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Admiral Thad Allen, SF ’89, and Frank Finelli, SM ’86

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 ...

Nov 14, 2024
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MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Program Operations Management

Managing through a Pandemic on a Global Scale

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“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.

Nov 30, 2020
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MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Program

Navigating the Hairpin Turns of the Motorcycle Industry

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“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.

Nov 30, 2020
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MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Program Economics

Transferring Power To People Through Tokenization

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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...

Nov 9, 2020
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MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Program

SFMBA Sonata: One alum's reason to apply in three parts

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.

Oct 5, 2023
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MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Program Operations Management

Can Remote Learning Democratize an Organization?

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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.

Nov 30, 2020
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MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Program Leadership

Navigating Turbulence With Clarity Of Purpose

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

Aug 11, 2020
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