M.I.T. Sloan Is Trying To Slow The Inevitable Robot Takeover
In an era of overwhelming technological acceleration, has the age-old adage that college degrees secure higher-paying jobs become…fictitious? M.I.T. Sloan School of Management recently published a press release on its blog that explores the potential steps that educators and policymakers will have to take in order to keep future professionals from being rendered obsolete in the workplace. Will a degree prevent us from being swapped out for robots 5-10 years from now? Continue reading…
Boston Startup Scene in Spotlight
Schools including Boston University and Northeastern University help the Boston startup scene thrive, according to some recent media coverage.
JHU Carey Team Wins Biopharma Case Competition
According to a press release on the school website, students from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School took home the $6,000 first prize at the 4th Annual Biopharmaceutical Case Competition.
Teams were made up of three to five students MBA and Healthcare Management programs representing top business schools such as the Wharton School of Business, MIT Sloan School of Management and Yale School of Management. Continue reading…
Sloan Offers New 18-Month Format for Master of Finance Program
MIT Sloan School of Management‘s Master of Finance program is now offering students the opportunity to expand the length of their program to 18 months. The program, which is normally completed in one year, will now be expanded across four semesters, instead of three. This new format of the program will also give students the opportunity to complete a summer internship. The first groups of students to complete this pilot program will graduate in 2017. The new program format will also offer students the option to complete a concentration in capital markets or corporate finance.
The new 18-month format for the program will have the same requirements as the 12-month program. The only difference between the program is the length of time students have to complete the program and the opportunity to complete a summer internship. The new format will first be offered for the next intake of MFin students in July 2016. Students begin the program by completing a six-weak term that focuses on using advanced mathematical models and methods to find solutions to complex financial issues.
Why Mission Matters at MIT Sloan School of Business
This post has been republished in its entirety from original source clearadmit.com.
How important is a business school’s mission statement to the experience of its students? According to recent graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management, the school’s mission—to develop principled, innovative leaders who improve the world and to generate ideas that advance management practice—influenced where they chose to attend business school, the experiences they had there and the future path of their careers.
Ricky Ashenfelter knew he wanted a school in a market that had a lot of entrepreneurial ventures, which led him to focus his search on San Francisco and Boston. But more than that, he also wanted a school that valued and would offer coursework tied to energy and sustainability. That narrowed his focus further to MIT Sloan, the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and Stanford Graduate School of Business, he says.
“What I liked most about Sloan was that it was part of a larger MIT ecosystem, which was not the case for many business schools,” Ashenfelter says. And so he left his consulting job at Deloitte and headed for Boston hoping to find solutions to the problems of food waste in business supply chains. Continue reading…
Sloan Holds EMBA Info Session in Toronto
The MIT Sloan School of Management will be holding an upcoming information session for its Executive MBA program. This event will be held April 2, in Toronto. The information session will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Toronto Marriott Downtown Eaton Center Hotel. Those interested in attending the event can complete an online registration form.
During the event, prospective students will have the opportunity to meet leaders from the EMBA program and its admissions and curriculum teams. The event will also include a presentation by the program team and a Q&A session with current students and alumni of the MIT Executive MBA program.
