In this special episode of Sloanies Talking with Sloanies, host Christopher Reichert, MOT ’04, sits down with two distinguished guests: Admiral Thad Allen, SF ’89, former Commandant of the United States Coast Guard, and Frank Finelli, SM ’86, a senior advisor at The Carlyle Group and founder of the ...

“You cannot drill oil from home.” The quip from Monday Okoro, SF ’07, vice president of Schlumberger Production Management, sums up the complexity of the issues facing companies like his whose operations require the physical presence of a vast workforce.

Ten years after MIT Sloan opened its first physical location outside of the United States in Chile, the MIT Sloan Latin America Office remains an integral part of Santiago’s bustling business district.

“I shrug when people lament these changing times. When, in the last 2,000 years, haven’t we been living in changing times?” laughs Costantino Sambuy, SF ’06, CEO of Peugeot Motocycles, the world’s oldest manufacturer of scooters.

Invited guests attended a special event at the new MIT Museum location in Kendall Square in early December.

When she was an MIT Sloan Fellow, World Bank Technology and Innovation Officer, earned a memorable nickname from MIT Senior Scientist Andrew Lippman. “We were discussing Facebook. My point was that if Facebook can make tons of money selling my data, why can’t I make money off myself? I just want Fac...

Every year, thousands of alumni and their guests converge on Cambridge to reconnect with classmates, learn new lessons from faculty, and forge new friendships at MIT Sloan Reunion.

Before entering the MIT SFMBA, Karen Kumakura Inomata, SFMBA ’23, worked as a senior manager at a global management consulting firm where she connected the pharmaceutical business in Japan to the wider world with a range of projects, including cross-border M&A and market-entry and R&D strategies.

In Japan, where workplace practices have been rooted in generations of tradition, pandemic-driven changes feel tectonic. But some of them are welcome and long overdue, says Shihoko Kato, SFMBA ’19, director of the global business office at Japanese telecom giant NTT in Tokyo.

“It’s natural to react to a crisis in a purely tactical manner,” says Astellas Pharma President Percival Barretto-Ko, SF ’11.