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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.

Companies are focusing more, not less, on issues of social responsibility, tackling such areas as the environment, climate change, income disparity, women’s rights, and racial justice.

Almost everyone wants to do something about climate change, but it is challenging to know what levers to pull to make real change. Simulations may be the key to finding the answer.

The economic impact of COVID-19 is eerily similar to the recession in 2007-2008. Today, history appears to be repeating itself.

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Renée Richardson Gosline discusses how the development of bots and algorithms is outpacing our understanding of who and when they help most.

The details and implications are complex and barely touched on by the frequent 30 second television spots by both the pro and con groups.

These days, a lot of people are talking about using data to make decisions. However, an often- overlooked aspect of data is that it can’t always be trusted.

The COVID-19 pandemic has reduced CO2 and local air pollutant emissions, but what are the longer-term effects on the environment?

It is well established that average productivity increases as a function of cumulative experience. But what is not known is whether that experience affects the consistency of performance.