Lerner College to Host Social Media Expert at Gore Lecture Series
The Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics (Lerner College) will host a top social media expert to discuss the cultural effects of social media at the upcoming W.L. Gore Lecture Series in Management Science on April 28, 2016.
The speaker, Sinan Aral, is The David Austin Professor of Management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He was recently named as one of Poets and Quants’ Best 40 Under 40 business school professors.
MIT Sloan Hosts Private Space Industry Conference
MIT Sloan published an article this week about the school’s recent New Space Age Conference, which hosted “scientists, investors, and academics” to discuss the private space industry following SpaceX’s landmark landing on April 8th.
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Blind Iron Man Joe Bellantoni Graduates from Sloan
MIT’s Sloan School of Management recently published a press release on its blog to salute upcoming Executive MBA graduate Joe Bellantoni, who will receive his degree nearly nine years to the day he went blind in the aftermath of a car accident that nearly killed him. Continue reading…
MIT Sloan Surveys Social Implications of Gig Economy
MIT Sloan recently published a blog post about the recent On-Demand Economy conference, which the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and the Institute for Work and Employment Research hosted last week at the Media Lab. The conference was designed to survey the social implications of the “à la carte” economic model “built on the rental or sharing of assets and labor.”
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MIT Sloan Students Heat Up Havana As US and Cuban Relations Cool
Coinciding with recent presidential efforts to stabilize U.S. and Cuban relations, MIT Sloan’s blog published a press release announcing two eight-day spring break study tours to Cuba. The school is mounting trips—one of which is entitled “The United States and Cuba: Evolving Economies”—for MIT Sloan students to “explore the business and cultural implications of renewed diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba.”
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MIT Sloan Announces New Master of Business Analytics Degree
In a recent press release, MIT Sloan in collaboration with the MIT Operations Research Center unveiled its new Master of Business Analytics (M.B.An.) degree—a graduate program to compliment its undergraduate and doctoral offerings—slated to begin as part of the fall 2016 semester. The M.B.An. is intended to prepare students to apply “the tools of modern data science to solve problems in business and society.”
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