Why let your sales force influence product prices?
Professors offer a new hypothesis on why businesses allow salespeople to lobby for lower prices.
Mental-health monitoring goes mobile
Startup Ginger.io analyzes smartphone data to remotely predict when patients with mental illnesses are symptomatic.
Preventing mosquito-borne disease
MIT-Brazil Program interns collaborate on platform that optimizes mosquito control in Brazil.
Coolhunting the secrets of success
Peter Gloor studies communications networks to find the patterns that characterize successful organizations and spot emerging trends.
Solving the world’s plastic problem
Alumna invents continuous, zero-toxic-emission system that converts nonrecycled plastics into crude oil.
How a new approach to funding Alzheimer’s research could pay off
Model indicates that diverse research approaches to the disease would be a rewarding investment.
MIT Sloan hosts Haitian prime minister
Laurent Lamothe visits MIT to plan the next stage of an initiative that addresses poverty, education, and recovery efforts after the country's 2010 earthquake.
Study finds the hidden — and uneven — price of piecemeal energy policies
MIT researchers find the national and regional impacts of U.S. regulatory policies for mitigating climate change.
MIT graduates urged: “Solve the unsolvable!”
“Many of tomorrow’s problems are going to be solved by you,” DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman tells 2014 grads.
President L. Rafael Reif's charge to the graduates
"Rebuild the engine of society until it delivers the kind of performance we expect from ourselves at MIT," president tells the Class of 2014.
Slideshow: 2014 doctoral hooding ceremony
Advanced degree candidates receive their doctoral hoods in advance of Commencement.
A new approach to diversity research
MIT professor suggests a rethinking of homogeneity as the baseline used to study diversity.
MIT LGO alumni and colleagues give big thanks to Rosenfield
Founding director of Leaders for Global Operations program retires after 26 years