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MIT Sloan Experts

How sharing what we don’t know can build trust in medical research

The pandemic has revealed to a wide audience the uncertainty that is part of scientific discovery. While it may be uncomfortable to publicly disclose that our scientific findings are continually scrutinized and frequently amended as scientific discovery continues to advance, increasing transparency ...

Jun 30, 2021
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Alumni Entrepreneurship

Transforming Veterinary Care During a Pandemic

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Inspired by the struggles of other pet owners, Ellen Herzfelder, SM ’87, co-founded BetterVet, a healthcare tech startup that leverages telemedicine and at-home doctor visits to provide pets and their owners with safe and convenient access to veterinary care.

May 4, 2021
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MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Program

Only We Can Bind Ourselves To Technology

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“The media landscape is full of futurists, academics, and members of think tanks making erratic predictions about robots eating jobs,” says Tom Kochan, George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management at MIT Sloan.

Mar 20, 2020
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MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Program Leadership

Scaling Company Culture In A Worker-Defined Workplace

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he organizational culture at HubSpot that everyone is talking about, wasn’t supposed to be talked about at all, according to the company’s CEO and cofounder Brian Halligan, SF ’06.

Mar 20, 2020
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MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Program Operations Management

Managing through a Pandemic on a Global Scale

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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.

Nov 30, 2020
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MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Program Operations Management

Can Remote Learning Democratize an Organization?

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In Japan, where workplace practices have been rooted in generations of tradition, pandemic-driven changes feel tectonic. But some of them are welcome and long overdue, says Shihoko Kato, SFMBA ’19, director of the global business office at Japanese telecom giant NTT in Tokyo.

Nov 30, 2020
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