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My family experience at Sloan
Summer is now behinds us, the fall term just started. Looking back, this was quite a journey – both academically and personally. At Sloan, we’ve been through a very intense period – 6 core courses,...
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My First 50 Days
The Class of 2016 with Prof. Duncan Simester at the end of Marketing Management course “Fellows, you are now airborne!” were the resounding words of Stephen Sacca, Director of the MIT Sloan Fellows...
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Let’s start with the place. The reputation of MIT is immense and that has been built on a lot of hard work by a lot of people. Most of this work has revolved around some form of quantitative skill,...
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A Sloan Fellow and a mother of two – summer term
This is my first time writing a blog. To me being a Sloan Fellow means that I’ve accepted a challenge to constantly experience new things, so writing this blog is simply another Sloan Fellow...
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3 More Lessons from the First Term: How to Be More Effective
MIT Sloan Fellows & Families after the BBQ Party at Third Square Apartments in Cambridge The MIT Sloan Fellows program is designed to disrupt rhythm. It is created to challenge usual thinking. It...
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Fall H1 – harder but more exciting
MIT is not an easy place to be! Just when you think you’ve got it figured out and the rhythm is well balanced…. Things change and you find yourself struggling with the balancing act. Many in my class...
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Faster, Higher, Stronger: Fellows at Sloan Olympics
The MIT Sloan Fellows program’s second term – the fall term –has been all about building 3 pillars of innovation, global perspective, and leadership on the foundation laid in the first term. To that...
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Sloan Fellow – Fall Semester Experience
Sitting on a train travelling to New York City may seem like a strange place to be writing a blog about the Fall Semester in the Sloan Fellows Program at MIT. Yet, it is somewhat reflective of the...
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Unintended Consequences
I am writing this blog on my winter vacation, sitting by a fireplace at the Bretton Woods ski resort in New Hampshire, with two days to go until the end of the year. Just ten months ago I made the...
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Embracing The MIT Culture
So your partner did get the call you both were refreshing the mail box for. Your dream is transitioning to reality through those teary eyes full of joy. After 5 minutes of elation and hugs and few...
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10 Buzzwords of the Fall Term
The traditional SF Survival Party was organized to celebrate the end of the first term. On August 25 at America’s oldest tavern, Bell in Hand, we all rejoiced. The gratification of our efforts in the...
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A great experience in learning through L-LAB
Leading Sustainable Systems Lab (L-LAB) is one of MIT Sloan’s Action Learning programs, where students can learn through practices in real business situations. L-LAB is focused on skill development to...
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And suddenly it’s March!!!
There is a bit of mania in the air. The Fellows have realized this is their final semester at MIT. That has caused panic on two fronts (and yes, I’m being facetious): 1. How are you possibly...
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Me at a hackathon?
If a year ago someone told me that I would be attending a hackathon at the MIT Media Lab and having fun with it, I would have given them a million reasons why this would “never work”. For one, it’s...
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67 Days of Action Learning with EMC
Action Learning at MIT Sloan is an established process to apply academic learning to real business challenges. I too enrolled for one of the labs under this process – the Leadership Lab (L-Lab) –...
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So what happens over 12 months at MIT? This……………………..
Prior to coming to the MIT Sloan School of Management I had just completed a restructure in a large government agency. The restructure was designed to apply resources more effectively and increase the...
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Setting the focus and writing a thesis in the Sloan Fellows program
I would like to share my experience in finding a focus for my Sloan studies and deciding to write a thesis. The decision to write a thesis was not an easy one, nor was the process for doing it, and I...
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The Fellows-Led Speaker Series
The Organizing Team with Desh Deshpande The market is more powerful than you. Your customers are more powerful than you. The sum of all partners and competitors—the ecosystem—is more powerful than you....
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