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...
Invited guests attended a special event at the new MIT Museum location in Kendall Square in early December.
Ambika Singh, MBA ’16, believes that acknowledging and empowering the values of both customers and employees is paramount to what Armoire is trying to accomplish.
The extended MIT Sloan alumni community had many unique stories to tell this year.
Ohad Tzur, MBA ’12, joins Christopher Reichert, MOT ’04, to talk about his startup Kahoona.
The energy of the MIT Sloan alumnae community was palpable in 2022.
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...
