<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><font face="AvenirNext-Regular" class="">Dear postdocs</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><font face="AvenirNext-Regular" class="">We are writing to you with the annual opportunity to host some Executive MBA students at your Lab, and in return come to a free food/drink reception at the Marriott, on 24 Feb.</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><font face="AvenirNext-Regular" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><font face="AvenirNext-Regular" class="">Every Year, the MIT Executive MBA (EMBA) program reaches out to Postdocs to see who might be willing to host short lab visits by a group of mid-career EMBA students. This is a chance for you to share your research projects and exchange perspectives with a small group of our current class of EMBAs at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. They are mid-career leaders from a range of sectors, working full-time but also doing their MBA at MIT.<br class=""><br class="">As part of their curriculum, the 120+ EMBAs are learning about the MIT and Cambridge/MA innovation ecosystem. Technical (science and engineering) communities are clearly an essential part of this ecosystem and we like to bring the EMBAs and wider MIT research communities together. Each year, EMBAs tell us that their Lab visits hosted by MIT Postdocs is one of the highlights of their experience.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><font face="AvenirNext-Regular" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><font face="AvenirNext-Regular" class="">These lab visits give EMBAs a glimpse into the real heart of MIT, and give you the opportunity to make a personal connection with highly placed executives in diverse fields: pharma and biotech (Pfizer, Takeda, Bayer, etc), energy and power (GE, Honeywell, McDermott etc), software and tech (Google, Meta, Akamai, Ericsson, etc.), consumer products (3M, DuPont, Hasbro, Nike, etc.), finance (HSBC, Fidelity, Bank of America, etc.), the military, local hospitals, and others. Many of these EMBA executives are interested in how such Lab research gets commercialized, including through startup ventures.<br class=""><br class="">Here is our request:<br class=""><br class="">1 – Would you please host a small group of EMBA student for a <b class="">brief tour of your lab on Friday, February 24<sup class="">th</sup> from 4:45 – 5:45 pm. </b>We will leave it up to you how you want to structure your tour and how long you want it to be. Talk about your research, technology, your pet, anything really… You can also determine the group size, but typically we hope for 5-6 people on each tour.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><font face="AvenirNext-Regular" class=""> </font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><font face="AvenirNext-Regular" class="">Here is our offer:<o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><font face="AvenirNext-Regular" class=""><br class="">2 – To say thanks, you are warmly invited to return with your visiting EMBAs to an MIT food and drink reception immediately following your tour. At the event, you can meet and mingle with the rest of the EMBA class: the small group that visits your Lab can help make onward connections to others among the 120+ EMBAs who might be of interest to you. The reception will be at the <b class="">Marriott Hotel, Cambridge, 50 Broadway, 2nd floor (food and drinks included)</b>, from 6pm.<br class=""><br class="">If you are interested, <b class="">please RSVP by </b><span lang="EN-GB" class=""><a href="https://forms.gle/iGJ68BDPXZjdT2tw7" target="_blank" style="color: purple;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">filling out this form</span></b></a></span><b class=""> by Monday February 6<sup class="">th</sup></b> at 11:59pm.<br class=""><br class="">Please email with any questions (<span lang="EN-GB" class=""><a href="mailto:bradley1@mit.edu" style="color: purple;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">bradley1@mit.edu</span></a></span>).<br class=""><br class="">Best,<br class="">Professor Fiona Murray – MIT Sloan School of Management<o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><font face="AvenirNext-Regular" class="">Dr. Phil Budden – Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management<o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><font face="AvenirNext-Regular" class="">Brad Turner – PhD Candidate, MIT Sloan School of Management</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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