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Action Learning Diversity

Expanding internet adoption in rural India

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STL approached India Lab for help developing a business model for this for-profit initiative with the goal of expanding high-speed internet connectivity from 14 villages to 300,000 by 2024.

Sep 14, 2021
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Climate Policy Center Climate Change

New MIT Climate Policy Center Picks Leader

The MIT Climate Policy Center, the Institute’s “front-door” to connect local, state, federal and international climate policy makers and media with MIT’s climate policy researchers, announced today that Bethany Patten will serve as the Center’s inaugural executive director after a nationwide search....

Sep 9, 2024
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MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship Digital Economy

Challenging Assumptions by Micheil Banoub

This raises another question: how can SMEs afford annualized rates exceeding 70%? The answer lies in short loan tenures and high profit margins. Many supply contracts have short tenures of 1-2 months, meaning the interest accumulated is minimal relative to the loan term. Moreover, as I learned durin...

Mar 4, 2025
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MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Program

Mitigating the Pitfalls of Remote Work

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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...

Nov 30, 2020
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Action Learning Sustainability

Helping startup enter new energy market

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RenewCO2 is an emerging company that designs processes for converting carbon dioxide into useful industrial products. Recently, the company tapped two students from MIT Sloan's Entrepreneurship Lab (E-Lab) to investigate the potential market for formic acid, a compound that could be useful in a vari...

Aug 1, 2022
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