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The MIT Sloan School of Management is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private university research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States....
, located in Cambridge
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England....
, Massachusetts
Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
, in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. It is one of the world's leading business school
Business school

A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration. It teaches topics such as accounting, finance, information systems, marketing, organizational behavior, strategy, human resource management, and quantitative methods....
s, conducting research and teaching in finance
Finance

The field of finance refers to the concepts of time, money and risk and how they are interrelated. Banks are the main facilitators of funding through the provision of credit, although private equity, mutual funds, hedge funds, and other organizations have become important....
, entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is the practice of starting new organizations or revitalizing mature organizations, particularly new businesses generally in response to identified opportunities....
, marketing
Marketing

Marketing is defined by the American Marketing Association as the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large....
, strategic management
Strategic management

Strategic management is the art, science and craft of formulating, implementing and evaluating cross-functional decisions that will enable an organization to achieve its long-term objectives....
, economics
Economics

File:Ballard Farmers' Market - vegetables.jpgEconomics is the Social sciences that studies the Production theory basics, Distribution , and Consumption of Good and Service ....
, organizational behavior, industrial relations, operations management
Operations management

Operations management is an area of business that is concerned with the production of good quality goods and services, and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient and effective....
, supply chain management
Supply chain management

Supply chain management is the management of a Supply chain network of interconnected businesses involved in the ultimate provision of product and service packages required by end customers ....
, information technology
Information technology

Information technology , as defined by the Information Technology Association of America , is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware." IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to data conv...
, and many other fields.

MIT Sloan offers bachelor's degree
Bachelor's degree

A bachelor's degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three, four, or in some cases and countries, five or six years....
s, master's degree
Master's degree

A master's degree provides a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of profession. Within the area studied, graduates possess advanced knowledge of a specialized body of theory and applied topics; high order skills in analysis, Critical thinking and/or professional application; and the ability to problem solving a...
 and doctorate
Doctorate

A doctorate is an academic degree that in most countries represents the highest level of formal study or research in a given field. In some countries it also refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to practice in a specific profession ....
s, as well as non-degree executive education
Executive Education

Executive Education is the term used for programs at graduate-level business schools that aim to give classes for Chief executive officer and other top management or entrepreneurs....
 programs. Its largest program is the Master of Business Administration
Master of Business Administration

The Master of Business Administration is a master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines....
 (MBA) program, which matriculates students every year from more than 60 countries and offers the widest range of electives of any business school in the United States.






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The MIT Sloan School of Management is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private university research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States....
, located in Cambridge
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England....
, Massachusetts
Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
, in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. It is one of the world's leading business school
Business school

A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration. It teaches topics such as accounting, finance, information systems, marketing, organizational behavior, strategy, human resource management, and quantitative methods....
s, conducting research and teaching in finance
Finance

The field of finance refers to the concepts of time, money and risk and how they are interrelated. Banks are the main facilitators of funding through the provision of credit, although private equity, mutual funds, hedge funds, and other organizations have become important....
, entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is the practice of starting new organizations or revitalizing mature organizations, particularly new businesses generally in response to identified opportunities....
, marketing
Marketing

Marketing is defined by the American Marketing Association as the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large....
, strategic management
Strategic management

Strategic management is the art, science and craft of formulating, implementing and evaluating cross-functional decisions that will enable an organization to achieve its long-term objectives....
, economics
Economics

File:Ballard Farmers' Market - vegetables.jpgEconomics is the Social sciences that studies the Production theory basics, Distribution , and Consumption of Good and Service ....
, organizational behavior, industrial relations, operations management
Operations management

Operations management is an area of business that is concerned with the production of good quality goods and services, and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient and effective....
, supply chain management
Supply chain management

Supply chain management is the management of a Supply chain network of interconnected businesses involved in the ultimate provision of product and service packages required by end customers ....
, information technology
Information technology

Information technology , as defined by the Information Technology Association of America , is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware." IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to data conv...
, and many other fields.

MIT Sloan offers bachelor's degree
Bachelor's degree

A bachelor's degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three, four, or in some cases and countries, five or six years....
s, master's degree
Master's degree

A master's degree provides a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of profession. Within the area studied, graduates possess advanced knowledge of a specialized body of theory and applied topics; high order skills in analysis, Critical thinking and/or professional application; and the ability to problem solving a...
 and doctorate
Doctorate

A doctorate is an academic degree that in most countries represents the highest level of formal study or research in a given field. In some countries it also refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to practice in a specific profession ....
s, as well as non-degree executive education
Executive Education

Executive Education is the term used for programs at graduate-level business schools that aim to give classes for Chief executive officer and other top management or entrepreneurs....
 programs. Its largest program is the Master of Business Administration
Master of Business Administration

The Master of Business Administration is a master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines....
 (MBA) program, which matriculates students every year from more than 60 countries and offers the widest range of electives of any business school in the United States. U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report is an influential United States newsmagazine published in Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek, it was for many years a leading news weekly, although it focused more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories....
 and BusinessWeek
BusinessWeek

BusinessWeek is a business magazine published by McGraw-Hill. It was first published in 1929 under the direction of Malcolm Muir, who was serving as president of the McGraw-Hill Publishing company at the time....
 award it #1 in the most disciplines of any business school in the United States.

History

MIT Sloan began in 1914 as the engineering administration curriculum (or "Course XV" in the MIT parlance) in the MIT Department of Economics and Statistics. The scope and depth of this educational focus have grown steadily in response to advances in the theory and practice of management to today's broad-based management school. A program offering a master's degree in management was established in 1925. The world's first university-based executive education program - the Sloan Fellows - was created in 1931 under the sponsorship of Alfred P. Sloan
Alfred P. Sloan

Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. was a long-time president and chairman of General Motors Corporation....
, Jr., himself an 1895 MIT graduate, who was chairman of General Motors and has since been credited with creating the modern corporation. A Sloan Foundation grant established the MIT School of Industrial Management in 1952 with the charge of educating the "ideal manager", and the school was renamed in Sloan's honor as the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management.

In the 1960s, the school played a leading role in founding the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta is a national institute imparting post graduate education in management. It is located at Joka, on the southern outskirts of Kolkata city, in the state of West Bengal, India....
. In 1990, the MIT Entrepreneurship Center
MIT Entrepreneurship Center

The MIT Entrepreneurship Center is one of the largest research and teaching centers at the MIT Sloan School of Management. It was founded in the early 1990's and charged with the mission to develop MIT's entrepreneurial activities and interests in education and research, alliances, and the community....
 was founded at MIT Sloan, one of the few business school entrepreneurship centers in the world focused on high tech. It sponsors both the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition
MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition

The MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition is one of the largest and most famous business plan competitions in the world. Entirely student-managed, students from all programs and levels at MIT organize and enter the $100K....
 as well as the popular and unique Entrepreneurship Lab and Global Entrepreneurship Lab courses, which sponsor MBA students to work on-site with start-ups throughout the world. The school has grown to the point where management has become the second largest undergraduate major at MIT, and in 2005, an undergraduate minor in management was opened to 100 students each year. The Sloan Undergraduate Management Association is the official representing student group for Sloan's undergraduate management program.

