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MIT Executive MBA

Mind and Hand (& Heart)

By Dominic Aloia, EMBA '25

Dominic Aloia is Global Head of Accounting at Tradeweb and a member of the MIT Executive MBA Class of 2025

Jun 18, 2025

MIT Sloan is the management school for entrepreneurship that matters. Learn how we're expanding access to entrepreneurship, building entrepreneurial skills and ventures that impact the world, and fostering dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystems across the United States and beyond.

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.

Executive Education

Entrepreneurship Development Program

Drawing from the vast culture of innovation and entrepreneurship at MIT, this unique entrepreneurship development course introduces participants to MIT’s entrepreneurial education programs, technology transfer system, and global entrepreneurial network.

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.

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.”

Working Definitions: Entrepreneurship

MIT Sloan's Working Definitions explore the words and phrases behind emerging management ideas.

patient capital

Delta Model

AI-driven enterprise

exaptation strategy

geopolitical calculus

Ideas Made to Matter: Entrepreneurship

Ideas and insights about entrepreneurship from MIT Sloan.

Alumni Entrepreneurs

MIT Sloan has long been known as a hub of entrepreneurship and innovation. Our alumni carry that mission into the world.

150

Courses offered at MIT focused on E&I

30,200+

Active alumni-founded companies

50+

MIT Student Clubs focused on E&I

85+

Resources dedicated to supporting E&I across MIT

4.6M+

Million jobs created by alumni-founded companies

Working Definitions

MIT Sloan's Working Definitions explore the words and phrases behind emerging management ideas.

geopolitical calculus

patient capital

exaptation strategy

Delta Model

AI-driven enterprise

MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative Economics

Minimum Wage Increases and Workplace Injuries: Evidence on Firm Responses to Higher Labor Costs

By Anne Quaadgras

A recent study co-authored by Professor Anna Stansbury contributes to a growing literature that examines non-wage margins. Specifically, the paper investigates how minimum wage increases affect workplace health and safety, an outcome that is both economically meaningful and, until recently, underexa...

MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative Health Care

The Real Opportunity for AI in Healthcare Isn’t Where You Think

By Anne Quaadgras

HSI Seminar with Shani Fargun, VP Healthcare at StackAI

Alumni

Dean Discusses MIT Sloan’s Future in Virtual Fireside Chat

By Andrew Husband

Last month, Richard M. Locke, PhD ’89, (John C Head III Dean at the MIT Sloan School of Management) sat for a virtual fireside chat with alumni.

Apr 14, 2026

MIT Executive MBA

Enhancing Entrepreneurship with the MIT EMBA

Denis Lussault, EMBA ’20, has built his career at the intersection of engineering, entrepreneurship, and innovation, and turned to the MIT Sloan Executive MBA to strengthen his skills in strategy, finance, and leadership after recognizing gaps in his business knowledge. The program not only equipped...

Apr 14, 2026

Alumni

Adela Jamal, SFMBA ’22, and Sebastian Barriga, SFMBA ’22

Adela Jamal, SFMBA ’22, and Sebastian Barriga, SFMBA ’22, talk about their journey from diverse global careers to launching an applied AI-focused venture fund.

Apr 14, 2026

MIT GCFP

AI investment risks, Fed leadership changes, and policy uncertainty shape the outlook for investors

By Peter R Fisher MIT GCFP - Viewpoints

Peter R. Fisher and Gary Gensler discuss how rapid investment in artificial intelligence, Federal Reserve leadership changes, and policy uncertainty are shaping the outlook for investors.

Apr 14, 2026

The MIT Sloan School of Management leads AI research, teaching, and business application. Discover how AI is changing organizations and workers' productivity, and what leaders need to know now about this transformative technology.

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

Positioned at the intersection of technology and management, the MIT Sloan School of Management is a meeting place for leading thinkers and researchers. The centers, initiatives, and programs at MIT Sloan and the larger MIT ecosystem drive research and education on artificial intelligence, its implications, and its uses.

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

Choose the human path for AI

To realize the greatest gains from artificial intelligence, we must make the future of work more human, not less.

Beyond the algorithm: AI’s societal impact

MIT Sloan research explores the promise and limits of using AI in medicine, hiring, and creative pursuits.

AI at Work Newsletter

Research and insights powering the intersection of AI and business, delivered to your inbox monthly.

AI is reinventing hiring — with the same old biases. Here’s how to avoid that t…

The AI hiring revolution doesn’t have to be a story of automated bias, argues MIT Sloan’s Emilio J. Castilla. Tough questions and constant monitoring can lead to fairer systems.

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.