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PayPal and the Financial Wellness Initiative
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In 2015, when Dan Schulman became CEO of PayPal, a digital payments company, many people thought of it as the button they clicked when paying for online purchases. In 2015, PayPal embarked on a new mission: using technology to democratize financial services. In Schulman’s words, it would “turn the ...
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The faculty of the Work and Organization Studies Group are a highly collaborative array of leaders from across MIT, including experts in sociology, anthropology, and management.
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Members of the faculty in the MIT Sloan Applied Economics Group are exploring vital economic issues through leading-edge research like The Billion Prices Project.
Why Writing Books Is Better Than Being a Dentist for This MIT Alumna
As an MIT Sloan grad turned dentist turned writer, Gloria Chao, SB ’08, prefers creating magic for her characters to cleaning people’s mouths.
Does 'Food as Medicine' Make a Big Dent in Diabetes?
Study of rigorous trial, co-authored by Erwin H. Schell Professor Joseph Doyle, shows mixed results and suggests need to keep examining how nutrition can combat a pervasive disease.
Studying How Low-Wage Women Navigate Unemployment
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How to women in low-wage service-sector jobs respond to unemployment? That's a question Claire C. McKenna explored in her recent doctoral dissertation in the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) PhD program.
An Obligation to Deliver Knowledge, Advance Careers in Finance
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Hong Ru, MFin ’10, PhD ’15, and Juno Wei Chen, MFin ’10, are grateful for the chance to give back to the place where they met and set off on their respective career paths.
IWER Faculty Members Win Seed Grants to Explore Impacts of Generative AI
Three members of the faculty of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) have received seed grants from MIT to produce papers exploring some of the societal impacts of generative artificial intelligence.
Fostering Economic Mobility Through Good Jobs
The September 2023 issue of the IWER newsletter "Fostering Economic Mobility Through Good Jobs," is now available online.