Please note that faculty are subject to change and not all faculty teach in each session of the program.

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  William Aulet

  Senior Lecturer
  Managing Director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
  

  Bill Aulet is a highly accomplished business leader with a 25 year track record of success. He has raised over $100 million in funding for his companies and directly created hundreds of millions of dollars of market value. He started his systems career with 11 years at IBM being trained in technical, sales, marketing, finance and general management positions... ... (more)

  Bill Aulet is a highly accomplished business leader with a 25 year track record of success. He has raised over $100 million in funding for his companies and directly created hundreds of millions of dollars of market value. He started his systems career with 11 years at IBM being trained in technical, sales, marketing, finance and general management positions. In 1993, Bill was nominated and accepted into the MIT Sloan Fellows Program.

  Upon graduation from the Sloan Fellows Program in 1994, Bill became a serial entrepreneur. He led two MIT spinouts as the President/CEO of Cambridge Decision Dynamics and then SensAble Technologies. The latter was recognized twice by Inc. Magazine's 500 Fastest Growing Private Company. SensAble also won over two dozen awards and was featured in Fortune Magazine, BusinessWeek, the Wall Street Journal and many other publications for its innovative products and strong business foundation.

  In August 2009, Bill was appointed Acting Managing Director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center after serving as Entrepreneur in Residence at the Center for four years. He was appointed Managing Director in March 2010. In addition to his responsibilities as Managing Director, he is a Senior Lecturer at the Sloan School teaching four classes. Bill is also an advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy, the Kauffman Foundation and several investment funds in the area of Clean Energy Entrepreneurship and Innovation for which MIT was recognized with an award from the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers. Bill also serves on the board of a number of startup companies. (less)

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  Fiona Murray

  Associate Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
  Faculty Director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
  

  Fiona Murray received BA and MA degrees in Chemistry from the University of Oxford before coming to the United States where she received her doctoral degree from Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Her research interests include the study of science commercialization, the organization of scientific research, and the role of science in national competitiveness... ... (more)

  Fiona Murray received BA and MA degrees in Chemistry from the University of Oxford before coming to the United States where she received her doctoral degree from Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Her research interests include the study of science commercialization, the organization of scientific research, and the role of science in national competitiveness. After a short time on the faculty of Oxford's Said Business School, Fiona joined the MIT Sloan School of Management where she studies and teaches innovation and entrepreneurship, including the campus-wide iTeams course in which students develop "go-to-market" strategies for breakthrough innovations developed in MIT labs.

  Murray works with a range of firms designing global organizations that are both commercially successful and at the forefront of science. These firms seek to leverage the ideas of a wide range of internal scientists and external innovators through traditional research contracts as well as "Open Innovation" mechanisms. Her recent engagements have focused on relationships that span the public and private sectors. She is particularly interested in new, emerging organizational arrangements for effective commercialization of science such as public-private partnerships, not-for profits, venture philanthropy, and university-initiated seed funding.

  Murray is well-known for her academic work on how growing economic incentives - for example, intellectual property (IP) - influence the rate and direction of scientific progress, particularly in the areas of genomics, stem cells, and mouse genetics. She is actively involved in U.S. and European policy debates over the appropriate use of IP and licensing in universities and, more recently, debates on how and when to use patents to promote discovery research in neglected diseases.

  Her research has been widely published in a diverse range of scientific and social science journals including Science, New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Biotechnology, Research Policy, Organization Science and the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. (less)

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  Daniel Nocera

  The Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry
  

  Daniel G. Nocera is the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Director of the Solar Revolutions Project and Director of the Eni Solar Frontiers Center at MIT. His group pioneered studies of the basic mechanisms of energy conversion in biology and chemistry with primary focus in recent years on the generation of solar fuels... ... (more)

  Daniel G. Nocera is the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Director of the Solar Revolutions Project and Director of the Eni Solar Frontiers Center at MIT. His group pioneered studies of the basic mechanisms of energy conversion in biology and chemistry with primary focus in recent years on the generation of solar fuels. Solar fuel reactions require the coupling of multielectron processes to protons, which are energetically uphill, thus requiring a light input. Nocera has pioneered each of these areas of science. Most examples of multielectron photoreactions have originated from his research group in the past decade. This work has relied on the generalization of the concept of two-electron mixed-valency in chemistry. He created the field of proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) at a mechanistic level with the publication of the first ultrafast laser study of an electron transfer through a hydrogen bonded interface. With the frameworks of multielectron chemistry and PCET in place, he has recently accomplished a solar fuels process that captures many of the elements of photosynthesis outside of the leaf. This discovery of artificial photosynthesis sets the stage for a storage mechanism for the large scale, distributed, deployment of solar energy. He has been awarded the Eni Prize (2005), IAPS Award (2006), Burghausen Prize (2007), Harrison Howe Award (2008), Science Top 10 (2008), Discover 100 (2008), ACS Inorganic Chemistry Award (2009), the United Nations Science and Technology Award (2009), the Elizabeth Wood Award (2010), MJ Collins Award (2010), Roseman Award (2010), for his contributions to the development of renewable energy. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He was named as one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World.

