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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.
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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.
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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.
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Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan

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
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Where Students Become Entrepreneurs

These students have tapped into the MIT ecosystem to energize their ideas and launch their ventures for global impact. Read their stories.
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.
One Day with Mike Sanchez, MBA '25
“MIT Sloan was the only school I applied to—it was genuinely my dream school," says Mike Sanchez. "I'm incredibly grateful to be here.”

MIT's Entrepreneurship & Innovation Ecosystem

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Courses offered at MIT focused on E&I

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Active alumni-founded companies

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MIT Student Clubs focused on E&I

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Resources dedicated to supporting E&I across MIT

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4.6M+

Million jobs created by alumni-founded companies

Working Definitions

An Instagram series on ideas about entrepreneurship and innovation.
Shop Floor Entrepreneur
Serial Digital Innovator
Analytical Innovator
Women Waste Entrepreneur
Self-driving Company
Question Burst
MIT News
Tracking emissions to help companies reduce their environmental footprint
Context Labs, led by Dan Harple SM ’13, uses AI-enabled data analytics and verification to help companies measure their true greenhouse emissions and document reductions.
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The Climate Project at MIT
Our goal is to become one of the world’s most prolific and collaborative sources of technological, behavioral, and policy solutions for the global climate challenge. We'll know we have succeeded only if, in 10 years, we have changed the expected trajectory of global climate outcomes for the better.
Executive Education
Business Sustainability Strategy
This short course explores the process of achieving sustainability through innovation and behavioral change and helps leaders manage sustainability goals without compromising profits.

Climate Action at MIT Sloan

4 actions for business to help curb carbon emissions
MIT Sloan climate expert John Sterman spells out the actions businesses can take to mitigate the economic and ecological harms of global warming.
One Day with David Brown, Army Veteran and MBA '25
In the final year of his MBA, Brown has co-founded a climate tech company—Helix Carbon—with Dr. Ariel Furst, an MIT associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, and Evan Haas, MBA '24, SM '24. Their goal: erase the footprint of tough-to-carbonize industries
What business needs to know about carbon border adjustments
The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is “the thing that has made me most optimistic,” says MIT Sloan climate economist Catherine Wolfram.
Climate change and machine learning — the good, bad, and unknown
Machine learning can drive climate action initiatives, but its widespread use could have negative implications, according to Climate Change AI’s Priya Donti.
Getting Strategic About Sustainability
When it comes to sustainability, many companies try to tackle too many issues at once. The result? Very little meaningful impact.
Ideas
Three 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.
The climate continues to change, and it’s changed pretty dramatically in the last 15 years. I don’t think we should draw too many conclusions about what’s possible.
Catherine Wolfram

Professor, Applied Economics, MIT Sloan, and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics at the U.S. Treasury
Hope isn’t naïve optimism—the belief that some technological breakthrough will save us. It's the belief that what we do matters. That by working together, we can create a better world.
John Sterman

Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management
One of the gaps the MIT Climate Policy Center seeks to fill is being the connective tissue across all of these different centers to understand what the policy implications are and to understand how everything fits together.
Christopher Knittel

Associate Dean for Climate and Sustainability, the George P. Shultz Professor , and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management
As an entrepreneur, I think: How am I making my community better? How am I helping to create employment? I was looking for a school with a well-developed, holistic sustainability program.
Victoria Eugenia Tostado Bringas

 SFMBA ’24
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Climate Centers and Initiatives

MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative
The MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative is committed to advancing systems change for an equitable and sustainable world.
MIT Climate Policy Center
The MIT Climate Policy Center serves as MIT's "front door" for local, state, federal, and international climate policymakers. Our mission is to serve as a trusted, non-partisan resource for policymakers who seek to advance evidence-based climate policy in the next decade.
MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
CEEPR promotes rigorous, objective research for improved decision making in government and the private sector, and secures the relevance of its work through close cooperation with industry partners from around the globe.
MIT Energy Initiative
MITEI connects researchers from across MIT and facilitates collaborations with industry, nonprofits, and government to speed and scale commercialization of no- and low-carbon technologies.
MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy
The purpose of CS3 is to advance knowledge and computational capabilities in the field of sustainability science, and support decision-makers in government, industry and civil society to achieve sustainability goals.
MIT Climate Portal
The MIT Climate Portal is an online home for timely, science-based information about the causes and consequences of climate change – and what can be done to address it.

