The December 2025 issue of the newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research is now available online. The theme is "Insights on Upward Economic Mobility."
Ritesh Ramesh is CEO of MDaudit and a member of the MIT Executive MBA Class of 2017.
Following a long career at Huawei, Hugo Huang, SFMBA ’20, came to MIT Sloan to learn more.
Reflections of experiences sourcing talent and scaling ventures on the African continent, including, the challenges in attracting and retaining the right talent for a business and how opportunities often overlook the potential of youth and women.
Cait Haner, MBA ’22, spent eight years in the U.S. Army before she began her journey at MIT Sloan. She shares her experience as a student, veteran, and parent and offers advice for those looking at the program.
In 2025, the MIT Sloan alumni community stayed busy finding a cure to pediatric brain cancer, publishing new research on leadership, and more.
At a Glance: Is Africa ready for the AI era? This article argues that current optimism is dangerous if it masks our structural reality. While the world’s superpowers treat AI as a matter of national security and industrial policy, many African nations are still treating it as a side project.
Anita Carleton, MIT EMBA ’18 and Division Director at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, shares how the MIT EMBA transformed her leadership approach, accelerated her career, and prepared her to lead national software engineering, cybersecurity, and AI initiatives in support...
Jonathan Hinton, EMBA ’15, shares how an early entrepreneurial mindset led him from running a business as a child to founding multiple companies with more than $1 billion in combined revenue. In this Q&A, the co-founder and CEO of Polarworx, Inc. reflects on why he chose the MIT Executive MBA despit...
On December 9, 2025, the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy welcomed President Tharman Shanmugaratnam, President of the Republic of Singapore, to receive the Miriam Pozen Prize in recognition of his leadership in international financial policy [...]
