MIT Executive MBA
Change Management
The unexpected benefit of the MIT Executive MBA
Mike Swartz, EMBA ‘23, is the CEO and Principal of Upstatement in Boston, MA.
Dec 7, 2022
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Entrepreneurship
Smart undergarments for women, by women
Most wearables lack female-specific features. That's why IDEA Lab students and entrepreneurs Christy Fernandez Cull and Belen Fraile Ortiz created DaVinci Wearables, a first-to-market smart undergarment that tracks menstrual cycles and hormonal fluctuations to optimize fitness health for female athl...
Dec 8, 2022
Action Learning
Analytics
Developing a strategy to reduce airport wait times
Computer vision and data analytics can generate real-time information about operations, creating a major opportunity to reduce wait times. In fall 2021, United Airlines asked a team of students in Enterprise Management Lab to develop a strategy for leveraging such technologies to reduce wait times i...
Nov 28, 2022
Alumni
Gender
Embodying the Energy of the MIT Sloan Alumnae Community
Following a full day of fireside chats and breakout sessions, the MIT Sloan Women’s Conference concluded with a moving keynote address.
Nov 28, 2022
MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Program
Fintech
Innovating the future of finance together
Santiago Guzman and Joseph Peteul, members of the MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Class of 2018, met in a study group during the program and have since launched Cap8, a revolutionary fin-tech venture that leverages scientific methodology to build investment solutions.
Nov 17, 2022
Alumni
11 Quotes on the Importance of Giving Back
The MIT Sloan community gives back for many reasons. Some aim to create opportunities for students through support for fellowships and organizations, while others want to bolster faculty research and campus initiatives.
Nov 17, 2022
MIT Applied Cooperation Initiative
Potential follow-up increases private contributions to public goods
How can we increase contributions to public goods—to get donors to give more to charity, citizens to vote, households to consume less energy, drivers to carpool, and patients to take all of their antibiotics? One of the best ways is to make contributions more observable.
MIT Applied Cooperation Initiative
Rank and response: A field experiment on peer information and water use behavior
Perception of peer rank, or how we perform relative to our peers, can be a powerful motivator.
MIT Applied Cooperation Initiative
Isolating the effect of injunctive norms on conservation behavior: New evidence from a field experiment in California
Social norms messaging campaigns are increasingly used to influence human behavior, with social science research generally finding that they have modest but meaningful effects.
Alumni
Economics
Creating a More Inclusive Global Movement
Professors Tavneet Suri and Esther Duflo recently participated in a fireside chat at the MIT Sloan Women’s Conference.
Nov 17, 2022