The world's first university-based executive education program — the Sloan Fellows — was created in 1931 under the sponsorship of Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., the 1895 MIT graduate who was then chairman of General Motors.
A Sloan Foundation grant established the MIT School of Industrial Management in 1952 charged with educating the "ideal manager." Today, MIT Sloan is one of the world's leading innovators in management research and practices.
Sloan is considered a top five business school in the United States.