MIT Management Executive Education

Education programs that advance management practice

MIT Management Executive Education’s nondegree executive programs are led by senior MIT Sloan faculty and provide business professionals from around the world with a targeted and flexible means to advance their career development goals and position their organizations for future growth. MIT’s cutting-edge leadership training includes more than 40 short courses, executive certificates, online courses, custom programs for organizations, and its flagship program, the five-week Advanced Management Program.

Tue, 12/17/2013 - 18:02

Pitch Perfect: Using Human Signals to Convince and Persuade A second communication channel revolves not around words but around social relations

Wed, 05/14/2014 - 11:39

The art of the business-plan pitch could fill volumes of business-school literature. But what if the real secret sauce had less to do with content and everything to do with delivery? Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland, director of MIT’s Human Dynamics…

Launching a Successful Startup, Part 3 Finding your beachhead market

Tue, 04/01/2014 - 10:19

This is the third and final post in a series on launching a successful startup. In his book, Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup, Bill Aulet, managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, stresses…

Launching a Successful Startup, Part 2 Finding the sweet spot

Tue, 12/24/2013 - 11:57

In his book, Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup (Wiley, 2013), Bill Aulet, managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, goes beyond theory to outline the steps anyone can take to become a…

Launching a Successful Startup, Part 1 The brainstorming phase

Tue, 12/17/2013 - 18:02

One of the most common mistakes new entrepreneurs make is trying to be everything to everyone in the hopes of increasing their market share. In the beginning, many entrepreneurs take an “act now, plan later” approach to get a jump on the…