How Snejina Zacharia, SF ’13, built Insurify by turning personal frustration into market innovation.
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After MIT Sloan Professor Zeynep Ton published The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost Profits in 2014, executives en masse began reaching out to her for guidance in implementing the concepts in their own organizations.
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Calocurb Ltd. CEO Sarah Kennedy, SF ’11, clearly understands how fortunate she and her company have been in the time of COVID-19.
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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.
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An old New Yorker cartoon features a man sitting at a desk in his home office. He turns to his wife with evident angst and posits, “I can’t remember, do I work at home or live at work?” It is this conundrum that worries Sebastián Castañeda Arbeláez, SF ’14, Corporate Manager of Financial Planning an...
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“The foundation of successful leadership during turbulent times is trust—gaining it and granting it,” says Antoinette Schoar, the Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan.
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During MIT’s online vigil on June 3, 2020, members of the Institute community voiced their anger, grief, and determination to lead change in response to the killing of George Floyd and the loss of other Black lives as a result of police brutality and racism. MIT Sloan MBA/MCP candidate and PKG fello...
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In the early days of big data, organizations invested heavily in analytics talent, data platforms, and business intelligence units in the hopes of making key business activities better, cheaper, and faster. The majority of these efforts were for internal consumption only and had no direct value for ...
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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.
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It was called the South Sea Bubble, and it was one of the most precarious financial crises in history.
