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Jan 15, 2019, 07:30 ET MIT Sloan announces MBA Early Admission for college seniors

The MIT Sloan School of Management recently announced the MIT Sloan MBA Early Admission, designed for ambitious and forward-thinking college seniors...

Jan 04, 2019, 07:30 ET MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Informa Pharma Intelligence Launch Analytics Initiative for Life Sciences Professionals

Today, the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering (LFE) and Informa Pharma Intelligence announced Project ALPHA (Analytics for Life-sciences...

Jan 02, 2019, 07:30 ET MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Program announces scholarship for excellence in entrepreneurship for social impact in India

he MIT Sloan School of Management recently announced the creation of the Ambition, Innovation & Motivation (AIM) Scholarship for graduates of the MIT ...

Dec 14, 2018, 18:56 ET MIT Sloan paper on false news ranked #2 on the Altmetric Top 100

The Altmetric Top 100 recently ranked MIT Sloan School of Management Prof. Sinan Aral's paper on the spread of false news online #2 on its list on...

Dec 07, 2018, 07:30 ET MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative to Host National Capital Protocol Toolkit on SHIFT Platform

Companies committed to preserving and regenerating the natural resources they rely upon to conduct business now have new tools at their disposal with ...

Nov 29, 2018, 07:45 ET MIT Sloan to host conference on leveraging analytics for a proactive health system

The transition of health systems from fee-for-service to value-based payments requires major redesign. Future systems must transform to be proactive...

Oct 24, 2018, 13:00 ET Leading by Example Helps to Spread Social Innovations

Innovations that benefit the greater good are introduced almost every day. But these new technologies do little good unless people actually choose to ...

Oct 24, 2018, 07:30 ET MIT Center launches contest to develop new type of retirement plan for the public sector

The Golub Center for Finance and Policy (GCFP) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is launching a contest to generate strategic...

Oct 02, 2018, 10:45 ET MIT Hacking Arts, one of the largest student-run festivals of its kind, to explore where art and technology will intersect in future artistic co-creations

What is the future of co-creation in the arts? How are artists and entrepreneurs harnessing the power of blockchain? How is the role of art, artist...

Sep 21, 2018, 14:00 ET Research by MIT Sloan's Mohammad Fazel-Zarandi finds that the number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. is roughly double previous estimates

There are roughly twice as many undocumented immigrants in the U.S. as commonly believed, according to a sweeping new study by MIT Sloan School of...

Aug 06, 2018, 07:30 ET JuMP, a modeling language with roots at MIT Sloan, achieves a new milestone in the open source community with its acceptance as a NumFOCUS sponsored project

MIT Sloan School of Management announced today that JuMP—a mathematical modeling language developed at the school and MIT's Operations Research...

Jun 19, 2018, 01:21 ET MIT Sloan School of Management's Master of Finance program places first among U.S. schools in new Financial Times ranking

MIT Sloan School of Management's Master of Finance (MFin) program has placed first among United States schools in the eighth edition of the Financial ...

Jun 05, 2018, 02:22 ET Premiere of Queensland Brings MIT Back to Australia

The Premier of Queensland, Annastacia Palaszczuk, announced today that Queensland will be hosting a weeklong set of key innovation and...

Jun 02, 2018, 02:15 ET New study by MIT Sloan researchers provides insights on the challenges of developing drugs for pediatric cancer--and offers a potential solution

Why is it so hard to develop drugs for children with cancer? And what can be done about it? Those questions are central to a new study published...

May 21, 2018, 11:00 ET The Power of Influencers in Social Media Networks

The Cambridge Analytica scandal has left many people wondering about the power of microtargeting campaigns designed to change behavior by encouraging ...

May 15, 2018, 11:06 ET Startup with new technology enabling water-sustainable thermoelectric power wins 2018 MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition

Infinite Cooling, a startup that has created patent-pending technology at MIT to enable water-sustainable thermoelectric power, beat out seven teams...

Mar 08, 2018, 07:30 ET Free MITx online course on 'Shaping the Future of Work' to start on March 20, 2018

In our changing economy, there currently are not enough good jobs or affordable educational opportunities in the U.S. or globally for all who want...

Mar 07, 2018, 10:13 ET MIT's Hack for Inclusion aims to create tools to fight discrimination and unconscious bias

MIT's Hack for Inclusion, a two-day hackathon aimed at developing solutions for bias, will take place March 9-10, 2018 at the Microsoft New England...

Jan 19, 2018, 02:00 ET "How Did Our Politics Get Us Here? Sociological Research Provides a Good Answer"

A year after Donald Trump's inauguration, many pundits and citizens alike continue to try to understand the results of the 2016 election. At the...

Jan 16, 2018, 03:31 ET MIT's Sloan School of Management and Media Lab Announce Gensler Joint Appointment

MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Media Lab today announce the joint appointment of Gary Gensler as Senior Advisor to the Director of the...

Nov 16, 2017, 06:30 ET MIT Sloan School of Management launching new Business Analytics Certificate

MIT Sloan School of Management today announces the launch of a new Business Analytics Certificate to prepare students for career paths in data...

Oct 24, 2017, 07:30 ET MIT Sloan engages Matt Zames, former Chief Operating Officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and MIT alum, as an Executive in Residence at the school

Matt Zames—the highly regarded finance executive who's had a guiding hand in a number of key global financial events over the past quarter century—is ...

Oct 13, 2017, 07:30 ET MIT's Inclusive Innovation Challenge awards over $1 million to organizations harnessing technology to create greater economic opportunity for workers

The MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy has awarded over $1 million in prize money in its second annual MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge (IIC) in ...

Sep 20, 2017, 10:57 ET New Study shows the Surprising Power of Wikipedia in Science

A new MIT working paper released today and featured on today's (Wednesday, September 20) Wikimedia Monthly Research Showcase demonstrates the...

Sep 14, 2017, 07:30 ET Action Learning: MIT's Sloan School of Management and Media Lab launch new Viral Political Action seminar

MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Media Lab today launched Viral Political Action, a seminar that will explore recent social, behavioral,...