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Alumni Sustainability

Making the Next Generation of Manufacturing

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How do you make and sell products that lead to business profitability—without further damaging the environment? Janelle Heslop, LGO ’19, didn’t just tackle this in her graduate thesis at MIT. She’s planning on making a career out of it. 

Apr 5, 2022
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Climate Policy Center Research

Potential Impacts of Subsidizing Transmission

This policy brief explains the results of a new analysis from the MIT Climate Policy Center that found that investment tax credits for transmission projects can lower costs for the US power system while simultaneously improving the grid's reliability during extreme weather events and reducing green...

Dec 5, 2024
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MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Program

What Happens When Good Jobs Go Bad

In their new book "Overload: How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do About It," MIT Sloan professor of work and organization studies Erin L. Kelly and her coauthor, University of Minnesota sociology professor Phyllis Moen, tell a story of employees on a relentless treadmill.

Apr 23, 2021
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MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy Public Policy

China’s Growing Local Government Debt Levels

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High rates of debt growth by local governments are a cause for concern in any country. In China, where recent turmoil in the equity and foreign-exchange markets has put a spotlight on that country’s economy and growth prospects, increasing levels of borrowing by provincial and other lower levels of ...

Jan 27, 2016
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MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Program Economics

Transferring Power To People Through Tokenization

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When she was an MIT Sloan Fellow, World Bank Technology and Innovation Officer, earned a memorable nickname from MIT Senior Scientist Andrew Lippman. “We were discussing Facebook. My point was that if Facebook can make tons of money selling my data, why can’t I make money off myself? I just want Fac...

Nov 9, 2020
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