoinette Schoar, the Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan.

Aug 11, 2020
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MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Program Leadership

Not Making Choices Is Choosing

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“The operations of most enterprises and organizations during normal times are designed to address many sources of uncertainty,” says Retsef Levi, the J. Spencer Standish (1945) Professor of Management at MIT Sloan and codirector of the Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program.

Aug 11, 2020
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