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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Postdocs,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">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 MIT Museum, on 21 February. If you
are interested, <b>please RSVP by </b></span><b><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1"><a href="https://forms.gle/qhrJMFgAkRPyKb187"><span style="color:#0563C1">filling out this form</span></a></span></u></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> by
Wednesday February 12th</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">. (Full link:
<a href="https://forms.gle/qhrJMFgAkRPyKb187">https://forms.gle/qhrJMFgAkRPyKb187</a>) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u>Here is our request:</u> 1 – Would you please host a small group of EMBA student for a
<b>brief tour of your lab on Friday, February 21st 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></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Here is our offer:</span></u><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> 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>MIT Museum, E-28, from 6pm (food and drinks included)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Background:</span></u><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Every Year, the MIT Executive MBA (EMBA) program reaches out to Postdocs to see who might be willing to host short lab visits for 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 while doing their MBA at MIT.<br>
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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></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">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, 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Please email with any questions (</span><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1"><a href="mailto:bradley1@mit.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">bradley1@mit.edu</span></a></span></u><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">).<br>
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Best,<br>
Professor Fiona Murray – MIT Sloan School of Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Dr. Phil Budden – Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Brad Turner – PhD Candidate, MIT Sloan School of Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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