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Encyclopedia: MIT Sloan School of Management Sloan alumni include many leaders in business and government, including the Secretary General of the United Nations, the former Prime Minister of Israel, the Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, and the CEO of Ford Motor Company. Sloan is home to a number of research centers, including the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, the Financial Engineering Lab, the Center for eBusiness, the System Dynamics Group, the Operations Management Group, and the Center for Innovation in Product Development. A Sloan Foundation grant established the MIT School of Industrial Management in 1952 with the charge of educating the "ideal manager", and the school was renamed in Sloan's honor. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/MIT-Sloan-School-of-Management   (2648 words)

MIT Sloan School of Management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sloan is home to a number of research centers, including the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, the Financial Engineering Lab, the MIT Center for eBusiness, the System Dynamics Group, the Operations Management Group, and the Center for Innovation in Product Development. A Sloan Foundation grant established the MIT School of Industrial Management in 1952 with the charge of educating the "ideal manager", and the school was renamed in Sloan's honor as the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. An exception was made for Sloan students in 1995, and the school began awarding the MBA degree entirely on the basis of coursework. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/MIT_Sloan_School_of_Management   (1083 words)

Sloan Fellows The four were among the 104 outstanding young scientists and economists selected as Sloan Fellows this year, representing faculty from 53 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The fellows are engaged in research at the frontiers of physics, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, neuroscience and economics. Selection of young scientists as Sloan Fellows is based on exceptional promise to contribute to the advancement of knowledge. www.news.cornell.edu /chronicle/00/5.11.00/Sloan_fellows.html   (599 words)

UC San Diego Places in Top Tier of Institutions Awarded 2004 Sloan Research Fellowships   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Also winning Sloan fellowships in 2004: Karsten Meyer, whose specialty is the inorganic and organometallic coordination chemistry of highly reactive transition and actinide metal complexes (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry); and Emanuel Todorov, who investigates the neural control of movement (Department of Cognitive Science). Sloan Research Fellows, once chosen, are free to pursue whatever lines of inquiry are of the most compelling interest to them. The Sloan Research Fellowships were established in 1955 to provide support and recognition to young scientists, often in their first appointments to university faculties. www.calit2.net /culture/features/2004/3-9_sloanFellows.html   (415 words)

MIT Sloan School of Management The Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of the world’s leading business schools, conducting cutting-edge research and providing management education to top students from more than 60 countries. MIT Sloan began in 1914 as engineering administration curriculum in the MIT Department of Economics and Statistics. The world’s first university-based executive education program - the Sloan Fellows - was created in 1931 under the sponsorship of Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., an 1895 MIT graduate who was then chairman of General Motors. www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/mit_sloan_school_of_management.html   (222 words)

Cornell Chemistry - Sloan Research Fellowships is by far the oldest program of the Sloan Foundation, although those who receive the grants are among the youngest researchers the Foundation assists. The Sloan Research Fellowships were established in 1955 to provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars, often in their first appointments to university faculties, who were endeavoring to set up laboratories and establish their independent research projects with little or no outside support. Their Sloan funds can be applied to a wide variety of uses for which other, more restricted funds such as research project grants cannot usually be employed. www.chem.cornell.edu /hotnews.asp?id=22   (397 words)

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Candidates for Sloan Research Fellowships are required to hold the Ph.D. (or equivalent) in chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, economics, neuroscience, relevent fields in the biological sciences, or in a related interdisciplinary field, and must be members of the regular faculty (i.e., tenure track) of a college or university in the United States or Canada. While Fellows are expected to be at an early stage of their research careers, there should be strong evidence of independent research accomplishments. The Fellow's institution is required to report annually on expenditures from the fellowship grant, and the Fellow must submit a brief annual scientific progress report and a final report. www.sloan.org /programs/fellowship_brochure.shtml   (1053 words)

Sloan Fellows   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) fellows sloan blake sloan sloan valve sloan programme sloan music sloan masters sloan master sloan enterprise scholarships sloan canadian band sloan band posters sloan valve company Sloan Connection Clearing house for all Sloan researchers and family information. Fellows, Jack Posters Sloan, W. Posters Sloan Posters Sloan II, W.a. www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Sloan_Fellows.html   (290 words)

Fellowships 2005-2006 Sloan undergraduate fellows are expected to conduct research in support of their independent study or honors theses. Sloan undergraduate fellows are required to attend (a) a Fall research workshop, at which they will discuss their ongoing research; (b) a Spring symposium, at which they will report on their research findings to the MARIAL Center faculty and graduate student affiliates; (c) regular MARIAL center workshops and colloquia. Sloan Fellowships will be awarded competitively, based upon the scholarly promise of the applicant, the relevance of their proposed areas of interest to our larger research goals, and considerations of balance among departments and divisions of the University. www.emory.edu /COLLEGE/MARIAL/fellowships/index.html   (1182 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) PURPOSE/DEFINITION: The Alfred P. Sloan Fellows Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a twelve-month program, at the Master of Science in Management degree level, designed to broaden and develop outstanding but typically specialized executives for more general and senior management responsibilities. The school seeks to provide the Fellows with a solid grounding in the academic disciplines relevant to management - economics, mathematics, and behavioral sciences - and to their awareness of the multiple facets that characterize important management problems, from technical data to human and environmental factors. Fellows should expect to gain: - An understanding of, and the ability to work with, the broad spectrum of quantitative tools now available to management in gathering and processing data for decision making. www.redstone.army.mil /TIP/opt05/sloan.m   (494 words)

