Zach Tan, a first-year doctoral student in the Economic Sociology research group at the MIT Sloan School of Management, has won the 2024 Rafel Lucea Memorial Research Award.
It is high time for advanced-economy governments to accelerate the move to “less-cash societies” by addressing the growing disconnect between steadily rising currency issuance (mostly in large notes like the $100 bill) and ever-declining use of cash in legal, tax-compliant payments.
“Government Financial Products, Policies, and Institutions,“ September 27-28, 2017, Cambridge, MA
Donor Spotlight: Bennett (Ben) W. Golub, SB ‘78, SM ‘82, PhD ‘84, Senior Managing Director and Chief Risk Officer, Blackrock
Why do people make the decisions they do? How are those decisions influenced by friends and family? And how can we go about getting answers to such questions? MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Abdullah Almaatouq, a computational social scientist who is also affiliated with the MIT Center for Computation...
MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly, who is Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), found in a recent multiyear study in e-commerce warehouses that establishing Health and Well-Being Committees that allow employees to give input on workplace issues significantly reduc...
Sovereign Development Funds’ (SDFs) dual mandate of pursuing financial or commercial objectives alongside long-term strategic and developments goals presents several challenges. First, SDFs must identify why [...]
As part of its Distinguished Speaker Series, the MIT CFP invites you to a lunch lecture by Janos Pasztor, Senior Adviser of the UN Secretary-General for Climate Change
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...
