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New MIT Sloan courses cover emergent ideas
New and updated this spring: analytics for innovation; the changing global economy; digital technology and the law.
4 ways to handle supply chain blind spots
New technology, but also long-term relationships, and even lean manufacturing.
Tallying a decade of global entrepreneurship
The MIT Legatum Center's Fellows have created nearly 15,000 jobs in developing markets.
How mobile banking is impacting lives in Africa
An affordable technology has economic and social network benefits.
Thomas Friedman isn’t having Donald Trump’s anti-globalism
In a new podcast, the veteran journalist talks fake news and worldwide interdependency.
Machine learning breaks down barriers to trade
eBay’s artificial intelligence translation system boosts Latin American exports by up to 20 percent.
25 MIT startups to watch
The delta v 2018 Demo Day highlighted some of the most creative and promising startup ideas coming out of MIT.
Hope in the face of climate change catastrophe
How one MIT Sloan researcher is using data and analytics to take evidence-based action.
Crowdsourcing crop prices
This startup relies on the distributed intelligence of East African farmers for its data.
For Kofi Annan, shared prosperity meant shared responsibility
In 2002 MIT Sloan speech, the former UN head talked trust, responsibility, and big business.