Founded in 1988 as Leaders for Manufacturing, the program was created to develop technically oriented leaders who would help strengthen the U.S. manufacturing industry in the face of emerging global competition. Learn more
Panel discussion at MIT LGO conference on "The Future of Manufacturing in the U.S." (May 8, 2012) Moderator: Daron Acemoglu (MIT) Panelists: James Breen (Johnson & Johnson), David Hardt (MIT), Narendra Mulani (Accenture), William Ruh (General Electric) ...
Panel discussion on what areas will innovation be most important in order for U.S. manufacturing to be competitive.
Panel discussion at MIT LGO conference on "The Future of Manufacturing in the U.S." (May 8, 2012) Moderator: William D. Green (Accenture) Panelists: Denise Johnson (Caterpillar), Cindy Estrada (United Auto Workers), Thomas Kochan (MIT), Diana Tremblay ...
In a recent MIT Leaders for Global Operations webinar titled “Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer?”, MIT Sloan Professor Andrew Lo described how the same tools that were used to catastrophically inflate U.S. mortgage debt markets could be used to fuel a “cancer ...
LGO Web Seminar Series Professor Steven Eppinger A Method for Green Design Presentation Date: April 30, 2010 Abstract: When LFM/LGO and SDM alumni took my Product Design and Development class, we did not teach a method for design for environment (DFE). This ...
Mark Mastandrea, LGO '93, gave a seminar on Adaptive Leadership Models, drawing upon his experience in leadership roles at Amazon, Kiva Systems, Weight Watchers, Webvan, Hewlett-Packard, and Oracle. The seminar focused on how Mark used the technology and management ...
Prof. David Simchi-Levi
Benj Christensen, LGO '12, is doing his six-month onsite internship at new LGO partner Massachusetts General Hospital from February-August 2011. Hear him discuss the relevance of LGO's management, technology, and leadership training to his analysis of patient flow ...
SUMMARY For Victoria De Matteis (LGO '02), the past ten years at Boeing have been the "climb phase" in a challenging and rewarding career flight path that she recounted to LGO students and alumni in a recent web seminar called "Career Navigation at Boeing: The Sky is ...
Charles Fine, Chrysler LGO Professor of Management and Engineering Systems at MIT Wrap-up speaker at MIT LGO conference on "The Future of Manufacturing in the U.S." (May 8, 2012)
Cindy Estrada, VP of United Auto Workers Keynote speaker at MIT LGO conference on "The Future of Manufacturing in the U.S." (May 9, 2012) This talk explores labor's role in the manufacturing economy in the wake of the financial crisis, and in particular the ...
S. S. Prasad Satyavolu, Tata Consultancy Services
Excerpts from presentations at the China Leaders for Global Operations (CLGO) Lean Operations Club Forum on Supply Chain Risks after the Japan Mega-Disaster, at Shanghai Jiao Tong University on May 15, 2011. Prof. David Simchi-Levi (Civil and Environmental ...
David Simchi-Levi, LGO faculty co-director and professor of civil and environmental engineering and engineering systems Keynote speaker at MIT LGO conference on "The Future of Manufacturing in the U.S." (May 8, 2012) A growing number of U.S. executives are repatriating ...
Dean David Schmittlein of the MIT Sloan School of Management describes the Leaders for Global Operations program: the collaboration of MIT Sloan and MIT Engineering, the qualities of LGO students, and the partnership with global leaders in industry. The Dean states ...
Dean Ian Waitz of the MIT School of Engineering describes the Leaders for Global Operations program, which he says provides "world-class education to develop future leaders in advanced manufacturing and operations." Dean Waitz touches on the unique three-way ...
MIT Leaders for Global Operations program graduate Denise Johnson '97, General Manager for Specialty Products at LGO partner Caterpillar, speaks about the value to industry partners of participation in LGO. LGO is MIT's dual-degree MBA and Engineering Master's graduate ...
Diana Tremblay, Global Chief Manufacturing Officer, General Motors, at the MIT LGO conference on "The Future of Manufacturing in the U.S." (May 8, 2012)
The Leaders for Global Operations program held a memorial celebration for Don Davis, long-time lecturer in leadership for the program and inspiration to hundreds of students and graduates, on January 26, 2011, at MIT. Speakers and other segments of the video are as follows (timings ...
