Every year for 50 years, the U.S. Coast Guard has nominated a senior officer to apply to the MIT Sloan Fellows MBA program.
The blog, written by Isha Doshi , explores the challenges posed by currency volatility in sub-Saharan Africa, where erratic exchange rates impact both international investors and local economies. TLG Capital, with over a decade of experience investing in African SMEs, highlights how factors like rel...
MIT Sloan Professor Simon Johnson, PhD ’89, credits the success of his and his fellow Nobel laureates’ research to their students.
Matt Beane, SM ’14, PhD ’17, argues those using artificial intelligence will become incrementally de-skilled unless they are consciously upskilling at the same time.
To combat the negative effects of climate change, making a transition to green energy is vital. But what will happen to people whose jobs are significantly linked to fossil fuel use? And what policy options are available to mitigate the employment effects of such a transition? That was a question ex...
New research by MIT Sloan Professor Nathan Wilmers and two coauthors finds that having certain kinds of tasks in a job description allows new employees, including frontline workers, to earn more.
Henna Karna, EMBA ’18, discusses her journey through academia and her professional career, reflecting on how MIT Sloan's unique mix of quantitative and qualitative learning has influenced her work.
The Fall 2024 newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research is available online. The theme is “What Helps—Or Hinders—Career Progress.”
After her daughter's traumatic brain injury (TBI), Lynne Becker became an entrepreneur on a mission—a mission to share with others what she learned about TBI. And ultimately, a mission to accelerate research and clinical trials. Two student teams taking MIT Sloan’s Analytics Lab (A-Lab) helped her t...
The MIT Climate Pathways Project has been selected by the Paris Peace Forum as one of 10 civil society projects that over the coming year will receive customized advisory support from the Forum’s Scale-up Program, an accelerator program that aims to help these projects increase their visibility and...