MBA
Tang Center
The main professional degree awarded at MIT Sloan, prior to 1995, was the Master of Science
Master of Science

A Master of Science is a postgraduate academic master's degree awarded by universities in a large number of countries. The degree is typically studied for in the sciences and occasionally in the social sciences....
 (S.M.) in Management–an advanced professional degree combining the course requirements of the more widely-known MBA degree with a formal S.M. dissertation. The completion of a dissertation was previously an Institute-wide requirement for all master's students. An exception was made for MIT Sloan students starting in 1995, and the school began awarding the MBA degree entirely on the basis of coursework. While some members of the MIT community felt that removing the dissertation requirement would reduce the educational merit of the degree , it was accepted since this was the practice at all other major business schools. MIT Sloan continues to offer the SM degree for students who choose to complete master's dissertations, but the vast majority of students now receive an MBA degree and do not write a dissertation. In practice, MIT Sloan's SM and MBA have always been viewed as equivalent in industry, although the SM is preferred as preparation for doctoral work.

In 2006, MIT Sloan launched a new program for entrepreneurs within the MBA degree called the Entrepreneurship & Innovation
MIT-Entrepreneurship and Innovation

In 2006, MIT Sloan launched a new program for entrepreneurs within the MBA degree called Entrepreneurship & Innovation . In addition to the MBA awarded by the Sloan School, participants are awarded a Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from MIT....
 (E&I) Program. The E&I program centers on starting and evolving emerging technology enterprises. The program seeks to formalize MIT's long-standing and leading entrepreneurship offerings. The 50-60 (per class) E&I students benefit from a specialized weekly seminar for entrepreneurs. In addition, a one-week trip to Silicon Valley is coordinated in conjunction with the MIT Sloan MediaTech club.

Of the approximately 3,800 applications received last year for the MBA and Leaders for Manufacturing programs, about 500 were admitted and 393 matriculated .

Ph.D.

Since 1960, MIT Sloan has offered a research-oriented Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph.D. or PhD for the Latin , meaning "teacher of philosophy", is an postgraduate academic degree awarded by University....
 program devoted to educating management scholars. The Ph.D. program is organized into three broad areas – Management Science, Behavioral and Policy Sciences, and Economics, Finance, and Accounting – each of which has further areas of specialization. It takes an average of five years to complete the program, and a typical schedule includes at least two years of coursework leading up to the general exam, and about three years of research leading up to the dissertation. Ph.D. students are also active in faculty-sponsored research and teaching. The program typically enrolls about 80 students, and many graduates take faculty positions at the world's most prestigious business schools.

Of the 564 applicants from 54 countries for the 2006-2007 academic year, 25 were admitted (about 4%) and 16 matriculated.

Academics and student life

Mitsloanfoyer
The MIT Sloan culture is similar to, but also distinct from, overall MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private university research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States....
 culture, and is influenced most strongly by its MBA program. Most classes are taught in the Tang Center, although the school's live trading room
Trading room

The notion of "trading room" is widely used in financial markets to refer to the office space where market activities are concentrated in banks or brokerage houses....
 is located in the basement of the original Alfred P. Sloan building. Courses are taught using both the case method
Case method

The case method is a teaching approach that consists in presenting the students with a case, putting them in the role of a decision maker facing a problem ....
 as well as through lecture
Lecture

A lecture is an oral presentation intended to present information or teach people about a particular subject, for example by a university or college teacher....
s and team projects. The academic level of coursework is considered extremely rigorous by business school standards, with a greater emphasis on analytical reasoning and quantitative analysis
Quantitative analysis

Quantitative analysis may refer to:* Quantitative analyst, in finance, someone who applies mathematics, among others stochastic calculus, to finance...
 than most top programs.

Academic rigor has a strong influence on the school's culture. The first semester, also known as the core, is the hardest of all semesters by design. Students are required to take the following courses: Economic Analysis for Business Decisions, Financial Accounting, DMD (Data, Models and Decisions), Organizational Processes, and Communication for Managers. In addition, they may choose to take either Finance Theory or Introduction to Marketing. In 2005, the students and faculty expressed solidarity against the core by wearing t-shirts that said "think outside the core." In 2006, the students placed their name-cards upside-down during the weeks where the workload was particularly demanding.

A staple of MIT Sloan life is the weekly C-Function, which stands alternately for "cultural function" or "consumption function". The school sponsors food and drink for all members of the MIT Sloan graduate community to enjoy entertainment organized by a specific campus cultural groups as well as parties with non-cultural themes. These functions are held on most Thursdays, often in the Walker Memorial building near the school. MIT Sloan students and alumni are informally nicknamed Sloanies.

MIT Sloan benefits from its proximity to the world's best engineering and science programs as well as from integration with MIT's world-renowned Economics and Finance programs, all of which are often ranked #1 in world rankings. Many of the world's most influential thought-leaders in finance and economics (including Black, Scholes, Merton, Samuelson, Myers and many more) and many of the most famous theories applied in business and on Wall Street (including Black-Scholes
Black-Scholes

The term Black?Scholes refers to three closely related concepts:* The #Black?Scholes model is a mathematical model of the market for an Stock, in which the equity's price is a stochastic process....
, System Dynamics
System dynamics

System dynamics is an approach to understanding the behaviour of complex systems over time. It deals with internal feedback loops and time delays that affect the behaviour of the entire system....
, Operations Research, Quantitative Strategies, and many others) had their origins at MIT.

Students from both MIT and Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
 frequently pursue simultaneous graduate degrees at the other respective institution, and many MIT Sloan students simultaneously complete degrees from Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, it is the United States' oldest law school in continuous operation....
 and the Harvard Kennedy School in particular. In addition, MIT Sloan offers its students the ability to freely cross-register for courses at Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School is a business school in the United States. It is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University.Founded in 1908, Harvard Business School started with 59 students....
, one of the few pairs of leading business schools to have such an agreement.

Programs and centers

MIT Sloan is home to a number of research centers, including the MIT Entrepreneurship Center
MIT Entrepreneurship Center

The MIT Entrepreneurship Center is one of the largest research and teaching centers at the MIT Sloan School of Management. It was founded in the early 1990's and charged with the mission to develop MIT's entrepreneurial activities and interests in education and research, alliances, and the community....
, the , the MIT Center for Digital Business, the , the , the and the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence is a research center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, headed by Professor Thomas W. Malone that focuses on the study of collective intelligence....
. It also publishes the peer-reviewed management journal MIT Sloan Management Review
MIT Sloan Management Review

MIT Sloan Management Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering all management disciplines, with emphasis is on corporate strategy, leadership and management of technology and innovation....
.

Unlike many business schools, MIT Sloan does not offer an Executive MBA program or a part-time MBA program. It does offer a number of other specialized degree programs, including:
  • Leaders for Manufacturing
    MIT-Leaders for Manufacturing

    The Leaders for Manufacturing Program is a two-year dual degree graduate program co-sponsored by the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT's School of Engineering....
     (LFM
    MIT-Leaders for Manufacturing

    The Leaders for Manufacturing Program is a two-year dual degree graduate program co-sponsored by the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT's School of Engineering....
    ) program is a dual-degree partnership program run by MIT Sloan, the MIT School of Engineering and a select number of sponsoring partner companies. LFM caters to students who are interested in manufacturing and operations careers. LFM
    MIT-Leaders for Manufacturing

    The Leaders for Manufacturing Program is a two-year dual degree graduate program co-sponsored by the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT's School of Engineering....
     students earn both an MBA (or SM in Management) from MIT Sloan as well as an SM in any participating engineering department at MIT, all within a 24 month timeframe. Currently, every engineering department except the Nuclear Engineering department participates in the LFM
    MIT-Leaders for Manufacturing

    The Leaders for Manufacturing Program is a two-year dual degree graduate program co-sponsored by the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT's School of Engineering....
     program. Students can apply via either the Sloan MBA application process or through a specific engineering department. In order to receive admission, candidates must be approved by both the Sloan School and the School of Engineering. LFM Fellows represent approximately 12% of the Sloan MBA class and are supported by a generous fellowship provided by LFM's partner companies.
  • is a three-year dual degree program with the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University that allows students to receive both an MBA and an MPA/MPP. This program is especially relevant for those students who plan to pursue careers in international management or economic development, or who plan to work in industries or regions with a high degree of government partnership or regulation.
  • MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership
    Sloan Fellows

