New research finds that when U.S. companies switched away from standardized pay rates for blue-collar jobs in the late 1970s and 1980s, workers’ real wages declined.
Amid the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, the movements in equity markets’ around the world have mirrored the spread of the virus and its virulence. Attempts to limit market crashes, volatility, and financial contagion have taken a number of different forms. This column explores [...]
Thomas J. Allen, SM ’63, PhD ’66, a beloved member of the MIT Sloan community for more than half a century, died November 13 after a brief illness. He was 89.
Tana Utley, SF ’07, would like to make a pitch for curiosity. In fact, she might say it’s her fuel source, a perspective not to be taken lightly by the woman who leads the production of some of the most powerful engines in the world.
The GloBI digital platform will be a powerful searchable database on buildings in cities around the world that provides detailed, actionable information. A prototype currently covers residential buildings in Massachusetts..
Susan Silbey and Lotte Bailyn, two MIT faculty members affiliated with the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
This counter-intuitive result emerges because countries actually have little choice in how much they must reduce contact levels to control the epidemic.
When Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages wanted to use big data to measure the growth potential of their customers, they turned to Tico Han and Sydney Mo (both MBAn ’21) to help them develop an action plan.
Chi-Won Yoon, SB ’82, SM ’86, recently met with students in China Lab, an Action Learning course, to discuss the future of fintech and cryptocurrencies in China.
While an MIT Sloan doctoral candidate, Alex Kowalski researched practical ways to improve jobs in an increasingly important industry.
