London Business School Class of 2022 Sloan Fellows mug for the camera during the joint Leadership and Strategy session delivered by Prof. Herminia Ibarra and Prof. Jessica Spungin. LBS is one of three business schools in the world to offer the elite business management degree for mid-career professionals. Courtesy photo
8. Sloan Fellows: An Elite Mid-Career Degree At 3 World Class B-Schools
Every morning, on his way to class in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Taiwo Ajetunmobi passes a statue inscribed with seven words: “Most innovative square mile on the planet.”
An executive with a love of technology and a mission to build up emerging economies like his home country of Nigeria, that particular square mile is exactly where he needs to be, at least for this point in time.
“One of my professors said that every sort of amazing tech that is going to transform the world for the next 10 to 20 years has already been invented,” says Ajetunmobi, 37, a Sloan Fellow at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
“I think the silent part of that statement is that it has been invented in a place like MIT. So I get to see all this amazing tech before it goes out into the world.”
Ajetunmobi is part of an elite class of mid-career professionals who can call themselves Sloan Fellows. Only three schools in the world offer the program – Stanford Graduate School of Business, MIT Sloan School of Management, and London Business School. Created by legendary General Motors chairman Alfred P. Sloan and his foundation, it is the first general management and leadership education program targeting experienced managers. It is counted among the most prestigious business degrees in the world.
Read about Sloan Fellows from all three schools here.
9. 10 AI & Machine Learning Exec Ed Courses For 2024
When ChatGPT crashed into our collective vocabularies in November 2022, it changed the way we think about business education – and about the future of the business.
Around the world, leading business schools now offer a range of AI and Machine Learning executive education courses designed to bring professionals up to speed. We rounded up 10 for 2024 in this story.
10. What Happens When Kellogg’s EMBA Entrepreneurs & Investors Start Talking
Kostas Poulakidas is a project finance attorney and partner at Taft Stettinius & Hollister. After dipping his toe into real estate investing seven years ago, he became more interested in investing in operating companies or startups.
Volkan Emre is an EVP of operations and CFO at Tayse, a fast-growing home decor company that acquired his AI startup in 2015, back before AI was sexy. He’d like to get back into entrepreneurship.
What could happen if you got these two guys in a room?
The possibilities abound, but one outcome we know for sure: After being assigned the same Executive MBA study group at Kellogg School of Management, the pair formed a student-led initiative that connects entrepreneurs and investors.
Read the full story here.
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