SDM’s on-campus seminars offer students the opportunity to hear from and speak with leaders from industry, government, health care and academia who are experts in innovation and systems thinking. CEOs, CIOs, VPs and board members of aerospace, automotive, software, imaging, defense and military organizations come to MIT to share their experiences with, as well as learn from, SDM fellows. Seminars are also led by top consultants and by management, engineering and Institute professors from MIT, Harvard and other institutions.
Recent SDM speakers* include:
Bill Bent, state traffic engineer for the Massachusetts Highway Department, responsible for overseeing logistics for the 2004 Democratic National Convention
Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma and professor at Harvard Business School
Noam Chomsky, MIT Institute Professor
Michael Dell, chairman of Dell Computer
Charles Gardiner, vice president for marketing platforms at Xerox Corporation
Daniel Goldin, administrator for NASA
Michael Hammer, author of Reengineering the Corporation and president of Hammer and Company Inc.
Thomas Magnanti, MIT Institute Professor and dean of the MIT School of Engineering
Joel Moses, MIT Institute Professor and acting director of the MIT Engineering Systems Division
Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization and lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management
* Titles shown were current on date of seminar
