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MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship Sustainability

The Master Corporate Connector: A New Win-Win-Win Model for Growth Markets

Most companies enter new markets with a simple plan: launch products, outpace the competition, acquire innovative technologies. They deliver profits, but miss the real goldmine. The most powerful, sustainable strategy is to create shared prosperity, where the company wins while also enabling local b...

Nov 7, 2025

MIT GCFP

Miriam Pozen Prize Award ceremony with address by Mario Draghi

By MIT GCFP - Events

The MIT GCFP announced that Mario Draghi has been named the winner of the Miriam Pozen Prize in recognition of his leadership in international financial policy. Draghi, a longtime academic economist and public servant, served as prime minister of Italy until [...]

Jun 7, 2023

MIT GCFP

A Fireside Chat with Peter Fisher and Andrew W. Lo

By MIT GCFP - Events

Behind the headlines lies a widening gap between U.S. fiscal revenues and outlays—a structural imbalance with profound implications for the Federal Reserve and the broader economy. Join Peter Fisher—Distinguished Senior Fellow at the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy [...]

Oct 29, 2025

Action Learning Innovation

Guiding international expansion

By Kathryn M. O’Neill

Seeking to scale up.

Oct 28, 2021

MIT Executive MBA Entrepreneurship

Redefining Success: Transitioning from Corporate Leadership to Entrepreneurial Impact

Diane Rucker is an angel investor and a member of the MIT Executive MBA Class of 2014.

Nov 25, 2025

MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship

Unlocking Triple Impact: A Local Currency Solution to FX Volatility in African Education Finance

Across Africa, currency volatility remains one of the most significant barriers to delivering truly mission-aligned capital. Despite decades of effort from policymakers, DFIs, and investors, the capital that flows into education and other high-impact sectors is still overwhelmingly dollar-denominate...

Dec 1, 2025

Alumni Leadership

Student Veterans Embrace Uncertainty and Each Other

By Andrew Husband

Frank Finelli, SM ’86, and student veterans discuss the importance of supporting one another professionally, financially, and emotionally.

Nov 9, 2022

Alumni Leadership

For Student and Alumni Veterans, a Community to Rely On

By Andrew Husband

From day one, MIT Sloan student veterans and reservists are supported by a community of alumni who know what they are going through and what lies ahead.

Nov 7, 2023

Alumni Entrepreneurship

Creating Opportunities for Intellectual Entrepreneurship

By Andrew Husband

Through planned giving, Nitin Nohria, PhD ’88, wants to create opportunities for future entrepreneurs at MIT Sloan.

Aug 19, 2025

MIT Sloan is the management school for entrepreneurship that matters.

Centers + Intiatives

Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

Our mission is to advance knowledge and educate students in innovation-driven entrepreneurship in a manner that will best serve the world in the 21st century.

Centers + Intiatives

MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship

The MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship was founded on the belief that entrepreneurs and their innovation-driven solutions are key to advancing sustainable and inclusive prosperity in global growth markets.

REAP

MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program

This dynamic global initiative engages with communities around the world to strengthen innovation-driven entrepreneurial ecosystems and transform economies.

A road map for startups, from Moderna’s co-founder

Adversity can cultivate instincts that serve entrepreneurs well, says venture capitalist Noubar Afeyan. Here are his three tips to start innovating.

What is an innovation ecosystem?

Here’s why companies should engage in these regional hot spots, which accelerate problem-solving and boost competitive advantage.

Trust the Process: A podcast on the journey of MIT entrepreneurs

Experts on business growth talk about time management, leadership, team building, and more, as well as their journeys taking ideas to execution.

MIT entrepreneurs explain what founders need to know now

Launching a venture? Here’s advice from MIT entrepreneurs in residence on navigating artificial intelligence, the economy, and uncertainty.

3 MIT startups taking on the global waste challenge

These alumni entrepreneurs are applying MIT know-how to keep goods out of landfills, reduce energy costs in recycling, and provide safe sanitation.

Universities must become active launchpads for innovation

Research labs must move beyond passive spillovers and become active launchpads for new companies that leverage federally funded research, say Gene R. Keselman, lecturer, and Dame Fiona Murray, associate dean of innovation, both from MIT Sloan.

Download: Insights for success in entrepreneurship

This new report collects insights from MIT Sloan experts, with practical guidance for launching ventures, shaping strategy, and making innovation work.

MIT’s singular passion for entrepreneurship is inspiring, energizing, a little bit exhausting, and a whole lot of fun. This passion is also an essential element of our strategy to organize for positive impact and transform our world.

Sally Kornbluth

President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

We’re not here for knowledge for knowledge’s sake; we’re here to apply that knowledge to the world’s greatest challenges.

Bill Aulet

Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

The MBA E&I Certificate gave me the skills to be an entrepreneur. Without it, I wouldn't be starting my climate-tech venture.

Stwart Peña Feliz, MBA '23

Co-founder & CEO of MacroCycle

We tell entrepreneurs not to be afraid that they may have to pivot, but also to understand that if they pivot around core strategic choices, it will take time and effort. In most cases, a startup only gets so many chances to do that.

Scott Stern

David Sarnoff Professor of Management at MIT Sloan

Our mission at the Trust Center is to advance the field of innovation-driven entrepreneurship everywhere ... We have to practice entrepreneurship in a rigorous, systematic way that increases the odds of success.

Paul Cheek

Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan and Senior Advisor, Entrepreneurship & AI

The opportunities at MIT, like Delta V and and Sandbox, truly allowed me to progress further and faster than even more experienced entrepreneurs.

Wesley Block, SB '22

Filmmaker and Founder, Kino AI

One Day with David Brown, Army Veteran and MBA '25

“MIT Sloan was my first and only choice,” says David Brown, MBA student and co-founder of Helix Carbon.

One Day with Megan Hung, MBA '26

“MIT Sloan was a pretty obvious frontrunner given its reputation for entrepreneurship and the established climate ecosystem in Boston," says Megan Hung, MBA '26.