February 15, 2022
In the Media

In an interview with Quartz, executive director of MIT’s master’s program in supply chain management Maria Jesus Saénz discussed the increase in supply chain professionals recruited directly from the program.

In the first year or so of [Covid-19], given the uncertainties, prospective students were reluctant to spend money on a new course, so enrollment was shaky, said Maria Jesus Saénz, the executive director of MIT’s master’s program in supply chain management. Companies, too, were temporarily unsure of hiring students. But now, Saénz said, “the students are coming, and the companies are coming as well.” Everyone’s confident that the supply chain disruptions that made headlines in the past two years won’t be the last.

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