“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).

Here are six notable books by MIT Sloan alumni from 2021 that demonstrate the Sloanie community’s ongoing commitment to creating, testing, and applying ideas made to matter to the world.

Although the chief mission of MIT Sloan is to develop principled, innovative leaders who improve the world, entrepreneurship and innovation play a significant part in this equation.

The Sloanies we spoke to in 2021 fondly recalled a culture of close-knit connectivity and collaboration from their time as students.

Diane Rucker, EMBA '14, is the Executive Director of University Enterprise Laboratories in St. Paul, MN and a Lecturer at the University of Minnesota.

Adriana Bokel Herde, EMBA '17, is the Chief People Officer at Snyk in Boston, MA.

Students from Orgs-Lab joined forces with BINcA, a Boston high school that serves English-language learners, to help its food pantry succeed.

MIT Sloan Lecturer Malia Lazu will discuss the role and responsibility of business to accelerate equity and inclusion.

SFMBA student, Anh Vu '21, humbly refers to herself as a generalist who specializes in “cleaning up and setting up organizations across industries to grow.” Read more about her journey from CFO to student at MIT Sloan.

Alumni from around the globe weigh in on the new realities facing entrepreneurs in the post-pandemic world.