It is with great pleasure that I transition to my new role as the inaugural executive director of MIT’s Center for Finance and Policy (CFP). As someone who has focused on government financial institutions for many years, I welcome this new beginning as a chance to direct sunlight towards a unique se...
It is the rare journalist who tackles the topic of government credit programs and their ills. Rarer still is a popular account that accurately brings these complicated issues to life. Kudos to Michael Grunwald, who writing for Politico, did just that. I highly recommend his article. (Note that to ge...
A heated debate is raging in Congress over whether to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank. The Ex-Im Bank, as it is commonly known, is an independent federal agency charged with providing credit assistance for U.S. exporters. Beneficiaries include large corporations (in 2012, over 80% of the guarante...
Ask most finance experts about the “world’s largest financial institutions,” and you’ll hear names like Citigroup, ICBC (China’s largest bank) and HSBC. However, governments top the list of large financial institutions, with investment and insurance operations that dwarf those of any private enterpr...
Ohad Tzur, MBA ’12, joins Christopher Reichert, MOT ’04, to talk about his startup Kahoona.
Given infrastructure’s integral role in enabling high-functioning economies around the world and the concern that the pace of investment is not keeping up with the need for it, I have recently begun to focus my research on the consequences of different approaches to...
Mike Swartz, EMBA ‘23, is the CEO and Principal of Upstatement in Boston, MA.
Most wearables lack female-specific features. That's why IDEA Lab students and entrepreneurs Christy Fernandez Cull and Belen Fraile Ortiz created DaVinci Wearables, a first-to-market smart undergarment that tracks menstrual cycles and hormonal fluctuations to optimize fitness health for female athl...
Computer vision and data analytics can generate real-time information about operations, creating a major opportunity to reduce wait times. In fall 2021, United Airlines asked a team of students in Enterprise Management Lab to develop a strategy for leveraging such technologies to reduce wait times i...
Santiago Guzman and Joseph Peteul, members of the MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Class of 2018, met in a study group during the program and have since launched Cap8, a revolutionary fin-tech venture that leverages scientific methodology to build investment solutions.
