Ask most people to point to Central Asia on a map, and chances are they’ll hesitate. Yet this region spanning vast steppes, celestial mountains and centuries of history sits at the crossroads of civilizations, resource-rich, culturally layered, and geopolitically central. So why does it remain on th...
Sometimes, an MIT Sloan Action Learning team is so successful that it calls for an encore. That’s what happened for MBA ’25 students Shawn George, Neha Golakia, Trung Nguyen, and Nisha Patel when they teamed up again for a Global Entrepreneurship Lab (G-Lab) project in Brazil after a successful ASEA...
MIT Sloan students travelled to Washington, D.C. to explore how the most influential international development institutions bridge business and purpose: demonstrating what sustainable development can look like in practice.
What do pink hens, digital twins, and mighty microbes have in common? MIT – and global changemakers seeking to transform their regions.
This white paper, intended for entrepreneurs, innovators, and policymakers in growth markets, argues that addressing the MRV gap is a strategic priority. It discusses how a digital Carbon-MRV platform could enable exporters to accurately measure emissions, verify reductions (for example, using AI an...
MIT Sloan Professor Emilio J. Castilla’s new book, "The Meritocracy Paradox: Where Talent Management Strategies Go Wrong and How to Fix Them," published by Columbia University Press, is now available.
MacroCycle Technologies, a startup co-founded by MIT alumni Stwart Peña Feliz, MBA '23 and Dr. Jan-Georg Rosenboom turns plastic and polyester waste into virgin-grade PET (a type of plastic) using a process that consumes 80% less energy than traditional methods—providing a pathway where plastics are...
Applications of Portfolio Theory to Accelerating Biomedical Innovation
In 2019, when Tunisia launched the Startup Act, the ecosystem was still young. A handful of incubators and accelerators existed—mostly concentrated in the capital, Tunis, and operating within high-income circles. There was an urgent need to democratize access to knowledge about tech entrepreneurship...
Jennifer Turliuk, SFMBA ’25, is harnessing the power of AI tools for climate innovators.
