If you’re a Boston-area professional seeking to make a big impact on your organization and your career, here is your chance. The Greater Boston Leadership Program (GBLP) is an intensive program designed for professionals interested in enhancing their management skills, leadership capabilities, and ability to manifest change. The program begins March 11, 2019 and focuses on leadership, organization change, and strategic human resources management.
On this blog, we often share what participants in our programs think about the curriculum, the faculty, and their overall experience at MIT Sloan. But recently, we decided it would be interesting to put some our faculty in the hot seat instead, to hear what they had to say about teaching at MIT Sloan Executive Education. Interestingly, their collaboration with participants is one of the reasons these thought leaders love to teach Executive Education.
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Thomas Friedman sees the world at a turning point. In a recent lecture at MIT, Friedman shared his belief that technology, globalization, and climate change are reshaping our institutions—and fast. “When the pace of change gets this fast,” Friedman says, “the only way to retain a lifelong working capacity is to engage in lifelong learning.” And we couldn't agree more.
Meaningful conversations about big issues can be challenging—and these days there is no shortage of big issues. Many of us in the U.S. are bracing for the Thanksgiving table, where family will convene over dinner but potentially divide over hot-button topics like politics and climate change. Unfortunately, conversations that end in gridlock can be damaging to our relationships. So how can we turn these conversations around, and embrace the results? Read these three tips from MIT Sloan's Jason Jay.
For someone who didn’t grow up with the tradition of Thanksgiving, I’ve learned to appreciate the holiday not only in its historical context (for better or worse), but also as an opportunity to practice gratitude. In the spirit of this perhaps unofficial but delightful tradition, I want to express my gratitude for FRED Leadership, an organization dedicated to cultivating ethical, inclusive, and transformational leadership.
The next session of the Entrepreneurship Development Program (EDP) is fast approaching (January 20–25). We hope you’ll join aspiring entrepreneurs from around the world for an immersive, inspiring week to learn the entire venture creation process, Want to know what sets EDP apart from other entrepreneurship programs? Here’s what a few of our participants have to say.
Dr. Peter Hirst, Associate Dean, shares his takeaways from the recent meeting of the Internet of Things Talent Consortium (IoTTC) at the New York Academy of Sciences in Manhattan. You'll be encouraged to know that despite the gloom and doom around the Internet of Things and what it means for jobs, many leaders, particularly those in industry, are discussing the significant changes they are anticipating as well as the jobs that are being created—and very much needed—requiring very human skills and capabilities.
MIT Sloan Executive Education recently hosted the annual workshop of UNICON, the global consortium of university-based executive education providers. This year we brought our hacking culture alive in pursuit of new ideas, specifically about how to harness digital transformation for the future of executive education. Contributed by Peter Hirst, Associate Dean of MIT Sloan Executive Education.
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