    The Sloan Fellows program is a mid-career Masters' degree in General Management supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. It is targeted at experienced managers who have already demonstrated a significant degree of career success ....
     is a management program that caters to students with significant managerial experience. Depending on the curricula they choose, students can earn either an MBA, an SM in Management, or a Master's degree in the Management of Technology (MOT) in either 1 or 2 years of full-time study. Over the years, as MIT Sloan Fellows wanted more entrepreneurship courses, and MOT students sought general management courses, the traditional MIT Sloan Fellows program was merged with the innovation-focused Management of Technology (MOT) program in 2004 to create its newly named larger program, the MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership.
  • program is a joint program run by both MIT Sloan and the of MIT, in which students are awarded a joint SM degree in Engineering and Management. Note that this is a single degree as opposed to the dual-degree that can be obtained through LFM. The SDM program can be completed either on a 13-month full-time basis, or through a 24-month part-time distance learning option.
  • is a joint partnership program run by MIT Sloan and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
    Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

    Founded in 1970, the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, or HST, is one of the oldest and largest biomedical engineering and Medical Scientist Training Program in the United States and the longest-standing functional collaboration between Harvard and MIT....
    . Students can either complete the BEP program in conjunction with the regular MIT Sloan program or the MIT Sloan Fellows program and earn an SM degree in Health Sciences and Technology in addition to an MBA or SM in Management Science. The BEP also offers those who already hold a graduate degree in management the option of earning a 1-year SM degree in Health Sciences and Technology.


Prominent faculty

Walker Memorial
Deans
  • Erwin Schell
    Erwin Schell

    Erwin Schell was Dean of the MIT Department of Business and Engineering, which later became the MIT Sloan School of Management.His quote : Remember that when an employee enter your office,They're in strange land....
    , 1930-1951 (Department of Business and Engineering)
  • Edward Pennell Brooks
    Edward Pennell Brooks

    Edward Pennell Brooks , aka E.P. Brooks, was the founding Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management.Prior to his tenure, the Sloan School was known was the MIT Department of Business and Engineering....
    , 1951-1959
  • Howard W. Johnson
    Howard Wesley Johnson

    Howard Wesley Johnson is a United States of America educator. He served as the Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management between 1959 and 1966, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1966 and 1971, and chairman of the MIT Corporation from 1971 to 1983....
    , 1959-1966
  • William F. Pounds
    William F. Pounds

    William F. Pounds was Dean and is currently a professor emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management.He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Carnegie Mellon University....
    , 1966-1980
  • Abraham Siegel
    Abraham Siegel

    Abraham J. Siegel was Dean , and is currently a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management....
    , 1980-1987
  • Lester Thurow
    Lester Thurow

    Lester Carl Thurow is a former dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of numerous bestsellers on economic topics.Thurow was born in Livingston, Montana....
    , 1987-1993
  • Glen L. Urban
    Glen L. Urban

    Glen L. Urban has been a member of the MIT Sloan School of Management faculty since 1966 and Dean at the school from 1993 to 1998. Dr. Urban is a leading educator, prize-winning researcher specializing in marketing and new product development, entrepreneur, and author....
    , 1993-1998
  • Richard L. Schmalensee
    Richard L. Schmalensee

    Richard Lee "Dick" Schmalensee is the John C. Head III Dean, Emeritus and the Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management and Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management....
    , 1998-2007
  • David Schmittlein
    David Schmittlein

    David C. Schmittlein is the John C. Head III Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was appointed Dean August 27, 2007.Schmittlein was formerly a professor of marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania of the University of Pennsylvania, and chair of the editorial board for Wharton School Publishing....
    , 2007-


Notable current and former faculty
  • Thomas J. Allen
    Thomas J. Allen

    Thomas J. Allen is the Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and the co-director of the MIT MIT-Leaders for Manufacturing program....
    , inventor of the Allen Curve, co-author of
  • Dan Ariely
    Dan Ariely

    Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University. He also holds an appointment at the MIT Media Lab where he is the head of the eRationality research group....
    , leading expert on behavioral economics
  • Richard Beckhard
    Richard Beckhard

    Richard Beckhard was a pioneer in the field of organizational development. He co-launched theAddison-Wesley Organization Development Series and began the Organization Development Network in 1967....
    , pioneer in the field of Organizational Development
  • Warren Bennis
    Warren Bennis

    Warren Gamaliel Bennis is an American scholar, organizational consultant and author, widely regarded as a pioneer of the contemporary field of Leadership Studies....
    , leading expert on Leadership
    Leadership

    Leadership is one of the most salient aspects of the organizational context. However, defining leadership has been challenging. The following sections discuss several important aspects of leadership including a description of what leadership is and a description of several popular theories and styles of leadership....
    , author of "Leaders"
  • Fischer Black
    Fischer Black

    Fischer Sheffey Black was an United States economist, best known as one of the authors of the famous Black-Scholes equation....
    , co-inventor, Black-Scholes
    Black-Scholes

    The term Black?Scholes refers to three closely related concepts:* The #Black?Scholes model is a mathematical model of the market for an Stock, in which the equity's price is a stochastic process....
     option pricing model
  • Erik Brynjolfsson
    Erik Brynjolfsson

    Erik Brynjolfsson is the Schussel Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business....
    , leading expert on information technology
    Information technology

    Information technology , as defined by the Information Technology Association of America , is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware." IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to data conv...
     productivity
  • John C. Cox
    John C. Cox

    John Carrington Cox is the Nomura Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is one of the world's leading experts on options theory and one of the inventors of the Binomial options pricing model for option pricing, as well as of the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross model for interest rate dynamics....
    , co-inventor of binomial options model, author of "Options Markets"
  • Michael A. Cusumano
    Michael A. Cusumano

    'Michael A. Cusumano' is the Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. As befits his title, he is the former editor-in-chief and chairman of the MIT Sloan Management Review and the co-author of Platform Leadership: How Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco Drive Industry Innovation , Microsoft Secret...
    , author of "Competing on Internet Time"
  • Rudi Dornbusch
    Rudi Dornbusch

    Rudiger "Rudi" Dornbusch was a Germany economist who worked for most of his career in the United States....
    , co-author of "Macroeconomics"and the Dornbusch Overshooting Model
    Overshooting Model

    The Dornbusch Overshooting Model or Exchange rate overshooting, first established by economist Rudi Dornbusch, aims to explain why exchange rates have a high variance....
  • Stanley Fischer
    Stanley Fischer

    Stanley "Stan" Fischer is an economist and the current Governor of the Bank of Israel.Born in Northern Rhodesia on 15 October, 1943, he obtained his Bachelor of Science and Master's degree at the London School of Economics from 1962-1966 and his Doctor of Philosophy at MIT in 1969, all in economics....
    , co-author of "Macroeconomics" and Governor of the Bank of Israel
    Bank of Israel

    The Bank of Israel is the central bank of Israel. The Bank of Israel is located in Jerusalem, Israel, with a branch office in Tel Aviv. The current governor is Stanley Fischer....
  • Kristin Forbes
    Kristin Forbes

    Kristin Forbes is an Associate Professor of International Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2003 as the youngest-ever member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors....
    , youngest-ever member of Council of Economic Advisers
    Council of Economic Advisers

    The Council of Economic Advisers is a group of three respected economists who advise the President of the United States on economic policy. It is a part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, and provides much of the economics policy of the White House....
  • Jay Wright Forrester
    Jay Wright Forrester

