Blog: Archive for the “Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)” Category

Is the MIT Sloan Fellows MBA right for your next career chapter? A recent graduate explains its format, flexibility, advantages, and trade-offs.

In this episode of The mbaMission Podcast, host Harold Simansky and Gatehouse Founder Liza Weale speak with Clyde Anderson, CEO of GrowthFactor and an MIT Sloan alumnus, about what the Sloan experience can offer applicants who want to build, explore, and learn by doing. After four years in the finance world, Clyde decided to revive … Read More  

Product management is the general business practice within a company that supports and directs all the activities related to planning, developing, marketing, and launching a product. Product managers (PMs) own the product road map, working alongside stakeholders across an organization. 

Rather than framing its required application essay as a traditional “essay,” the MIT Sloan School of Management requests that applicants submit a “cover letter,” including even the standard formal correspondence elements of an address and opening salutation. Writing cover letters will undoubtedly be a large part of students’ career development efforts at Sloan, after all, … Read More  

Accomplished professionals who want to advance their career but feel they have outgrown the traditional two-year MBA—and are unsure whether an EMBA would be the right fit—actually have a range of alternatives they might not be aware of. In this episode of The mbaMission Podcast, hosts Harold Simansky and Jeremy Shinewald are joined by mbaMission … Read More