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International Faculty Fellows at the MIT Sloan School
of Management are faculty from universities around the
globe that are collaborating with MIT Sloan to bring
their graduate management programs to world-class
levels. Through knowledge sharing, faculty innovate
and learn together, strengthening the way management
education is practiced while building principled leaders
who will improve the world.
international faculty
fellows program
spring term 2014
The International Faculty Fellows (IFF) program at MIT, now in its nineteenth
year, brings faculty from universities in China, Portugal, Turkey, and Brazil
to MIT Sloan for training in teaching and course development. Many IFFs
also spend time at MIT identifying or continuing research projects, helping
to generate ideas that advance management practice.
The first IFFs came to Cambridge in 1996, when MIT Sloan established the
The IFF program has grown to include initiatives involving faculty,
MIT-China Management Education Project with Tsinghua University in
students, and staff who may not be associated directly with the IFF
Beijing and Fudan University in Shanghai. Lingnan (University) College,
program. For example:
Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou joined the Project in 1999. Since
2008, IFFs have participated from two universities in Portugal that
• MIT Sloan faculty visit the Chinese, Portuguese, ITV, and Sabanci
together offer The Lisbon MBA. In 2011, the Sabanci School of
campuses to give lectures and teach short courses, adding to the two
Management in Istanbul sent its first IFF to MIT Sloan. The newest
way learning that benefits both MIT Sloan and partner schools.
participating institution is Instituto Tecnológico Vale (ITV) in Brazil, which
sent its first IFF in 2012.
• For ten years, small teams of MIT Sloan MBA students visited the Chinese
campuses to teach the International MBA (IMBA) students about aspects
IFFs come to MIT Sloan for training in teaching and course development.
of the workplace not included in their curricula, such as interviewing,
They attend MBA classes and consult with their faculty mentors on ways
teamwork, leadership, and networking. Since 2008, a larger number of
to adapt MIT Sloan course materials to their own environments and
students has participated in these exchanges through China Lab, an
academic needs. They attend workshops to learn how to teach cases in
opportunity for deeper student collaboration that includes classroom-
participant-centered classes. IFFs also attend seminars and learn
based education, faculty mentoring, and real business experience. Each
research methodologies. These opportunities strengthen their ability to
spring term, small teams of MBA and IMBA students spend three months
initiate research that they can continue at their own universities,
consulting with Chinese entrepreneurial firms on the firms’ greatest
sometimes in cooperation with MIT Sloan faculty.
challenges. Each team includes two students from MIT Sloan and two
from one of the Chinese universities. The projects kick off in January. In
March, the teams conduct intensive, two-week project engagements at
the host companies’ offices in China. After five weeks of remote research
“I need to prepare my syllabus for the
course I will teach so I am paying attention
to course management. My adviser, Stuart
Madnick, is helping me to benefit from his
and data analysis, and following the IMBA students’ visit to MIT Sloan to
complete their course work, the teams present their conclusions to senior
management. Competition to participate in China Lab is intense. To date,
191 MIT Sloan MBA students, 202 IMBA students in China, and 83
companies in China have participated.
course as much as possible. I attend his
weekly meetings with his TAs so I know
what goes on behind the class as well as in
front of it. I learn how they prepare for the
course, how they grade, the reasons for
• Students from some of the participating schools spend from one week to
a semester at MIT Sloan taking courses and visiting local companies.
• Administrators at participating universities visit MIT Sloan to talk with
their counterparts about important non-academic functions such as
things you see. Madnick is very involved
marketing and communications, alumni relations, admissions, career
and that makes me involved, too. Classroom
development, resource development, finances, and technology services.
lecturing is just part of teaching. He gets
MIT Sloan administrators also visit their counterparts at their own schools
me involved in the whole part.”
— Qu Zhe, IFF, Fudan University, Spring 2012
to share their expertise.
All of these collaborations enable participating faculty, staff, and students
to further develop a global perspective. Their experiences result in lasting
relationships with colleagues that help to improve the world.
