Ahead of the presidential inauguration, MIT Sloan's Professor Andrew Lo and other panelists described advances in their research and how these discoveries are being deployed to benefit the public.
In her inaugural address, President Sally Kornbluth urges the MIT community to tackle pressing challenges, especially climate change, with renewed urgency.
"I think some of the firms that will be really well positioned going forward are those that really have domain expertise."
"The collapse of Terra in May 2022 marked the first major run in crypto and contributed to the collapse of several other key players."
A recent working paper by Taha Choukhmane found that couples with poor retirement allocations left roughly $700 on the table per year.
"Technological progress is the most important driver of human flourishing but what we tend to forget is that the process is not automatic."
Simon Johnson, MIT professor and former IMF chief economist, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the banking crisis.
"What I need to do now is to find a road-map that bridges that gap between a functioning democracy and half-baked democracy ... "
"By getting access to companies' internal emails and nonpublic reports, hackers can use AI to generate very convincing messages."
Companies should cede control more to workers, defining goals for them and then letting them reach them where and when they can best work.
