Blog Archive Professor Profiles Arnold Barnett, MIT Sloan School of Management

Blog Archive Professor Profiles Arnold Barnett, MIT Sloan School of Management Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand, but the educational experience itself is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Each Wednesday, we profile a standout professor as identified by students. Today, we profile Arnold Barnett from the MIT Sloan School of Management. George Eastman Professor of Management Science Arnold “Arnie” Barnett (“Communicating with Data”) is an expert in applied mathematical modeling with a focus on problems related to health and safety, and he is widely considered the nation’s leading expert on aviation safety. According to students with whom mbaMission spoke, he is known at Sloan for being able to make statistics not just comprehensible, but fascinating and even funny. Despite what some might consider the somewhat dry nature of his subject matter, Barnett has been honored by Sloan students with teaching awards ten times, including the Teacher of the Year Award in 1995 and 2008. One second-year student we interviewed noted in particular “his humorous approach in examining the world.” For more information about the MIT Sloan School of Management and 14 other top-ranked MBA schools, check out the mbaMission Insider’s Guides. Share ThisTweet Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) Professor Profiles