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Feb 22, 2021, 07:05 ET MIT Leaders for Global Operations announces new industry partnership with Rivian

The MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program announced today that Rivian—an independent, American electric vehicle maker and automotive...

Feb 11, 2021, 07:38 ET MIT Sloan study finds thinking style impacts how people use social media

Social media has become a significant channel for social interactions, political communications, and marketing. However, little is known about the...

Feb 09, 2021, 12:49 ET MIT Sloan study finds strong evidence of political bias in formation of social media ties

After the recent presidential election, political divisiveness is a more significant issue than ever in the U.S. But how much does political party...

Feb 04, 2021, 07:42 ET MIT REAP launches new regional innovation and entrepreneurship acceleration program in Nova Scotia following successful UK pilot

Today the MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program (MIT REAP) announced the launch of its new Focus program in Nova Scotia following a...

Nov 02, 2020, 07:07 ET MIT Sloan Prof. Edward Roberts Receives the GCEC Legacy Award

The MIT Sloan School of Management recently announced that Prof. Edward B. Roberts received the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC)...

Oct 29, 2020, 07:35 ET 'Negotiation Journal' unlocks MIT Sloan professor's research and articles

Decades of negotiation and conflict management research and articles written by one of MIT's leading experts are now freely available to the public...

Oct 20, 2020, 07:35 ET Measuring voters' knowledge of political news: MIT Sloan research finds variations across age, gender, race and socioeconomic status

Amidst an unprecedented election year and a news cycle that includes multiple overlapping crises, new research from the MIT Sloan School of...

Oct 08, 2020, 12:00 ET MIT Sloan study finds significant disconnect between credit agency ratings and CLO risk

During the COVID-19 crisis, S&P and Moody's downgraded approximately 25% of the collateral feeding into collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), yet...

Sep 22, 2020, 07:05 ET Why do people vote the way they do? Unhappiness, says MIT Sloan behavioral scientist, outweighs all other factors

New peer-reviewed research, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, has found that county-level voter unhappiness prior to the ...

Sep 18, 2020, 13:00 ET Social justice leader Malia Lazu joins MIT Sloan to accelerate ecosystem inclusion in the innovation economy

The MIT Sloan School of Management recently announced that veteran social justice leader Malia Lazu was appointed a lecturer to help build an...

Sep 10, 2020, 09:33 ET MIT's Golub Center for Finance and Policy Names Stanley Fischer as Winner of the First Miriam Pozen Prize

The Golub Center for Finance and Policy (GCFP) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), an Institute-wide initiative that works to improve ...

Sep 09, 2020, 07:05 ET MIT Leaders for Global Operations announces new industry partnership with ResMed

The MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program announced today that ResMed, a global digital health and connected medical device company, has...

Sep 08, 2020, 09:02 ET The first comprehensive study of state-by-state reopenings shows ad hoc policies exacerbate COVID

As Summer vacations end in Europe and in the United States and students return to college campuses and primary schools worldwide, fresh waves of...

Sep 08, 2020, 07:05 ET Aggregate Confusion Project: MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative and Mass PRIM announce collaboration to improve the quality of ESG measurement in the financial sector

Sustainable investing has entered the mainstream in the investment industry with more than $30 trillion of assets worldwide relying on Environmental, ...

Sep 02, 2020, 12:21 ET Undaunted by global pandemic, MIT REAP's strategy to accelerate regional innovation-driven entrepreneurship nimbly adapts and thrives

In June 2020, the MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program (MIT REAP) convened its two current cohorts from 13 global regions for its first ...

Sep 01, 2020, 16:07 ET MITx MicroMasters® Program in Finance sees record enrollment

The MIT Sloan School of Management recently announced record enrollment in the MITx MicroMasters® Program in Finance. To date, more than 50,000...

Aug 06, 2020, 17:07 ET MIT Sloan research shows a learning curve for consistency

Learning curves show that experience improves average productivity. But is there a learning curve for consistency? With experience, does task...

Aug 04, 2020, 08:28 ET Introducing Minglr: New open source software developed at MIT Sloan helps overcome the limitations of videoconferences by supporting impromptu conversations

During the coronavirus pandemic, Zoom, Skype, and other videoconferencing systems have become our lifelines for workplace communication. But while...

Jul 30, 2020, 09:44 ET New Study Shows Devastating Cost Of Failure To Coordinate Economic Reopenings

New, peer-reviewed research published today by the Social Analytics Lab at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy in the prestigious Proceedings...

Jul 28, 2020, 10:28 ET MIT Sloan appoints Ben S. Bernanke distinguished senior fellow at Golub Center

The MIT Sloan School of Management announces the appointment of Ben S. Bernanke as distinguished senior fellow at the Golub Center for Finance and...

Jul 22, 2020, 07:02 ET Multi-disciplinary study, including investigators at MIT Sloan and MIT's Koch Institute, reveals deep and broad view of the human proteome

The proteins in our bodies (the proteome) can tell us a lot about our health, such as if we have or are likely to get certain diseases. However,...

Jul 09, 2020, 20:18 ET MIT Sloan study shows potential long-term environmental effects from COVID-19

While the COVID-19 pandemic has reduced air pollution in the U.S., the longer-term impact on the environment is unclear. In a recent study, MIT Sloan ...

Jul 01, 2020, 07:57 ET Pandemic Response CoLab: New initiative to solve COVID-19 challenges launched by the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Community Biotechnology Initiative and MilliporeSigma

MIT's new Pandemic Response CoLab—a joint project of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI), the MIT Community Biotechnology Initiative...

Jun 30, 2020, 06:57 ET New research from MIT Sloan and Northwestern Kellogg reveals the devastating economic consequences of businesses unable to work remotely

Congress and the Federal Reserve have pumped nearly $3 trillion into the U.S. economy to combat the damage caused by the coronavirus, and are...

Jun 02, 2020, 07:00 ET motorCortex.ai wins first ever MIT $50K Collaborative Intelligence Competition

motorCortex.ai, developer of autonomous ground robots that safely disinfect high-traffic spaces, beat out seven other finalists to win the inaugural...