{"id":29812,"date":"2022-12-17T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/?p=29812"},"modified":"2022-12-19T10:40:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T15:40:20","slug":"professor-profiles-roberto-rigobon-mit-sloan-school-of-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/professor-profiles-roberto-rigobon-mit-sloan-school-of-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Profiles: Roberto Rigobon, MIT Sloan School of Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Roberto-Rigobon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8831 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Roberto-Rigobon-297x300.jpg\" alt=\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Roberto-Rigobon-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Roberto-Rigobon.jpg 423w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose a business school. However, the educational experience you will have is what is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Today, we focus on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/mitsloan.mit.edu\/faculty\/directory\/roberto-rigobon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Roberto Rigobon<\/strong><\/a><em>\u00a0from the MIT Sloan School of Management.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Roberto Rigobon<\/strong>, the Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management and a professor of applied economics,\u00a0specializes in international economics, monetary economics, and development economics. At an awards ceremony in 2005, Sloan students described him as someone who \u201cepitomized the fine line between madness and genius.\u201d Other award-related descriptions of Rigobon refer to him as \u201cserious but hilarious,\u201d \u201ccrazy and brilliant,\u201d and \u201chigh energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rigobon teaches the reportedly very popular \u201cApplied Macro and International Economics\u201d course, which is said to be often taken by up to 30% of Sloan students at a time. He has won numerous teaching awards during his time at Sloan (including the school\u2019s Excellence in Teaching Award in 2000, 2003, and 2005, and Teacher of the Year in 1999, 2002, and 2004) and is primarily recognized for his accessibility. As one second-year student blogged, \u201cThe door to his office was always open.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information about MIT Sloan and 16 other top-ranked business schools, check out our free\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.mbamission.com\/collections\/insider-s-guides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>mbaMission Insider\u2019s Guides<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,40],"tags":[180,181],"class_list":["post-29812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mit-sloan","category-professor-profiles","tag-mit-sloan","tag-professors"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Professor Profiles: Roberto Rigobon, MIT Sloan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"No one will affect your education more than your professors. 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