Reporter’s Notebook: Emergency measures
For drowning surfers, fallen bicyclists and injured mountaineers, students in MIT’s 2.009 class devise products that could save lives.
How to encourage big ideas
A new study suggests certain types of funding — which provide more freedom and focus less on near-term results — lead to more innovative and influential research.
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.
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.
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.
3 Questions: Robert Solow on the struggle ahead
The MIT Nobel laureate explains why we need more economic stimulus — and more innovation.
3 Questions: Vincent Lépinay on bankers unleashed
An MIT anthropologist, who studies financial practices, discusses how ever-changing banking tools baffle regulators.
Insurance against financial fear
When the economy stumbles, panic can drive matters from bad to worse. Economist Ricardo Caballero has a new plan to keep investment markets free of fear
