Q&A: A roadmap for revolutionizing health care through data-driven innovation
A new book coauthored by MIT’s Dimitris Bertsimas explores how analytics is driving decisions and outcomes in health care.
MIT graduate engineering and business programs ranked highly by U.S. News for 2025-26
Graduate engineering program is No. 1 in the nation; MIT Sloan is No. 5.
Supersize me
Political scientist Kathleen Thelen’s new book explains how America’s large retailers got very, very large.
David Schmittlein, influential dean who brought MIT Sloan into its own, dies at 69
In his 17 years as dean, Schmittlein led the transformation of MIT Sloan into a management school uniquely positioned for the future and “the best version of its distinctive self.”
QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2025
The Institute also ranks second in seven subject areas.
Want to climb the leadership ladder? Try debate training
Experiments find debate training boosts careers by enhancing assertiveness and communications techniques.
Times Higher Education ranks MIT No. 1 in arts and humanities, business and economics, and social sciences
Worldwide honors for 2025 span disciplines across three schools.
J-WAFS: Supporting food and water research across MIT
For the past decade, the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab has strengthened MIT faculty efforts in water and food research and innovation.
Driving innovation, from Silicon Valley to Detroit
Doug Field SM ’92, Ford’s chief of EVs and digital design, leads the legacy carmaker into the software-enabled, battery-propelled future.
Three MIT students named 2026 Schwarzman Scholars
Yutao Gong, Brandon Man, and Andrii Zahorodnii will spend 2025-26 at Tsinghua University in China studying global affairs.
Connecting the US Coast Guard to MIT Sloan
For the past 50 years, the Coast Guard has nominated a senior officer to apply to the MIT Sloan Fellows MBA program. “When you leave MIT Sloan, you want to change the world,” says one alumnus.
Institute Professor Emeritus John Little, a founder of operations research and marketing science, dies at 96
The MIT Sloan scholar was a part of the Institute community for nearly eight decades.
Startup helps people fall asleep by aligning audio signals with brainwaves
Elemind, founded by researchers from MIT, has developed a headband that uses acoustic stimulation to move people into a sleep state.
MIT named No. 2 university by U.S. News for 2024-25
Undergraduate engineering is No. 1; undergraduate business and computer science programs are No. 2.
Playing a new tune
After taking a pass on the family bagpiping tradition to try a new vocation, Andrew Sutherland has made noise as an innovative business scholar.