The Alma Mater of former Israeli Prime Minister and lifelong war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, the MIT Sloan School of Management maintains an array of programs and partnerships which support Zionism and the Israeli state.
MIT Sloan's "Israel Lab: Bridge of Learning" program connects MIT Sloan students with Israeli start-up companies. MIT Sloan boasts that the Israeli start-ups MIT students work with through the program provide students with "hands-on experience," while MIT Sloan students, in turn, "help Israeli executives solve managerial problems and business challenges." After two months working for their respective Israeli start-ups remotely, students participating in the Israel Lab then travel to Israel for three weeks of full-time work in-person at the company offices of their respective start-ups. After returning from these three weeks in Israel, MIT Sloan students then prepare "a concrete analysis that the host companies can use immediately." Speaking about the Israel Lab program, MIT Sloan Senior Associate Dean Jacob Cohen boasts, “Israel, like MIT, is a global leader and a center of innovation and entrepreneurship. For many years, our MIT and MIT Sloan students have expressed a strong desire to decode the unique factors that make Israel the start-up nation.” As evidenced by such glowing endorsements, MIT Sloan's Israel Lab celebrates and contributes to the ongoing Israeli state propaganda effort to brand Israel as a "start-up nation" and and hub of "innovation" and entrepreneurship," in an attempt to whitewash over the reality of Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homeland and theft of Palestinian resources.
Current MIT Sloan professors include supporters of Israel and proponents of Zionism. Current MIT Sloan Professor Retsef Levi spent nearly 12 years in the Intelligence Wing of the Israeli Army, before joining the Israeli start-up economy, to which MIT Sloan now strives to connect its students. Current MIT Sloan professor and founder of MIT Sloan's "MIT Leadership Center'' Deborah Ancona serves as faculty at a local organization called the Mandel Institute for Nonprofit Leadership, which provides training in "leadership and nonprofit management, social analysis and visions of Jewish life," through seminars in both Boston and Israel, joint learning with "Israel-based Mandel leadership programs," and mentorship from local NGO leaders, including the current Executive Director of the JCRC of Greater Boston Jeremy Burton. (See entries on the Mandel Institute for Nonprofit Leadership and the JCRC of Greater Boston.)
MIT Sloan plays host to a student group called the "Israeli Business Club." Per their website, the Israeli Business Club is made up of "students either with an Israeli background or who share an interest in Israel," and "promotes Israel's culture, business aspects and the entrepreneurial spirit within MIT Sloan and represents the Sloan community in Israel."
MIT Sloan has partnered with the Ruderman Family Foundation to provide a week-long certificate program. The Ruderman Family Foundation is a major donor to Zionist causes and is co-led by former AIPAC Lobbyist Jay Ruderman and current Friends of the IDF New England board member Shira Ruderman. (See entry on Ruderman Family Foundation.)
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In 2016, MIT Sloan School of Management gave an award for "innovation" to CDM Smith CIO David Neitz. CDM Smith is a Boston-based contractor that has received hundreds of millions USD for construction work in Israel, including work for the Israeli military.
Fidelity recruits heavily from MIT Sloan School of Management.
MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard Kennedy School offer a dual degree program, through which students at either institution can receive both an MBA from MIT Sloan and a Masters in Public Administration (MPA) or Masters in Public Policy (MPP) from Harvard Kennedy over three years of study. There are also faculty who hold concurrent positions at both MIT Sloan and HKS (see for example here).
Current MIT Sloan professor and founder of MIT Sloan's "MIT Leadership Center" Deborah Ancona serves as faculty at the Mandel Institute for Nonprofit Leadership.
MIT Sloan and Deloitte frequently collaborate to conduct business and market related research. (See for example: here, here, and here.)
Cisco, a company which contributes to Israeli colonialism, has commissioned a study on the (so-called) "future of work" from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Cisco also participated at a Sloan School conference in 2022.
Fiona Murray is a Professor of Entrepreneurship & is the Associate Dean of Innovation at MIT Sloan School of Management, and serves on the Board of Directors of MassChallenge.
McKinsey recruits heavily from MIT Sloan School of Management, so much so that McKinsey maintains a "recruitment team" devoted solely to attracting MIT Sloan students to careers with McKinsey.
MIT Sloan has partnered with the Ruderman Family Foundation to provide a week-long certificate program on leadership for adults with disabilities. The Ruderman Family Foundation also donated $414,000 to the MIT Sloan from FY18-FY19.