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How safe is flying during the COVID-19 pandemic? A study shows the risk of getting sick on a flight is higher when all seats are filled.
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MIT Researcher Neil Thompson identified an easy measure that firms can use to help evaluate the scope of protection that a patent provides.
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People are less likely to share falsehoods about the new coronavirus and COVID-19 when prompted to consider accuracy.
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In 1998, Jill Medvedow was hired as the director of Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art. Her mandate was to reinvent a museum that had no permanent collection, drew a mere 25,000 visitors a year, and had few members and almost no money. This case demonstrates how Medvedow was able to rebuild (lit...
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Companies whose board members are digitally savvy outperform other companies in areas like revenue growth, return on assets, and market cap growth.
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What’s missing when employees work from home? Face-to-face interactions that lead to knowledge spillovers — and new patent filings.
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The study found that a single positive, nonenforcement contact with a uniformed patrol officer substantially improved the public’s attitudes towards the police.
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A recent study by MIT Sloan School of Management Prof. David Rand and Prof. Gordon Pennycook of the University of Regina finds there is a possible solution to false news: crowdsourcing.
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In late 2006, SunPower designed, manufactured, and delivered the most efficient solar cells in the world. At a time when many experts believed solar technology would grow quickly, SunPower needed to decide whether to maintain market share through a strategy of differentiated technology or pricing.
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The synthetic diamond industry was on the radar of diamond giant DeBeers as a potential disruptive technology. In 2009, after years of concerted efforts to improve its tarnished reputation as the industry monopolist, DeBeers was wondering how it should respond to the threat.
