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A new study led by MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew W. Lo finds that borrowing ideas and tools from the gaming community can improve online teaching techniques and improve learning outcomes for students.
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"...inducing high team familiarity by keeping team membership intact can limit workers’ opportunities to acquire useful knowledge and alternative practices from exposure to a broader set of partners."
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Research by MIT Sloan Visiting Prof. Maria Loumioti and her colleagues shows that cognitive biases can impede the effective processing and interpretation of "soft" loan application information.
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MIT Sloan School Prof. Emil Verner analyzed the economic effects of the 1918 Flu Pandemic and found that public health interventions have no adverse effect on local economic outcomes.
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New research by Erik Brynjolfsson, Avinash Collis, and Felix Eggers uses massive online choice experiments to measure the value digital goods and services create.
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Field-study data shows that African-Americans wait longer to get rides and suffer more ride cancellations once drivers determine they’re black.
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In 2017, U.S.- based Liberty Media, owner of the Atlanta Braves baseball team and streaming music provider SiriusXM among other properties, purchased Formula 1, the commercial organization behind the motorsport of F1 from a private equity firm. The well-seasoned management team that took over, inher...
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Lisa Baird became the commissioner of the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) on Tuesday, March 10, 2020. Then, COVID-19 upended the sports world. On Thursday, March 12, as sports leagues around the country canceled or postponed their seasons, she announced the NWSL was cancelling pre-season match...
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The explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 20, 2010, resulted from a series of events and decisions involving employees of BP and its contractors. While there does not appear to be one clear culprit or reason that led to the disaster, the case explores issues of organization...
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The research team provided one proof-of-concept application: accurate detection of early-stage lung cancer.
