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Kit Hickey
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Kit Hickey is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Executive Director of the MIT-Royalty Pharma Faculty Founder Initiative, run out of MIT’s School of Engineering.
At MIT, Kit mentors early-stage entrepreneurs and teaches MBA-level entrepreneurship courses. She has led courses such as Entrepreneurship Lab, Building an Entrepreneurial Venture, and Entrepreneurship 101, and codesigned the widely popular Entrepreneurial Founding and Teams, which addresses the people-side of startup building.
In recognition of her teaching contributions, Kit was the recipient of the prestigious Adolf F. Monosson Prize for Entrepreneurial Mentoring in 2024.
As Executive Director of the MIT-Royalty Pharma Faculty Founder Initiative, Kit helps MIT faculty translate breakthrough biotech research into real-world impact. Her work accelerates the path from academic discovery to patient benefit, guiding faculty through the commercialization process.
Before joining MIT, Kit cofounded Ministry of Supply, a venture-backed apparel company that pioneered the performance-professional category. The brand uses advanced manufacturing and materials science to reimagine workwear, and has been featured in The New York Times, Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, and on the TODAY Show. At Ministry of Supply, she built and led high-performing teams across customer experience, e-commerce, retail, and revenue.
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Coming full circle
MacroCycle Technologies, a startup co-founded by MIT alumni Stwart Peña Feliz, MBA '23 and Dr. Jan-Georg Rosenboom turns plastic and polyester waste into virgin-grade PET (a type of plastic) using a process that consumes 80% less energy than traditional methods—providing a pathway where plastics are not only diverted from landfills and the ocean, but can also be turned back into plastics without the emissions when powered with renewable energy. Two years after launching his company, Peña Feliz was eager to share what he’s learned with current MIT Sloan students. And Product Management Lab (PM-Lab) students Alain Hyacinthe, MBA ’26; Mallika Khanna, MBA ’26; Jules Nguyen, MBA ’26; and Ethan Takeyama, MBA ’26; were eager to help MacroCycle take its next big step: entering new markets in the world of textiles.
Using AI to Translate Baby Cries? A New App Is on the Way
This alumna-founded health care startup is using artificial intelligence and machine learning to generate soothing sounds for infants and translate their cries for parents.