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...
As the vice president of a large financial services firm, Max Wilson has seen first-hand the value of creating a more diverse workplace. That's why he teamed up with his fellow S-Lab students to help his company successfully hire and retain more people with disabilities.
USA Lab Class Honored with "Ideas Worth Teaching" Award
If U.S. workers could select the characteristics of a labor organization to represent them, what would they choose? That’s the question explored in an intriguing new journal article by Alexander Hertel-Fernandez of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, William Kimball of ...
Artificial intelligence was top of mind at the 2025 MIT Sloan Reunion. In two talks, MIT alumni went to the furthest reaches of possibility with AI, both in terms of its capacity to do harm and its potential to solve existence's toughest problems.
The best entrepreneurs don’t waste a crisis. They see opportunity to solve new or adjacent problems and go after it. Their ingenuity to survive near-term difficulties can create long-term advantage.
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Golub Center for Finance and Policy’s new Banking Reform Clearinghouse, or BRiC. With the recent passage of the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017 in the U.S. House of Representatives and the [...]
Yishi Zuo, MBA ’18, joins Christopher Reichert, MOT ’04, on this episode of Sloanies Talking with Sloanies.
Yishi Zuo, MBA ’18, joins Christopher Reichert, MOT ’04, on this episode of Sloanies Talking with Sloanies.
Lauren Hoops-Schmieg, EMBA '18, is Executive Director of Hill House, Inc in Boston, MA.
