In our first few weeks as Sloanies, we first-years have been bombarded with choices: which track to pursue, which clubs to join, which company info sessions to attend. Even our homework assignments have been full of choices like whether or not to build an aluminum plant in South Africa! Our professors have been kind enough to help us with these dilemmas, teaching us to draw up decision trees, estimate the marginal utility of our choices, account for all our assets, and view the problem through different lenses. (0) comments
The newest member of the MIT Sloan club assortment, MIT SEE (Sloan Entrepreneurship and Execution), caters to the action-oriented leaders of the community who are committed to developing their careers in entrepreneurship by either starting a company during/after school, or joining a startup before eventually embarking on their own ventures. (2) comments
I was selected last summer for a fellowship at Education Pioneers. It's a program that brings together graduate students in business, law, education and policy into summer cohorts to learn more about education reform. At the same time you're working independently at an internship placement in education. (0) comments
I spent the summer working for ClickHealth, the non-profit arm of ClickDiagnostics, a mobile health technology start-up. Founded after winning the MIT $100K development track in 2008, Click provides mobile health technology to the developing world, with three primary functions: (1) remote medical advice, e. (0) comments
I worked at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the Turkey National Office as a summer intern from June-August of this year. Generally speaking, my role as an intern in UNDP Turkey was to assist the Project Manager for the Head of Private Sector on administrative functions related to all projects. (3) comments
In the past few weeks, major disasters in Indonesia, the Philippines, Samoa, American Samoa and, closest to home, the State of Georgia have devastated communities and forever altered the lives of residents. Those who are responding to these emergencies have been working quickly to save as many lives as possible and provide relief to survivors. (0) comments