LGO Internship Impact: Jeff Stein at Boeing

Jeff Stein, LGO '13 and Princeton University (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) '07, describes his internship at Boeing South Carolina, the newest major aircraft factory in the world and the second production site for the 787 Dreamliner.As someone who joined LGO ...

LGO Internship Impact: Jessica Bashkoff at Sikorsky

Jessica Bashkoff, LGO '13 and University of Virginia (Mechanical Engineering '09), talks about her LGO internship at UTC-Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford, Connecticut.Jessica's work at Sikorsky was a continuation of the project conducted by Jeremy Lieberman, LGO '12, ...

LGO Internship Impact: Rachel Kelley at Zara

Rachel Kelley, LGO '13 and Vanderbilt University (Mechanical Engineering) '05, describes her internship at Spanish fast-fashion company Zara (part of the Inditex group).Rachel is sponsored at LGO by Boeing, where she has worked in build support engineering and became ...

Jeff Wilke LGO ' 93, Senior Vice-president, Consumer Business, Amazon.com

MIT Sloan Experts | Increasing Manufacturing Jobs in the U.S.

Donald Rosenfield, senior lecturer and director of the Leaders for Global Operations Program, discusses innovation and variety as it relates to increasing manufacturing jobs in the U.S.

'Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer?'

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 Webinar: Aaron Fyke, Energy Cache

Amidst a perfect storm battering funding for renewable energy companies, Aaron Fyke, LGO ’02, was able to model a grid-level energy storage system that would satisfy risk-averse customers by leveraging the cheapest, densest materials and a proven technology. The company Fyke founded, ...

Tatiana Bonnefoi, LGO '12, on working with "the best of the best" faculty ...

Tatiana Bonnefoi, a 2012 graduate of the MIT Leaders for Global Operations program, talks about working with "the best of the best faculty at MIT." Beyond having your faculty be the authors of leading textbooks, Tatiana describes how the faculty "are always open to ...

Jason Chen '12 on the LGO Experience

Jason Chen, Leaders for Global Operations Class of 2012, describes how he built on his control systems background at the US Naval Academy and subsequent nuclear submarine officer experience as an MBA and Engineering Systems student in the LGO program. Jason describes how LGO and Engineering ...

Jason Chen LGO '12 on Leadership in Product Design and Development

Jason Chen, a 2012 graduate of the MIT Leaders for Global Operations program, talks about his experience as a member of a student team in the Product Design and Development course. Jason describes how the course offered him many opportunities to build his leadership ...

Tatiana Bonnefoi, LGO '12, on "the perfect example of an MIT class": ...

Tatiana Bonnefoi, a 2012 graduate of the MIT Leaders for Global Operations program, talks about "the perfect example of an MIT class": Course 2.810, Manufacturing Processes and Systems. She talks about the balance of theory and practical lab experience that students ...

Rodney Brooks: "Will Our Consumer Goods Always Be Manufactured By Hand?"

Rodney Brooks, Chairman and CTO of Heartland Robotics; Panasonic Professor of Robotics Emeritus, MIT CSAIL Keynote speaker at MIT LGO conference on "The Future of Manufacturing in the U.S." (May 8, 2012) Recent economics have dictated that our lowest-cost goods ...

Jeffrey Turner on "Transforming through the Challenges in Large Commercial ...

Jeffrey Turner, President and CEO of Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. Keynote speaker at MIT LGO conference on "The Future of Manufacturing in the U.S." (May 8, 2012) The current environment presents substantial challenges to U.S.-based, labor-intensive manufacturing, yet ...

Charles Fine: conference wrap-up at "The Future of Manufacturing in the ...

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 on "The Role of Labor in the Manufacturing Economy After the ...

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 ...