Alfred Sloan, Philanthropist

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic nonprofit institution, was established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr., then President and Chief Executive Officer of the General Motors Corporation.

The MIT Sloan School of Management, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of the world’s leading business schools — conducting cutting-edge research and providing management education to top students from more than 60 countries. The world’s first university-based executive education program — the MIT Sloan Fellows — was created in 1931 under the sponsorship of Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., an 1895 MIT graduate who was then chairman of General Motors.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), the world's oldest and largest private cancer center, has devoted more than a century to patient care as well as to innovative research, making significant contributions to new and better therapies for the treatment of cancer. Founded in 1884 as the New York Cancer Hospital,in the 1940s, Alfred P. Sloan and Charles F. Kettering established the Sloan-Kettering Institute (SKI) . SKI has since become one of the nation's premier biomedical research institutions. Built adjacent to Memorial Hospital, SKI was formally dedicated in 1948. In 1980, SKI and Memorial Hospital were unified into a single entity, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.