Ideas Made to Matter
Zach Church
Editorial Director
Zach leads the MIT Sloan editorial team, which develops news and content for an audience of global business leaders. This includes the Ideas Made to Matter website, the Thinking Forward newsletter, and MIT Sloan social media. The team brings the work, ideas, and insights of MIT Sloan’s faculty, researchers, alumni, students, and visitors to readers in a way that inspires creative thinking and problem-solving for their own work and lives.
Zach joined MIT Sloan in 2010. Prior to that he managed news and social media at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass., was a staff writer covering CIOs and leadership at TechTarget, and was a city and politics reporter covering Lawrence, Mass. and other New England communities. He is a graduate of the University at Albany.
Articles from Zach Church
Finding value in the hard work of quant ESG investing
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For PanAgora’s chief investment officer, mining new data sources is central to an ESG investment strategy.
4 researchers join MIT Sloan faculty
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Research topics include analyzing firm behavior, data-driven sequential decision-making, inequality and worker power, and renewable energy integration.
Building an inclusive innovation economy
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In a new conversation series, leaders in entrepreneurship, education, and other fields propose ways that innovation economies can benefit everyone.
Finding positive impact and returns in clean energy
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At Generate Capital, Yancan “Lydia” Li proves the potential of impact investing through successful projects and real metrics.
2 from MIT Sloan make Thinkers50 Radar list
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Researchers explore working with intelligent machines and what happens when culture meets globalization.
Gary Gensler on fintech, regulation, and blockchain
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Insights and free online classes on fintech, blockchain, and more from Gensler’s work at MIT Sloan.
In Bloomberg’s ESG scores, ideas from across industries
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Lenora Suki turns to impact-oriented, sustainable investors for inspiration, feedback, and collaboration.
Ideas Made to Matter 2020 in review
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The sudden shift to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic dominated management discussion in 2020.
For executives, a pledge for racial equity
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Former WeWork executive Craig Robinson wants you to sign the Business for Racial Equity Pledge. Here’s why.
Hedge fund success, then a pivot with purpose
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Just out of college, Christina Qi was trading billions a day at Domeyard. Then she had a different idea.