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MIT Sloan Faculty and Alumni COVID Content Archive
July 2020
- How to Close America’s COVID-19 Testing Deficit (July 31)
- Learning to Live With Coronavirus Risk (July 29, 2020)
- The misinformation age has exacerbated–and been exacerbated by–the coronavirus pandemic (July 23, 2020)
- New online collaboration platform aims to solve COVID-19 problems (July 23, 2020)
- A COVID-19 vaccine at what price? Should all Americans be able to get a shot for free? (July 21, 2020)
- The Greatest Coronavirus Risks When You Fly (July 15, 2020)
- Will COVID Pandemic's Environmental Benefit Last? (July 15, 2020)
- ESG Investing in the Pandemic Shows Power of Luck (July 15, 2020)
- Americans and the Virus (July 14, 2020)
- MIT researchers found a way to deter people from sharing COVID-19 conspiracies (July 10, 2020)
- How COVID-19 has changed grocery shopping (July 7, 2020)
- The pandemic exposed workers' lack of power (July 6, 2020)
- COVID-19 risk halved when airplane middle seats empty, expert statistician says (July 6, 2020)
- African Americans die more frequently from Covid-19, but MIT researchers say poverty isn’t why (July 6, 2020)
- Pandemic Makes Modeling's Importance Clear (July 1, 2020)
- Worldwide COVID-19 Cases Far Beyond Official Numbers (July 1, 2020)
June 2020
- Actual number of COVID-19 cases is 12 times higher than reported, with 50 percent more deaths, says MIT study (June 30, 2020)
- Waze for Viruses (June 30, 2020)
- Devastating Economic Consequences of Businesses Unable to Work Remotely (June 29, 2020)
- 3 ways leaders can build a stronger security culture (June 29, 2020)
- The MIT Press and UC Berkeley launch Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 (June 29, 2020)
- Rebounding from COVID-19: How whole-person health care can guide the way (June 18, 2020)
- 3 reasons why the workplace can’t return to normal after COVID-19 (June 18, 2020)
- Here’s how countries can manage the coming debt crisis (June 18, 2020)
- Why tech didn’t save us from COVID-19 (June 17, 2020)
- MIT Study: Race An Important Factor In Determining Who Dies From COVID-19 (June 15, 2020)
- Paying for coronavirus will have to be like war debt – spread over generations (June 11, 2020)
- COVID-19 Deaths Linked to Social Determinants of Health Data (June 10, 2020)
- MIT plays key role in statewide effort to produce PPE (June 9, 2020)
- What if working from home goes on … forever? (June 9, 2020)
- Updates on how AI being employed to speed COVID-19 treatments and management (June 5, 2020)
- The post-COVID state (June 5, 2020)
- CBO: 10 Years To Restore Economy. So Why Are Stocks Up 40%? (June 4, 2020)
- Rapidly engineering ventilators for the Covid-19 pandemic (June 2, 2020)
- Coronavirus brought economic catastrophe. Here are 10 experts on how to recover (June 1, 2020)
- Saving the Most Vulnerable from COVID-19 (June 1, 2020)
May 2020
- Why the COVID-19 crisis won't turn young people away from self employment (May 29, 2020)
- MIT Sloan study shows larger nonprofit endowment funds generate higher returns (May 28, 2020)
- Should We Fear Post-Pandemic Inflation? (May 28, 2020)
- We cannot ignore the links between COVID-19 and the warming planet (May 27, 2020)
- Hot, Humid Weather Slows SARS-CoV-2 Transmission, but Won’t End the Crisis (May 27, 2020)
- The future of health and medicine in low- and middle-income countries (May 27, 2020)
- Rebuilding the Economy Around Good Jobs (May 27, 2020)
- Vaccines more likely to get through clinical trials than other types of drugs, MIT study finds (May 27, 2020)
- How often do vaccine trials hit paydirt? (May 27, 2020)
- MIT professor upbeat on virus outlook (May 25, 2020)
- New MIT Study Shows The Cost Of The Patchwork Response To Coronavirus In The U.S. (May 21, 2020)
- What can the Federal Reserve do to help the economy? (May 20, 2020)
- MIT-developed algorithm seeks to accelerate drug approvals during COVID-19 pandemic (May 20, 2020)
- Is it safe to visit gyms, cafes, and stores? Here's what the data says (May 20, 2020)
- Experts predict long, slow climb toward economic recovery (May 19, 2020)
- The trouble with mandatory coronavirus testing in nursing homes (May 19, 2020)
- Workers, advocates express safety concerns about reopening plan (May 18, 2020)
- An open letter from scientists across the globe calling for use of fabric masks to prevent COVID-19 (May 14, 2020)