    Jay Wright Forrester is a pioneer United States computer engineer, systems scientist and was a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management....
    , system dynamics
    System dynamics

    System dynamics is an approach to understanding the behaviour of complex systems over time. It deals with internal feedback loops and time delays that affect the behaviour of the entire system....
     pioneer
  • Michael Hammer
    Michael Hammer

    Michael Martin Hammer was one of the founders of the management theory of Business process reengineering ....
    , creator of Business process reengineering
    Business process reengineering

    Business process reengineering is, in computer science and management, an approach aiming at improvements by means of elevating Business efficiency and effectiveness of the business process that exist within and across organizations....
     theory
  • John R. Hauser
    John R. Hauser

    John Richard Hauser is the Kirin Professor of Marketing and Head of the Marketing Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is one of the founders of the field of Marketing Science and was Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Marketing Science from 1989-1995....
    , co-founder of marketing science
  • Jerry A. Hausman
    Jerry A. Hausman

    Jerry A. Hausman is the John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a famous econometrician....
    , economist, 1985 John Bates Clark Medal
    John Bates Clark Medal

    The biennial John Bates Clark Medal is awarded by the American Economic Association to "that American economics under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge"....
     recipient
  • Rebecca Henderson, leading expert on Technology Strategy
    Technology strategy

    A Technology strategy is a planning document that explains how information technology should be utilized as part of an organization's overall business strategy....
  • Thomas Kochan
    Thomas Anton Kochan

    Thomas A. Kochan is a scholar of industrial relations, work and employment. He is presently the George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he has been a faculty member since 1980....
    , leading expert on industrial relations
  • S. P. Kothari
    S. P. Kothari

    S.P. Kothari works for Barclays Global Investors. Prior to July 2008, S.P. Kothari was the Gordon Y Billard Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he was also the head of the department of Economics, Finance and Accounting....
    , editor of the Journal of Accounting and Economics
    Journal of Accounting and Economics

    The Journal of Accounting and Economics is an academic journal focusing on the fields of Accounting and Economics. Its editors include Ross L. Watts, S. P. Kothari, and Jerold L. Zimmerman....
  • John Little, Institute Professor
    Institute Professor

    Institute Professor is the highest title that can be awarded to a List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
    , founder of marketing science
  • Thomas W. Malone
    Thomas W. Malone

    Thomas W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also the founder and director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence and was one of the two founding co-directors of the MIT Initiative on "Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century"....
    , founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
    MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

    The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence is a research center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, headed by Professor Thomas W. Malone that focuses on the study of collective intelligence....
    , author of "The Future of Work", and original Wired
    Wired (magazine)

    Wired is a full-color monthly United States magazine and on-line periodical, published since March 1993, that reports on how technology affects culture, the economy, and politics....
     magazine columnist
  • Robert C. Merton
    Robert C. Merton

    Robert Cox Merton is an American economist and Nobel laureate in economics....
    , 1997 Nobel Laureate in Economics
  • Douglas McGregor, inventor of "Theory X and theory Y
    Theory X and theory Y

    Theory X and Theory Y are theories of human motivation created and developed by Douglas McGregor at the MIT Sloan School of Management in the 1960s that have been used in human resource management, organizational behavior, organizational communication and organizational development....
    "
  • Franco Modigliani
    Franco Modigliani

    Franco Modigliani was an Italian-American economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Department of Economics, and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1985....
    , 1985 Nobel Laureate in Economics and co-author of the Modigliani-Miller theorem
    Modigliani-Miller theorem

    The Modigliani-Miller theorem forms the basis for modern thinking on capital structure. The basic theorem states that, in the absence of taxes, bankruptcy costs, and asymmetric information, and in an efficient market, the value of a firm is unaffected by how that firm is financed....
  • Kenneth Morse
    Kenneth Morse

    Kenneth Paul Morse is a co-founder of 3Com Corporation and a senior lecturer and head of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center at the MIT Sloan School of Management....
    , co-founder of 3Com
    3Com

    3Com is a manufacturer best known for its computer network infrastructure products. The company was co-founded in 1979 by Robert Metcalfe, Bruce Borden, and Greg Shaw, and is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts, Massachusetts....
     and director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center
    MIT Entrepreneurship Center

    The MIT Entrepreneurship Center is one of the largest research and teaching centers at the MIT Sloan School of Management. It was founded in the early 1990's and charged with the mission to develop MIT's entrepreneurial activities and interests in education and research, alliances, and the community....
  • Stewart Myers
    Stewart Myers

    Stewart Clay "Stew" Myers is the Robert C. Merton Professor of Financial Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is the co-author with Richard A....
    , inventor of real option
    Real option

    In corporate finance, real options analysis or ROA applies put option and call option valuation techniques to capital budgeting decisions....
     theory, author of "Principles of Corporate Finance"
  • Edward B. Roberts
    Edward B. Roberts

    Edward B. Roberts is an American technology writer and academic figure, and a high-tech entrepreneur and investor. His Entrepreneurs in High-Technology: Lessons from MIT and Beyond won the Association of American Publishers Award for Outstanding Book in Business and Management....
    , Founder and Chair of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center
    MIT Entrepreneurship Center

    The MIT Entrepreneurship Center is one of the largest research and teaching centers at the MIT Sloan School of Management. It was founded in the early 1990's and charged with the mission to develop MIT's entrepreneurial activities and interests in education and research, alliances, and the community....
  • Stephen Ross
    Stephen Ross (economist)

    Stephen Alan "Steve" Ross is the inaugural Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is known for initiating several important theories and models in Financial economics....
    , inventor of arbitrage pricing theory
    Arbitrage pricing theory

    Arbitrage pricing theory , in finance, is a general theory of asset pricing, that has become influential in the pricing of stock.APT holds that the expected return of a financial asset can be modeled as a linear function of various macro-economic factors or theoretical market indices, where sensitivity to changes in each factor is represent...
  • Paul Samuelson
    Paul Samuelson

    Paul Anthony Samuelson is an United States neoclassical economist economist known for his contributions to many fields of economics, beginning with his general statement of the comparative statics method in his 1947 book Foundations of Economic Analysis....
    , first American Nobel Laureate in Economics, 1970
  • Edgar Schein
    Edgar Schein

    Edgar H. Schein , a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management has had a notable mark on the field of organizational development in many areas, including career development, group process consultation, and organizational culture....
    , inventor of the term "corporate culture"
  • Myron S. Scholes, 1997 Nobel Laureate in Economics
  • Peter Senge
    Peter Senge

    Peter Michael Senge is an American scientist and director of the Center for Organizational Learning at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is known as author of the book The Fifth Discipline from 1990 ....
    , author of "The Fifth Discipline
    The Fifth Discipline

    The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization is a book by Peter Senge focusing on group problem solving using the systems thinking method in order to convert companies into learning organizations....
    "    , Fortune
    Fortune (magazine)

    Fortune is a International business magazine published by Time Inc. Fortune|Money Group. Founded by Henry Luce in 1930, the publishing business, consisting of Time, Life , Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, grew to become Time Warner....
     magazine top management guru
  • George P. Shultz
    George P. Shultz

    George Pratt Shultz is an American economist, statesman, and businessman. He served as the United States Secretary of Labor from 1969 to 1970, as the United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1972 to 1974, and as the United States Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989....
    , former United States Secretary of State
    United States Secretary of State

    The United States Secretary of State is the head of the United States Department of State, concerned with foreign affairs. The Secretary is a member of the President's United States Cabinet and the highest-ranking cabinet secretary both in United States presidential line of succession and United States order of precedence....
  • Robert Solow
    Robert Solow

