- Eric von Hippel
Eric von Hippel is the T Wilson Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management. He is known for his pioneering research into the emerging view that users are at the center of the innovation process, rather than manufacturers. In his most recent book, Democratizing Innovation (MIT Press / April 2005), von Hippel shows how communities of users are becoming powerful innovation "engines."
- Peter Senge
Peter Senge received a B.S. in engineering from Stanford University, an M.S. in social systems modeling and Ph.D. in management from MIT. He lives with his wife and their two children in central Massachusetts. Peter M. Senge is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Lester Thurow
Lester Carl Thurow (1938) is a former dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of numerous bestsellers on mainstream economics. Thurow was born on in Livingston, Montana. He got his B.A. in political economy from Williams College in 1960, where he was Phi Beta Kappa as a junior, and a Tyng Scholar. Thurow was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, and went to Balliol College, Oxford to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics, graduating in 1962 with first class honors.
- 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 Coordination Science and was one of the two founding co-directors of the MIT Initiative on "Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century". Professor Malone teaches classes on leadership and information technology, …
- Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioural Economics at Duke University and a visiting Professor at MIT's Media Lab. He is an expert on how people actually act (irrationally)-and why they act-in all kinds of business and economic environments, and what this means for business innovation, strategy and marketing. Ariely is the author of the New York Times Best Seller Predictably Irrational . Few heavy thinkers are as funny or as engaging as he is.
- S. P. Kothari
S.P. Kothari is the Gordon Y Billard Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he is also the head of the department of Economics, Finance and Accounting. Kothari is the editor of the Journal of Accounting and Economics. Kothari earned his B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, his M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, and his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.
- Franco Modigliani
Franco Modigliani (June 18, 1918 - September 25, 2003) 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. Born in Italy, he left Italy for the US in 1939 because of his Jewish background and antifascist views. In 1944 he obtained his Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research working under Jacob Marschak.
- 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" (Oxford University Press, 1991) won the Association of American Publishers Award for Outstanding Book in Business and Management. Roberts is Founder and Chair of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, …
- 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. She returned to academia in mid-2005. From 2001-2002, Forbes served in the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of International Affairs as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Quantitative Policy Analysis.
- Edgar Schein
Edgar H. Schein (born 1928), 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. He is generally credited with inventing the term corporate culture. Schein (2004) identifies three distinct levels in organizational cultures; artifacts and behaviours, …
- 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. He is mostly considered as the current leader of the System Dynamics school of thought. He is the author of "Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World". He was an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and received his Ph.D from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1982.
- Myron Scholes
Myron S. Scholes, born in Timmins, Ontario, Canada, on July 1, 1941, is one of the authors of the famous Black-Scholes equation. In 1997 he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for "a new method to determine the value of derivatives". The model provides the fundamental conceptual framework for valuing options, such as calls or puts, and is referred to as the Black-Scholes model, which has become the standard in financial markets globally.
- 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. Dr. Urban is author of the ground-breaking work "Don't Just Relate - Advocate!: A Blueprint for Profit in the Era of Customer Power," Wharton School Publishing, …
- Stephen Ross
Stephen A. Ross is the Franco Modigliani Professor of Finance and Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is known for initiating several important theories and models in Financial economics. He is a widely published author in finance and economics, and is coauthor of one of the best-selling Corporate Finance texts.
- Amar Gupta
Amar Gupta (b. 1953) was born in Nadiad, India. Gupta was admitted to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology, Kanpur to study electrical engineering, graduating in 1974. Gupta started his career working making 8 dollars a week working for IBM, and then served in various technical advisory roles for the Government of India.He received the Rotary Fellowship for International Understanding.
- Richard L. Schmalensee
Richard L. Schmalensee is the John C. Head III Dean, and Professor of Management and Economics, at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of Economics at MIT. Dean Schmalensee is an expert on regulation and antitrust policy, and is known for serving on the President's Council of Economic Advisors as well as his testimony in the Microsoft anti-trust trials, in which he testified as an expert witness in favor of Microsoft.
- Douglas McGregor
Douglas McGregor (1906 - 1964) was a Management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management whose 1960 book "The Human Side of Enterprise" had a profound influence on management practices. In the book he identified an approach of creating an environment within which employees are motivated via authoritative, direction and control or integration and self-control, which he called theory X and theory Y, respectively. Theory Y is the practical application of Dr.
- Sumantra Ghoshal
Sumantra Ghoshal (1948-2004) was the founding Dean of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, which is jointly sponsored by the Kellogg School at Northwestern University and the London Business School. Ghoshal co-authored "Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution", with Christopher Bartlett, which has been listed in the Financial Times as one of the 50 most influential management books and has been translated into nine languages.
- Stewart Myers
Stewart C. Myers is the Gordon Y Billard Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is the co-author with Richard A. Brealey and Franklin Allen of "Principles of Corporate Finance", a notable business school textbook on finance, and the past president of the American Finance Association.
- John Little
John D. C. Little is an Institute Professor and the Chair Management Science at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He formed the Little's law in 1961. It states: "The average number of customers in a system (over some interval) is equal to their average arrival rate, multiplied by their average time in the system." A corollary has been added: "The average time in the system is equal to the average time in queue plus the average time it takes to receive service." Prof.
- Zvi Bodie
Zvi Bodie is the Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Management at Boston University. He holds a Ph.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has served on the finance faculty at the Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management. Professor Bodie has published widely on pension finance and investment strategy in leading professional journals. His books include "Foundations of Pension Finance", "Pensions in the U.S. Economy", …
- Richard Thaler
Richard H. Thaler (b. September 12, 1945, in East Orange, NJ) is an economist perhaps best known as a theorist in behavioral finance and for his collaboration with Daniel Kahneman and others in further defining that field. He received his B.S. from Case Western Reserve University in 1967. At the University of Rochester, he received his M.S. in 1970 and his Ph.D. in Economics in 1974. He currently teaches at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, …
- 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. Morse graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an S.B. in political science in 1968. He also earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1972.
