The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) proudly announces the selection of its 17th cohort of Legatum Student Fellows for the 2024-2025 Academic Year.
How do you make and sell products that lead to business profitability—without further damaging the environment? Janelle Heslop, LGO ’19, didn’t just tackle this in her graduate thesis at MIT. She’s planning on making a career out of it.
Through high-level roles in government and the private sector, Didem Nisanci’s 25-year career has thus far been defined by navigating the intersection of financial stability, public policy, and the global economy. Most recently, as Chief of Staff to US Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen, she helped ...
Consortium for Systemic Risk Analytics Joins MIT Research Organizations
Julie Lockner, EMBA '17, is the cofounder and executive board member of 17 Minds, which focuses on wearable technology, and COO of IBM Data and AI Portfolio Operations and Offering Management, where she helps the company apply AI to solve global problems.
Members of the Sustainability Initiative leadership team facilitated several LEAD week workshops that explored how we are better suited to combat issues like climate change when we, as a global society, value diverse perspectives.
Visiting Scholar Xun Wu, a PhD student at Tsinghua University, is in residence at the CFP for the 2014-15 academic year to pursue his dissertation research on “Chinese Local Government Indebtedness: Systemic Risk and Financial Cost.”
Our Identity + Inclusion Series are admissions events set to showcase the vibrant people at MIT Sloan. Interested in learning more? Find our recorded current students and alumni panels here!
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?
As new technologies like generative AI continue to advance, Elizabeth Petheo, EMBA ’14, believes we should remain focused on the human-technology interface.
