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Five weeks ago, they were strangers. This week, they became a cohort.
AMP 2026 got underway last week as a select cohort of executives from 14+ countries and 10+ industries arrived on MIT's Cambridge campus, each one stepping away from their organization for five weeks to learn, reflect, and grow alongside some of the world's leading faculty.
Week one covered a lot of ground: a campus innovation walking tour, the first networking reception, faculty sessions, group exercises, a cohort dinner, and the beginning of their individual coaching sessions. By Friday, it already felt like more than just a program.
These are some of our favorite photos from the week. 👇
Following along on Facebook or Instagram? Check our stories; we've been sharing behind-the-scenes moments from inside and outside the classroom all week, and we'll keep it going for the next four weeks.
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Is your organization innovating around products and services, but not rethinking the business model behind them?

Are you looking to better understand how your organization creates value today—and how it needs to evolve to stay competitive?

The Business Model Innovation for Organizational Transformation at MIT Sloan School of Management helps leaders examine and reimagine their business models to drive lasting competitive advantage and meaningful innovation.

Learn more https://executive.mit.edu/course/business-model-innovation-for-organizational-transformation/a056g00000URaabAAD.html

New webinar this week: The Future of Real Estate in a Digital Age, June 2nd at 9am EDT. Register here: https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/3917786942997/WN_Bthu5CdzST2ZpqCvyy7X7Q

As workplaces and cities continue to evolve in the wake of global disruption, real estate has emerged as a powerful lever for organizational transformation. Business leaders now face pressing questions: How do we adapt our physical spaces to meet digital and human demands?

Join MIT faculty Kate Isaacs, James Scott, and Christopher Palmer for a conversation centered around practical insights and guidance on this rapidly changing field. If you are responsible for shaping or influencing real estate decisions in your organization, you won’t want to miss this session.

During this 60-minute virtual event you’ll:
• Explore how technology, such as AI, is transforming the design and management of physical spaces
• Learn how you can start rethinking your approach to space as a catalyst for performance, equity and growth
• Preview content and thought leadership from the upcoming course: Shaping the Future of Real Estate

MIT Sloan’s 2026 summer book collection 📚
These research-backed titles cover economic strategy, entrepreneurship, talent management, cultural evolution in the age of AI, and more.

New books from MIT Sloan School of Management experts examine Disciplined Entrepreneurship for climate startups, the economics of the second Trump administration, and the need to understand the cultural evolution of artificial intelligence.

Check out six suggestions for your summertime reading list -

MIT Sloan’s 2026 summer book collection | MIT Sloan Here are six titles connected to the MIT Sloan School of Management covering topics such as economic strategy, entrepreneurship, talent management, and cultural evolution in the age of AI.

The recording of "Systems Thinking for Leaders: Designing Solutions That Work" webinar is now available: https://executive.mit.edu/webinar/systems-thinking-for-leaders-designing-solutions-that-work.html
In today’s fast-changing and highly interconnected world, many of the most persistent challenges leaders face arise from unintended consequences of earlier decisions. Actions that succeed in the short run often create new risks and long-term failure. Leaders increasingly recognize systems thinking as a core capability to succeed in our increasingly complex, dynamic world. The challenge is how to move from slogans about systems thinking to practical tools and methods to identify high-leverage actions that lead to sustained success.

During this webinar, you will gain insight into:

How to identify the root causes of recurring business problems
How short-term successes can quietly create long-term risks—and what to do about it
System Dynamics, a powerful framework for identifying, designing, and implementing high-leverage interventions for sustained success in complex systems
How these methods have been successfully implemented in business and other settings. What governance frameworks look like for ecosystems where humans and agents coexist—and where the biggest pitfalls lie
Learn more during Business Dynamics: MIT's Approach to Diagnosing and Solving Complex Business Problems.

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If your company has invested in a product platform strategy and hasn't seen the returns you expected, you're not alone. Research shows that many firms realize less than half of their platform-sharing goals, not because the strategy was wrong, but because the ex*****on framework wasn't strong enough to sustain it.
MIT Sloan Executive Education's Managing Product Platforms: Delivering Variety and Realizing Synergies is designed specifically for executives navigating that challenge. Through a rich mix of case studies, lectures, and group problem solving, drawing on real-world examples from GE Healthcare, Lockheed Martin, Siemens Rail, and Google, you'll develop a clear, practical understanding of how to design, evaluate, and execute product platform strategies that deliver lasting competitive advantage. 💡
You'll learn how to identify the right management levers for complex, multi-product development programs, understand the critical differences between product platforms, supply chain platforms, and industry platforms, and benchmark your approach against firms that have already traveled this road.
Participants also have the opportunity to schedule a private consulting session with faculty member Bruce Cameron to work through platform challenges specific to their own organization.
This is the course for leaders who are serious about making platform strategy pay off.
Build the strategy. Execute with confidence. Enroll today at https://executive.mit.edu/course/managing-product-platforms/a056g00000URaZcAAL.html

MIT professor Daron Acemoglu explains why a future of pro-worker AI is possible…if we choose it. Listen to the podcast: https://slate.com/podcasts/slate-money/2026/04/business-mit-professor-daron-acemoglu-explains-pro-worker-ai

Learn more about the topic during these two courses:
-AI Adoption: Driving Business Value and Impact, self-paced online: https://executive.mit.edu/course/ai-adoption/a05U100000CQuPRIA1.html
-Making AI Work: Machine Intelligence for Business and Society, self-paced online: https://executive.mit.edu/course/making-ai-work--machine-intelligence-for-business-and-society/a054v00000jjjNNAAY.html

Money Talks: AI Doesn’t Have to Steal Your Job MIT professor Daron Acemoglu explains why we have to choose a pro-worker AI future.

Meet MIT Sloan's most immersive executive experience. 👇

For five weeks each spring, a select cohort of senior executives from 14+ countries leave their offices, their routines, and their comfort zones, and come to Cambridge, MA to do something rare: think bigger.

The Advanced Management Program (AMP) is five intense weeks of exposure to world-class MIT faculty, 1-on-1 leadership coaching, innovation lab visits, business simulations, and the kind of peer conversations and connections that happen when you put some of the world's sharpest executives in one room.

AMP is one of the most transformative executive education experiences MIT Sloan has to offer — and this year, we're taking you inside it.

👀 Follow our stories over the next five weeks to see what the 2026 cohort is up to — in the classroom, around campus, and everywhere in between.

AMP 2026 is officially underway! (But AMP 2027 registration is already open if you’re thinking about your next step).

🔗 Link in bio to learn more about the Advanced Management Program.

"The problem that we have to solve is not whether AI has enough expertise," said professor Andrew W. Lo. "The answer right now is, clearly, AI has the financial expertise. What they don't have is that fiduciary duty. They don't have the ability to suffer consequences if they make a mistake to the same degree that a human advisor does." The notion of putting a client's interest ahead of yours "has no teeth" without responsibility or legal liability, he said. Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/06/ai-has-a-big-problem-when-it-comes-to-financial-advice-mit-professor.html

Are you interested in the topic? Learn more during the Artificial Intelligence for Financial Services: Tools, Opportunities, and Challenges course, Jul 23–24 or Oct 1–2 on campus: https://executive.mit.edu/course/artificial-intelligence-for-financial-services/a05U100000BIm1RIAT.html

AI may replace your financial advisor, MIT professor says — but there's one big hurdle Artificial intelligence has gotten sophisticated with respect to financial advice. But it doesn't have a legal obligation to put clients first.