Faculty & Research

Ernest J. Moniz is director of the MIT Energy Initiative

Brynjolfsson is director of the MIT Center for Digital Business

Castilla and Denise Lewin Loyd speak at annual MIT event

James Utterback was honored by KU Leuven in Belgium

Professor Robert Merton is interviewed by the Investment Management Consultants Association on "Harnessing the Building Blocks of Economic Valuation" in the latest issue of The Journal of Investment Consulting.

A new study by Professor Andrew Lo, James Watkins and Dimitrios Bias shows that investment in disease research brings significant returns and that there is significant variation among diseases, with some harder to diagnose and treat.

Thanks to hard-to-obtain access to plant-level data retained by the U.S. Census Bureau, MIT Sloan School of Management Prof. Xavier Giroud recently found that companies invest more in plants located closer to headquarters and that those plants tend to be more productive. But proximity, he says, needs to be defined by travel time, not geographic distance.

An independent study project using coconuts as a biofuel had Divya Agarwal, MBA '13, working in Fiji and Vanuatu for five weeks over winter break.

Led by Drazen Prelec, research scientists use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain activity in experimental subjects making real decisions.

Award is sponsored by General Motors Corp.

Collective intelligence, in some form, has been around at least as long as humans have. Families, armies, countries, and companies have all—at least sometimes—acted collectively in ways that seem intelligent.

There is something broken in the way many businesses obtain the resources necessary for growth. Most companies are very good at identifying what those new resources are, and nearly all of them take that challenge seriously.

As the global business community becomes more interconnected by the minute and big companies adopt a hyper-specialized model, today’s managers are caught in the middle. They feel a constant tension between the need for agility to move in this fast-paced and changing world, and the quest for purpose, direction, and meaning.

In an interview with InvestmentNews, Professor Andrew Lo discusses how investors can reduce the surprises in risk through asset allocation.

Bill Audet talks about current trends in venture capital.

That's according to MIT Sloan researchers Antoinette Schoar and Luo Zuo. In their working paper, "Shaped by Booms and Busts: How the Economy Impacts CEO Careers and Management Style," Schoar and Zuo write that the CEOs who enter the labor market during an economic downturn tend to enjoy less success than those who begin careers in a buoyant economy.

"Unwinding Fannie and Freddie over a period of time seems the best way to go. This could happen through restructuring the overall loan support that is provided or by lowering the CLL every year by a preset amount", explains Professor Antoinette Schoar in a recently published article.

MIT President Susan Hockfield leads group in Davos.

Deborah Lucas, MIT Sloan Professor of Finance, recently talked to fortune magazine about government credit programs.