MIT Sloan Professor of Management Thomas Kochan discusses how financial analysts have pressured businesses to perform financially.
Alberto Cavallo, the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, discusses how Argentina has lied about its inflation rate.
About the Presentation The crises we encounter today could be described as a 'perfect storm.' The global financial crisis that began in 2008 has left many people with too little money and/or willingness to spend. This results in too few goods and services being ...
Bilikiss Adebiyi, CEO of Wecyclers, describes the lessons her co-founders have learned from taking a business plan built in one country and trying to execute it in another.
Alistair Horton, from Abdul Latif Jameel Community Initiatives (ALJCI) speaks at the Scaling Development Ventures (SDV) conference meet-up at D-Lab on Feb. 9th.
How can we manage the financial crisis? How do civil unrest, religion and rumors spread, and how is that related to epidemics and earthquakes? Can human behavior and societal systems be studied in the same way as biological systems and complex man-made systems? In this ...
Andrew McAfee, 1988, 1989, LGO 1990, Associate Director and Principal Research Scientist, The MIT Center for Digital Business Erik Brynjolfsson, PhD 1991, Director, The MIT Center for Digital Business, Schussel Family Professor of Management Science, MIT Sloan School ...
Andrew McAfee, ’88, ’89, LGO ’90, Associate Director and Principal Research Scientist, The MIT Center for Digital Business Andrew McAfee is the associate director and principal research scientist at The MIT Center for Digital Business. He studies the ways that information ...
A look at the innovation economy and its key drivers.
Rodney Brooks, Founder, Chairman, and CTO, Rethink Robotics, Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus), MIT Rodney Brooks is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus) at MIT. He is a robotics entrepreneur and the founder, chairman, and CTO of Rethink Robotics, Inc. He also has a ...
Moderator: Andrew McAfee, 1988, 1989, LGO 1990 Associate Director and Principal Research Scientist, The MIT Center for Digital Business Speaker: Vivek Ranadivé, ’79, SM ’80 Chairman and CEO, TIBCO Software Vivek Ranadivé founded TIBCO ...
Moderator: Erik Brynjolfsson, PhD 1991 Director, The MIT Center for Digital Business, Schussel Family Professor of Management Science, MIT Sloan School of Management
Erik Brynjolfsson, PhD 1991 Director, The MIT Center for Digital Business, Schussel Family Professor of Management Science, MIT Sloan School of Management
Moderator: Andrew McAfee, 1988, 1989, LGO 1990 Associate Director and Principal Research Scientist, MIT Center for Digital Business Panelists: Jeremy Howard, President and Chief Scientist, Kaggle Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO, O’Reilly Media, Inc. ...
This conference highlighted MIT’s role in both understanding and shaping the digital economy.
A Thai company called SOS has developed a mobile unit that can purify contaminated water in the aftermath of a flood.
Has the age of 2% annual growth in jobs and salary levels come to an end in the West? Will the jobs drain to the East quicken? Are policymakers leading us away from the precipice or towards it? Often contrarian, Jon Moynihan's lecture draws on his decades of experience ...
MIT Sloan Finance Day: Financial Markets in Transition Welcome RemarksDean David Schmittlein, John C Head III DeanIssues from Financial Crisis: Credit Risk and Financial GuaranteesRobert C. Merton, School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance
MIT Sloan Finance Day: Financial Markets in Transition Panel Discussion: Financial Reform Moderator: Andrew W. Lo, Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of Finance Panelists: Ricardo Caballero, Ford International Professor of Economics Bennett Golub, Co-Founder and ...
MIT Sloan Finance Day: Financial Markets in Transition MIT Sloan Master of Finance: The New Asset Class Andrew W. Lo, Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of Finance Heidi V. Pickett, Director, MIT Sloan Master in Finance Program