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...
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 [...]
For the first time in its 47-year history, the Boston Dragon Boat Festival featured a team from the MIT Club of Boston comprised of alumni, students, affiliates, and Institute community members.
During our Growth Stage Program in Cairo this past June, ten distinct levers of scale were explored with the participating founders. Gisele El Far, an intern at the MIT Kuo Sharper Center who documented the sessions, noticed a powerful thread connecting every insight: trust. From keeping systems ...
Much of the discourse around the pace at which renewable energy has taken off in Africa has centred largely on two themes: cost of capital and regulatory certainty. In reply to "The real barrier to Africa's solar energy boom" by Rabah Arezki, Linda Mabhena-Olagunju argues the wider discourse misses ...
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