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Prioritizing digital transformation with MIT Sloan Executive Education

Victoria Lugli, the current CX Finance & Operations Transformation & Automation Manager at Cisco, was leading functional workstreams for finance operations at a different large tech company when she first began her journey with MIT. At the time, she was overseeing a variety of complex objectives as three different companies attempted to merge together. Her ability to find harmony across different stakeholders and streamline processes had been vital to her success. However, she was looking for other ways to develop and maintain relevance in a rapidly changing world.

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Ibrahim Toure is no longer a “technical guy” thanks to MIT Sloan Executive Education

When people refer to Ibrahim Toure as a civil engineer, he cringes a little bit. While he is proud of his longtime professional background first as an urban transportation engineer and then as a water resources engineer and hydroinformatician who brought his technical skills to a variety of locations from Florida to West Africa, that’s not who he sees himself as now. He explains, “That was just the first step for me. It was the first building block in who I am today. It’s not a bad starting point, but it’s not solely what I am anymore. Today, I’m an independent consultant and strategic advisor.” 

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Chema Garcia-Soto took the entrepreneurial leap with MIT Sloan

According to Chema Garcia-Soto, the drive to be an entrepreneur has always been inside of him. It’s in his DNA. However, throughout his career, he never took a chance and set out on his own. He explains, “I stopped myself because of fear and limiting beliefs. I needed to feel the security and certainty of a big corporation. I needed to feel I had enough savings. I needed to feel I was prepared enough. But I wasn’t fully happy. I’m grateful for the experiences I have had, but I knew that if I didn’t go out and at least try, I would regret it all my life.” 

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Flexible learning for an unpredictable world

Mohit Malhotra is self-driven and results orientated, which bodes well for his professional goals. For the past three years, he’s been based out of Singapore with Accenture as part of the leadership for growth markets. (Prior to Accenture he worked with industry leaders such as SAP, Oracle, and Cap Gemini across a variety of geographic regions from the United States to Australia to India). Delivering successful client solutions that are complex in nature across industries is a delicate balancing act – one that he’s managed to hone. However, Mohit believes there’s always room for improvement.

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Your summer reading list is here!

Learn more about Pixar’s extraordinary culture, discover ways to convert data into money, find out why our future with robots is bright, and much more in these recent publications authored by our faculty.

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New course: The MIT Entrepreneurship Development Accelerator

The Entrepreneurship Development Accelerator (EDA) is a chance for you to exponentially advance the progress of your venture. Led by serial entrepreneurs Bill Aulet and Paul Cheek, this new, intensive, week-long program bridges the gap between idea and execution.

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Dipanjan Haldar conquers soft skills for global engineering leadership at MIT Sloan Executive Education

Embarking on a journey of professional development can often feel like stepping into uncharted waters, filled with uncertainty and excitement in equal measure. For Dipanjan, a Principal Engineer at Fidelity Investments, his experience earning an Advanced Certificate for Executives at MIT Sloan Executive Education through the Executive Program in General Management proved to be a transformative chapter in his career, replete with invaluable insights, diverse perspectives, and hands-on learning opportunities. This experience also enables him to stand out as a thought leader and influencer in the tech community.

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MIT Sloan Executive Education was a safe place for Xavier Dupont

When Xavier Dupont began his MIT Sloan Executive Education journey in 2018, he was the Hong Kong-based CEO of Maestro & FALCOM Holdings Limited, a leading supplier of wireless IoT products. He recognized that the company would have to grow and evolve to keep up with the changing global business environment, and he had to figure out how to reinvent it. So he turned to MIT Sloan Executive Education.  

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Spores for sustainability: MycoHAB opens the world’s first structural mycelium building

Earlier this year, MycoHAB welcomed visitors to a house made entirely of bricks produced locally using only agricultural waste products and the natural process of mycelium growth. More precisely, MycoHouse 1.0 is made of MycoBlocks—a durable substance produced from the root system of oyster mushrooms (mycelium) digesting invasive encroacher bush, resulting in nutritious, delicious, and lucrative mushrooms as a natural byproduct. “This is a humble structure but a historic milestone for environmentalism, architecture, and bio-fabrication,” MycoHAB stated on its website. The livable, one-bedroom house may look humble indeed but the multinational effort and collaboration that made it possible are nothing less than monumental.

