An MIT-Harvard team is set to change the lives of the 500 million Africans who currently lack access to electricity. The start up, EGG-energy, connects low-income Tanzanians to power and hopes to make its owners rich in the process. EGG-energy is part of the wave of for-profit companies that are reaching for the thus far elusive goals of development with market based solutions.
Every year, more than 100 second-year Sloanies spend the week between finals and graduation cruising British Virgin Islands (BVI) on sailboats. This one-week trip is a Sloan tradition older than a decade as well as MIT Sloan's last class trip. If you think that you should have traveled more since coming to Sloan and are exploring upcoming treks, don't forget about BVI 2010 which is guaranteed to be different from all trips organized so far.
What do tomatoes, stem cells, furniture, iPhone applications and homemade cookies have in common? They are just a few of the products marketed by the 17 Market Lab teams this semester. Each team of four Sloan students was paired with a company with a particular marketing challenge and through research and interviews, developed a marketing strategy or campaign for companies.
So yes, with the semester soon coming to an end, I'm now a well-crusted second year. Fulfilled my track requirements. Check. Taken classes outside Sloan. Check. Relished the revelrous gamut of extracurricular activities. Indeed. Thus, as an aging Sloanie doyen, I feel well-equipped to comment on a recent controversy.
1. Hey Alf, As part of the inaugural batch of MFin students, I feel the Sloan community has not given us our dues. We are the raw intellectual horsepower that puts 'quant' rightly back at the top of the MIT Sloan pedestal. So when we have to do our finance projects with the other assorted paraphernalia of Sloan, I feel much maligned by my fellow team mates.
"Welcome to the newspaper business"… Those words still ring in my ears from a Wednesday night at a certain establishment in Beacon Hill over a year ago as Alexander Angerer MBA '10, Elizabeth McVay Greene MBA '10, and I agreed to take on the Editor-in-Chief roles for Fifteen from the 2009 class.