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...
Mike Swartz, EMBA ‘23, is the CEO and Principal of Upstatement in Boston, MA.
Most wearables lack female-specific features. That's why IDEA Lab students and entrepreneurs Christy Fernandez Cull and Belen Fraile Ortiz created DaVinci Wearables, a first-to-market smart undergarment that tracks menstrual cycles and hormonal fluctuations to optimize fitness health for female athl...
Computer vision and data analytics can generate real-time information about operations, creating a major opportunity to reduce wait times. In fall 2021, United Airlines asked a team of students in Enterprise Management Lab to develop a strategy for leveraging such technologies to reduce wait times i...
Santiago Guzman and Joseph Peteul, members of the MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Class of 2018, met in a study group during the program and have since launched Cap8, a revolutionary fin-tech venture that leverages scientific methodology to build investment solutions.
The MIT Sloan community gives back for many reasons. Some aim to create opportunities for students through support for fellowships and organizations, while others want to bolster faculty research and campus initiatives.
How can we increase contributions to public goods—to get donors to give more to charity, citizens to vote, households to consume less energy, drivers to carpool, and patients to take all of their antibiotics? One of the best ways is to make contributions more observable.
Perception of peer rank, or how we perform relative to our peers, can be a powerful motivator.
Social norms messaging campaigns are increasingly used to influence human behavior, with social science research generally finding that they have modest but meaningful effects.
The MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy is proud to be highlighted by “From Ideas to Inventions: 103 Ways MIT is Making a Better World.” MIT is home to some of the most innovative problem-solvers in the world, across 30 departments as well as in dozens of centers, labs, and programs. We are hono...