- Harvard and MIT researchers are developing a face mask that lights up when it detects the coronavirus (May 13, 2020)
- Virtual hackathon unites international community to tackle Covid-19 (May 13, 2020)
- Saving lives or saving the economy? Reopening doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing proposition (May 13, 2020)
- How to reopen the economy? (May 12, 2020)
- We're taking the wrong lesson from the 1918 pandemic (May 11, 2020)
- US job losses have reached Great Depression levels. Did it have to be that way? (May 9, 2020)
- Is this crisis giving capitalism a moral nudge? (May 8, 2020)
- All worked up: Could the pandemic give America's labor movement a boost? (May 7, 2020)
- Where the Small-Business Relief Loans Have Gone (May 7, 2020)
- Which Businesses Should Reopen First? A New MIT Study Has Answers. (May 8, 2020)
- MIT Sloan study: Summer’s heat and humidity not going to stop the coronavirus (May 8, 2020)
- Targeted lockdowns are better (May 4, 2020)
- Why we need a 'Digital WPA' similar to the Depression-era Works Progress Administration (May 4, 2020)
- How a few MIT students produced one of the best hackathons on COVID-19 (May 4, 2020)
- How we can reopen the U.S. economy and keep workers safe without 'Big Brother' watching us (May 3, 2020)
- What is the future of work in a post-coronavirus world? (May 1, 2020)
- Blockchain may offer solutions to fighting COVID-19 (May 1, 2020)
- What we owe essential workers (May 1, 2020)
- Weekly calls keep students connected to the Institute during a pandemic (May 1, 2020)
April 2020
- Analysis: The pandemic is making America’s retirement crisis worse. Here’s what you can do (April 30, 2020)
- From lockdown to lock-in (April 30, 2020)
- Anti-Fragility and Biggie Smalls: How Startups Can Pivot Amid COVID-19 (April 30, 2020)
- COVID-19 forecasts paint grim spring picture for Mass., death projections up as other states open up (April 30, 2020)
- MIT Sloan Executive Education pivots to live online courses (April 29, 2020)
- Some Entrepreneurs Are Adapting To A COVID-19 World. Others, Not So Much (April 29, 2020)
- Brakes or bans: Protecting financial markets during a pandemic (April 28, 2020)
- Workforce Education Project details how Covid-19 upends assumptions (April 28, 2020)
- Managing in isolation: It’s even lonelier at the top (April 27, 2020)
- If hospitals and supermarkets are the new front line, we need a new GI bill (April 27, 2020)
- MIT is raising money for coronavirus: Here’s a Zoom call explaining how to bid on lunch with professors (April 28, 2020)
- After a Decade of Promises, Blockchain Still Fails to Deliver Privacy (April 24, 2020)
- The Need For Innovation, Especially In A Crisis (April 24, 2020)
- What 5 Coronavirus Models Say the Next Month Will Look Like (April 22, 2020)
- MIT team draws on supply chain expertise to help protect health workers from COVID-19 (April 21, 2020)
- Stirrings of unrest around the world could portend turmoil as economies collapse (April 19, 2020)
- There's a problem with Facebook's coronavirus misinformation features (April 17, 2020)
- How to reduce coronavirus deaths in nursing homes (April 17, 2020)
- New MIT analytics tools predict COVID-19 patient outcomes and more (April 16, 2020)
- Giving a voice – and support – to American workers (April 15, 2020)
- A fed bailout is wrong for states and cities (April 15, 2020)
- MIT opens the Sean Collier Care Center for patients with COVID-19 (April 15, 2020)
- How digital contact tracing slowed COVID-19 in East Asia (April 15, 2020)
- Public health interventions in the COVID-19 pandemic can help the economy recover (April 13, 2020)
- MIT Solve rises to meet health security and pandemic challenge (April 13, 2020)
- Researchers reveal up-to-date COVID-19 Forecasting Model (April 10, 2020)
- IMF's Georgieva Creates External Advisory Panel on Pandemic (April 10, 2020)
- Targeted social distancing — the way to reopen the economy and keep it open (April 10, 2020)
- One Mask at a Time: MIT Turns Thought into Action (April 10, 2020)
- How to Avoid Misinformation About COVID-19 (April 9, 2020)
- MIT students, Dubuque foundation team up to evaluate pandemic impact on immigrant workforce (April 9, 2020)
- Biobot Analytics Finds COVID-19 Cases ‘an Order of Magnitude Higher’ than Tests Reveal (April 9, 2020)
- MIT offers assistance to City of Cambridge during COVID-19 crisis (April 9, 2020)
