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Giacomo Summa on the value of MIT Sloan’s Master of Science in Management Studies Program

December 28, 2011 – 10:13 am

Being a student in MIT Sloan’s Master of Science in Management Studies (MSMS) Program is a bit like being a kid in a candy store. There are so many course offerings available within your area of study that it can be very difficult to choose which ones to take. Launched in 2009, the MSMS Program [...]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged action learning, Brazil, Business School, curriculum, electives, entrepreneur, faculty, G-Lab, Germany, Giacomo Summa, Harvard Comparative Media Studies Program, Harvard Kennedy School, HEC, innovation, Italy, master of science in management studies, MBA, media lab, Michael Cusumano, MIT, MIT Comparative Media Studies Program, MIT Sloan, MSMS, Paris, Rocket Internet, social T app, startup, technology, thesis | Comments (2)

Visiting Prof. Zeynep Ton on why more retailers should invest in their employees

December 20, 2011 – 9:09 am

It’s no secret that the labor market is tough these days. But the issue isn’t just the number of people who are unemployed. It’s also income inequality and the low pay of retail employees that’s concerning. Retail employees represent close to 20% of the U.S. workforce. In retail, conventional wisdom holds that if you want [...]

Posted in Operations Management | Tagged benefits, Costco, employees, inventory, labor market, Mercadona, merchandise, middle class, MIT Sloan, part-time, pay equality, product demand, profits, QuikTrip, retailers, Trader Joe's, training, turnover, U.S. workforce, understaffing, wages, workforce, Zeynep Ton | Comments (2)

MIT Sloan grad on the “sharing economy,” the next big trend in social commerce

December 15, 2011 – 1:11 pm

My first entrepreneurial venture in the so-called “sharing economy” happened accidentally. It was 2009, and I had just moved to Cambridge, MA to start at MIT Sloan. I brought my car with me because I was sure I would need it. As it turned out, the only time I used it was to go grocery [...]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged advertising, alumni communication, Boston, Catherine Tucker, Chicago Booth, closed network, enterprise, Facebook, ICircl, Jamie Contreras, Manhattan, marketing, MBA, MITSloan, New Enterprises, New York, short term apartments, startup, sublet, subletting, Tal Snir, undergrad, university, website | Comments (1)

Anjali Sastry’s forthcoming book: “Parenting Your Child with Autism”

December 13, 2011 – 3:03 pm

My new book,* Parenting Your Child with Autism, is, in many ways, the book I wish I’d received all those years ago when my oldest son was first diagnosed. In the ten years since then, I’ve come to realize that my MIT training in science and management can help parents of children with autism. My [...]

Posted in organization studies | Tagged Anjali Sastry, autism, children, classroom, developmental goals, disability, Dr. Blaise Aguirre, educational approaches, grocery shopping, MIT Sloan, neurological, Parenting Your Child with Autism, society, special education, special needs, stress, systems dynamics, therapy, Trader Joe's | Comments (2)

John Minahan on Action Learning: How Master of Finance students apply classroom skills to real problems

December 8, 2011 – 11:32 am

How has the 2011 European sovereign credit crisis changed the pricing relationship between sovereign bonds and credit default swaps written on those bonds? Why do 401(k) investment options offer daily liquidity when such liquidity is expensive and unnecessary? If one wants to back-test a long-short investment process, how should the fall of 2008 – when [...]

Posted in Financial Markets | Tagged 2012 Finance Research Practicum, 401(k), action learning, asset management firms, credit default swaps, daily liquidity, econometrics, entrepreneurial firms, European credit crisis, finance models, finance research, financial engineering, innovation, investment banks, investments, John Minahan, Master of Finance, MIT Sloan, Ph.D, portfolio, risk management, shorting, sovereign bonds, valuation, Wall Street | Comments (3)

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