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MIT Sloan Faculty Share Latest Insights at Reunion 2025
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Faculty presented the latest insights from their work in corporate leadership, precision medicine, climate policy, personal finance, and deep tech during MIT Sloan Reunion 2025.
Can we afford our morals?
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A new book from an MIT Sloan professor explores how we balance doing what’s right with doing what works — and what we’re really willing to give up for our values.
MIT Sloan’s 2025 summer book collection
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Eight research-backed titles covering retirement transitions, artificial intelligence and skills development, and how to build an innovation advantage.
New book explores the economic limits of a moral life
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Two economists offer a framework for thinking about the place of values in the decisions of modern life.
Our Mission
Our research aims to build an understanding of the benefits and risks as technologies change consumer financial markets. How are people, markets, and financial institutions leveraging new technologies to deal with the classic challenges of consumer financial services? And how do these challenges affect the allocation of risks across the economy and the regulatory landscape?
Our current areas of focus include Financial Decision Making, FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Savings and Lending Markets, and Retirement. Our Sloan Finance faculty researchers, in collaboration with an interdisciplinary set of researchers across Sloan and MIT, are working with extensive new data sets and new models to analyze household financial decisions and their implications for the economy and financial markets.