This paper introduces a new framework for Systems Change Entrepreneurship, offering entrepreneurs and institutions a path to design scalable, regenerative solutions that build inclusive and sustainable market systems.
Yurui (Rui) Tong, MBAn ’21, reflects on her educational and professional journey through a personal lens of self-discovery and curiosity.
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An increasing number of commercial real estate assets are becoming obsolete, due to shifting market conditions, evolving work patterns, and sustainability imperatives. JLL, a global leader in real estate services and solutions, needed a framework that would help predict this obsolescence, assess inv...
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MIT Sloan alumni across programs and class years were recognized by the MIT Alumni Association for their service to the Institute.
To solve the world’s most entrenched challenges, from affordable housing to energy poverty, we must shift from treating symptoms to transforming market systems. This as part of our latest paper and blog series, which introduces a new framework for Systems Change Entrepreneurship, offering entreprene...
The markets once labeled “emerging” are not simply catching up to advanced economies — they are charting new pathways that can define the global future. They represent 85% of the world’s population and are now the primary engines of growth and creativity. What was once seen as “potential” is now und...
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
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
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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What happens when manufacturing companies regularly incorporate worker feedback and ideas into their production processes? New research coauthored by MIT Sloan Professor Nathan Wilmers finds that productivity is generally higher—and so is production worker pay.