Reports to the President 1999-2000 / DEAN, SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Sloan’s mission is to be the leading academic source of innovation in management theory and practice. Sloan continues to be a diverse population on all dimensions. The Sloan SB program is now the fifth largest undergraduate major at MIT, larger than most of the undergraduate majors in the School of Engineering, and larger than all but the biology major in the School of Science. web.mit.edu /annualreports/pres00/13.00.html   (12756 words)

Five receive Sloan fellowships The five are among 116 young scientists and economists selected as 2005 Sloan Fellows, representing faculty from 54 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Fellows are free to pursue whatever lines of inquiry are of most interest to them. She was a postdoctoral fellow in 2001-03 and was appointed an associate research scientist in pharmacology in 2003 at Columbia University. www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/05/4.7.05/Sloan_fellows.html   (793 words)

Sloan Fellows Students receiving Sloan foundation grants may use the money to pay for professional travel, research, equipment, and books and to cover many other needs during their doctoral studies. Sloan Fellows must have passed their comprehensive exams to enter the program, and each Sloan Fellow must have an approved mentor in his/her academic field. Students who are in math, science or engineering programs and are interested in learning more about the Sloan Fellows Program should contact their multicultural directors in their respective colleges. www.gradsch.psu.edu /diversity/sloanfellows.html   (144 words)

Sloan School of Management   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) The Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of the world’s leading businessschools, conducting cutting-edge research and providing management education to top students from more than 60 countries. MIT Sloan began in 1914 as engineering administration curriculum in the MIT Departmentof Economics and Statistics. The world’s first university-basedexecutive education program - the Sloan Fellows - was created in 1931 under the sponsorship of Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., an 1895 MIT graduate who was then chairman of General Motors. www.therfcc.org /sloan-school-of-management-123197.html   (178 words)

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation :: Sloan Foundation Awards $5.2 Million in Research Fellowships   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) The new Sloan Fellows are engaged in research at the frontiers of physics, chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics and neuroscience, and are faculty members at 54 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. In the 50 years that the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has been awarding research fellowships, 32 Sloan Fellows have gone on to win Nobel Prizes and hundreds have received other prestigious awards and honors. Once chosen, Fellows are free to pursue whatever lines of inquiry are of most interest to them, and they are permitted to employ fellowship funds in a wide variety of ways to further their research aims. sev.prnewswire.com /education/20050228/DCM05728022005-1.html   (345 words)

Print-friendly Version of "Sloan Fellowship Awarded to UCSB Assistant Professor " The Fellows are engaged in research at the frontiers of physics, chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics and neuroscience. The new Sloan Research Fellows were selected from among hundreds of highly qualified scientists in the early stages of their careers on the basis of their exceptional promise to contribute to the advancement of knowledge. The Sloan Research Fellowship Program is the oldest program of the Sloan Foundation and one of the oldest fellowship programs in the country. www.instadv.ucsb.edu /pa/print.aspx?pkey=1111   (399 words)

Eberly College of Science News - Sloan Foundation Names Research Fellows at Penn State The foundation awards one hundred fellowships annually to faculty in the United States and Canada who are in the early stages of their research careers and who have exceptional promise to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in physics, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, neuroscience, or economics. Mueller received a bachelor of science degree, summa cum laude, in chemistry at the University of Rochester in 1985, was awarded a certificate of postgraduate studies as a Churchill Scholar at Cambridge University in England in 1986, then received a doctorate degree in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991. Sloan Fellows receive highly unrestricted grants of $35,000 for a two-year period, with which they are free to pursue whatever lines of research inquiry are of most interest to them. www.science.psu.edu /alert/Sloan3-1999.htm   (1204 words)

Sloan Foundation fellows   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) The three fellows are Johannes Gehrke, assistant professor of computer science, and David Lin, assistant professor of biomedical sciences, both on the Ithaca campus, and Diana Murray, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology and director of the Computational Genomics Core Facility at Weill Cornell. The Sloan Research Fellowship Program is one of the oldest such programs in North America. Fellows, who are selected from among hundreds of scientists in the early stages of their careers on the basis of their exceptional promise, are free to pursue whatever lines of inquiry are of most interest to them. www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/03/4.3.03/Sloan_fellows.html   (346 words)

