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Bill Aulet
Ethernet Inventors Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management
Bill Aulet is the Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is changing the way entrepreneurship is understood, taught, and practiced around the…
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Pierre Azoulay
International Programs Professor of Management
Pierre Azoulay is the International Programs Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.His research focuses on the impact of different funding regimes on the…
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Phil Budden
Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Phil Budden is a Senior Lecturer at MIT's Management School, in Sloan's TIES (Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management) Group, where he focuses on innovation ecosystems around the world, their key stakeholders, and…
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Paul Cheek
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan
Paul Cheek is a global expert in innovation-driven entrepreneurship. Paul is a serial tech entrepreneur, educator, software engineer, and bestselling author of Disciplined Entrepreneurship: Startup Tactics. He is currently the Executive Director of…
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Michael A. Cusumano
Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor of Management
Michael A. Cusumano is the SMR Distinguished Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. During 2020-2024, he was Deputy Dean for Faculty and Research. He has also held a joint appointment in the MIT School of Engineering…
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Kevin D. Johnson
Senior Lecturer, Technological , Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Strategic Management
Kevin D. Johnson is a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. He teaches Building an Entrepreneurial Venture: Advanced Tools and Techniques, an intensive, project-based course which is the most advanced class in the Entrepreneurship and…
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Malia C Lazu
Lecturer, TIES
Malia Lazu is a Lecturer in the TIES Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Malia Lazu, an award winning, tenured strategist in diversity & inclusion has sparked deep economic development and investment in urban entrepreneurship for over twenty…
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Tong Liu
Judy C. Lewent (1972) and Mark Shapiro Career Development Assistant Professor of Finance
Tong Liu is the Judy C. Lewent (1972) and Mark Shapiro Career Development Assistant Professor of Finance and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Tong’s research focuses on corporate finance, entrepreneurial…
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Fiona E. Murray
Associate Dean for Innovation
Fiona Murray is the Associate Dean of Innovation at the MIT School of Management and the William Porter (1967) Professor of Entrepreneurship. She is the Faculty Director of MIT's Office of Innovation and also Faculty Director of the MIT Legatum…
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Jacquelyn Pless
Fred Kayne (1960) Career Development Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship
Jacquelyn Pless is the Fred Kayne (1960) Career Development Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and an Assistant Professor in the Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management…
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Robert C. Pozen
Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Robert C. Pozen is currently a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.In 2012, he won acclaim for a popular book entitled Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your…
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Erin L. Scott
Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Erin L. Scott, PhD draws upon her nearly two decades of academic and practical experience to partner with groundbreaking innovators to successfully navigate the entrepreneurial journey from initial idea to commercialization. Her research focuses on…
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Tavneet Suri
Louis E. Seley Professor of Applied Economics
Tavneet Suri is the Louis E. Seley Professor of Applied Economics and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her expertise is in the role of technology in Sub-Saharan Africa.Tavneet is an editor at the Review of…
Learn MoreEntrepreneurship Faculty Research
"Cash Transfers."
Niehaus, Paul, and Tavneet Suri. Handbook of Social Protection. Forthcoming.
"The Evolution of Research on Industry Platforms."
Cusumano, Michael A. Academy of Management Discovery Guidepost. Forthcoming.
"Medical Progress and Health Care Finance: Evidence from Academic Medical Centers."
Azoulay, Pierre, Misty Heggeness, and Jennifer Kao. Research Policy Vol. 54, No. 2 (2025): 105163.
"Old Moats for New Models: Openness, Control, and Competition in Generative AI."
Azoulay, Pierre, Joshua L. Krieger, and Abhishek Nagaraj. Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy Vol. 4, (2025): 7-46. NBER Working Paper #32474.
"Who Stands on the Shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from Chemistry."
Qiu, Shumin, Claudia Steinwender, and Pierre Azoulay. Research Policy Vol. 54, No. 1 (2025): 105147. Also NBER Working Paper 30772.
Entrepreneurship: Choice and Strategy.
Gans, Joshua, Erin L. Scott, and Scott Stern. New York, NY: W. W. Norton and Company, 2024.
"Greening to Grow: Evidence from Environmental Regulation and Industrial Firm Productivity in China."
Lu, Yangsiyu, and Jacquelyn Pless, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6487-21. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, November 2024.
Keywords: Environmental Regulation, Firm Productivity, Innovation, Industrial Upgrading, Climate
"Are Complementary Policies Substitutes? Evidence from R&D Subsidies in the UK."
Pless, Jacquelyn (Conditionally accepted, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy), MIT Sloan Working Paper 5788-18. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, July 2024.
Keywords: R&D, Innovation, Policy Interactions, Difference-in-discontinuities, Regression Discontinuity Design
"Private Equity in Healthcare."
Howell, Sabrina, and Tong Liu. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Private Equity, edited by Benjamin Hammer and Douglas Cumming, 1-6. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2024.
"Can Digitalization Improve Public Services? Evidence from Innovation in Energy Management."
Topic: Economics
Meeks, Robyn, Jacquelyn Pless, and Zhenxuan Wang (R&R at Management Science), MIT Sloan Working Paper 6490-21. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, June 2024.
Keywords: Digitalization, Smart Grid, Energy Management, Electric Utilities, Public Service
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