MIT panel talks fiscal, global, and legal consequences of the government’s near-default. When MIT Sloan professor Deborah Lucas scheduled a panel discussion titled “U.S. Fiscal Crisis: Causes and Consequences,” the government was shut down, no compromise seemed imminent, and what the state of affair...
STL approached India Lab for help developing a business model for this for-profit initiative with the goal of expanding high-speed internet connectivity from 14 villages to 300,000 by 2024.
This past June, a new crop of 20 teams entered MIT delta v, the educational startup accelerator run by the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. Each had a different problem in its sights, from the difficulties amputees face in controlling prosthetics to wasted space in airplane cargo holds....
For nearly two decades, Google has been working on technology that helps people collaborate across continents. “We want to connect people all over the world so that they can to do great things together,” says Suzanne Frey, SF ’06, vice president of engineering and product at the global dynamo.
During this year’s Orientation, on day one, new MIT students stepped into the shoes of global decision-makers, using the simulator to test climate policies, explore solutions, and envision the future they want to create.
Sloanies Talking with Sloanies podcast with Dawn Zier, EE '87, SM '90
Housing finance policy has been built during and for times of crisis. Just look at the long list of government actions related to the financing of housing [...]
"We must be antifragile," writes Bill Aulet. "This is at the core of what we strive to do as entrepreneurship educators: create antifragile humans and teams."
The MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship today announced the launch of the Deep Tech Program in Africa—developed in collaboration with the Government of Botswana and co-designed with Material Impact. The program gives top scientific minds from across Africa the opportunity to t...
With employers filling 60 percent fewer management positions and otherwise guaranteed internship opportunities succumbing to budget cuts amid the COVID-19 pandemic, students at MIT Sloan were scrambling ahead of the summer of 2020.
