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The MIT Sloan School of Management is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology , located in Cambridge , Massachusetts , USA . It is one of the world's leading Business School s, conducting research and teaching in Finance , Entrepreneurship , Marketing , Strategic Management , Economics , Organizational Behavior , Operations Management , Supply Chain Management , Information Technology , and many other fields.

MIT Sloan offers Bachelor's , Master's and Doctoral degrees, as well as non-degree Executive Education programs. Its largest program is the MBA program, which matriculates students every year from more than 60 countries, offers the widest range of electives,''BusinessWeek's MBA Report, 2004.'' Business schools with most electives are MIT Sloan (200), Kellogg (194), Wharton (185), Chicago (150), Columbia (131), Stanford (96), and Harvard (87). and according to US News and BusinessWeek , is ranked #1 in more disciplines than any other business school in the United States .


HISTORY

MIT Sloan began in 1914 as the engineering administration curriculum (or "Course XV" in the MIT parlance) in the MIT Department of Economics and Statistics. The scope and depth of this educational focus have grown steadily in response to advances in the theory and practice of management to today's broad-based management school. A program offering a master's degree in management was established in 1925. The world's first university-based executive education program - the Sloan Fellows - was created in 1931 under the sponsorship of Alfred P. Sloan , Jr., himself an 1895 MIT graduate, who was chairman of General Motors and has since been credited with creating the modern corporation. A Sloan Foundation grant established the MIT School of Industrial Management in 1952 with the charge of educating the "ideal manager", and the school was renamed in Sloan's honor as the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management.

In the 1960s, the school played a leading role in founding the Indian Institute Of Management Calcutta . In 1990 , the MIT Entrepreneurship Center was founded at MIT Sloan, one of the few business school entrepreneurship centers in the world focused on high tech. It sponsors both the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition as well as the popular and unique ''Entrepreneurship Lab'' and ''Global Entrepreneurship Lab'' courses, which sponsor MBA students to work on-site with start-ups throughout the world. The school has grown to the point where management has become the second largest undergraduate major at MIT , and in 2005, an undergraduate minor in management was opened to 100 students each year.

MBA

The main professional degree awarded at MIT Sloan, prior to and MBA have always been viewed as equivalent in industry, although the SM is preferred as preparation for doctoral work.

In 2006, MIT Sloan launched a new program for entrepreneurs within the MBA degree called the Entrepreneurship & Innovation (E&I) Program. The E&I program centers on starting and evolving emerging technology enterprises. The program seeks to formalize MIT's long-standing and leading entrepreneurship offerings. E&I students benefit from a specialized weekly seminar for entrepreneurs. In addition, a one-week trip to Silicon Valley is coordinated in conjunction with the MIT Sloan MediaTech club.

Of the approximately 2,600 applications received last year for the MBA and Leaders for Manufacturing programs, about 500 were admitted and 372 matriculated {Link without Title} .

PhD

In addition to the MBA degree, MIT Sloan offers a research-oriented PhD program devoted to educating management scholars. The PhD program is organized into three broad areas – ''Management Science'', ''Behavioral and Policy Sciences'', and ''Economics, Finance, and Accounting'' – each of which has further areas of specialization which typically govern coursework, research, and the content of the general ("qualifying") examinations. It takes an average of five years to complete the program, which enrolls a total of approximately 80 students. [http://mitsloan.mit.edu/phd/faq.php

Of the 564 applicants for the 2006-2007 academic year, 25 were admitted (about 4%) and 16 matriculated. {Link without Title}


ACADEMICS AND STUDENT LIFE


The MIT Sloan culture is similar to, but also distinct from, overall MIT culture, and is influenced most strongly by its MBA program. Most classes are taught in the Tang Center, although the school's live trading room is located in the basement of the original Alfred P. Sloan building. Courses are taught using both the Case Method as well as through Lecture s and team projects. The academic level of coursework is considered extremely rigorous by business school standards, with a greater emphasis on analytical reasoning and Quantitative Analysis than most top programs.

Academic rigor has a strong influence on the school's culture. The first semester, also known as the core, is the hardest of all semesters by design. In 2005, the students and faculty expressed solidarity against the core by wearing t-shirts that said "think outside the core." In 2006, the students placed their name-cards upside-down during the weeks where the workload was particularly demanding.

A staple of MIT Sloan life is the weekly C-Function, which stands alternately for "cultural function" or "consumption function". The school sponsors food and drink for all members of the MIT Sloan graduate community to enjoy entertainment organized by a specific campus cultural groups as well as parties with non-cultural themes. These functions are held every Thursday, often in the Walker Memorial building next to the school. MIT Sloan students and alumni are informally nicknamed '''Sloanies'''.

MIT Sloan benefits from its proximity to the world's best engineering and science programs as well as from integration with MIT's world-renowned Economics and Finance programs, all of which are often ranked #1 in world rankings. Many of the world's most influential thought-leaders in finance and economics (including Black, Scholes, Merton, Samuelson, Meyers and many more) and many of the most famous theories applied in business and on Wall Street (including Black-Scholes , System Dynamics , Operations Research, Quantitative Strategies, and many others) had their origins at MIT.

Students from both MIT and Harvard University frequently pursue simultaneous graduate degrees at the other respective institution, and many MIT Sloan students simultaneously complete degrees from Harvard Law School and the John F. Kennedy School Of Government in particular. In addition, MIT Sloan offers its students the ability to freely cross-register for courses at Harvard Business School , one of the few pairs of leading business schools to have such an agreement.


PROGRAMS AND CENTERS

MIT Sloan is home to a number of research centers, including the ''.

Unlike many business schools, MIT Sloan does not offer an Executive MBA program or a part-time MBA program. It does offer a number of other specialized degree programs, including:
  • Leaders For Manufacturing ( LFM ) program is a dual-degree partnership program run by both MIT Sloan and the MIT School of Engineering that caters to students who are interested in manufacturing and operations careers. LFM students earn both an MBA (or SM in Management) from MIT Sloan as well as an SM in any participating engineering department at MIT, all within a 24 month timeframe. Currently, every engineering department except the Nuclear Engineering department participates in the LFM program.

  • MIT Sloan Fellows Program In Innovation And Global Leadership is a management program that caters to students with significant managerial experience. Depending on the curricula they choose, students can earn either an MBA, an SM in Management, or a Master's degree in the Management of Technology (MOT) in either 1 or 2 years of full-time study. Over the years, as MIT Sloan Fellows wanted more entrepreneurship courses, and MOT students sought general management courses, the traditional MIT Sloan Fellows program was merged with the innovation-focused Management of Technology (MOT) program in 2004 to create its newly named larger program, the MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership.

  • System Design and Management program is a joint program run by both MIT Sloan and the Engineering Systems Division of MIT, in which students are awarded a joint SM degree in Engineering and Management. Note that this is a single degree as opposed to the dual-degree that can be obtained through LFM. The SDM program can be completed either on a 13-month full-time basis, or through a 24-month part-time distance learning option.

  • Biomedical Enterprise Program or BEP is a joint partnership program run by MIT Sloan and the Harvard-MIT Division Of Health Sciences And Technology . Students can either complete the BEP program in conjunction with the regular MIT Sloan program or the MIT Sloan Fellows program and earn a SM degree in Health Sciences and Technology in addition to an MBA or SM in Management Science. The BEP also offers those who already hold a graduate degree in management the option of earning a 1-year SM degree in Health Sciences and Technology.



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