    Robert Merton Solow is an United States economist particularly known for his work on the theory of economic growth. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal and the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences....
    , 1987 Nobel Laureate in Economics
  • John Sterman
    John Sterman

    John David Sterman is the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management, and the current director of the MIT System Dynamics Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management....
    , leading expert on System Dynamics
    System dynamics

    System dynamics is an approach to understanding the behaviour of complex systems over time. It deals with internal feedback loops and time delays that affect the behaviour of the entire system....
  • Richard Thaler
    Richard Thaler

    Richard H. Thaler is an USA economics perhaps best known as a theorist in behavioral finance and for his collaboration with Daniel Kahneman and others in further defining that field....
    , behavioral economist, inventor of the "Endowment effect
    Endowment effect

    The endowment effect is a hypothesis that people value a good or service more once their property right to it has been established. In other words, people place a higher value on objects they own than objects that they do not....
    "
  • Eric von Hippel
    Eric von Hippel

    Eric von Hippel is an economist and a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, specializing in the nature and economics of distributed and open innovation....
    , leading authority on user innovation
    User innovation

    User innovation refers to innovation by consumers and end users, rather than suppliers.Eric von Hippel of MIT and others 'discovered' that many products and services are actually developed or at least refined, by users, at the site of implementation and use....
  • Jack Welch
    Jack Welch

    John Francis "Jack" Welch, Jr. was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Electric between 1981 and 2001. Welch gained a solid reputation for uncanny business acumen and unique leadership strategies at GE....
    , former CEO of General Electric
    General Electric

    The General Electric Company, or GE is a multinational corporation United States technology and Service s conglomerate incorporated in the State of New York....
    , Fortune "Manager of the Century"


Notable alumni

  • F. Duane Ackerman
    F. Duane Ackerman

    F. Duane Ackerman was the last chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Atlanta-based BellSouth Corporation.A native of Plant City, FL, Mr. Ackerman holds a B.S....
    , former Chairman and CEO, BellSouth
    BellSouth

    BellSouth Corporation is an United States telecommunications holding company based in Atlanta, Georgia. BellSouth was one of the seven original Regional Bell operating company after the United States Department of Justice forced the American Telephone & Telegraph Company to divest itself of its regional telephone companies on January 1, 1984....
  • Thad W. Allen
    Thad W. Allen

    Admiral Thad William Allen, United States Coast Guard is the twenty-third Commandant of the Coast Guard of the United States Coast Guard. Allen is most well known for his widely-praised performance directing the federal response to Hurricanes Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita in the Gulf Coast region from September 2005 to January 2006....
    , Commandant of the Coast Guard
    Commandant of the Coast Guard

    The Commandant of the United States Coast Guard is the highest ranking member of the United States Coast Guard. He is the only four-star Admiral of the Coast Guard, and is appointed for a four year term by the President of the United States upon confirmation by the United States Senate....
    , former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
    Federal Emergency Management Agency

    The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, is an agency of the United States United States Department of Homeland Security, initially created by Presidential Order on April 1, 1979)....
     (FEMA)
  • Kofi Annan
    Kofi Annan

    Kofi Atta Annan, Order of St Michael and St George is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh United Nations Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1 January 1997 to 1 January 2007....
    , Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Peace Prize
    Nobel Peace Prize

    The Nobel Peace Prize is one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. According to Nobel's will , the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for :wikt:fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the h...
     laureate
  • Magdalena Barreiro
    Magdalena Barreiro

    Magdalena Barreiro is an Ecuadoran former minister and professor of finance.She holds a Bachelor in Business Management from Escuela Politecnica del Ejercito , as well as an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Ph.D....
    , former finance minister of Ecuador
    Ecuador

    Ecuador , officially the , literally, "Republic of the equator") is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west....
  • Eric Beinhocker
    Eric Beinhocker

    Eric D. Beinhocker is the author of The Origin of Wealth and a senior advisor to McKinsey, where he conducts research on economics, management, and public policy issues....
    , author, "The Origin of Wealth"
  • W. Frank Blount
    W. Frank Blount

    William Frank Blount is the chairman and CEO of venture capital firm JI Ventures, Inc.Prior to his current position, Mr. Blount served as chairman and CEO of Cypress Communications Inc....
    , former CEO, Telstra Corporation Limited
  • Daniel Carp
    Daniel Carp

    Daniel Allen Carp is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Eastman Kodak Company. Carp will serve as the next Chairman of the Board of Delta Air Lines, replacing current Chairman Gerald Grinstein....
    , Chairman and CEO, Eastman Kodak Company
  • Colby Chandler
    Colby Chandler (CEO)

    Colby Hackett Chandler is the former Chairman and chief executive officer of the Eastman Kodak Company.He is a graduate of the University of Maine and received his MIT Sloan School of Management#History from the Sloan Fellows program of the MIT Sloan School of Management....
    , former Chairman and CEO, Eastman Kodak
    Eastman Kodak

    Eastman Kodak Company is a multinational corporation public company which produces imaging and photography materials and equipment. Long known for its wide range of photographic film products, Kodak is re-focusing on two major markets: digital photography and digital printing....
  • William Clay Ford, Jr.
    William Clay Ford, Jr.

    William Clay "Bill" Ford Jr. , is the great-grandson of Henry Ford, and serves as the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ford Motor Company....
    , Chairman and former CEO, Ford Motor Company
    Ford Motor Company

    The Ford Motor Company is an United States multinational corporation and the world's List of automobile manufacturers#World Motor Vehicle Production by Manufacturer based on worldwide vehicle sales, following Toyota, General Motors, and Volkswagen Group....
  • Philip M. Condit
    Philip M. Condit

    Philip Murray Condit - best known as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Boeing company from 1996 to 2003....
    , former Chairman and CEO, The Boeing Company
  • Larry Constantine
    Larry Constantine

    Larry LeRoy Constantine is an American software engineer and professor in the Mathematics and Engineering Department at the University of Madeira Portugal, who is considered one of the pioneers of computing....
    , inventor, Modular Programming
  • Rafael del Pino, founder and Chairman, Ferrovial
    Ferrovial

    Grupo Ferrovial, S.A. is one of the world?s leading infrastructure and Multinational corporation Economy of Spain involved in the design, build, financing, operation and maintenance of transport, urban and services infrastructure....
  • Carly Fiorina
    Carly Fiorina

    Carly Fiorina is an United States businesswoman, who served as chief executive officer at Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005. Prior to joining Hewlett-Packard, Fiorina served as an executive vice president at AT&T, and orchestrated the spinoff and initial public offering of Lucent, which became the most successful initial public offering in...
    , former Chairman and CEO, Hewlett Packard; #1 "Most Powerful Woman in Business", 1998-2003, Fortune Magazine
  • James C. Foster
    James C. Foster

    James Clifford Foster is the chairman and chief executive officer of Charles River Laboratories, Inc., an international company that works on the drug discovery and development process....
    , Chairman and CEO, Charles River Laboratories, Inc.
    Charles River Laboratories, Inc.

