From designing and creating environmentally sound materials to fostering connections between organizations and inclusivity experts, ventures founded and managed by MIT and MIT Sloan alumnae are making positive impacts on the world.

An entrepreneur identifies a clear gap in a market: traditional manufacturing businesses and factories were often not directly connected and were forced to go through many intermediaries across the supply chain – creating complexity, inefficiency, and impacting the bottom line.

When a startup disrupts incumbent market leaders and changes the basis of competition in an industry, as Tesla is doing in auto manufacturing, it’s the new problems they face and overcome that gives them the real advantage.

Ana Escandon, EMBA '19, is Head of Sales at Citrofrut in Monterrey, Mexico.

Siddharth Nagarkatti, EMBA '17, is Senior Vice President of Wealth Management Analytics and Modeling at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Boston, MA.

The Legatum Center at MIT has launched a new podcast, “A Legacy of Purpose: Conversations with Dina H. Sherif,” which highlights transformative leaders and innovators shaping growth markets. In the inaugural episode, President Dr. Mokgweetsi E. K. Masisi of Botswana shares his vision for leveraging ...

Sloanies Talking with Sloanies podcast with Noor Sweid, MBA '05

The Sloanies we spoke to in 2021 fondly recalled a culture of close-knit connectivity and collaboration from their time as students.

As the keynote speaker at a recent conference of the International Consortium on Government Financial Management held in Washington DC, I had the opportunity to discuss with representatives from over 40 countries one of the primary challenges facing governments around the world – citizen engagement.

Juliana Kerrest, MBA ’18, chief people and sustainability officer at Nuru, discusses the nuances of working at the startup, which provides the people of Congo with consistent electricity.