How to Turn an MBA into a Career with Tesla
Tesla, Inc. founder and the tech entrepreneur world’s newest shining beacon Elon Musk, a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, once pessimistically said, “As much as possible, avoid hiring MBA’s. MBA programs don’t teach people how to create companies … our position is that we hire someone in spite of an MBA, not because of one.” Continue reading…
Stanford Alum Startup Helps Us Dodge Space Debris
In New York, Miami Beach / Heavy metal fell, in Cuba, Angola, Saudi Arabia / On Christmas Eve, said NORAD / A Soviet sputnik, hit Africa / India, in Venezuela / In Texas, Kansas / It’s falling fast, Peru too / It keeps coming, it keeps coming, it keeps coming – from Devo – “Space Junk,” 1978
The new startup, LeoLabs, co-founded by Stanford Graduate School of Business alum Alan DeClerck, is helping the commercial space industry navigate debris and space junk floating around low Earth orbit.
Professor Spotlight: Greg Autry, USC Marshall
An MBA program’s professors are an integral part of the business school experience. That’s why rankings such as The Financial Times include faculty research and publications as a major indicator of program quality, and one of the reasons we post regular faculty spotlights. This week, we’re shining the spotlight on Greg Autry, a USC Marshall Assistant Professor of Clinical Entrepreneurship. Autry was recently appointed to President Trump’s transition team for NASA. Continue reading…
MIT Sloan Hosts Private Space Industry Conference
MIT Sloan published an article this week about the school’s recent New Space Age Conference, which hosted “scientists, investors, and academics” to discuss the private space industry following SpaceX’s landmark landing on April 8th.
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