    Charles River Laboratories, Inc. is an American corporation specializing in a broad spectrum of pre-clinical and clinical laboratory services for the pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology industries....
  • Gideon Gartner
    Gideon Gartner

    Gideon I. Gartner is an entrepreneur and philanthropist, best known as the founder of Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company....
    , founder and former CEO, Gartner
    Gartner

    Gartner, Inc. is an information technology research and advisory firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, Connecticut. It was known as The Gartner Group until 2001....
  • Thomas P. Gerrity
    Thomas P. Gerrity

    Thomas P. Gerrity is the former dean and Joseph J. Aresty Professor of Management at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania....
    , former dean, Wharton School
  • Sumantra Ghoshal
    Sumantra Ghoshal

    Sumantra Ghoshal was an academic and management guru. He was the founding Dean of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India, which is jointly sponsored by the Kellogg School at Northwestern University and the London Business School....
    , founding dean, Indian School of Business
    Indian School of Business

    The Indian School of Business located in Hyderabad, India, is an international business school providing postgraduate programmes in Management , post doctoral programmes, as well as executive education programmes for business executives....
  • Michael J. Ginzberg (S.B. '69 Ph.D. ’75), dean of the Sy Syms School of Business
    Sy Syms School of Business

    The Sy Syms School of Business is Yeshiva University's undergraduate business school for men and women. It offers business programs for men at the Wilf Campus in New York?s Washington Heights, Manhattan neighborhood, and for women at the Beren Campus in New York?s Murray Hill, Manhattan neighborhood....
     at Yeshiva University
    Yeshiva University

    Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City, with six campuses in New York and one in Israel. Founded in 1886, it is a leading research institution, ranked 50th in the United States among national universities in 2008.....
  • Adi Godrej
    Adi Godrej

    Adi Godrej is an Indian businessman and a billionaire. He left India at the age of 17 to enroll at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Though he planned to study mechanical engineering, he later on switched to management....
    , Chairman, Godrej Group
    Godrej Group

    The Godrej Group was founded by Ardeshir Godrej and Pirojsha Godrej in 1897....
  • Bruce S. Gordon
    Bruce S. Gordon

    Bruce Scott Gordon is an African American business executive who spent most of his career with Verizon and currently serves as a corporate director of CBS and Tyco International....
    , President and CEO, NAACP
  • Robert Hamada, former dean, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
    University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

    The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, formerly known as "The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business" and "Chicago GSB", is one of the leading business schools in the world, the second oldest in the United States, the first to offer the Executive MBA program, and the first to initiate a PhD program in Busi...
  • Dan Hesse, President and CEO, Sprint Nextel
    Sprint Nextel

    Sprint Nextel Corporation is a telecommunications company, based in Overland Park, Kansas, Kansas. The company owns and operates the third largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, with 50.5 million customers, behind Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility....
  • Justin Jaschke
    Justin Jaschke

    Justin Lanioux Jaschke is the founder and former chief executive officer of Verio, one of the world's largest domain hosting companies.He received his Bachelor of Science in mathematics from the University of Puget Sound and earned an S.M....
    , CEO, Verio
    Verio

    Verio is a web hosting service based in the United States. Incorporated in 1996 in Denver, Colorado, it is currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Communications, which purchased it in 2000....
  • Clay Johnson III
    Clay Johnson III

    Clay Johnson III was the Deputy Director for Management at the United States Office of Management and Budget at the White House.Prior to becoming OMB Deputy Director, he was the Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel....
    , Deputy Director for Management, White House
    White House

    The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., it was built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the late Georgian architecture and has been the executive residence of every U.S....
     Office of Management and Budget
  • Harvey E. Johnson, Jr.
    Harvey E. Johnson, Jr.

    Harvey E. Johnson Jr., retired Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard, is the Deputy Administrator and Chief Operating Officer of the Federal Emergency Management Agency ....
    , United States Coast Guard
    United States Coast Guard

    The United States Coast Guard is a branch of the Military of the United States and one of seven Uniformed services of the United States. In addition to being a military branch at all times, it is unique among the armed forces in that it is also a Admiralty law agency and a Federal government of the United States regulatory agency....
     vice admiral
    Vice admiral (United States)

    In the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard, the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Corps, vice admiral is a 3 star rank flag officer, with the U.S....
  • Lisa Endlich
    Lisa Endlich

    Lisa Endlich is a notable business writer and former vice-president at Goldman Sachs. She has an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and worked as a trader at Goldman Sachs from 1985 to 1989....
    , author
  • Michael Kaiser
    Michael Kaiser

    Michael M. Kaiser is president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.Dubbed "the turnaround king" for his work at such arts institutions as the Kansas City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre and the Royal Opera House, Kaiser has earned international renown for his expertise...
    , President, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
    John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

    The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts center located on the Potomac River, adjacent to the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C....
  • Mitch Kapor
    Mitch Kapor

    Mitchell David Kapor is the founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3....
    , founder, Lotus Development, inventor of Lotus 1-2-3
    Lotus 1-2-3

    Lotus 1-2-3 is a spreadsheet program from Lotus Software . It was the IBM PC's first "killer application"; its huge popularity in the mid-1980s contributed significantly to the success of the IBM PC in the corporate environment....
     spreadsheet
  • James Killian
    James Rhyne Killian

    Dr. James Rhyne Killian, Jr. was the 10th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from 1948 until 1959....
    , past President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private university research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States....
  • John Kotter
    John Kotter

    John Paul Kotter is a professor at the Harvard Business School, who is regarded as an authority on leadership and change. In particular, he discusses how the best organizations actually "do" change....
    , Harvard University
    Harvard University

    Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
     professor, BusinessWeek
    BusinessWeek

    BusinessWeek is a business magazine published by McGraw-Hill. It was first published in 1929 under the direction of Malcolm Muir, who was serving as president of the McGraw-Hill Publishing company at the time....
     "#1 top leadership guru", 2001
  • Judy Lewent
    Judy Lewent

    Judith C. Lewent was, until July 2007, the Vice president and Chief financial officer of Merck & Co., one of the largest Pharmaceutical company in the world....
    , CFO, Merck
    Merck & Co.

    Merck & Co., Inc. , also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the USA and Canada, is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world....
  • Gary Loveman
    Gary Loveman

    Gary Loveman is an American business executive and former academic. He is the current Chief Executive Officer of Harrah's and has held the position since 2003....
    , CEO, Harrah's
  • Nabiel Makarim
    Nabiel Makarim

    Nabiel Makarim was Indonesia's State Minister of the Environment from 2001 to 2004.As minister, Makarim developed the Good Environmental Governance program, which rates the environmental performance of cities and local environmental agencies....
    , Minister of the Environment
    Minister of the environment

    An environment minister is a Cabinet position in charged with protecting the natural environment and promoting wildlife conservation....
     of Indonesia
    Indonesia

    The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
  • David McClain
    David McClain (president)

    For the U.S. drummer, see Dave McClain .David McClain became president of the University of Hawaii System in March 2006.McClain has served as vice president of academia for the system for a period of one year from 2003 to 2004....
    , President of the University of Hawaii System
  • Dennis Meadows
    Dennis Meadows

    Dennis Meadows is an American scientist and professor of Systems Management and director of the Institute for Policy and Social Science Research at the University of New Hampshire....
    , author "Limits to Growth
    Limits to Growth

    The Limits to Growth is a 1972 book modeling the consequences of a rapidly growing world population and finite resource supplies, commissioned by the Club of Rome....
    "
  • D.R. Mehta, former chairman, Securities and Exchange Board of India
    Securities and Exchange Board of India

    Securities and Exchange Board of India SEBI is the Regulator for the Securities Market in India. Originally set up by the Government of India in 1988, it acquired statutory form in 1992 with SEBI Act 1992 being passed by the Indian Parliament.Chaired by Chandrasekhar Bhaskar Bhave, SEBI is headquartered in the popular business district...
  • Lorenzo Mendoza
    Lorenzo Mendoza

    Lorenzo Mendoza Gim?nez oversees one of Venezuela's largest private companies, $3 billion Empresas Polar. He is the son of Lorenzo Alejandro Mendoza Quintero and Leonor Gim?nez Pocaterra....
    , Chairman, Empresas Polar
    Empresas Polar