- In virtual town hall, MIT leadership updates community on COVID-19 responses (April 9, 2020)
- Hackathons Target Coronavirus (April 9, 2020)
- MIT has an ambitious plan to detect if you’ve been exposed to the coronavirus (April 9, 2020)
- How to make better decisions about coronavirus (April 8, 2020)
- Stop COVID or save the economy? We can do both. (April 8, 2020)
- A New Superpower in the Making: Awareness-Based Collective Action (April 8, 2020)
- Podcast: The Impact of Covid-19 on the Global Economy (April 7, 2020)
- COVID-19 Conversations (April 6, 2020)
- Pandemic-onomics: Lessons From The Spanish Flu (April 6, 2020)
- Amid Warnings of a Coronavirus ‘Pearl Harbor,’ Governors Walk a Fine Line (April 6, 2020)
- How Will This Change Us? Is There Room for Optimism? (April 5, 2020)
- MIT’s entrepreneurial ecosystem steps up to the challenge of Covid-19 (April 3, 2020)
- 6.65 million file jobless claims as job market collapses under weight of coronavirus pandemic (April 2, 2020)
- Aggressive Social Distancing Now Is Good For The Economy Later, Study Finds (April 1, 2020)
- Are Circuit Breakers Doing Their Job? (April 1, 2020)
- Ministry of Supply to donate 10,000 masks to local healthcare facilities (April 1, 2020)
March 2020
- The data speak: Stronger pandemic response yields better economic recovery (March 31, 2020)
- Andrew McAfee Discusses Digital Technology and COVID-19 (March 31, 2020)
- The U.S. Weighs the Grim Math of Death vs. The Economy (March 30, 2020)
- 3 Questions: Jonathan Parker on building an economic recovery (March 30, 2020)
- Welcome to the Post-Virus World (March 30, 2020)
- How Can’t-Close Retailers Are Keeping Workers Safe (March 30, 2020)
- A staggering 3.3 million people filed for unemployment as economic toll mounts (March 30, 2020)
- Crowdsourcing truth and how journalists can avoid spreading coronavirus misinformation: Q and A with MIT professor David Rand (March 27, 2020)
- MIT-based team works on rapid deployment of open-source, low-cost ventilator (March 26, 2020)
- A possible path to protect our economy and hospitals from the coronavirus (March 26, 2020)
- MIT-affiliated companies take on COVID-19 (March 26, 2020)
- A Simple Way Forward to Address the Economy During the Pandemic (March 25, 2020)
- Managing the Flow of Ideas in a Pandemic (March 25, 2020)
- Supply chain outlook: The timing of the slowdown (March 25, 2020)
- From 'Hello' To 'Can You Hear Me?': How The Coronavirus Could Change Office Culture (March 25, 2020)
- Broad Institute Can Now Process 1,000 Coronavirus Tests A Day (March 24, 2020)
- A Traditional Economic Stimulus Won’t Work. Here’s What Might. (March 24, 2020)
- An MIT team hopes to publish open-source designs for a low-cost ventilator (March 24, 2020)
- The Right Way to Fight Fake News (March 24, 2020)
- Ford executive chairman: ‘We’re going as fast as we can’ to make medical supplies (March 24, 2020)
- MIT joins White House supercomputing effort to speed up search for COVID-19 solutions (March 23, 2020)
- Digital Jobs Will Insulate Some U.S. Areas From COVID-19 Shock (March 23, 2020)
- The true heroes of COVID-19 and how they're filling the void at the top (March 22, 2020)
- How the ‘Beer Game’ Helps Retailers Solve Toilet Paper Crisis (March 21, 2020)
- Will Coronavirus Spark the Overdue Platform Revolution in Healthcare? (March 20, 2020)
- The Man Mapping Coronavirus With Smart Thermometers (March 20, 2020)
- MIT Solve launches global challenge around health security and pandemics (March 20, 2020)
- MIT Sloan Professor Tom Kochan Calls for Greater Say for Workers in Coronavirus Response (March 20, 2020)
- We Lead Three Universities. It’s Time for Drastic Action (March 17, 2020)
- Fighting COVID-19 misinformation on social media: Experimental evidence for a scalable accuracy nudge intervention (March 17, 2020)
- Eight Emerging Lessons: From Coronavirus to Climate Action (March 16, 2020)
- The COVID-19 Perception Problem (March 16, 2020)
- "Social Distancing" and Mental Health (March 16, 2020)
- The Economic Fallout from COVID-19 (March 16, 2020)
- A COVID-19 Behavior Change Primer (March 15, 2020)
- Coronavirus and price discovery during black swan events (March 15, 2020)
- Collective Leadership for the Pandemic (March 14, 2020)
- ‘Huge role’ for quants in COVID-19 response (March 10, 2020)
- Market reaction is overdone: Robert Pozen (March 5, 2020)