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Over- and under-supplying hurts profits: MIT Sloan professor develops new methodology to help firms improve inventory decisions

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Amr Farahat, a visiting professor at MIT Sloan, and his colleague Joonkyum Lee, have developed a new methodology called Approximate Similarity Transformation.

Nov 13, 2017
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MIT Sloan engages Matt Zames, former Chief Operating Officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and MIT alum, as an Executive in Residence at the school

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‘Matt has been at the forefront of the financial services industry throughout his career’

Oct 24, 2017
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MIT’s Inclusive Innovation Challenge awards over $1 million to organizations harnessing technology to create greater economic opportunity for workers

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The MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy has awarded over $1 million in prize money in its second annual MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge (IIC).

Oct 13, 2017
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MIT Sloan professor uses new method to identify consumer demand trends and improve profits

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A study by MIT Sloan Prof. Georgia Perakis found not only can consumer trends be predicted, but that they also can be used to optimize targeted promotions and improve profits by an average of 9.4%.

Oct 13, 2017
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Researchers design new pricing system for selling large amounts of data

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Researchers, including MIT Sloan's Alessandro Bonatti, have designed what they believe is an improved, quantitative way for big-data providers to price the information they sell to informed customers.

Oct 4, 2017
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New research points to the growing imp. of STEM-intensive services

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A new working paper from MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Mercedes Delgado and HBS senior fellow Karen G. Mills separates high-wage and STEM-intensive supply chain services from Main Street services.

Oct 3, 2017
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