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Prioritizing digital transformation with MIT Sloan Executive Education

Victoria Lugli, the current CX Finance & Operations Transformation & Automation Manager at Cisco, was leading functional workstreams for finance operations at a different large tech company when she first began her journey with MIT. At the time, she was overseeing a variety of complex objectives as three different companies attempted to merge together. Her ability to find harmony across different stakeholders and streamline processes had been vital to her success. However, she was looking for other ways to develop and maintain relevance in a rapidly changing world.

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Cybersecurity Resiliency is More Than Protection

During our recent webinar, Cybersecurity Resiliency is More than Protection, Executive Director of Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan (CAMS) Keri Pearlson discussed the latest thinking in building cybersecurity strategy and the role of leaders and managers in creating cyber resilience. Simply put, companies cannot invest enough in technologies to protect themselves from every potential cyber threat; they must assume there might be an incident and design their cybersecurity strategy around resiliency.

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What is green cloud and why does it matter?

“Green Cloud” refers to sustainable cloud solutions that have the potential to reduce the environmental impact of data storage and at the same time create new business transformation opportunities. 

To equip its executives with the insights and tools needed for the company to become the go-to partner in Green Cloud solutions, Accenture partnered with MIT Sloan Executive Education to deliver a live online executive education program for 300+ senior client-facing experts representing a broad range of industries This collaboration is a compelling example of how executive education can drive innovation and sustainability across industries. 

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Upskilling for Sustainability

For companies in any industry today, sustainable operations are no longer a “nice-to-have” goal but a prerequisite for survival. From resource shortages and climate disruptions to the significant effects of technologies like AI and automation on the workforce, everyone is affected. This is why it was especially meaningful for us to partner with Bain & Company in realizing the global management consultancy’s bold vision to equip nearly 13,000 of its consultants with the knowledge essential to advising clients on sustainability strategy in every sector. 

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It may be time to change your relationship to power

Despite the many advances women have made in the workforce over these past decades, many of the unique challenges women have traditionally faced when seeking to advance to senior levels appear to remain. Here are six tips from MIT's Fiona Murray and Elsbeth Johnson for claiming power and breaking through the glass ceiling once and for all.

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How businesses can positively impact our planet

In the years since the 2021 round of global climate negotiations, more than 2,600 companies have set aggressive targets to reduce carbon emissions. However, setting appropriately ambitious sustainability goals in an uncertain business landscape is an exceedingly difficult task. Meanwhile, activist stakeholders are watching company performance on these issues closely, demanding corporate transparency and faulting companies that fail to follow through on their pledges. In an article for MIT Sloan Management Review, Kate Isaacs, Jason Jay, Jeremy Gregory, and Elsa Olivetti, the authors share the question at the heart of their research: how should this tension be managed, both intentionally and productively, to drive tangible progress and increase stakeholder trust over time? They define a series of critical steps to managing this delicate balance:

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Entrepreneurship Development Accelerator

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Entrepreneurship Development Accelerator

The Entrepreneurship Development Accelerator (EDA) is a chance for you to exponentially advance the progress of your venture. Led by serial entrepreneurs Bill Aulet and Paul Cheek, this new, intensive, week-long program bridges the gap between idea and execution, helping participants develop the skill sets required to put a plan into action and de-risk their business opportunity so that they can confidently move forward. 

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Multigenerational Success Across Family Enterprise | MIT

Learn practical concepts and tested practices to successfully sustain and grow current and future family enterprises at MIT Sloan School of

Why attend Future Family Enterprise?

Learn the disruptive forces impacting family enterprises and families in the New Economy and the practical concepts and practices for sustaining success for generations to come.