PhD
Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
The Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management (TIES) group at MIT Sloan offers a comprehensive exploration of technology-based innovation and entrepreneurship. For over 40 years, MIT Sloan faculty, including renowned scholars like Pierre Azoulay, Michael A. Cusumano, Danielle Li, and Fiona E. Murray, have led pioneering research and developed a robust curriculum that addresses the management of research, development, and commercialization of innovations. The TIES group also oversees the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, which provides a multidisciplinary curriculum and extensive student activities, including the prestigious MIT $100K business plan competition.
Research from TIES Faculty
MIT Sloan reading list: 7 books from 2024
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New books this year include a retirement how-to, the reissue of a classic entrepreneurship guide, and a look back at the California energy crisis.
AI Expert Spotlight: Danielle Li
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Danielle Li studies how AI impacts work and the workplace. “I’m more interested in how businesses put these tools to use, how they impact the productivity of workers, the type of work they are able to do, and what their careers might look like in an AI-intensive world,” she says.
Consumers prefer early entrants in new markets, but 2nd movers can still win
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Consumers approve of firms that do the work to make an industry seem legitimate. Those that free-ride on that “legitimation work” are seen as less authentic.
Ideas for innovation from MIT Sloan Management Review
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Large enterprises don’t have to move slowly. Here are three ways to unlock fresh innovation.
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Faculty
Pierre Azoulay
International Programs Professor of Management
Pierre Azoulay is the International Programs Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.His research focuses on the impact of different funding regimes on the…
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Michael A. Cusumano
Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor of Management
Michael A. Cusumano is the SMR Distinguished Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. During 2020-2024, he was Deputy Dean for Faculty and Research. He has also held a joint appointment in the MIT School of Engineering…
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Danielle Li
David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology
Danielle Li is the David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology and a Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, as well as a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research interests are in economics…
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Fiona E. Murray
Associate Dean for Innovation
Fiona Murray is the Associate Dean of Innovation at the MIT School of Management and the William Porter (1967) Professor of Entrepreneurship. She is the Faculty Director of MIT's Office of Innovation and also Faculty Director of the MIT Legatum…
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Soomi Kim (2023)
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Jane Wu (2022)
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Caroline Viola Fry (2020)