Edward L. Golding, Laura E. Kodres, and Deborah J. Lucas The 2008 financial crisis triggered a wave of new financial regulations, most notably as mandated by the Dodd Frank Act of 2010. That legislation recognized that existing regulations were inadequately designed to protect against systemic ri...

As part of their 2025 Sustainability and Social Impact Strategy, Colgate is working towards its goal for 100% of its packaging to be recyclable, reusable, or compostable by 2025. As such, Colgate worked with a team of S-Lab students on a project for their French business to develop innovative ways f...

Israel-based social technology company Intuition Robotics has a big idea: Their ElliQ voice-activated “care companion” is like Alexa for elderly adults, offering fitness reminders, wellness support, video calls, entertainment, photos, and even jokes. But can they land funding? A team of Israel Lab s...

Most wearables lack female-specific features. That's why IDEA Lab students and entrepreneurs Christy Fernandez Cull and Belen Fraile Ortiz created DaVinci Wearables, a first-to-market smart undergarment that tracks menstrual cycles and hormonal fluctuations to optimize fitness health for female athl...

Following a full day of fireside chats and breakout sessions, the MIT Sloan Women’s Conference concluded with a moving keynote address.

Santiago Guzman and Joseph Peteul, members of the MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Class of 2018, met in a study group during the program and have since launched Cap8, a revolutionary fin-tech venture that leverages scientific methodology to build investment solutions.

The MIT Sloan community gives back for many reasons. Some aim to create opportunities for students through support for fellowships and organizations, while others want to bolster faculty research and campus initiatives.

Last week Bob Pozen, a Visiting Senior Lecturer here at MIT Sloan with a distinguished background in government, business and education gave an eye-opening lunch talk. The topic was “Other Post-Employment Benefits” or OPEBs—which is accounting jargon for the liabilities governments incur for retiree...

What will people say 1,000 years from now when they look back at the conventional wisdom about financial policy today? Peter Fisher of the Tuck School at Dartmouth College reflected on that question in his keynote speech at the Inaugural Conference on Finance and Policy held at MIT Sloan on Septembe...

MIT GCFP Director Deborah Lucas recently joined Jeffrey Young, co-founder and chief economist of the Fintech company DeepMacro, to discuss [...]