Please read the published press release below from PR Newswire: CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The MIT Center for Finance and Policy (CFP) and the Harvard Crowd Innovation Laboratory (CIL) are launching a contest to generate new proposals for criteria that regulators sho...

The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) proudly announces the selection of its 17th cohort of Legatum Student Fellows for the 2024-2025 Academic Year.

Formed in 2009 as a professional networking group, Leaders in Experiential Project-based Education (LEPE) meets annually to share insights and best practices on experiential learning, a pedagogy centered on learning by doing. Last year’s meeting, hosted by MIT Sloan Action Learning, brought together...

Thousands of graduating students, alumni, and their families came to campus at the end of May for the 2024 commencement ceremonies and Reunion celebrations. Among the returning graduates were 1,404 Sloanies and their guests who attended MIT Sloan Reunion 2024.

For too long, startup funding in emerging markets has been fragmented and insufficient, leaving entrepreneurs without the right financial instruments to grow. In her latest blog, Salma Baghdadi challenges this status quo and issues a call to action for ecosystem builders, investors, and policymakers...

Rand’s research focuses primarily on understanding online COVID-19 misinformation and the psychology behind it, as well as working to increase human cooperation.

The vast and sobering implications of climate change can be overwhelming to contemplate. What are the best solutions—and will they actually work?

Until recently, the link between having a say in the workplace and workers’ job satisfaction and well-being had not been empirically demonstrated by researchers. Now, a new journal article coauthored by scholars from the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) addresses that question.

The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan surveyed African entrepreneurs leading early-stage startups and found there was a huge gap between their articulation of the market need (i.e. “the problem”) and what their ventures would achieve in five years.

In their paper, "Science-based analysis for climate action: how HSBC Bank uses the En-ROADS climate policy simulation", the authors found that widespread employee participation in interactive simulations had a big impact.