Sloan Student Talks Interplanetary Future at New Space Age Conference
On the heels of MIT Sloan’s second annual New Space Age Conference, the school recently explored the role commercial rocket startup Relativity Space hopes to play in closing the gap of an interplanetary future.
Alumni Spotlight: John Legere, T-Mobile CEO – MIT Sloan
In the early 1970s, Richard Branson was one of the first iconoclasts who crafted the idea of a “CEO as company mascot.” His presence and leadership helped launched the Virgin empire. Like so many entrepreneurs who followed, like T-Mobile CEO John Legere, that influence is hard to miss.
Coach Otto, an MIT Sloan AI Bot, Can Help Coach Executives
MIT Sloan recently took at a look at the nifty little Coach Otto, a new artificial intelligence “executive coaching bot” developed by MIT Media Lab alum Jeff Orkin and GiantOtter co-founder Dan Tomaschko, MBA ’15 to use as a stand-alone interface as well as integrate within team messaging apps like Slack.
HubSpot Chief People Officer And Sloan Alum Hacks Diversity in Tech
Late last month, MIT Sloan spoke with Cambridge-based HubSpot Chief People Officer Katie Burke, MBA ’09, in advance of her talk at the upcoming Sloan Women in Management Breaking the Mold Hackathon whose prompt is “Hacking Diversity.”
Sloan Lecturer Talks Sports Analytics, Success, Data and Gut Instincts
MIT Sloan School of Management recently debuted a story by Brian Eastwood about how sports analytics are transforming the way many franchises “make critical personnel and business decisions” within their organizations.
Sloan Prof Discusses New Free Innovation Paradigm for Entrepreneurship
MIT Sloan recently published an article about Free Innovation, a new book from Professor Eric von Hippel that examines how innovation is increasingly coming from “individuals creating gadgets and apps around the world for self-rewards” and less from profit-driven entrepreneurs.
