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 [...]
MIT at COP30: How Research, Policy, and Collaboration is Leading to Actionable Outcomes
MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Paul Osterman’s book Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press.
MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly, who is Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), has coauthored dozens of scholarly articles related to well-being in the workplace, with a particular focus on examining the effects of flexible scheduling initiatives on various measu...
From Navy captain to CEO, Van Gurley shares how the MIT Executive MBA transformed his leadership approach, fueled innovation at Metron, and prepared him to lead a mission-driven national security company through growth and change.
