On July 1, 2016, the U.S. territory, which has been mired in a years-long debt crisis, failed to make good on $2 billion of bond payments due, triggering the worst default in its history. Puerto Rico’s governor Alejandro García Padilla has defended the decision to skip the full payment, emphasizing ...
Information Technology PhD students Alice Cai and Peyman Shahidi from MIT Sloan have been named 2026 Rafel Lucea Memorial Research Award recipients, with Cai as winner and Shahidi as honorable mention.
Given infrastructure’s integral role in enabling high-functioning economies around the world and the concern that the pace of investment is not keeping up with the need for it, I have recently begun to focus my research on the consequences of different approaches to...
With his non-profit Browning the Greenspace, Kerry Bowie (MBA '06) is building a coalition of leaders to diversify the green space.
Does the U.S. tax system incentivize companies to overinvest in automation—at the expense of jobs?
An old New Yorker cartoon features a man sitting at a desk in his home office. He turns to his wife with evident angst and posits, “I can’t remember, do I work at home or live at work?” It is this conundrum that worries Sebastián Castañeda Arbeláez, SF ’14, Corporate Manager of Financial Planning an...
While Congress and the Administration wrestle with a massive $2 trillion response and many suggest expansive new loan programs, the simple way forward is to [...]
Benedetta Magni, a Master of Finance student, says the MIT ecosystem is amazing. Follow Benedetta's day as she describes what it's like to be a Master of Finance student at MIT Sloan.
While attending a conference of government financial managers in July 2015, I had the opportunity to participate on a panel to consider ways to improve the U.S. budget process and was amazed at the energy and enthusiasm for the topic. With hundreds of attendees cramming a large breakout session room...
Jack O’Brien, MBA ’25, chose MIT Sloan because he plans to create a startup or join a new venture focused on AI and climate tech when he graduates. Join Jack as he steers through a typical weekday at MIT Sloan where he works with his MBA core team and prepares for an upcoming energy and climate hack...
