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As credit cards have become a popular form of payment method, researchers have noticed an interesting trend. People tend to spend more when using credit cards than cash. Not only are they more likely to buy something at a higher price, they also are likely to give larger tips and make more impulse b...

Pandemic defense requires a massive government program that engages the private sector; the public sector cannot and has not been able to handle health security problems of scale. However, relevant capabilities for invention, production, and distribution exist both in commerce and higher education. ...

The state must amend state law to provide competitive wages and a path to CNA certification for frontline workers who stepped up to serve as nurse aides during the pandemic.

If one roof covered with solar panels is good, then two are twice as good, right? And 100 are 100 times as good? That isn’t true with a lot of good things...

When a startup disrupts incumbent market leaders and changes the basis of competition in an industry, as Tesla is doing in auto manufacturing, it’s the new problems they face and overcome that gives them the real advantage.

MIT Media Lab's Rosalind Picard will be a guest at "Live do Valor," hosted by Valor Econômico editor João Luiz Rosa, to discuss new developments in artificial intelligence applied to the healthcare industry.

MIT Sloan Lecturer Malia Lazu will discuss the role and responsibility of business to accelerate equity and inclusion in the wake of the historic protests following George Floyd’s murder.

This counter-intuitive result emerges because countries actually have little choice in how much they must reduce contact levels to control the epidemic.

Online shopping is even more popular now because of the pandemic. Buyer beware: Product rankings can be based on fraudulent data like fake clicks, purchases, and reviews.

Is Alibaba becoming too big to fail? It’s a question that’s on the minds of Chinese regulators.