- John W. Thompson
John W. Thompson (born April 24, 1949) is a former vice-president at IBM and the current CEO of Symantec. Born in Fort Dix, New Jersey, Thompson received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Florida A&M in 1971 and a Master's degree in Management (M.B.A.) from the Sloan Fellows program of the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1983. In April 2006, Forbes published a list of the most highly compensated CEOs.
- John Thain
John Thain is the current CEO of the New York Stock Exchange. Previously, Thain was both president and Chief Operating Officer of Goldman Sachs, starting in July, 2003. Before that, he was co-COO for four years and spent the following five years as Chief Financial Officer. He was successful enough in the firm to amass $300 million in stock. John Thain's memberships include: MIT Corporation, Dean's Advisory Council – MIT Sloan School of Management, …
- Bill Taylor
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. Taylor received his M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management and his B.A. from Princeton University
- Mitch Kapor
Mitchell David Kapor (born 1950) is the founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer application" often credited with making the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980s. He has been at the forefront of the information technology revolution for a generation as an entrepreneur, investor, social activist, and philanthropist
- 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 Leaders For Manufacturing" program. He is the creator of the Allen curve, an approach to measuring and modelling the performance of cross functional research and development teams.
- 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. He holds S.B., S.M., and Sc.D. degrees in EECS from MIT, earned in 1973, 1973, and 1975 respectively. He also earned an S.M. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from MIT, also in 1973.
- Shuman Ghosemajumder
Shuman Ghosemajumder (born 1974) is a Canadian technologist, author, and businessman based in Silicon Valley. He is co-author of the book "CGI Programming Unleashed" (Macmillan Publishing, 1997, ISBN 1-57521-151-3) and has also written numerous works on digital distribution, including the Open Music Model (2003). He is currently the business product manager for Trust & Safety at Google, which he joined in 2003. He was previously co-founder and CEO of Anadas, …
- Jay Wright Forrester
Jay Wright Forrester (born 14 July 1918, Climax, Nebraska) is a pioneer American computer engineer and systems theorist. Born on a farm near Anselmo, Nebraska, Forrester was educated at MIT in electrical engineering, where he spent his entire career. During the 1940s and early 50s, he did research in electrical and computer engineering, heading the Whirlwind project and developing the "Multi-coordinate digitally information storage device" (coincident-current system), …
- Rudi Dornbusch
Rudi Dornbusch was a German economist who worked for most of his career in the United States. Dornbusch was born in Krefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia. After secondary education in Germany he went to study abroad. He received his Licence en Sciences Politiques from the University of Geneva in 1966, where he also stayed on for a year as an Assistant in Economics in the Graduate Institute of International Studies, …
- Kenan Sahin
Kenan Eyup Sahin is a Turkish-American scientist and entrepreneur. After graduating from Robert College of Istanbul, he received both his S.B. (1963) and Ph.D. degrees (1969) from the MIT Sloan School of Management and then taught on the faculties of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In 1982, Sahin founded Kenan Systems, a company that grew to employ more than 800 people by 1999.
- John Kotter
John Paul Kotter is a professor at the Harvard Business School, who is widely regarded as the world's foremost authority on leadership and change. His has been the premier voice on how the best organizations actually "do" change. John Kotter’s international bestseller Leading Change—which outlined an actionable, 8-step process for implementing successful transformations—became the change bible for managers around the world.
- Michael Kaiser
Michael Martin Kaiser, is the President of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (which is also known as the Kennedy Center) in Washington, DC. Kaiser received his B.A. in Economics from Brandeis University and his S.M. from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1977. He had previously considered a career in vocal performance, but, in his mid-twenties, former a successful business consultancy -- Kaiser Associates, Inc.
- Daryl Morey
Daryl Morey (born 1972) was named assistant general manager of the Houston Rockets on April 3, 2006 replacing Carroll Dawson as general manager in 2007. Morey comes to the Rockets after serving three years as SVP of Operations and Information for the Boston Celtics. While with the Celtics, basketball operations was a key part of his responsibilities, including the development of analytical methods and technology to enhance basketball decisions, such as the draft, trades, …
- Judy Lewent
Judith C. Lewent is the current EVP and CFO of Merck. She received her high school diploma at Hunter College High School, her B.A. from Goucher College, and her S.M. in 1972 from the MIT Sloan School of Management. In February 2007 Merck announced she would be stepping down as CFO after 17 years in the job.
- Rafael del Pino
Rafael del Pino (and family) (born 10 November 1920 in Madrid, Spain) is one of the wealthiest men in the world. He had a net worth of approximately 8.6 billion US dollars in 2007. Del Pino founded the construction company Ferrovial in 1952, which became one of Spain's largest builders. His son, Rafael Jr. now heads the business. He holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
- Gary Loveman
Gary Loveman is an American business executive and former academic. He is the current Chief Executive Officer of Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. and has held the position since 2003. Before joining Harrah's as Chief Operating Officer in 1998, Loveman was a professor at the Harvard Business School. He has a Ph.D. from the MIT Sloan School of Management. As CEO, Loveman has concentrated on attracting average gamblers to Harrah's casinos, …
- Robert Varkonyi
Robert Varkonyi (born October 7, 1961 in New York) is a professional poker player. Varkonyi first started playing poker as an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After his graduation in 1983 (with degrees in EECS and from the MIT Sloan School of Management), he was an investment banker in Brooklyn, New York for a number of years before beginning to play tournament poker.