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Isabel “Bel” Pesce Mattos ’10 is the founder of FazINOVA, a private business school in Brazil. Photo: Bel Pesce/MIT Alumni Association

Two School Foundings—63 Years Apart—Link MIT with Advances in Brazilian Education

Professor emerita Lotte Bailyn says managers need to lead by example when it comes to work-life balance. Image: Brooks Canaday

Unlimited Vacation Time: Too Much of a Good Thing?

The MIT Living Wage Calculator

Half of Ikea’s US workers are getting a raise—with help from an MIT professor

Image of the cover of The Second Machine Age, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee

Entering the Second Machine Age? Bring a hammer.

Continuum

MIT alumni lead potential 2014 IPOs

Don Layton, CEO of E*TRADE Financial, says the skills he developed at MIT were key to his success. He is shown with the E*TRADE baby, who stars in the company's TV ads. Photo: Len Rubenstein

Summer 2009

Giving Back

Ed Linde hopes to help educate leaders who'll solve world problems. Photo: Len Rubenstein

Summer 2009

Educating Leaders

Ed and Joyce Linde, along with the Linde Family Foundation, announce a $25M gift for undergraduate financial aid.

Andrew Sutherland developed Quizlet, a web tool to help students around the world. Photo: Ed Quinn

Summer 2009

Quiz Yourself

Freshman Andrew Sutherland develops Quizlet, a web-based study tool to help students around the world.

Winning Player

Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric who transformed the company from a bureaucracy into a powerhouse, is teaching a class at MIT Sloan.

Prof. Suzanne Berger says “focusing just on cheap labor is never a winning strategy.” Photo: Ed Quinn

Summer 2007

Choices Matter

Prof. Suzanne Berger examines what companies are doing to make it in today’s global economy.