Fighting Poverty With Direct Cash Payments
The alumni-founded GiveDirectly has delivered over $500 million in cash to impoverished people, letting recipients decide how best to meet their needs.
The alumni-founded GiveDirectly has delivered over $500 million in cash to impoverished people, letting recipients decide how best to meet their needs.
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After taking second place at the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition Launch event in May, Inclusively.ai wants to make diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging even more actionable.
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Perrin Quarshie, MBA ’16, hoped to learn what pitfalls to avoid and how to make a sustainable career during the 2008 recession. What he found, though, would go far beyond his short-term future.
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MIT spinout Essmart has created a supply chain to help local retail shops in rural India sell life-improving products.
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Yousaf Bajwa, MBA ’22, is an aerospace fanatic and a community builder on a mission to create inclusive spaces for people with FLI backgrounds at the school and beyond.
Christina Peña’s goal is to “innovate in the sphere of education.” Mission-driven with a passion for education technology, she arrived at MIT Sloan without a background in business, excited to dive into data analytics and entrepreneurship—and even start an EdTech venture of her own.
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Tim Rowe, MBA ’95, spoke at the iLead Speaker Series in late March about how Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) and CIC Health came to be.
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Continuus Pharmaceuticals, a Massachusetts-based startup focused on making medicine affordable and accessible all over the world, turned to H-Lab for help developing an actionable distribution strategy for ICM-made pharmaceuticals.
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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.