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MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative
Quest Diagnostics: Increasing Employee Participation in Wellness Programs
HSI researchers, in collaboration with Quest Diagnostics, are investigating ways to increase employee participation in wellness programs to reduce healthcare costs and improve productivity.
MIT Sloan and Climate Strategy
At the intersection of business and climate strategy, the MIT Sloan School of Management is researching, developing, deploying, and scaling up innovative solutions to change the planet's climate trajectory.
MIT News
Over 1,000 MIT students inspired to work toward climate solutions
Incoming students tested the climate simulation tool En-ROADS with the goal of creating “a healthier, safer, more prosperous, and more sustainable world.”
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The Climate Project at MIT
Our goal is to become one of the world’s most prolific and collaborative sources of technological, behavioral, and policy solutions for the global climate challenge. We'll know we have succeeded only if, in 10 years, we have changed the expected trajectory of global climate outcomes for the better.
Executive Education
Business Sustainability Strategy
This short course explores the process of achieving sustainability through innovation and behavioral change and helps leaders manage sustainability goals without compromising profits.
Climate Action at MIT Sloan
Why climate and energy entrepreneurs need their own playbook
Climate ventures are capital-intensive, take years to scale, and face unique hurdles. Standard advice doesn't always apply. MIT experts explain why these businesses need their own framework.
Is climate change making inflation worse?
In a recent paper, associate dean for climate and sustainability Christopher Knittel, professor Catherine Wolfram, and co-author estimated that Americans are paying between $400 and $900 per person annually because of global warming.
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Three MIT startups taking on the global waste challenge
These alumni entrepreneurs are applying MIT know-how to keep goods out of landfills, reduce energy costs in recycling, and provide safe sanitation.
The climate continues to change, and it’s changed pretty dramatically in the last 15 years. I don’t think we should draw too many conclusions about what’s possible.Catherine Wolfram
Professor, Applied Economics, MIT Sloan, and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics at the U.S. Treasury
Hope isn’t naïve optimism—the belief that some technological breakthrough will save us. It's the belief that what we do matters. That by working together, we can create a better world.John Sterman
Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management
One of the gaps the MIT Climate Policy Center seeks to fill is being the connective tissue across all of these different centers to understand what the policy implications are and to understand how everything fits together.Christopher Knittel
Associate Dean for Climate and Sustainability, the George P. Shultz Professor , and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management
As an entrepreneur, I think: How am I making my community better? How am I helping to create employment? I was looking for a school with a well-developed, holistic sustainability program.Victoria Eugenia Tostado Bringas
SFMBA ’24
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Climate Centers and Initiatives
MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative
The MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative is committed to advancing systems change for an equitable and sustainable world.
MIT Climate Policy Center
The MIT Climate Policy Center serves as MIT's "front door" for local, state, federal, and international climate policymakers. Our mission is to serve as a trusted, non-partisan resource for policymakers who seek to advance evidence-based climate policy in the next decade.
MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
CEEPR promotes rigorous, objective research for improved decision making in government and the private sector, and secures the relevance of its work through close cooperation with industry partners from around the globe.
MIT Energy Initiative
MITEI connects researchers from across MIT and facilitates collaborations with industry, nonprofits, and government to speed and scale commercialization of no- and low-carbon technologies.
MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy
The purpose of CS3 is to advance knowledge and computational capabilities in the field of sustainability science, and support decision-makers in government, industry and civil society to achieve sustainability goals.
MIT Climate Portal
The MIT Climate Portal is an online home for timely, science-based information about the causes and consequences of climate change – and what can be done to address it.
Press
What if AI made the world's economic growth explode?
Most economists agree that AI has the potential to raise productivity and thus boost GDP growth. The burning question is, how much?
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Latest family feud at Market Basket has customers asking 'what to do?'
Professor Emeritus Thomas Kochan told GBH News an attempt to turn Market Basket into a company
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Industry praises slate of crypto bills, economists unsure of promise
"No bill is perfect, but this is a great starting point for mainstream adoption to begin," research scientist
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Book briefing: 'There's Got To Be a Better Way' by Nelson P. Repenning and Donald C. Kieffer
In "There's Got to Be a Better Way," professor
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MIT's Andrew Lo sees AI ready to run your money in five years
Professor Andrew W.
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Day-trading restraints to be loosened under proposed rule change
"Today, trading is often commission-free, although not in all securities, and there's less concern about excessive commission cost," said associate professor