    Empresas Polar is a Venezuelan corporation, that started as a brewery founded in 1941 by Lorenzo Alejandro Mendoza Fleury in Ant?mano, Caracas. It is the largest and best known brewery in Venezuela, but has since long diversified to an array of industries, mostly related to food processing and packaging, also covering markets abroad....
  • Victor Menezes
    Victor Menezes

    Victor J. Menezes is an engineer and banker, who acts as a top official in international financial organizations. He is originally from India and received his degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1970....
    , Chairman, Clearing House Association
  • Robert Metcalfe
    Robert Metcalfe

    Robert Melancton Metcalfe is an electrical engineer from the United States who co-invented Ethernet, founded 3Com and formulated Metcalfe's law....
    , founder, 3Com
    3Com

    3Com is a manufacturer best known for its computer network infrastructure products. The company was co-founded in 1979 by Robert Metcalfe, Bruce Borden, and Greg Shaw, and is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts, Massachusetts....
    , inventor of Ethernet
    Ethernet

    Ethernet is a family of Data frame-based computer networking technologies for local area networks . The name comes from the physical concept of the Luminiferous aether....
     and Metcalfe's Law
    Metcalfe's law

    Metcalfe's law states that the value of a telecommunications network is Quadratic growth of the number of connected usersof the system . First formulated in this form by George Gilder in 1993, and attributed to Robert Metcalfe in regard to Ethernet, Metcalfe's law was originally presented, circa 1980, not in term of users, but rather of "c...
  • Henry Mintzberg
    Henry Mintzberg

    Professor Henry Mintzberg, Order of Canada , National Order of Quebec , Ph.D. , D.h.c. , Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada is an internationally renowned academic and author on business and management....
    , McGill University
    McGill University

    McGill University is a Public university#Canada located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university....
     professor, Fortune Magazine top management guru
  • Daryl Morey
    Daryl Morey

    Daryl Morey is the General Manager of the Houston Rockets. He was named Assistant General Manager on April 3, 2006 and succeeded Carroll Dawson as General Manager on May 10, 2007....
    , General Manager of the Houston Rockets
    Houston Rockets

    The Houston Rockets are an Major North American professional sports teams basketball team based in Houston, Texas. The team plays in the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in National Basketball Association ....
  • Jon Moynihan
    Jon Moynihan

    Jon Moynihan, Order of the British Empire is Executive Chairman of PA Consulting Group, the global implementation-oriented consulting firm, with some 3,000 personnel operating in more than 35 countries....
    , Executive Chairman of PA Consulting Group
    PA Consulting Group

    PA Consulting Group is an international management consulting firm. As of 2007 it operates in more than 35 countries, working in both private and public sectors....
  • Alan Mulally
    Alan Mulally

    Alan Roger Mulally is an United States engineer and businessman. He is currently the President#Non-governmental presidents and Chief Executive Officer of Ford Motor Company....
    , President and CEO, Ford Motor Company
    Ford Motor Company

    The Ford Motor Company is an United States multinational corporation and the world's List of automobile manufacturers#World Motor Vehicle Production by Manufacturer based on worldwide vehicle sales, following Toyota, General Motors, and Volkswagen Group....
  • Joseph Nacchio
    Joseph Nacchio

    Joseph P. Nacchio , was chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Qwest from 1997 to 2002. He was convicted of 19 counts of insider trading in Qwest stock on April 19, 2007....
    , Chairman and CEO, Qwest
    Qwest

    Qwest Communications is a large telecommunications carrier. Qwest provides local service in 14 western United States states: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming....
  • Preetish Nijhawan
    Preetish Nijhawan

    Preetish Nijhawan is an entrepreneur known for co-founding internet company Akamai Technologies in 1998.Preetish now works for a group of companies as CFO....
    , co-founder, Akamai Technologies
    Akamai Technologies

    Akamai Technologies, Inc. , , is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet Content Delivery Network, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
  • Benjamin Netanyahu
    Benjamin Netanyahu

    Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is the new Prime Minister-Designate of Israel. He is Chairman of the conservative Likud Party and was previously the 9th Prime Minister of Israel from June 1996 to July 1999....
    , former Prime Minister of Israel
    Prime Minister of Israel

    The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and is the most powerful political officer in Israel . He or she wields executive power in the country, and has an official residence in Jerusalem....
  • Narendra Patni
    Narendra Patni

    Narendra Patni is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Patni Computer Systems.Patni is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
    , founder, Chairman, and CEO, Patni Computer Systems
    Patni Computer Systems

    Patni Computer Systems Ltd., is a provider of Information Technology services and business solutions. The company employs over 15,000 people, and has 23 international offices across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific,as well as offshore development centers in 8 cities in India....
  • Randal Pinkett
    Randal Pinkett

    Randal D. Pinkett is the first African American candidate to be hired on national television through the United States version of The Apprentice , a television reality show starring Donald Trump....
    , winner of The Apprentice 4
  • Calie Pistorius
    Calie Pistorius

    Carl Wilhelm Irene Pistorius is a South African academic who is currently the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng....
    , Principal, University of Pretoria
    University of Pretoria

    The University of Pretoria is a university in Pretoria, South Africa, with a total of about 57,409 students being enrolled in 2008. This makes it one of the country's largest residential universities....
  • William A. Porter
    William A. Porter

    In 1982, William A. Porter and Bernard A. Newcomb founded the first ever electronic stock brokerage, E*TRADE — heralding both the demise of the ticker tape and the advent of the electronic trading age....
    , founder, E-Trade
  • Tony Purnell
    Tony Purnell

    Tony Purnell is a businessman and former principal of the Jaguar Racing and Red Bull Racing Formula One teams.Before entering motorsports, Purnell had a lengthy academic career in England and the United States....
    , principal, Jaguar Racing
    Jaguar Racing

    Jaguar Racing was a Formula One team that competed in the FIA Formula One World Championship from 2000 Formula One Season to 2004 Formula One season....
  • John E. Potter
    John E. Potter

    John E. "Jack" Potter is the current United States Postmaster General and CEO of the United States Postal Service, becoming the 72nd Postmaster General on June 1, 2001....
    , United States Postmaster General
    United States Postmaster General

    The United States Postmaster General is the executive head of the United States Postal Service. The office, in one form or another, is older than both the United States Constitution and the United States Declaration of Independence....
  • Subramaniam Ramadorai
    Subramaniam Ramadorai

    Subramaniam Ramadorai is CEO and Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services Ltd .During the past 30 years, S. Ramadorai, has played an integral role in the international development of Tata Consultancy Services ....
    , CEO, Tata Consultancy Services
    Tata Consultancy Services

    Tata Consultancy Services Limited is an Indian software services and consulting company. It is India's largest provider of information technology and business process outsourcing services....
  • Richard Raysman
    Richard Raysman

    Richard Raysman , is a lawyer and a founding practitioner of American computer law, later expanded to become Intellectual Property Law....
    , Attorney and early practitioner of Computer Law
  • John S. Reed
    John S. Reed

    John Shepard Reed is the former Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. He previously served as Chairman and CEO of Citicorp, Citibank, and post-merger, Citigroup....
    , former Chairman and CEO, Citigroup
    Citigroup

    Citigroup Inc., doing business as Citi, is a major United States financial services company based in New York City. Citigroup was formed from one of the world's largest mergers in history by combining the banking giant Citicorp and financial conglomerate Travelers Group on April 7, 1998....
    ; former Chairman, New York Stock Exchange
    New York Stock Exchange

    New York Stock Exchange is a stock exchange based in New York City, New York. It is the largest stock exchange in the world by United States dollar market capitalization of its listed companies' Security ....
  • Fritz Roethlisberger
    Fritz Roethlisberger