  Nocera has been an organizer to and primary author of four DOE Basic Research Need workshops: Hydrogen, Solar Energy, Energy Storage and Catalysis and he was a primary author of the Grand Challenges report (Directing Matter and Energy: Five Challenges for Science and the Imagination) to the DOE. He was also an author of the report to chart a course for energy research at MIT and he is a lead author on the MIT Study on the Future of Solar Energy. He began the first Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Renewable Energy, which was held in January 2007. He has designed permanent exhibits on energy for the MIT Museum, the Boston Museum of Science and Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.

  Nocera is a frequent guest on TV (CNN, ABC Nightline, PBS, ABC Nature’s Edge, Jim Lehrer News Hour, This New House, NOVA, CBS, CNBC, Discovery Channel, The Science Channel, Brink and Plum in the U.S. and Explora and RAI in Europe), radio (NPR, Bloomberg News, CBS, CBC, BBC, All Things Considered, Here and Now, Climate Connections, Voice of America) and is regularly featured in print (New York Times, National Geographic, Forbes, Discover, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, The Statesman, The New Republic, U.S. News and World Report, ON, Outside Magazine, Wired, Technology Review, National Review). His 2006 PBS show was nominated for an Emmy Award. He worked with Robert Krulwich of ABC News to develop the pilot that was used to launch the PBS NOVA show, ScienceNow, which is now a regularly scheduled science program on PBS. He also worked with Mr. Krulwich and the web designer OddTodd to develop a five part series on The Lifestyle of Carbon. He opened the Mountain Film Festival 2007 in Telluride CO, the Aspen Forum in Aspen CO in 2008 and 2009, and the World Science Festival in NYC in 2008. He sits on several advisory boards and is currently working with several artists in the U.S and abroad, actors and producers in Los Angeles and major business leaders in the U.S. to help them develop a position that contributes positively to the energy and sustainability challenge confronting this planet. In 2008, he founded Sun Catalytix, a company committed to bringing personalized energy to the non-legacy world. (less)

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  Donald Sadoway

  John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry
  

  Professor Sadoway's research seeks to establish the scientific underpinnings for technologies that make efficient use of energy and natural resources in an environmentally sound manner. This spans engineering applications and the supportive fundamental science. The overarching theme of his work is electrochemistry in nonaqueous media... ... (more)

  Professor Sadoway's research seeks to establish the scientific underpinnings for technologies that make efficient use of energy and natural resources in an environmentally sound manner. This spans engineering applications and the supportive fundamental science. The overarching theme of his work is electrochemistry in nonaqueous media.

  Specific topics in applied research are the following: environmentally sound electrochemical extraction and recycling of metals, lithium solid-polymer-electrolyte batteries, advanced materials for use as electrodes, separators, and walls in fused-salt electrolysis cells and batteries, electrochemical sensors, electrochemical synthesis of thin films of compound semiconductors in fused-salt and cryogenic media, and electrochemically controlled superconducting devices. (less)

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  Richard Schmalensee

  Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management
  Professor of Applied Economics
  Dean Emeritus
  

  Richard Schmalensee is the Howard W. Johnson Professor of Economics and Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. He served as the John C Head III Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1998 through 2007... ... (more)

  Richard Schmalensee is the Howard W. Johnson Professor of Economics and Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. He served as the John C Head III Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1998 through 2007. He was as a Member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1989 through 1991.

  Professor Schmalensee is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the International Academy of Management and the National Commission on Energy Policy. He has served on the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association. He is a Director of the International Securities Exchange and the International Data Group and has served as a consultant to both corporations and government agencies. (less)

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  Edward Steinfeld

  Associate Professor
  

  Edward Steinfeld, a China specialist, focuses his teaching and research on institutional reform and industrial upgrading in emerging economies.

  His most recent book , Playing Our Game: Why China’s Rise Doesn’t Threaten the West (Oxford, 2010), examines the political and economic ramifications of China’s integration into global industrial production...

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  Edward Steinfeld, a China specialist, focuses his teaching and research on institutional reform and industrial upgrading in emerging economies.

  His most recent book , Playing Our Game: Why China’s Rise Doesn’t Threaten the West (Oxford, 2010), examines the political and economic ramifications of China’s integration into global industrial production. The book argues that China’s participation in globalized production has induced political change within China at the same time it has accelerated industrial innovation within the United States.

  Steinfeld’s current research focuses on the development of the Chinese energy sector, as well as global efforts to develop new energy-related technologies.

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