Professor Charles Fine
Charles Fine is the Chrysler LGO Professor at MIT Sloan and the founding President and Dean of Asia School of Business. He was a founding co-director of both MIT’s Communications Futures Program and the Tata Center for Technology and Design at MIT. For over 30 years, Professor Fine has taught at MIT Sloan courses in Operations Strategy, Supply Chain Management, Quality Management, and Innovation.
His research focuses on supply chain strategy and value chain roadmapping, with a particular focus on fast-clockspeed manufacturing industries. Professor Fine’s work has supported design and improvement of supply chain relationships for companies in electronics, automotive, aerospace, communications, and consumer products. His work has also examined outsourcing dynamics, with a focus on dynamic models for assessing the leverage among the various components in complex industrial value chains and the principles for value chain design, based on strategic and logistical assessments. Most recenlty, he worksin the area of operations strategy for early-stage, entrepreneurial organizations.
Interests
Author of Clockspeed: Winning Industry Control in the Age of Temporary Advantage (Perseus Books, 1998) and Faster, Smarter, Greener: The Future of the Car and Urban Mobility (MIT Press, 2017).
Education
B.A. in Mathematics and Management Science, Duke University
M.S. in Operations Research, Stanford University
Ph.D. in Business Administration, Stanford University
Areas of Expertise
Operation Strategies, Supply Chain Management, Entrepreneurship, Education, System Dynamics, Quality Management, and Innovation
Consulting Services
Professor Fine also teaches and consults widely with such clients as 3M, Accenture, Agile Software, Alcan, BellSouth, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bombardier, Caterpillar, Chrysler, Delphi Automotive, Deutsche Bank Alex Brown, Embraer, Fluor, GE, GM, Goodyear, HP, Honeywell, Intel, Kodak, Lucent, Mercury Computer, Merrill Lynch, Motorola, NCR, Nokia, Nortel, Oracle, Polaroid, PTC, Research-in-Motion, RollsRoyce, Sematech, Teradyne, Toyota, TRW, Unilever, Volkswagen, Volvo, and Walsin Lihwa.
Professor Loredana Padurean
Prof. Loredana Padurean is a global award-winning academic, entrepreneur, author and public speaker, with deep expertise in innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership, currently teaching at Northeastern University in Boston.
She is a captivating TedX speaker, with over 350 events globally, and top-tier clients such as TBWA, State Street, China Construction Bank, European Commission, MITRE, Maybank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, BCP Peru, and more.
She is the winner of "Distinguished Woman Entrepreneur Lifetime Achievement Award" at the World Women Economic & Business Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and the winner of “Teaching Innovation & Excellence” award at Northeastern University and two-time winner of the Swiss National Science Foundation grant for young researchers have been developing collaborative relationships, projects and executive programs with over 250 companies in Southeast Asia and beyond.
Interests
Professor Loredana has working experience in the United States, India, Switzerland, Romania, Italy and Malaysia. She is an international keynote and TedX speaker that shared the stage with Steve Wozniak, Bob Geldof, ministers, deans, authors and public figures in the United States, Asia-Pacific, and Europe. Her most popular talk is “Nail it, Scale it, Sail it – An Entrepreneurial Journey” in TedX Cluj Napoca, Romania.
Education
B.A. in International Relations, Babes Bolyai University
M.A. in Economics and Communication, Universita Della Svizzera Italiana
Ph.D. in Magagement, Universita Della Svizzera Italiana
Areas of Expertise
Entrepreneurship, General Management, Operations for Entrepreneurs, Action/Experiential Learning, SMART Skills, and Innovation
Consulting Services
Professor Loredana has taught in the MIT Sloan Executive Program for General Management, Driving Strategic Innovation and the MIT Sloan Bootcamp, along with Executive Programs in Asia for companies such as Google Malaysia, China Construction Bank, AirAsia, Thomson Hospital, Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council, Maybank, CIMB, RHB, Prudential, Khazanah Nasional, Venture for America, Astro, Axiata, Royal Selangor, Experian and GreenTech.