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Raafet Azzouz, SFMBA ’24

Raafet Azzouz, SFMBA ’24, explores his remarkable journey from a small town in Tunisia to global finance and entrepreneurship.

Mar 25, 2025

MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship Economics

Navigating Currency Volatility White Paper

In October 2024, the Legatum Center for Development Entrepreneurship at MIT conducted a two-day workshop titled "Hedging Currency Risk: Innovative Lending Strategies for SMEs in Africa." The workshop brought together a diverse group of entrepreneurs, investors, economists, and thought leaders to tac...

Institute for Work and Employment Research Future of Work

New Edition of IWER Newsletter: Building an Economy That Works for Everyone

The January 2025 edition of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) newsletter is now available online. The theme is "Building an Economy That Works for Everyone."

Jan 31, 2025

MIT Sloan is the management school for entrepreneurship that matters. Learn how we're expanding access to entrepreneurship, building entrepreneurial skills and ventures that impact the world, and fostering dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystems across the United States and beyond.

Centers + Intiatives

Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

Our mission is to advance knowledge and educate students in innovation-driven entrepreneurship in a manner that will best serve the world in the 21st century.

Executive Education

Entrepreneurship Development Program

Drawing from the vast culture of innovation and entrepreneurship at MIT, this unique entrepreneurship development course introduces participants to MIT’s entrepreneurial education programs, technology transfer system, and global entrepreneurial network.

REAP

MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program

This dynamic global initiative engages with communities around the world to strengthen innovation-driven entrepreneurial ecosystems and transform economies.

A road map for startups, from Moderna’s co-founder

Adversity can cultivate instincts that serve entrepreneurs well, says venture capitalist Noubar Afeyan. Here are his three tips to start innovating.

What is an innovation ecosystem?

Here’s why companies should engage in these regional hot spots, which accelerate problem-solving and boost competitive advantage.

Trust the Process: A podcast on the journey of MIT entrepreneurs

Experts on business growth talk about time management, leadership, team building, and more, as well as their journeys taking ideas to execution.

MIT entrepreneurs explain what founders need to know now

Launching a venture? Here’s advice from MIT entrepreneurs in residence on navigating artificial intelligence, the economy, and uncertainty.

3 MIT startups taking on the global waste challenge

These alumni entrepreneurs are applying MIT know-how to keep goods out of landfills, reduce energy costs in recycling, and provide safe sanitation.

Universities must become active launchpads for innovation

Research labs must move beyond passive spillovers and become active launchpads for new companies that leverage federally funded research, say Gene R. Keselman, lecturer, and Dame Fiona Murray, associate dean of innovation, both from MIT Sloan.

Download: Insights for success in entrepreneurship

This new report collects insights from MIT Sloan experts, with practical guidance for launching ventures, shaping strategy, and making innovation work.

MIT’s singular passion for entrepreneurship is inspiring, energizing, a little bit exhausting, and a whole lot of fun. This passion is also an essential element of our strategy to organize for positive impact and transform our world.

Sally Kornbluth

President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

We’re not here for knowledge for knowledge’s sake; we’re here to apply that knowledge to the world’s greatest challenges.

Bill Aulet

Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

The MBA E&I Certificate gave me the skills to be an entrepreneur. Without it, I wouldn't be starting my climate-tech venture.

Stwart Peña Feliz, MBA '23

Co-founder & CEO of MacroCycle

We tell entrepreneurs not to be afraid that they may have to pivot, but also to understand that if they pivot around core strategic choices, it will take time and effort. In most cases, a startup only gets so many chances to do that.

Scott Stern

David Sarnoff Professor of Management at MIT Sloan

Our mission at the Trust Center is to advance the field of innovation-driven entrepreneurship everywhere ... We have to practice entrepreneurship in a rigorous, systematic way that increases the odds of success.

Paul Cheek

Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan and Senior Advisor, Entrepreneurship & AI

The opportunities at MIT, like Delta V and and Sandbox, truly allowed me to progress further and faster than even more experienced entrepreneurs.

Wesley Block, SB '22

Filmmaker and Founder, Kino AI

One Day with David Brown, Army Veteran and MBA '25

“MIT Sloan was my first and only choice,” says David Brown, MBA student and co-founder of Helix Carbon.

One Day with Megan Hung, MBA '26

“MIT Sloan was a pretty obvious frontrunner given its reputation for entrepreneurship and the established climate ecosystem in Boston," says Megan Hung, MBA '26.

One Day with Mike Sanchez, MBA '25

“MIT Sloan was the only school I applied to—it was genuinely my dream school," says Mike Sanchez. "I'm incredibly grateful to be here.”

Working Definitions: Entrepreneurship

MIT Sloan's Working Definitions explore the words and phrases behind emerging management ideas.

patient capital

Delta Model

AI-driven enterprise

exaptation strategy

geopolitical calculus

Ideas Made to Matter: Entrepreneurship

Ideas and insights about entrepreneurship from MIT Sloan.

Alumni Entrepreneurs

MIT Sloan has long been known as a hub of entrepreneurship and innovation. Our alumni carry that mission into the world.

150

Courses offered at MIT focused on E&I

30,200+

Active alumni-founded companies

50+

MIT Student Clubs focused on E&I

85+

Resources dedicated to supporting E&I across MIT

4.6M+

Million jobs created by alumni-founded companies

Working Definitions

MIT Sloan's Working Definitions explore the words and phrases behind emerging management ideas.

geopolitical calculus

patient capital

exaptation strategy

Delta Model

AI-driven enterprise

Alumni

MIT Sloan’s New International Office in Bangkok Promises Excitement

By Andrew Husband

In late October, the MIT Sloan ASEAN Office (MSAO) officially opened in Bangkok, Thailand.

Jan 28, 2025

MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship Innovation

MIT Foundry Fellows Egypt Ecosystem Tour

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, January 2025 — The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is excited to announce the second ecosystem tour of the 2024-25 Foundry Fellowship program, set to take place in Egypt from January 17-24, 2025. Over th...

Jan 19, 2025

MBA

One Day with Sharon, MBA '24

“MIT Sloan’s MBA program combines an innovative, entrepreneurial spirit with a comprehensive management education. It’s exactly what I was seeking,” says Sharon Fan, MBA ’26.

Nov 15, 2024

Alumni Leadership

The MIT New Colossus Project

By Alyssa Loebig

The MIT New Colossus Project celebrates the success stories of first-generation immigrant trailblazers in America.

Feb 19, 2025

Climate Policy Center Climate Change

Climate Solutions Simulators Commended in Financial Times Awards Program

Two interactive climate solutions simulators, co-developed by Climate Interactive and the MIT Sloan School of Management, were commended in January as part of the Financial Times’ 2025 Responsible Business Education awards program.

Feb 4, 2025

MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship

Outdated or Evolving? by Salma Bagdadhi

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...

May 16, 2025

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