Copia, an e-commerce company focused on bringing low-priced, high-quality goods to middle and low-income investors in Kenya, approached G-Lab for help increasing revenue and net profits.
For its entire 15-year life as a regional bank, Silicon Valley Bank held the same risky bet. Our Research Associate, Niccolo Comati, explains how the bank's collapse is a story of a supervisory system that polices process rather than risk.
Jawad Ahsan, EMBA ’14, reflects on how the MIT Executive MBA expanded his perspective on leadership, gave him the confidence to chart his own path, and shaped a career focused on building ambitious companies and driving transformative impact.
In a new report, MIT researchers analyze policy options for improving the U.S. electric grid by incentivizing increased interregional transmission.
Indorama Ventures, headquartered in Bangkok, is one of the world's leading sustainable chemical companies, with operations across more than 30 countries. Among its diverse businesses is a premium wool division that manufactures high-quality worsted fine count yarns for leading apparel brands and cus...
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...
BRAIN (Bridging Research and Innovation)— co-developed by Open Startup and entities throughout MIT and the Tunisian Innovation Ecosystem — is establishing scalable deep-tech ventures in Africa through a bootcamp for 28 PhD entrepreneur-scientists focused on advanced AI, biotech, the Internet of Thin...
In a new guest commentary for the Golub Center, Professors Ray Ball and Andrew Sutherland argue that CA's proposal will struggle to accurately value and tax billionaire assets and may even drive away some of the state’s largest taxpayers.
On Wednesday, October 19 and Thursday, October 20, MIT’s Golub Center for Finance and Policy (GCFP) hosts its 9th annual conference “Building and Regulating the New Financial Infrastructure,” co-sponsored by Barclays. This year we’ll focus on [...]
Professor Catherine Wolfram is quoted on the effects of sanctions, sanction relief, and sanction extension for Russia in the wake of the Iran conflict.
