It feels a bit premature to be writing for Spring while the latest storm bears down on much of the country and Cambridge. So, I'll take a moment to reflect back on January.
This year's class is a bright bunch of diverse individuals. We welcomed 56 new fellows, plus five '2nd major' matriculating students (43 Male — 13 Female). There are 23 company-sponsored (not counting Navy students) and 33 self sponsored or partially-sponsored. Half are 24-month students (14 are "distance" and 14 are "commuter") with the other 28 starting as 13-16 month full-time, on-campus students. We admitted citizens of: Canada, Chile, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela with an average work experience of about 10 years.
It would be wonderful to see some of you at our business trip week events on Wednesday and Thursday. Please see below for details.
Hopefully, we'll all be putting our shovels away and planting our gardens very soon!
Pat Hale
Director, SDM Fellows Program
Melissa Parrillo
SDM Marketing and Alumni Relations Coordinator
Can a shorter workweek and a greener economy provide relief?
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Cultivating Leadership for Learning Organizations
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Chris Babcock, SDM '13: Systems Thinking for Energy Challenges
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Suzanne Livingston, SDM '13: Standing at the Intersection of Engineering and Business
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Bryan Pirtle, SDM '13: Mixing Wine and Engineering
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Marianna Novellino SDM '13: a systems approach to environmental sustainability
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Yoav Shapira, SDM '05: From SDM, Around the World, to Happier.com
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Alvaro Madero, SDM '12: Trekking to Silicon Valley
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Juan Esteban Montero, SDM '12: SDM Fellow Establishes MIT's First Mining Club
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Elizabeth Cilley Southerlan, SDM '12: Complex Systems for Healthcare, WiSDM, and More
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SDM Systems Thinking Webinar Series
March 11, 2013
The Crises In Employment, Consumption, Economic Growth, and the Environment: Could a Shorter Workweek and a Greener Economy Provide Relief?
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SDM Summer Shack Social, a business trip tradition
March 13, 6-9pm
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2012 Student Award for Leadership, Innovation, Systems Thinking,
March 14, 6-8pm @ the MIT Faculty Club
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SDM Systems Thinking Webinar Series
March 25, 2013
An Approach to Product Design and Development in Patient-centric Health Care
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