MIT's Climate Action Impact

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550+

Sustainability Certificate alumni in our community

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Leaders in government, business, NGOs, experienced En-ROADS

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Participants in MIT Sloan Executive Education's sustainability courses

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Completed 'S-Lab' projects with leading companies

MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy
4 new studies about agentic AI from the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy
New research ranges from how AI agents negotiate to how “personality pairing” can optimize human-AI collaboration.
Special Report
MIT Sloan insights for success in AI-driven organizations
Experts share innovative ideas for using artificial intelligence to solve critical business problems and deliver on strategy.
Teaching & Learning Resources
Generative AI for Teaching & Learning
Explore our resources to unlock AI's potential for enhancing teaching and learning at MIT Sloan.

Centers, Initiatives, and Programs

MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
Center for Information Systems Research
Computer Science and AI Lab
Master of Business Analytics
Business Analytics Certificate
AI Executive Education

AI at MIT Sloan

Beyond the algorithm: AI’s societal impact
MIT Sloan research explores the promise and limits of using AI in medicine, hiring, and creative pursuits.

How to find the right business use cases for generative AI
Three steps to finding use cases for large language models: Break down workflows into tasks, consider all costs associated with automation, and launch pilots.

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These human capabilities complement AI’s shortcomings
The work tasks that AI is least likely to replace are those that depend on uniquely human capacities, such as empathy, judgment, ethics, and hope.
How to spot real value in AI — and avoid the snake oil
A new book aims to help business leaders separate real AI value from overhyped claims.
How organizations build a culture of AI ethics
From risk management policies to the five stages of AI ethics, here’s how some organizations approach ethical AI.
Bringing transparency to the data used to train artificial intelligence
Using the wrong datasets to train artificial intelligence models can result in legal risks, bias, or lower-quality models. The Data Provenance Initiative’s tool can help.
Media: Bloomberg
MIT Harnesses AI to Accelerate Startup Ambitions
Paul Cheek, executive director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship said: "Our mission at the Trust Center is to advance the field of innovation-driven entrepreneurship everywhere. We can't do it with intuition or by throwing stuff against the wall. We have to practice entrepreneurship in a rigorous, systematic way that increases the odds of success."
Managers and workers need to collectively develop new expectations and work practices to ensure that any work done in collaboration with generative AI meets the values, goals, and standards of their key stakeholders.
Kate Kellogg

David J. McGrath jr (1959) Professor of Management and Innovation
I've gained deep insights into cutting-edge technologies and had the chance to connect and network with industry leaders ... [T]aking courses or working on projects related to deep learning has been a rewarding experience.
Anne Castille Buisson

MBAn ’24
This technology’s deepest impact on the world of work will come as it’s used to reimagine entire organizations. This deep reimagination will be a decentralized and distributed phenomenon, carried out by innovators and entrepreneurs.
Andrew McAfee

Co-Director, MIT IDE & Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan
You need to be talking about AI along with specific initiatives and the outcomes you want to achieve using it. And those outcomes need to be compelling for your organization.
Barbara Wixom

Principal research scientist at the MIT Center for Information Systems Research
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Alumni Entrepreneurship

Professor Ed Roberts

Professor Ed Roberts joins Christopher Reichert, MOT ’04, on Sloanies Talking with Sloanies.

May 29, 2020
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Alumni Leadership

Dr. Sreenivas Koka, EMBA ’13

Dr. Sreenivas Koka, EMBA ’13, talks about how his multicultural upbringing and MIT Sloan experience transformed his approach to dentistry and leadership.

Sep 23, 2025
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MIT Executive MBA Entrepreneurship

Leveraging the MIT EMBA to drive innovation in the Midwest

Melissa Roberts Chapman, EMBA ‘22, has dedicated her career to fostering entrepreneurship and economic development, particularly in the Midwest. As the President of the KC BioHub and Kansas City’s Regional Innovation Officer, she works to build an equitable biomanufacturing and biologics innovation ...

Sep 30, 2025
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MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship

PRESS RELEASE: Botswana Collaboration Kickoff

The Center officially kicked off our multi-year collaboration with the Government of Botswana, marked by a series of exciting events including the first Foundry Fellow Reunion in Africa, the start of our 12-week early-stage entrepreneurship program with over 31 startups and the preparations for exci...

Jul 2, 2025
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MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship

Are you, as an Entrepreneur, Achieving All the Impact You Can?

The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan surveyed African entrepreneurs leading early-stage startups and found there was a huge gap between their articulation of the market need (i.e. “the problem”) and what their ventures would achieve in five years.

Feb 1, 2024
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