In 2025, the MIT Sloan alumni community stayed busy finding a cure to pediatric brain cancer, publishing new research on leadership, and more.
At a Glance: Is Africa ready for the AI era? This article argues that current optimism is dangerous if it masks our structural reality. While the world’s superpowers treat AI as a matter of national security and industrial policy, many African nations are still treating it as a side project.
Anita Carleton, MIT EMBA ’18 and Division Director at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, shares how the MIT EMBA transformed her leadership approach, accelerated her career, and prepared her to lead national software engineering, cybersecurity, and AI initiatives in support...
Jonathan Hinton, EMBA ’15, shares how an early entrepreneurial mindset led him from running a business as a child to founding multiple companies with more than $1 billion in combined revenue. In this Q&A, the co-founder and CEO of Polarworx, Inc. reflects on why he chose the MIT Executive MBA despit...
On December 9, 2025, the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy welcomed President Tharman Shanmugaratnam, President of the Republic of Singapore, to receive the Miriam Pozen Prize in recognition of his leadership in international financial policy [...]
MIT at COP30: How Research, Policy, and Collaboration is Leading to Actionable Outcomes
MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Paul Osterman’s book Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press.
From Navy captain to CEO, Van Gurley shares how the MIT Executive MBA transformed his leadership approach, fueled innovation at Metron, and prepared him to lead a mission-driven national security company through growth and change.
After establishing a strong foothold in Uganda and Zambia through the Shona Capital platform, Kuo Sharper Initiative (KSI), a U.S.-based impact investment fund, is now actively exploring entry into the Ghanaian market. In October 2025 I made an on-the-ground fact-finding mission that evaluated regul...
For years, physicists tried to answer a deceptively simple question: why do some things like cities, ideas, innovation ecosystems grow disproportionately larger and more influential than others? Why do a few nodes attract attention, resources, and talent, while most remain peripheral?
