Sloan EMBA Lab Visit opportunity

[Benedict Alois Borer]

Dear postdocs

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.
 
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.

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.
 
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.

Here is our request:

1 – Would you please host a small group of EMBA student for a brief tour of your lab on Friday, February 24th from 4:45 – 5:45 pm. 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.
 
Here is our offer:

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 Marriott Hotel, Cambridge, 50 Broadway, 2nd floor (food and drinks included), from 6pm.

If you are interested, please RSVP by filling out this form <https://forms.gle/iGJ68BDPXZjdT2tw7> by Monday February 6th at  11:59pm.

Please email with any questions (bradley1 at mit.edu <mailto:bradley1 at mit.edu>).

Best,
Professor Fiona Murray – MIT Sloan School of Management
Dr. Phil Budden – Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management
Brad Turner – PhD Candidate, MIT Sloan School of Management

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Benedict Borer
Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT, Bablab <http://babbin.scripts.mit.edu/arb/>
President of the MIT Postdoctoral Association
bborer at mit.edu


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