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Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics, Professor, Finance
bKash Founder and CEO on the Transformative Impact of Financial Inclusion
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Kamal Quadir, MBA ’05, spoke with students, faculty, and alumni at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship in March.
Brazil Teams Up with Sloanies to Combat Retirement Crisis
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In late January, Brazil launched the RendA+ treasury bond instrument, a new retirement security adapted from the work of School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance and Nobel Prize in Economics laureate Robert C. Merton, PhD ’70, and Arun Muralidhar, PhD ’92.
An Evening of Discovery at the MIT Museum
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Invited guests attended a special event at the new MIT Museum location in Kendall Square in early December.
Creating a More Inclusive Global Movement
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Professors Tavneet Suri and Esther Duflo recently participated in a fireside chat at the MIT Sloan Women’s Conference.
Transforming China’s Fintech Innovation Ecosystem
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Chi-Won Yoon, SB ’82, SM ’86, recently met with students in China Lab, an Action Learning course, to discuss the future of fintech and cryptocurrencies in China.
TravlerPack Travels Back to Cambridge
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Many of the MIT alumni who created the TravlerPack sleeping bag for Syrian refugees, including Sloanie Vick Liu, SB ’20, will return to campus for a special in-person ceremony celebrating the Classes of 2020 and 2021.
Changing the World With Systems Thinking
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Alumnae and friends from around the globe gathered online in January to discuss how they could come together to identify global problems and take action.
The Wisdom of Lotte Bailyn: Envisioning a New World of Work
For decades, MIT Sloan Professor Lotte Bailyn has been calling for changes in the way work is organized -- often in ways that have proven prescient.