Should You Choose Residential Program (SCMr) or Blended Program (SCMb)?
The standard answer is: It depends! I grew up in Malaysia and am currently a student in Supply Chain Management Residential Program (SCMr). My story
View ArticleThe Winding Path of a Lifelong Learner
Written by: Jeff Maloney, MIT SCM Blended Master Candidate There are people who love school and would look forward to each Monday morning with excitement.
View ArticleThe Value of Online Learning
By Kristof Van Cauwenberghe, SCMb Candidate 2019 I’m a 40-year-old proud father of two boys. I’m a Belgian and work full-time job as an operations
View ArticleTransitioning from an Online learning environment to the MIT campus learning...
By Ehtesham Ahmed & Tabjeel Ashraf SCMb candidate 2019 The MIT Supply Chain Management’s Blended Cohort for the year 2018-19 is a pretty diverse group
View ArticleEntrepreneurship at MIT for Future Entrepreneurs
By Don Guo, Antonius Santoso, and Yao Zhang, SCMb candidate 2019 What are the similarities among these companies: Dropbox, Intel, iRobot, Kiva Systems, Bose? Well,
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by Sunitha Ray, SCMb Candidate 2019 If someone had told me 3 years ago while my team and I were poring over an SAP Warehouse
View ArticleChoosing your subjects at MIT
Written by Oriol Rosales, SCMb candidate 2019 “Studying at MIT is like drinking from a firehose”: by now you’ve probably heard this famous MIT analogy
View ArticleBeer in Class—But Peers Afar
This post was first published on the MIT Graduate Admissions Blog in Oct, 2020 I sat in class, the professor again repeating the technique we
View ArticleKnowledge to intuition: My journey of SC1x to SCM.260
One of the best academic courses I have ever taken, SCM.260: Logistics Systems (aka 1.260, 15.770, IDS.730), teaches the fundamentals of demand forecasting, inventory management,
View ArticleThe Newsvendor Problem… Through the Eyes of a 12-year-old
Everyone (at least everyone in the MIT SCM master’s program) knows how the newsvendor problem works. The problem itself is pretty straight forward: you must
View ArticleProject Hunting in the Concrete Jungle
In New York City real estate, it is well understood that every apartment can be judged by three key characteristics: proximity, quality, and price. It
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