3 Questions: Innovating for the clean energy economy
Daniel Kammen of the University of California at Berkeley discusses current efforts in clean energy innovation and implementation, and what's coming next.
Measuring the economy with location data
Startup’s platform crunches anonymized smartphone GPS data to understand how people shop, work, and live.
How impatience guides financial behavior
Study: Long-term states of mind can affect short-term financial decisions.
When negotiating, pride goeth before destruction
Study finds good feelings from one negotiation can damage subsequent performance.
Identifying optimal product prices
New research describes a price-optimization method to increase online retailers’ revenue, market share, and profit.
How to court millennial shoppers? Lose the logo
Alumna Wendy Wen '09 co-founded an online handbag company to create a new generation of luxury for savvy younger shoppers.
Intermittent attention, poor memory shape public perceptions of inflation
Consumers may tune in to prices when they need to — but recall data poorly, study finds.
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Modeling innovation
Economist Alessandro Bonatti’s theoretical studies illuminate the behavior of firms and prices.
Bolstering public support for state-level renewable energy policies
Analysis shows the design and framing of renewable energy policies can strengthen public support — or opposition.
Darwin visits Wall Street
Andrew Lo’s new book urges a rethink of financial markets, along evolutionary lines.
Wisdom gleaned from data and behavioral economics
In a follow-up to his popular "Disciplined Entrepreneurship," MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Bill Aulet provides new insights for entrepreneurs.
Testing strategies for preventing violence and crime
J-PAL North America funds randomized studies to evaluate crime-prevention programs.
A fair price to pay?
Study shows online retail prices often match store prices — and suggests why they sometimes do not.
Better wisdom from crowds
MIT scholars produce new method of harvesting correct answers from groups.
Study: Technological progress alone won’t stem resource use
Researchers find no evidence of an overall reduction in the world’s consumption of materials.