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MIT’s Hacking Arts Festival
Hackathon to feature Jibo, the world's first social robot, developed at MIT
Nov 7, 2016
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Entrepreneurship
Inaugural MIT Future of People conference to explore how science and technology will shape the body, mind and spirit
How will science and technology impact the human body, mind, and society in the 21st century? The inaugural Future of People conference will explore this increasingly important question.
Nov 10, 2016
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Entrepreneurship
Celebrating a half century of MIT Entrepreneurship: MIT Sloan will host a two-day event to honor the Institute’s past innovators and salute the next generation
The celebration takes place Nov. 11th and 12th, and features speeches, panel discussions, and demonstrations that showcase the breadth of entrepreneurship throughout MIT.
Nov 10, 2016
Ideas Made to Matter
Finance
Rethinking how the housing crisis happened
New research casts into doubt the central storyline of 2008 — that this was ever a subprime crisis to begin with.
Nov 9, 2016
Ideas Made to Matter
Day of debate, discussion remembers MIT’s Lester Thurow
Influential “kid from Bozeman, Montana” was one of the first economists to recognize the income gap.
Oct 26, 2016
Ideas Made to Matter
Economics
Economist Bengt Holmström’s Nobel Prize win delights MIT colleagues
Faculty members cite his transformative work on contract theory.
Oct 11, 2016
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Innovation
MIT’s inaugural Inclusive Innovation Competition awards $1 million to organizations harnessing technology to create economic opportunities for low-and middle-wage workers
The MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE) announced the winners of $1 million in prize money in the first-annual Inclusive Innovation Competition.
Sep 27, 2016
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Platform Strategy
MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy to host Platform Strategy Summit
Summit workshops to address strategic challenges of launching, growing, and defending businesses in a network world
Jun 28, 2016
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Diversity
Diversity: A diverse approach works
A new study of the diversity approaches of 151 law firms shows that women and racial minorities may not only have different, but dramatically opposite, responses to the same statement.
Jul 20, 2016
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Finance
MIT Sloan Prof. Robert C. Merton named S. Donald Sussman Fellow
MIT Sloan recently announced that Robert C. Merton was named the recipient of the S. Donald Sussman Fellowship.
Jul 25, 2016