    Fritz Jules Roethlisberger was a social scientist and management theorist.In 1937, Roethlisberger and W.J. Dickson published the first comprehensive findings of the Hawthorne experiments....
    , social scientist and conductor of the Hawthorne experiments
  • Jaime Rosenthal
    Jaime Rosenthal

    Jaime Rolando Rosenthal Oliva is a Honduras politician.Jaime Rosenthal is also the leader of one of Liberal Party of Honduras's wings, and has been a perennial candidate for President of Honduras....
    , former Vice-President of Honduras
    Honduras

    Honduras is a democratic republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras ....
     (1986-1900) and congressman (2002-2006)
  • Kenan Sahin
    Kenan Sahin

    Kenan Eyup Sahin is a Turkey scientist and entrepreneur in the United States.After graduating from Robert College of Istanbul, he received both his S.B....
    , founder and CEO, Kenan Systems
  • Martha Samuelson
    Martha Samuelson

    Martha S. Samuelson is President and CEO of Analysis Group, and a practicing consultant. She has directed economic analyses for large-scale litigations involving competition and pricing, patent infringement, derivatives, and class action matters regarding alleged improper sales practices....
    , CEO, Analysis Group
    Analysis Group

    Analysis Group, Inc. is an economic, financial and strategy consulting firm based in the United States founded in 1981. Analysis Group provides economic, financial and strategic analysis, and expert testimony, to law firms, corporations and government agencies....
  • Gerhard Schulmeyer
    Gerhard Schulmeyer

    Gerhard Hans Schulmeyer is a German American businessman. From 1994 until 1998, he was president and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Nixdorf in Germany, and between 1999 and December 2001, he was president and CEO of Siemens AG Corporation in the United States....
    , former CEO, Siemens AG
    Siemens AG

    Siemens Aktiengesellschaft is Europe's largest engineering Conglomerate . Siemens' international headquarters are located in Berlin and Munich, Germany....
  • Saul Shapiro
    Saul Shapiro

    Saul Taylor Shapiro is President of the Metropolitan Television Alliance, LLC . The MTVA was formed by the New York area television broadcast stations shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001....
    , Vice President, New York City Economic Development Corporation
    New York City Economic Development Corporation

    is a non-profit local development corporation that promotes economic growth across New York City's five boroughs. Over the corporation's lifetime, NYCEDC initiatives have brought the City billions of dollars in private investment and helped to create thousands of local jobs....
  • Jeff Stibel
    Jeff Stibel

    Jeffrey Stibel is the President and Chief executive officer of Web.com, Inc. and an entrepreneur, having started numerous technology and marketing companies....
    , CEO, Web.com
    Web.com

    Web.com, Inc , formerly Interland , was a provider of websites and web services to small businesses and consumers, based in Atlanta, Georgia. Web.com's services included do-it-yourself and professional website design, web hosting, e-commerce, web marketing, and e-mail....
  • Robert A. Swanson
    Robert A. Swanson

    Robert A. Swanson was a venture capitalist who cofounded the biotechnology giant Genentech in 1976 with Herbert Boyer. Genentech is a pioneer in the field, and it remains one of the leading biotech companies in the world....
    , founder of Genentech
    Genentech

    Genentech Inc. , a composite of Genetic Engineering Technology, Inc., is a leading biotechnology corporation, which was founded in 1976 by venture capitalist Robert A....
  • Keiji Tachikawa
    Keiji Tachikawa

    is the former president and chief executive officer of NTT DoCoMo. He previously worked at DoCoMo's parent company, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp....
    , CEO, NTT DoCoMo
    NTT DoCoMo

    is the predominant mobile phone operator in Japan. The name is officially an abbreviation of the phrase, "do communications over the mobile network", and is also from a phrase dokodemo, meaning "everywhere" in Japanese language....
  • Bill Taylor
    Bill Taylor (businessman)

    William C. "Bill" Taylor is co-founder and editor of Fast Company Magazine. He is a former editor of the Harvard Business Review. He is an adjunct professor at Babson College and writes a regular column in the Money section of The Guardian newspaper....
    , co-founder, Fast Company
    Fast Company (magazine)

    Fast Company is a full-color not-quite-monthly business magazine that reports on innovation, digital media, technology, change management, leadership, design and social responsibility....
  • Robert Thirsk
    Robert Thirsk

    Robert Brent "Bob" Thirsk, M.D. is a Canada engineer and a Canadian Space Agency astronaut.Thirsk is from New Westminster, British Columbia and is married to Brenda Biasutti of Montreal, Quebec....
    , astronaut, NASA
    NASA

    The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
  • John W. Thompson
    John W. Thompson

    John W. Thompson is a former vice-president at IBM and the current Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Symantec Corporation....
    , Chairman and CEO, Symantec
    Symantec

    Symantec Corporation , founded in 1982, is an international corporation which sells computer software, particularly in the realms of Computer security and information management....
  • Ronald L. Turner
    Ronald L. Turner

    Ronald L. Turner was the Chairman and chief executive officer of Ceridian Corporation. Turner joined Ceridian in 1993 as President of Computing Devices International....
    , CEO, Ceridian Corporation
  • Milen Velchev
    Milen Velchev

    Milen Veltchev was the finance minister of Bulgaria from 2001 until 2005. He previously worked in finance at Merrill Lynch in London.He holds M.S....
    , former finance minister of Bulgaria
    Bulgaria

    The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
  • Ron Williams
    Ron Williams

    Ronald Allen Williams is the Chief Executive Officer of Aetna corporation. In 2005, he was named one of Black Enterprise's 75 Most Powerful African Americans In Corporate America....
    , CEO, Aetna
    Aetna

    Aetna, Inc. is an United States diversified health care benefits company, providing a range of traditional and consumer directed health care insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmacy, dental, behavioral health, group life, long-term care, and disability plans, and medical management capabilities....
  • Oliver E. Williamson
    Oliver E. Williamson

    Oliver Eaton Williamson is a prominent author in the area of transaction cost economics, a student of Ronald Coase, Herbert Simon and Richard Cyert....
    , noted economist
  • Thornton Wilson
    Thornton Wilson

    Thornton "T" Arnold Wilson was the Chair and chief executive officer of Boeing corporation.Wilson earned his B.S. in aeronautical engineering from Iowa State University and a master's degree from the California Institute of Technology....
    , former Chairman and CEO, The Boeing Company
  • Robert Varkonyi
    Robert Varkonyi

    Robert Varkonyi is a professional poker player best known for winning the main event of the 2002 World Series of Poker.Varkonyi first started playing poker as an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
    , 2002 World Series of Poker
    World Series of Poker

    The World Series of Poker is the "the oldest, largest, most prestigious, and most media-hyped gaming competition in the world". It is held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada....
     champion
  • Carl Yankowski
    Carl Yankowski

    Carl J. Yankowski is a United States business executive specializing in the marketing of technology and consumer products. He has held senior positions at Sony Electronics, Reebok, and Palm, Inc.....
    , former CEO, Palm Computing


See also

  • List of business schools in the United States
    List of business schools in the United States

    This is a partial list of business schools in the United States. Business schools are listed in alphabetical order by state, then name. Schools named after people are alphabetized by last name....
  • Business school
    Business school

    A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration. It teaches topics such as accounting, finance, information systems, marketing, organizational behavior, strategy, human resource management, and quantitative methods....
  • MBA


Further reading

  • Johnson, Howard Wesley, , MIT Press, 2001. ISBN 0262600447


See also

  • List of United States business school rankings
  • List of business schools in the United States
    List of business schools in the United States

    This is a partial list of business schools in the United States. Business schools are listed in alphabetical order by state, then name. Schools named after people are alphabetized by last name....


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