An interest rate for public investments and policies that puts a present value on costs and benefits that are expected to occur in the future.
A business decision focused on reducing complexity in pursuit of better outcomes for customers and growth for the company.
As applied to digital platforms and other companies, the idea that researchers should be able to study the algorithms that make decisions and recommendations.
The notion that technological change will automatically lead to better outcomes for society, especially for workers via the labor market.
This brief examines whether renewable energy is driving up electricity bills, finding that utility-scale wind and solar are linked to lower prices while rooftop solar depends on rate design.
The condition in which technological innovation is adapted to help workers, ultimately resulting in shared economic prosperity.
"Economic uncertainty makes business people very uncomfortable, and that generally depresses investment everywhere," MIT Sloan Professor John Sterman told the Texas Tribune.
The MIT Climate Policy Center was one of the organizers of an event on this topic hosted by the Technology Mechanism under the UNFCCC. MIT Professor Christoph Reinhart was one of the presenters.
This thesis investigates how systemic investing can be evaluated by integrating systems thinking, evaluation theory, and investing practice.
In an MIT climate change podcast, Joshua Hodge, Research Director of the MIT Climate Policy Center, discusses the potential benefits of a bigger, better electric transmission system.