MIT-China management education project
LI Jieyu
MIT-THE LISBON MBA PROGRAM
Francesco Castellaneta
Associate Professor, Department of Economics
Assistant Professor, Department of Management
Lingnan (University) College
and Technology
Sun Yat-sen University
School of Business and Economics
E62-581 | 617-324-7430 | jieyuli@mit.edu
Católica-Lisbon
Game Theory
E62-415 | 617-324-4314 | fcast@mit.edu
Faculty Hosts: Alessandro Bonatti and Hui Chen
Venture capital industry in the U.S.
Faculty Host: Aleksandra Kacperczyk
At MIT 2/1/2014 –3/31/2014
WANG Yi
Associate Professor, Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategy
Raffaele Conti
School of Economics and Management
Assistant Professor, Department of Strategy
Tsinghua University
and Innovation
E62-415 | 617-253-1582 | wangyicn@mit.edu
School of Business and Economics
Innovative capabilities of technology-based
Católica-Lisbon
entrepreneurial firms
E62-465 | 617-324-4124 | raffaele.conti@clsbe.lisboa.ucp.pt
Faculty Hosts: Michael Cusumano and Yasheng Huang
Venture capital and trade secrecy
Fulbright Scholar, at MIT 9/1/2013 – 6/30/2014
Faculty Host: Scott Stern
At MIT 5/1/2014 –6/30/2014
MIT-SKK GSB PROJECT
Instituto Tecnológico Vale
Syed M. Hassan Naqvi
Ivan Nancucheo
Assistant Professor
Adjunct Researcher
SKK Graduate School of Business
Instituto Tecnológico Vale
Sungkyunkwan University
E62-581 | 617-324-4293 | inancuch@mit.edu
E62-688 | 617-715-4834 | naqvi@mit.edu
Biotechnological solutions for the mining industry
Finance
Faculty Host: Charles Cooney
Faculty Host: Nittai Bergman
Bruno Pimentel
Adjunct Researcher
MIT-SABANCI SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
Instituto Tecnológico Vale
E62-415 | 617-324-4320 | brunosp@mit.edu
Nihat Kasap
Technology, product, and innovation management;
Associate Professor
sustainable strategy
Sabanci School of Management
Faculty Host: Scott Stern
Sabanci University
E62-581 | 617-324-4325 | nihat@mit.edu
Interface between MIS and Operations Research
Faculty Host: Christopher Knittel
A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY
In March 2008, Goldman Sachs established the 10,000
Women project, a $100 million, five-year initiative
INTERNATIONAL MBA (IMBA) GRADUATES 1999-2013
to provide business and management education
to 10,000 underserved women in developing and
emerging markets. The program grew from research
Fudan University
Tsinghua University
35%
28%
that indicates investing in women leads to more
productive workers, healthier and better educated
families, and ultimately more prosperous communities.
It operates through more than 80 academic and
nonprofit organizations. To date it has reached more
Total: 4,464
than 5,000 women in more than 40 countries.
In 2011, MIT Sloan joined the 10,000 Women project
through the MIT Sloan-Yunnan University Women’s
Entrepreneur Program, a collaboration with the School
of Business and Tourism Management, Yunnan
* Lingnan (University)
College 37%
*graduates 2002-2013
University in Kunming, China. Three Yunnan faculty
spent five months at MIT Sloan during the 2011-2012
academic year for training in areas of entrepreneurship
and action learning.
“This is a high impact program,” says Yasheng Huang,
MIT Sloan Associate Dean for International Programs
278 faculty from China, Portugal, Turkey, and
Brazil have spent time at MIT Sloan as IFFs
and Action Learning and International Program
MIT Sloan faculty have made 242 visits
to the Chinese, Lisbon MBA, Sabanci,
and ITV campuses
entrepreneurs in poorer countries. They can start
MIT Sloan faculty have had 374
opportunities to host IFFs in Cambridge
148 MIT Sloan MBAs visited the Chinese schools
as members of Project Team (1998-2007)
191 MIT Sloan MBAs and 202 IMBAs in China
have participated in China Lab
Professor in Chinese Economy and Business. “What
we do here matters. Women play important roles as
businesses but they need management education in
order to grow them.”
