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MIT Sloan alumna shares thoughts on leading Fortune 500 firmMIT Sloan alumna Ilene Gordon ‘75, SM ’76 opens semester's Dean’s Innovative Leader Series

Sports analytics: a real game-changer2013 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference underscores how statistics keep changing the way sports are played — and changing minds in the industry.

Q&A: U.S. immigration policy and entrepreneurshipMIT’s Bill Aulet, Danielle Guichard-Ashbrook and Edward Roberts discuss the challenges facing foreign-born entrepreneurs under U.S. immigration policy.

Legatum Fellows bring innovation to emerging marketsStudents see opportunities in the emerging economies of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Michael Liebreich sees shift to cleaner energy as inevitableChief executive officer of Bloomberg New Energy Finance says clean energy will eventually be the norm.

Sanergy, led by Legatum Center alumni fellows, wins social innovation awardAims to develop sustainable sanitation services in urban slums

3 Questions: Andrew Lo on JP Morgan’s multibillion-dollar trading lossMIT financial markets expert addresses the need for better risk management — and a simple way to tell if JP Morgan’s failed gamble was a trade or a hedge.

Marwan Hussein SDM '12: Complexity and Interplanetary Space Systems

For businesses, going green brings in greenbacksStudy finds manufacturers leading the drive to make sustainability a mainstream — and profitable — business practice.

How research goes viralWhat makes a new finding in biology circulate widely? An MIT economist knows: Make the original research materials accessible.

Former mining CEO: China growth will continue, Africa the ‘next battle for natural resources’Agnelli speaks at Sloan as part of Dean’s Innovative Leader Series

Japan’s supply chain ripple effectsMIT researchers assess how the crisis has affected the flow of goods to and from the island nation.

3 Questions: Liquidity lessonsEconomist Bengt Holmstrom on the problems of borrowing and lending in a post-crash world, and the role of government in responding to crises

In the World: Turning waste into profitStudents aim to improve Kenyan slum-dwellers’ access to basic sanitation — and generate renewable energy and jobs along the way.

U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear appeal in intellectual-property suitMIT had filed amicus brief in case supporting Stanford University and university technology transfer generally.

Power to the peopleEntrepreneurs at MIT’s Legatum Center are trying to bring clean-energy solutions to developing countries.

Explained: Defining recessionsIt’s not what conventional wisdom holds, as an MIT economist — who heads the bureau charged with identifying U.S. downturns — makes clear.

All in the family: MIT Sloan becoming home for the HatamisThird sibling to receive his MBA this spring; follows his older brother and younger sister.

MIT to file amicus brief in intellectual-property caseInstitute will support Stanford in asking U.S. Supreme Court to review dispute that could undermine technology-transfer system.

Q&A with Simon JohnsonMIT’s outspoken bank critic on the state of the financial industry, the need for reform, and the performance of the White House

Temporary gainsMIT economist finds temporary jobs may actually reduce workers’ income and employment prospects