Deborah J. Lucas, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance and Director, MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy Refet A. Gürkaynak, Professor of Economics and Department Chair, Bilkent University
“MIT Sloan was a pretty obvious frontrunner given its reputation for entrepreneurship and the established climate ecosystem in Boston," says Megan Hung, an MBA candidate who will graduate in 2026.
Julie Lockner, EMBA '17, is the cofounder and executive board member of 17 Minds, which focuses on wearable technology, and COO of IBM Data and AI Portfolio Operations and Offering Management, where she helps the company apply AI to solve global problems.
Tiffany Ferguson is helping Americans overcome financial hardships to secure economic dignity.
Ask most finance experts about the “world’s largest financial institutions,” and you’ll hear names like Citigroup, ICBC (China’s largest bank) and HSBC. However, governments top the list of large financial institutions, with investment and insurance operations that dwarf those of any private enterpr...
The Tallahassee-Leon County Office of Economic Vitality tasked a team of USA Lab students with finding better ways to engage minority-owned and women-owned businesses.
New research finds that measuring the extent to which workers have as much say on the job as they think they deserve is an important aspect of evaluating job quality. In a survey of workers, a larger "voice gap" for workers was statistically associated with their having lower levels of job satisfact...
With a background in mechanical engineering, Matthew Howard, SFMBA ‘24 has spent the last decade in startups and scale-ups designing and manufacturing 5G infrastructure for the North American telecommunications industry.
After establishing a strong foothold in Uganda and Zambia through the Shona Capital platform, Kuo Sharper Initiative (KSI), a U.S.-based impact investment fund, is now actively exploring entry into the Ghanaian market. In October 2025 I made an on-the-ground fact-finding mission that evaluated regul...
Reverse mortgages are a financial innovation designed to help retirees free up the savings tied up in home equity without being forced to move. Access to those funds can make a big difference in the quality of life for house-rich, cash-poor, retirees. Yet the product has been slow to catch on. A new...
