In their new book, “Power and Progress,” Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson ask whether the benefits of AI will be shared widely or feed inequality.
The biennial prize recognizes an individual who had made outstanding contributions to the advancement of financial policy research or practice, which is the core mission of the MIT GCFP.
New study shows big changes early in life can help strengthen connections with others.
Since the 2016 U.S. Presidential election and British “Brexit” referendum — and then COVID-19 — opened the floodgates on fake news, research has delved into the psychology behind online misinformation
Across history, some bursts of lending to companies and individuals, or so-called "credit booms," have led to busts, while others haven't.
Recent U.S. elections have raised the question of whether “microtargeting,” the use of extensive online data to tailor persuasive messages to voters, has altered the playing field of politics.
Since failure is inevitable in all human endeavors, it is important for future business leaders to learn to face the fear of failure and then to discover how to turn failure into success.
We’ve all been there. In the midst of a productive conversation with a colleague, something unexpected happens.
Dimitris Bertsimas and Nikolaos Trichakis modeled a points-based framework called continuous distribution (CD) based on AI and machine learning to aid in allocating lung transplants.
Companies helmed by or fronted by celebrities can have meteoric rises, but can also face dramatic and public setbacks.
