A Fireside Chat with Tavneet Suri and Esther Duflo
A Fireside Chat with Professor Tavneet Suri and Professor Esther Duflo at the MIT Sloan Women's Conference.
A Fireside Chat with Professor Tavneet Suri and Professor Esther Duflo at the MIT Sloan Women's Conference.
Kathryn Hawkes, Associate Dean, Global Programs and External Relations and David Schmittlein, John C Head III Dean, deliver the opening remarks at the MIT Sloan Women's Conference.
The United States would have that number of days of diesel fuel left [only] "if all of our oil refineries stopped making fuel today."
"I do think it's really incumbent on a good manager to make sure that people are working where and how they're supposed to in a healthy way."
"The eventual new and very big kid on the block is, under all but extreme scenarios, China and, after China, India."
"America's elderly and disabled are cared for by a low-wage and poorly trained workforce. Continuing in this way is in no one's in interest."
Profs. Robert Merton and Simon Johnson join PBS economics correspondent Paul Solman to discuss interest rates and investing.
"If you want to predict the success of a new offering in the marketplace, the most important thing is how different it is."
"Getting workers to actually use the technologies will turn out to be just as important as making sure the systems work in the first place."
"The goal was a pandemic insurance, to make sure that people who were falling through the cracks could pay their bills."