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Oct 16, 2019, 12:44 ET MIT Sloan appoints Edward L. Golding executive director and senior lecturer at Golub Center

The MIT Sloan School of Management recently announced the appointment of Edward L. Golding as executive director and senior lecturer at the MIT Golub ...

Oct 08, 2019, 07:30 ET MIT Sloan School of Management launches new strategic collaboration with QUT Business School

The MIT Sloan School of Management announced a five-year agreement with QUT Business School, a strategic collaboration with a focus on academic...

Sep 26, 2019, 07:30 ET More and better clinical trial data key to the personalization of treatment decisions for lung cancer patients

In a new study just published in JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology applied machine-learning ...

Sep 16, 2019, 15:00 ET MIT Sloan study links community-oriented policing to improved attitudes toward police

Despite declining crime rates, tensions between police and the public remain an ongoing issue. High-profile incidents of police violence have led to...

Aug 29, 2019, 14:00 ET New MIT paper published in Science outlines plan to fight election interference

One of the most urgent threats facing our democracy and other democracies abroad is the ability to detect and thwart foreign election interference....

Aug 04, 2019, 00:00 ET Reducing segregation and increasing upward mobility in American cities, one housing voucher at a time

MIT Sloan School Professor Christopher Palmer recently partnered with the Seattle Public Housing Authority and King County (WA) Public Housing...

Jul 16, 2019, 11:15 ET MIT's Golub Center for Finance and Policy announces the winner of its contest to engineer a better retirement plan for public sector employees

The Golub Center for Finance and Policy (GCFP) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today announced that a multi-disciplinary team from ...

Jul 08, 2019, 07:30 ET Using data science to forecast clinical trial outcomes may help biomedical stakeholders de-risk their portfolios

A new study published in the inaugural issue of the Harvard Data Science Review, by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,...

Jun 11, 2019, 07:30 ET Engineering Rules: A new book from MIT Sloan School of Management explores how the often-overlooked process of standardization helps accelerate global economic growth

A new book by MIT Sloan School of Management's JoAnne Yates explores one of the key invisible infrastructures of the modern world: private voluntary...

May 16, 2019, 15:23 ET Acoustic Wells wins 2019 MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition

Acoustic Wells, a startup born in a laboratory at MIT that has created a new internet of things (IoT) control solution for oil wells that optimizes...

May 07, 2019, 10:55 ET New book from MIT Sloan reveals the principles that have helped make digital platforms, including Amazon, Google, and Apple, the world's most valuable firms

Digital platforms, which include the likes of Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet (Google's parent company), Facebook, Uber, and Airbnb, have recently ...

May 03, 2019, 07:30 ET MIT Sloan and King's College London to host summit on building sustainable healthcare systems

Innovators and entrepreneurs around the world are challenging what is possible in global health. They are looking at innovative, scalable and...

Apr 11, 2019, 17:27 ET Clinical Decision Support software may hold the key to guiding providers toward better healthcare, according to new research from MIT Sloan

As concerns mount about the overuse of powerful and costly diagnostic imaging tests, such as CT scans and MRIs, a new study from MIT suggests that...

Apr 09, 2019, 07:30 ET Jump-Starting America: New book by MIT's Jonathan Gruber and Simon Johnson argues that public investment in science is key to revving up the U.S. growth engine

The American engine of progress and prosperity is in serious trouble. Job-creating innovation has stalled, resulting in a slow hollowing out of the...

Apr 05, 2019, 07:30 ET MIT Sloan to hold "Finance Beyond Crisis" conference

The 2008 financial crisis was a catalyst for change and advancement in the finance field. To discuss the lasting impact of the financial crisis and...

Mar 27, 2019, 09:29 ET MIT Sloan y la Universidad de Chile lanzan un nuevo programa de certificado en análisis de datos

La creciente disponibilidad de datos ofrece nuevas oportunidades para las empresas y organizaciones. Sin embargo, se necesita más capacitación para...

Mar 26, 2019, 14:58 ET Calculating economic well-being in the Information Age: A new study by researchers at MIT Sloan measures the value that digital goods and services create

How much do Wikipedia, email, YouTube, and other digital technologies contribute to our economic well-being? According to a new study by researchers...

Mar 20, 2019, 12:12 ET MIT Sloan appoints Laura Kodres distinguished senior fellow at Golub Center

The MIT Sloan School of Management recently announced the appointment of Laura Kodres as distinguished senior fellow at the Golub Center for Finance...

Mar 19, 2019, 07:30 ET MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative awarded $750,000 grant from the Hewlett Foundation

The MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative today announced a $750,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to help organizations align...

Mar 12, 2019, 13:01 ET MIT Sloan study finds financial benefits to having a digitally savvy board

Along with opportunities, the digital era brings many risks for companies, such as cybersecurity breaches and business model disruptions. As a...

Mar 04, 2019, 16:22 ET SEC names MIT Sloan Prof. S.P. Kothari chief economist and director of the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis

The MIT Sloan School of Management recently announced that S.P. Kothari, the Gordon Y. Billard Professor of Management and former deputy dean, was...

Feb 28, 2019, 07:30 ET Free MIT online course on Shaping Work of the Future launches March 19

What can we learn from past technological disruptions? How is technology currently disrupting such industries as retail, manufacturing, healthcare,...

Feb 22, 2019, 10:45 ET MIT Sloan announces collaboration with Staten Island PPS to drive change in healthcare

As technology innovations help drive the transformation of the healthcare industry, clinical, economic, administrative, lifestyle and genetic data...

Jan 28, 2019, 15:00 ET MIT Sloan study finds crowdsourcing an effective tool to fight spread of fake news

Fake news isn't a new problem, but it's becoming a greater concern because of social media, where it is easily created and rapidly distributed. A...

Jan 17, 2019, 14:48 ET MIT Sloan to host third annual "Cybersecurity Insight" event focused on critical infrastructure cybersecurity

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in collaboration with Kaspersky Lab, will host its third annual "Cybersecurity Insight" seminar,...