Gabelli Students Improve Business Skills Through Improv Workshop
A group of Full-Time Cohort MBA students at the Gabelli School of Business visited the Upright Citizens Brigade to take part in a corporate improv workshop. The half-day workshop gave students an open environment to practice improvisation fundamentals that can also double as professional skills. The comedy theater instructors directed a customized curriculum of improv-based exercises focused on agility, interviewing and advanced presentation skills.
The students spent time learning how to adapt quickly in situations, working with partners and on smaller teams in improvised situations. The skills learned through acting in improv will help students in interviews and with on-the-job response to situations. The workshops also provided students with the opportunity to collaborate and build off one another’s ideas by supporting their fellow classmates in a safe environment meant that more creative ideas would flow.
Sloan Students Come Together for Fundraiser
Students from all six programs at the MIT Sloan School of Management have come together to raise money for the student led fundraiser for the Sloan Annual Fund. For the student fundraiser, each degree program holds its own campaign and has its own fundraising goal. The Student Giving portion of the Sloan Annual Fund is a multi-program event that was designed to bring the classes together.
The MIT Sloan Annual Fund provides funding for many of the School’s most important initiatives and priorities. Money given to the fund go toward supporting innovative new programs and courses at Sloan, fellowships for students and funding research projects developed and led by junior faculty. The fund also helps Sloan to expand their alumni and student networks by bringing both groups together.
Sloan Partners with Malaysia Central Bank to Establish Asia School of Business
The MIT Sloan School of Management has announced that it has partnered with Bank Negara Malaysia, the nation’s central bank, to establish the Asia School of Business. The school is scheduled to open in September 2016. It will host an inaugural class of 25 to 35 students in a two-year MBA program. Sloan Professor Charles Fine will serve as the founding president and dean of the Asia School of Business.
The Asia School of Business will reflect both the central bank’s want for education for practical application and Sloan’s practice-oriented approach to management and will apply Sloan’s values and approach to the school’s curriculum. In the future, The Asia School of Business will have its own faculty, but professors from MIT Sloan will teach at the school and provide guest lectures for in the beginning of the program. Tuition for Asia School of Business will be around $40,000 per year.
Sloan Holds EMBA Info Session in Toronto
The MIT Sloan School of Management will be holding an upcoming information session for its Executive MBA program. This event will be held April 2, in Toronto. The information session will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Toronto Marriott Downtown Eaton Center Hotel. Those interested in attending the event can complete an online registration form.
During the event, prospective students will have the opportunity to meet leaders from the EMBA program and its admissions and curriculum teams. The event will also include a presentation by the program team and a Q&A session with current students and alumni of the MIT Executive MBA program.
Sloan Prof. Awarded Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics
MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Stephen Ross has been awarded the 2015 Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics. This prize is awarded by the Frankfurt, Germany-based Center for Financial Studies to academics whose ideas influence other macroeconomists and policy makers every other year.
The Deutsche Bank prize includes a 50,000 euro award, which is about $56,000, and a related academic symposium that will be held in September 2015. Past winners of the prize include Eugene Fama and Robert Shiller, two financial economists who shared last year’s Nobel Prize in economics with Lars Peter Hansen.
Sloan Hosts EMBA Info Session in Miami
MIT Sloan School of Management will be holding an information session for its Executive MBA program. This event will be held March 17 in Miami, Florida. The information session will be held at the Miami Marriott, Biscayne Bay from 6 to 8 p.m. The event is open to all prospective EMBA students and is free to attend. Registration for the event should be completed online prior to the event.
During the information session, prospective students will have the opportunity to meet leaders from the EMBA program and its admissions and curriculum teams. The event will include a presentation by the program team followed by a Q&A session with current students and alumni of the MIT Executive MBA program.
