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In talk with dean, Admiral Thad Allen, SF ’89, explains leadership during crisis

Two things you can count on in a national crisis : media and politics. Neither can be ignored, and to think otherwise is a losing move, said Admiral Thad Allen, SF ’89, the retired U.S. Coast Guard Commandant who led the response to last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Allen, in a frank conversation with John C Head III Dean David Schmittlein at Alumni Weekend today, gave MIT Sloan alumni an inside look at the

MIT Sloan Management Review's David Kiron on C-Suite Executives’ Perceptions on the Value of Social Business

Marshall Van Alstyne, associate professor at Boston University and a visiting professor at MIT, recently relayed the following story about SAP, a software corporation that produces enterprise software, and its developer ecosystem, where developers can ask and answer each others’ questions: “Previously, a value-added reseller on top of SAP’s software had no particular reason to help out another value-added reseller. As a matter of  fact, one might not want to answer the question of another reseller because it might actually help them out and make them more competitive. But after the

MIT Sloan Alumna Judy Lewent on the future of finance

Recently MIT Sloan alumna Judy Lewent was inducted into the Financial Executives International Hall of Fame . A former executive vice president and chief financial officer of Merck, Lewent was recognized for her performance, leadership and integrity as a financial professional who has made significant contributions to the betterment of her organization and profession. The following is an excerpt of her remarks at the event: “It is a momentous time for finance 

From failure to success: Using improvisation to develop leadership

Business schools prepare students to succeed.  Two courses that I teach at MIT’s Sloan School of Management take an unusual approach to this goal. I teach students how to fail—so that they may find brilliant success  in the future. No textbooks are required for these classes – “Improvisational Leadership: In the Moment Leadership Skills,” which I have taught for the past three years as an elective course, and “Improvisation, Adaptability and Influence: An

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