Finance and Risk

A look at how platforms are changing heavy industry, finance, health care, and e-commerce.

Researchers launched an in-house Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) challenge to beat MIT’s machine-learning models for predicting clinical trial outcomes. The results are now available.

Better than mean variance? This approach to portfolio formation accounts for shocks like pandemics and “drifts” like climate change.

Institutional investors like Goldman Sachs and Citigroup have pledged to invest in projects that tackle the climate crisis. Here’s how they’re doing it — and where challenges remain.

Research topics include analyzing firm behavior, data-driven sequential decision-making, inequality and worker power, and renewable energy integration.

How to create an "automation center of excellence" and develop capabilities for success after the pandemic.

A new report offers solutions to the problems that hound social media, from the spread of misinformation to the lack of competition.

To jump-start sustainable investing, make sure investor goals are aligned, refresh outdated mental models, and standardize how impact is ranked and measured.

Index funds with an environmental, social, and governance mandate — like those from Vanguard and BlackRock — don’t always vote in alignment with shareholders’ preferences.

Subscriptions and identify verification are just two of the ways social media companies could stem the tide of inflammatory and inaccurate content.