11/02/2006 12:00 PM E51-115 WongDan Hesse, SM '89, Chairman and CEO EmbarqDescription: Given the choice, Dan Hesse would opt for working in a big company rather than a small one, especially when it comes to innovating. He backs up this preference with years of ...
Bill recaps a talk about immigration and entrepreneurship, and there are some competitions approaching.
11/16/2009 6:00 PM KresgeBo Fishback, VP, Entrepreneurship, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation; Eugene Fitzgerald, '85, Merton C. Flemings"SMA Professor, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Helen Greiner, '89, CEO, The Droid Works; Daphne Zohar, Founder ...
06/11/2009 1:00 PM KresgeThe Honorable John P. Holdren, '65, SM '66, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President; Dr. Ian A. Waitz, Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor and Department Head, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, ...
Rodney Brooks, Founder, Chairman, and CTO, Rethink Robotics, Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus), MIT Rodney Brooks is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus) at MIT. He is a robotics entrepreneur and the founder, chairman, and CTO of Rethink Robotics, Inc. He also has a ...
05/03/2010 4:30 PM Copley Place MarriottBrian Dumaine, Sr., Editor at Large, Fortune Magazine; Nancy Floyd, Founder & Managing Director Nth Power; Scott Stern, Visiting Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management; Kevin Surace, CEO, Serious MaterialsDescription: Beyond guts, a great business ...
Moderator: Andrew McAfee, 1988, 1989, LGO 1990 Associate Director and Principal Research Scientist, MIT Center for Digital Business Panelists: Jeremy Howard, President and Chief Scientist, Kaggle Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO, O’Reilly Media, Inc. ...
06/07/2006 7:00 PM KresgeJames Geshwiler, MBA '00, Managing Partner, Common Angels; Cynthia Fisher, Co-Founder and President ViaCell, Inc; David Friend, CEO and President Carbonite; Bob Greene, SM '88, Managing Partner Contour Venture Partners; John May, Managing ...
The use of system dynamics to model entrepreneurship and start-up engineering, conducted by MIT SDM Fellow Fady Saad.
The use of system dynamics to model entrepreneurship and start-up engineering, conducted by MIT SDM Fellow Fady Saad.
About the Presentation Soon after a business plan is hatched and long before manufacturing ramps up, start-ups begin to apply systems design principles to create their breakthrough products. It turns out that systems engineering, an art developed and perfected in ...
About the Presentation Soon after a business plan is hatched and long before manufacturing ramps up, start-ups begin to apply systems design principles to create their breakthrough products. It turns out that systems engineering, an art developed and perfected in ...
Erik Brynjolfsson, PhD 1991 Director, The MIT Center for Digital Business, Schussel Family Professor of Management Science, MIT Sloan School of Management
06/02/2004 7:00 PM Robert Metcalfe, '68, General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners; Founder, 3Com Corporation; Ann Winblad, Co-founding Partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners; Guy Kawasaki, Managing Director and Chairman of Garage Technology VenturesDescription: In ...
06/05/2010 9:00 AM Wong AuditoriumEdward B. Roberts, '57, SM '58, SM '60, PhD '62, David Sarnoff Professor of the Management of Technology; Chair, MIT Entrepreneurship CenterDescription: Ed Roberts reviews the effects of entrepreneurship within MIT and the relation of ...
Afeyan, Noubar Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer, Flagship Ventures Noubar Afeyan is Managing Partner and CEO of Flagship Ventures, a firm he co-founded in 2000 that focuses on inventing, launching, funding and building new ventures. He is also a Senior ...
12/05/2008 12:00 PM Faculty ClubEric Amundsen, '94, SM '99, Associate, Wolf Greenfield; Karina Funk, CE '97, Equity Research, Winslow Management Company; Ajit Kambil, '85, SM '89, PhD '93, Global Research Director, Deloitte; Dava Newman, Sm '89, PhD '92, Professor of Aeronautics and ...
10/20/2009 4:00 PM e51"335David Fialkow, Managing Director, General Catalyst Partners; Ben Fischman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Retail Convergence, Inc.; Alex Laats, 89, President, BBN Technologies' Delta DivisionDescription: While their ventures couldn't be more dissimilar -- ...
06/04/2008 7:00 PM KresgeBruce Gellerman, Public Radio International ; Thomas Allnutt, Program Director, National Science Foundation; Milton Chen, vsee; Christopher Loose , PhD '07 , Founder and Chief Technology Officer, SteriCoat Corp; Bill Townsend , SM '84, PhD '88 ...
02/19/2009 4:30 PM 10"250Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs, SM '57 PhD '59, Chairman, Qualcomm, Inc.Description: Cellphone and mobile communication aficionados (not to mention the rest of us) appreciate that our favorite tech gadgets increasingly resemble props from Star Trek. A ...