Stanford GSB: Sloan Program: Sloan Fellows Each Sloan class is selected to represent a mix of countries, industries, functional backgrounds, and experiences. Study rooms around the Sloan classroom are frequently filled with small groups sharing ideas and working together on class projects. The diversity of the class means that fellows from different types of industries and from varying professional backgrounds learn from one another as well as from the faculty. www.gsb.stanford.edu /sloan/community/fellows.html   (261 words)

Georgia Institute of Technology :: News Room :: Sloan Foundation Honors Three at Tech   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) This year, 116 fellows were selected from nominations of young American and Canadian faculty members in the sciences and economics. Tech’s current crop of Sloan Fellows includes: Alex Kuzmich, the Cullen-Peck assistant professor in the School of Physics, Todd Streelman, assistant professor in the School of Biology and Marcus Weck, assistant professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Each fellow at Tech will receive $45,000 over a two-year period that can be used without restriction in research of the fellow’s choice. www.gatech.edu /news-room/release.php?id=533   (805 words)

National Awards to Young Faculty - Almanac, Vol. 45, No. 22, 2/23/99 Only 100 Sloan Research Fellows are chosen each year from throughout the nation, and five of those named this year are on the Penn faculty. Sloan Research Fellows can use their $35,000 awards in a variety of ways, including travel, to support their research. One of the new Sloan Fellows is in computer and information science in SEAS, and four are in SAS departments--two in math and two in physics and astronomy. www.upenn.edu /almanac/v45/n22/youngfacawards.html   (640 words)

Sloan Fellowship: London Business School , Programmes - London experience. World impact. Sloan Fellows. One year MBA ... The Sloan Fellowship at London Business School is the pre-eminent masters degree programme preparing successful managers and professionals for the most influential leadership positions in small or large organisations around the world. Explore the latest management thinking with world-class faculty, acquire knowledge and skills in all areas of general management and leadership and gain insight into specialist areas, and share experiences with an international peer group of the highest calibre. The Sloan Fellowship is actively engaged in women’s issues in business and at London Business School. www.london.edu /programmes3400.html   (141 words)

Southwestern Professor Judy Beckner Sloan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Professor Sloan’s introduction to the “inner sanctum” of the nation’s highest and very private court dates back to 1987 when she was chosen as a Supreme Court Judicial Fellow. As a Fellow, Professor Sloan was assigned to the Federal Judicial Center’s Research Division where she conducted research on court administration for circuit judges, and gave special Supreme Court tours and briefings to visitors from high courts of other countries. Professor Sloan views bankruptcy as “society’s great economic safety valve.” She has written a number of scholarly articles and spoken on the topic at professional forums, and has applied her expertise in helping evolving European democracies develop new bankruptcy rules. www.swlaw.edu /faculty/sloan.htm   (496 words)

Stanford GSB: Sloan Program: General FAQs The Sloan Program is full-time ten 10-month academic program for mid-career managers leading to a Master of Science in Management degree. The Sloan Program is shorter by one year, has a higher ratio of international students, and a specifically designed core which meets the needs of more senior managers. The Stanford Sloan Program is full-time which gives participants the opportunity to be completely immersed in the academics without the responsibilities of work. www.gsb.stanford.edu /sloan/faqs/general.html   (299 words)

Caltech Press Release, 4/8/2003, In mathematics, a Sloan Fellowship was awarded to Danny Calegari, associate professor of mathematics, and in neuroscience, to Athanassios G. Siapas, assistant professor of computation and neural systems. The Sloan Fellows are selected on the basis of "their exceptional promise to contribute to the advancement of knowledge." The Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship program was established in 1955 by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., who was the chief executive officer of General Motors for 23 years. pr.caltech.edu /media/Press_Releases/PR12370.html   (350 words)

Katrin Becker Receives Sloan Fellowship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) The 2003 Sloan Fellows were chosen from about 500 "highly qualified scientists in the early stages of their careers on the basis of their exceptional promise to contribute to the advancement of knowledge," the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation said in its news announcement. Twenty-eight previous Sloan Fellows have later won the Nobel Prize, the foundation noted. The 2003 Sloan Fellows are from 50 U.S. and Canadian universities in fields of chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics. www.physics.utah.edu /news/becker.html   (119 words)

sloan award Once chosen, fellows are free to pursue whatever lines of inquiry are of most interest to them. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic nonprofit institution, was established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., then president and chief executive officer of the General Motors Corporation. The Sloan Foundation awards were established in 1955 as a means of encouraging research by young scholars at a critical time in their careers when other support is difficult to obtain. www.albany.edu /news/releases/2003/april2003/sloan.htm   (350 words)

Career Transition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Sloan is by no mean exclusively for "Techies" or "quaint jocks." Not by a long shot. Sloan Fellows often come in mid-career and spend 1 year at Sloan honing their business expertise. Sloan has been intense- the experience is like drinking from a gushing fire-hose of opportunities. www.westorg.org /nl/featured_articles/career3_eb_111903.html   (952 words)

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