News@MITSloan for Dec. 7
Roundup of news from the MIT Sloan School of Management for the week of Dec. 7
The real thing?
MIT business professor Renee Richardson Gosline shows that people are often unsure about telling authentic luxury goods from fakes — until they see who’s using them.
Sloan student elected to Cambridge City Council
Cheung made history on Nov. 3 as first university student and first Asian American on council
MIT Sloan Management Review Editor to Headline at Opportunity Green conference at UCLA Nov. 7
Opportunity Green 2009 and MIT Sloan Management Review Announce Panel Presentation on MIT SMR's New Global Study Special Report, "The Business of Sustainability," Featuring Nike as Case Study.
MIT Sloan launches "Clean Energy Ventures"
New workshop on building and sustaining clean energy businesses
All wired up
MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson explains how technology really helps the economy — even as the restructuring it is spurring causes pain.
Saving labor
Political scientist Richard Locke says our system of improving factory conditions around the world is broken.
He proposes a new solution.
MIT alum garners economics nobel
Oliver Williamson '55 a co-winner, for work on the theory of the firm
3 Questions: Robert Solow on the struggle ahead
The MIT Nobel laureate explains why we need more economic stimulus — and more innovation.