Neha Thatte Mallik, MBA ' 16, Sustainability Certificate, Director of Product Management at Keurig Dr Pepper, Inc., is on a mission to disrupt the single-serve coffee industry.
Sriram Emani, MBA ’14, and Shahil Patel, MBA ’19, who founded IndianRaga and BollyX respectively while attending MIT Sloan, discussed their ongoing efforts to scale-up their startups with India Lab students.
"We must be antifragile," writes Bill Aulet. "This is at the core of what we strive to do as entrepreneurship educators: create antifragile humans and teams."
Jeff Tedmori, MBA ’20, never thought his entrepreneurial journey would take him to the London set of ‘Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars’.
CAPT Brian Erickson, SFMBA ‘21, was recently named the United States Coast Guard’s first Chief Data Officer (CDO). Erickson takes this assignment following his time with the MIT Sloan Fellows MBA. Read more of his interview.
The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan surveyed African entrepreneurs leading early-stage startups and found there was a huge gap between their articulation of the market need (i.e. “the problem”) and what their ventures would achieve in five years.
After establishing a strong foothold in Uganda and Zambia through the Shona Capital platform, Kuo Sharper Initiative (KSI), a U.S.-based impact investment fund, is now actively exploring entry into the Ghanaian market. In October 2025 I made an on-the-ground fact-finding mission that evaluated regul...
Christina Peña’s goal is to “innovate in the sphere of education.” Mission-driven with a passion for education technology, she arrived at MIT Sloan without a background in business, excited to dive into data analytics and entrepreneurship—and even start an EdTech venture of her own.
For years, physicists tried to answer a deceptively simple question: why do some things like cities, ideas, innovation ecosystems grow disproportionately larger and more influential than others? Why do a few nodes attract attention, resources, and talent, while most remain peripheral?
This thought-provoking blog post by Shamil Ibragimov explores the intricate relationship between freedom, innovation, and economic growth. Using MIT Professor Loren Graham’s vivid metaphor, it examines why true innovation flourishes only in environments that foster openness and freedom. The post del...
