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Ideas Made to Matter
Future of Work
How to implement a 4-day workweek
Author Andrew Barnes explains the benefits of a workweek with 100% of normal pay, 80% of typical work hours, and 100% productivity.
Jul 31, 2023
Ideas Made to Matter
Technology
How AI-empowered ‘citizen developers’ drive digital transformation
A new book explains how organizations are tapping AI-savvy front-line employees to create applications, mobile apps, automated workflows, and data analyses.
Dec 10, 2024
Ideas Made to Matter
Artificial Intelligence
Employees more likely to second-guess interpretable algorithms
New research shows that people are more likely to trust complicated machine learning models over models that they’re able to understand and troubleshoot.
Jan 12, 2023
MIT GCFP
Public Policy
Jack Brennan participates in Distinguished Speaker Series
In the latest installment of the GCFP Distinguished Speaker Series, Jack Brennan, Chairman of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Board of Governors, discussed the [...]
Dec 2, 2016
Ideas Made to Matter
Social Media
Crowdsourced ratings of online news quality may actually work
People are nearly as good as fact-checkers at sussing out unreliable news sources, a new study finds.
Jan 28, 2019
Ideas Made to Matter
Economy
5 ways to stabilize the COVID-19 economy
Financial experts recommend a second stimulus package, a vaccine timeline, guards against inflation, and other government responses to the crisis.
Jul 27, 2020
MIT Executive MBA
Operations Management
Leading disaster preparedness around the world
Elizabeth Petheo, EMBA ’14, brings over 15 years of experience in a range of disaster resiliency programming from work in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and Europe.
Jun 30, 2020
MIT GCFP
Public Policy
Paving a path to better reverse mortgages
The MIT GCFP and Columbia University convened a group of leading researchers, policymakers, industry participants and consumer advocates to discuss the U.S. reverse mortgage market. The meeting took place on […]
Aug 21, 2018
Alumni
Finance
Brazil Teams Up with Sloanies to Combat Retirement Crisis
In late January, Brazil launched the RendA+ treasury bond instrument, a new retirement security adapted from the work of School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance and Nobel Prize in Economics laureate Robert C. Merton, PhD ’70, and Arun Muralidhar, PhD ’92.
Mar 6, 2023