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In 2024, the MIT Sloan alumni community stayed busy doing everything from founding venture capital firms to creating opportunities for second-chance hiring.
The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) leads its 2024-2025 Foundry Fellows on an ecosystem tour of Nairobi, Kenya. Over a three-day tour of Nairobi and a week-long experience in Kenya, Africa’s top innovation-driven entrepreneurs wi...
Responsibly Financing Africa’s Missing Middle Africa’s SMEs are crucial drivers of economic growth, job creation, and poverty reduction, especially in underserved rural areas. Yet, a $331 billion financing gap leaves them in the “missing middle”—too large for microfinance but too small for traditio...
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Four MIT students were selected to participate in the Queensland University of Technology International Collaboration Sprint, where they worked together in international, cross-discipline, multi-university teams to address a pressing challenge. Click the link below to hear their stories and learn mo...
The Legatum Center at MIT has launched a new podcast, “A Legacy of Purpose: Conversations with Dina H. Sherif,” which highlights transformative leaders and innovators shaping growth markets. In the inaugural episode, President Dr. Mokgweetsi E. K. Masisi of Botswana shares his vision for leveraging ...
Twelve Legatum Fellows from seven countries explored Egypt’s entrepreneurial environment, connecting markets and strengthening ties across Africa.
Foundry Fellow Ecosystem Tour 2023 - 2024 Blog Press Release
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How will the U.S. election affect jobs and the economy? That was the topic of a panel discussion held October 29th, 2024 at the MIT Sloan School of Management. The event, which was sponsored by the MIT Sloan People and Organizations Club and the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER...
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Until recently, the link between having a say in the workplace and workers’ job satisfaction and well-being had not been empirically demonstrated by researchers. Now, a new journal article coauthored by scholars from the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) addresses that question.
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A Sloan Fellow aims to cure pediatric cancer through an international consortium for collaborative drug research.
