Fighting Poverty With Direct Cash Payments
The alumni-founded GiveDirectly has delivered over $500 million in cash to impoverished people, letting recipients decide how best to meet their needs.
The alumni-founded GiveDirectly has delivered over $500 million in cash to impoverished people, letting recipients decide how best to meet their needs.
"We all want to have impact. But very few economists are able to do anything that would actually affect patient lives."
"I chose MIT Sloan for the academic rigor, uniqueness of the curriculum, and the quality of the cohort."
MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Thomas A. Kochan of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) co-leads this executive education Course with MIT Professors David Autor and Sandy Pentland.
“This is an extreme bald-face attempt to greenwash,” said MIT Sloan's John Sterman.
MassRobotics, a nonprofit founded by several MIT alumni, is advancing an industry that will play an increasingly important role in our lives.
"When [students] come here, they're always amazed at the work our faculty are doing related to eco-finance."
The divergence between asset owners in their attitudes to the transition to a lower carbon economy is creating risk for asset managers.
New analysis shows that the elite dominate even more among the top schools that produce about half of all future economics professors.
"Cyberattacks are frequent and dangerous. ... Every manager knows it. But they still get things wrong with cybersecurity. All the time.”