While the Yunnan IFFs were at MIT Sloan, a team of MIT
Sloan faculty and administrators helped design a sixcourse curriculum that included marketing, leadership,
and financial accounting for them to take home to teach
to Yunnan’s first cohort of 43 women entrepreneurs.
In 2012 and 2013, Yunnan continued the program by
offering a second cohort with 76 women and a third
cohort with 88 women. Yunnan is currently offering a
fourth cohort with 108 participants.
Other International Relationships
SCHOOLS THAT PREVIOUSLY PARTICIPATED IN THE IFF PROGRAM
In 2010, MIT Sloan accepted an invitation from the Indian School of
In 2011-2012, Xi’an Jiaotong University in Xi’an, China, participated in a one-
Business (ISB) in Mohali to bring its expertise in manufacturing research
year pilot program focusing on faculty development and China Lab. Four
and education to ISB’s Munjal Global Manufacturing Institute (MGMI). MIT
Xi’an faculty spent time at MIT Sloan during the academic year.
Sloan faculty advise ISB on curriculum and course development, faculty
hiring and development, and research collaboration and development. As
From 2004 to 2011, Sungkyunkwan University Graduate School of Business
the relationship evolves, MIT faculty may become more involved with other
(SKK GSB) in Seoul, Korea, and MIT Sloan worked together to develop a
aspects of these programs.
new, world-class MBA program at SKK GSB. SKK GSB graduated its first
MBA class in 2006. Twenty-two SKK GSB faculty have come to MIT Sloan
From 2009 to 2012, MIT Sloan and Moscow School of Management
as IFFs. In 2014, three more SKK GSB faculty will visit MIT Sloan as IFFs to
Skolkovo participated in joint activities designed to strengthen Skolkovo’s
complete the collaboration.
international management education programs. The collaboration included
classes and other training for Skolkovo EMBA and MBA students, who
In 2009, the School of Business and Finance, University of the Western
spent ten weeks at MIT Sloan each year, and lectures by MIT Sloan faculty
Cape, South Africa, sent two faculty to the IFF program as special visitors.
at Skolkovo.
In spring 2011, Mbarara University of Science and Technology in Uganda
sent one faculty member as a special visitor for one month.
From 2002 to 2008, the School of Business and Tourism Management at
Yunnan University in Kunming, China, participated with its International
“I am associate dean at Sabanci School
of Management and before that I
Oriented MBA (IOMBA) program. Twenty-four Yunnan faculty visited MIT
Sloan as IFFs and the School graduated 240 IOMBAs.
directed the School’s MBA program.
I have followed some courses here to
see how the faculty teach. I am looking
for fresh material. We are a young
school. We are still shaping our future.
In 2004 and 2005, MIT Sloan worked with Sistema Instituto Technológico
y de Estudios Superiories de Monterrey (ITESM) in Mexico to enhance the
performance of ITESM faculty and launch a premier Mexican MBA program
focused on innovation. Eleven ITESM faculty members spent terms at MIT
Sloan as IFFs.
It’s useful to know how MIT Sloan does
things and why. MIT is unique.”
Also in 2004 and 2005, the International Finance Corporation sent three
— Can Akkan, IFF, Sabanci School of Management
IFFs to MIT Sloan from the Graduate School of Business, Ghana Institute of
Sabanci University, Spring 2012
Management and Public Administration (GIMPA).
For further information about the IFF program,
please contact:
Eleanor Chin
Senior Director
Office of International Programs
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Sloan School of Management
Office of International Programs
5 Cambridge Center, NE25-700
Cambridge, MA 02142
http://mitsloan.mit.edu/globalmitsloan
Telephone: 617-253-9791
Fax: 617-253-0167
echin@mit.edu