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Breaking Barriers, Building Impact: One Alumna's Path from Software Engineer to Executive Leader
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...
Building Beyond Business: Leadership, Learning, and Empowering the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
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...
President Tharman Shanmugaratnam’s Miriam Pozen Prize Lecture
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 at COP30: How Research, Policy, and Collaboration is Leading to Actionable Outcomes
“Disposable Workers” to be Published in August 2026
MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Paul Osterman’s book Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press.
Selected Journal Articles by Erin L. Kelly Related to Workplace Well-Being
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: A Veteran Alum on Leadership, Innovation, and the MIT EMBA
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.
Inside Ghana’s SME Economy:
After establishing a strong foothold in Uganda and Zambia through the Shona Capital platform, Kuo Sharper Initiative (KSI), a U.S.-based impact investment fund, is now actively exploring entry into the Ghanaian market. In October 2025 I made an on-the-ground fact-finding mission that evaluated regul...
Growth markets are node-scarce, not idea-scarce
For years, physicists tried to answer a deceptively simple question: why do some things like cities, ideas, innovation ecosystems grow disproportionately larger and more influential than others? Why do a few nodes attract attention, resources, and talent, while most remain peripheral?