On May 1-3, 2020, MIT will host the Africa Takes on COVID-19 Challenge. The deadline to apply for participation is Tuesday, April 28, 2020 before midnight.
On May 29-May 31, MIT will host Beat the Pandemic II, a 48-hour virtual hackathon aimed at addressing these pressing issues and others arising from the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.
How can we make our financial system less fragile? How can we make our healthcare infrastructure less reactive? What can we do to create more robust civic institutions that work for all of us?
The study estimates that total welfare is reduced dramatically when reopening is not coordinated among states and regions.
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.
Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas and nearly two dozen doctoral students are using machine learning and optimization to find answers and generating accurate real-time insight into the pandemic.
Their approach helps the supply side of the economy “snap back” in the second phase of the crisis. The key is creating a master agreement that provides a win-win solution for all parties.
At a time when wage inequality and workplace fairness dominate the national conversation, a new study by Nathan Wilmers sheds light on the factors that drive pay disparities among workers.
In "Leadership in Practice: Making and Learning," MIT Sloan students integrate the MIT Leadership Capabilities model with arts processes and experiential sessions.
The COVID-19 Policy Alliance put online a set of data analytic tools to enable states to identify the highest risk facilities and localities.
