An entrepreneur identifies a clear gap in a market: traditional manufacturing businesses and factories were often not directly connected and were forced to go through many intermediaries across the supply chain – creating complexity, inefficiency, and impacting the bottom line.

The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan surveyed African entrepreneurs leading early-stage startups and found there was a huge gap between their articulation of the market need (i.e. “the problem”) and what their ventures would achieve in five years.

With a rapidly evolving entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem, Tunisia is little by little positioning itself as a leading entrepreneurship and innovation destination, particularly in deep tech.

Reflections of experiences sourcing talent and scaling ventures on the African continent, including, the challenges in attracting and retaining the right talent for a business and how opportunities often overlook the potential of youth and women.

The Middle East North Africa region (MENA) is fertile ground for founders who want to start a business venture, but the environment wasn’t always so welcoming. In this virtual panel, four veteran business leaders from the region discuss the myriad ways in which the entrepreneurial ecosystem has tran...

MIT GCFP 11th Annual Conference Consumer Finance: New perspectives on policies and products

Bobobox, Indonesia’s largest outdoor accommodations operator, is looking to expand into the United States, one of the world’s most developed lodging markets. To help them decide where and how to launch its high-tech, glamping Bobocabins, the company collaborated with a team of four MIT Sloan Global ...

As new technologies like generative AI continue to advance, Elizabeth Petheo, EMBA ’14, believes we should remain focused on the human-technology interface.

Jocelyn Foulke, a Sloan Fellows MBA student, will pursue a career in climate technology once she graduates from the one-year program in May of 2024. Follow along as Jocelyn navigates a typical day on campus at MIT Sloan where she presents in one of her classes, meets with fellow students, and works ...

For a special episode of Sloanies Talking with Sloanies, host Christopher Reichert, MOT ’04, becomes the guest to celebrate five years of podcasting with his fellow alumni.