The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management is known for its high standards as a school that is part of an university with 97 MIT alumni of whom are Nobel Laureates. It has created strong global connections and renowned alumni, .
Named after Alfred Pritchard Sloan, an MIT graduate who served as the chief executive officer of General Motors for 23 years, Sloan was formed in 1914 with a fellowship similar to an accelerated MBA. It now has one of the most respected MBA programs in the country, and any graduate with a Sloan MBA typically doubles their income after graduation or joins the ranks of industry leaders. Another is Keiji Tachikawa, who received his MBA in 1978. Tachikawa was put in charge of Japan’s version of NASA, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). His job was to come into the agency and reform it, following the failure of the H-IIA project in 2003. Jamie McCourt got her MBA in 1984, the same year as Tachikawa. She is known as the former CEO of the Los Angeles Dodgers. She acquired the baseball team in 2004 and became a member of the organization’s management staff as vice-chairman, then later assumed the role of president, and eventually became CEO in 2009. McCourt soon became Major League Baseball’s most influential female executive. Shuman Ghosemajumder came from Sloan’s MBA class of 2002 and currently leads artificial intelligence at F5. A Canadian technologist, he is well-known for his time spent at Google. He worked there from 2003 to 2010, helping to secure Google’s yearly pay-per-click income against click fraud. He was also one of the first AdSense project managers and one of the people who developed Gmail. Similarly, John W. Thompson is another tech-related Sloan MBA holder. He is regarded as one of Silicon Valley’s pioneering CEOs. Thompson got his MBA in 1983 and worked for 30 years at IBM. When he left IBM, he became the CEO of Symantec. Thompson is also known as the man who took over as chairman of Microsoft after Bill Gates left. An MBA Class of 1998 graduate, Randal D. Pinkett won NBC's The Apprentice show’s fourth season. He became famous as the first African American to win the show. After winning, he went on to work for Trump Entertainment Resorts for a year, managing the renovation of numerous casinos, hotels, and resorts. After leaving he set up his own company, a consulting firm called BCT partners. Pinkett also sat as co-chairman of New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker’s transition committee. Brian Halligan graduated with a Sloan MBA in 2005. A year after his graduation, he became the co-founder with Dharmesh Shah and CEO of Hubspot, an inbound marketing company that reported $271 million in revenue in 2016. He also lectures at MIT, sharing his knowledge in entrepreneurship and technical innovation. Some other graduates of the Sloan School of Management who made their marks are Brad Feld, a venture investor and the co-founder in 2006 of the famous entrepreneurial accelerator Techstar; Elliot Cohen who co-founded Pillpack in 2013, later acquired by Amazon; Drew Houston, the co-founder of DropBox in 2008.
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