MIT - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good

entrepreneurship herself, even applying to the MIT Venture Mentoring Service (MIT VMS)—a program that connects budding entrepreneurs to successful businesspeople to develop their ideas. Whenever an entrepreneur applies to the program, a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Accommodations; Financial Services

21 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

leaders who create arcane and tedious processes can kill employee morale and cripple company performance just as quickly as an adversary who pours sand into the gas tank of a company vehicle, Thomke writes in the MIT Sloan Management... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others

with Stanford University Professor Erik Brynjolfsson, Professor Sinan Aral of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and two LinkedIn employees and recent Stanford and MIT Ph.D. graduates Karthik Rajkumar and Guillaume Saint-Jacques,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Events - Business & Environment

industry leaders together to learn what every MBA needs to know about the business implications of climate change. Coordinated by Duke Fuqua, hosted at different schools annually. (February) MIT Energy Conference The largest student-led... View Details

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Events - Business History

and Diversified Business Groups: Comparisons across Developed Countries Ben Schneider, MIT Oct 30 30 Oct 2017 Business History Seminar Decoding the Balance Sheet: Material Objects, Symbolic Capital, and the Liquidation of the League of... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

compressor technology developed in conjunction with MIT that offers low capex and opex costs, high efficiency, high power density, easy serviceability, and few moving parts. OsComp’s beachhead market is the wellhead compression market... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

time. If you hadn't pursued a career in management, what might you have done instead? I probably would have been an economics professor. I faced this decision during my days as a student at MIT and chose business instead. But I had a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

the Required Curriculum. 2015 Alberto F. Cavallo : Named Douglas Drane Career Development Chair in Information Technology and Management at MIT Sloan School of Management, 2015–2018. Alberto F. Cavallo : Received a National Bureau of... View Details

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

2010 MIT Burchard Scholar. David B. Yoffie : Won the 2010-2011 Charles M. Williams Award for Teaching Excellence. 2009 Tarun Khanna : Elected a fellow of the Academy of International Business in 2009. Jan W. Rivkin : Received the 2009... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Ideas) By Thomas Ramge and Rafael Laguna de la Vera (TGMP 3, 1998) The MIT Press We live in less innovative times than we think. Despite having made major technological advancements in a few areas, we are still left with enormous unsolved... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

29 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

Academy, on Job-Hopping Toward Equity, published recently in the MIT Sloan Management Review. A changing labor landscape The difference in pay that comes from job-hopping only helps to shrink—not eliminate—a longstanding gender pay gap,... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Entrepreneurial Support - Business & Environment

project-oriented course in which advanced students from graduate schools across Harvard University work together in teams to design real-world practical tools for advancing climate change goals. Spring Course. Learn more here . MIT... View Details

27 May 2015
Blog Post

What is an HBS Section?

section’s ability to bring together people who otherwise may not have ever gravitated towards each other. Where else can you find the son of a US Senator, a first generation college student from Arizona, a Canadian Olympic ping pong player, a former NFL cheerleader... View Details

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

engineer and graduate of MIT who became quality control officer at Polaroid; and Richard T. Kriebel, a gifted writer who became director of public relations. In 1934, Eastman Kodak signed a contract with Land-Wheelwright Laboratories to... View Details

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

Addiction: A Field Experiment in Handwashing, authored by Hussam; Atonu Rabbani, an associate professor at the University of Dhaka; Giovanni Reggiani, then a doctoral student at MIT and now a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group; and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

18 Jul 2019
News

Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc

Dan Bricklin (right) with his MIT classmate and VisiCalc collaborator Bob Frankston (photo by Richard Chase) Dan Bricklin (right) with his MIT classmate and VisiCalc collaborator Bob Frankston (photo by... View Details

01 Apr 2000
News

Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani

supportive of me." The importance of mentorship was impressed upon Modigliani at an early age. "I've always been around people who care about ideas. Everyone is a teacher in my family, except for me." That includes her grandfather, Franco Modigliani, a Nobel... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2022
What Do You Think?

Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?

Edward Freeman, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach (Harpercollins, 1984) Roland Marchand, Creating the Corporate Soul (California University Press, 1998) H. Jeff Smith, “The Shareholders vs. Stakeholders Debate,” MIT Sloan... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Nov 2021
Blog Post

4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences

entrepreneurship. Through Nucleate, a student-run biotech incubator, I met a PhD candidate at MIT with whom I have been exploring a tough tech venture for most of the last year. It’s a roller-coaster ride on so many levels, but I am... View Details

01 Sep 2007
News

Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

sociologist Talcott Parsons. Chandler was also influenced by his participation in the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History at Baker Library. Chandler taught at MIT from 1950 to 1963, where in addition to writing Strategy and... View Details

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