The unexpected origins of a modern finance tool
Discounting calculations are ubiquitous today — thanks partly to the English clergy who spread them amid turmoil in the 1600s, an MIT scholar shows.
From MIT to Singapore and back: Delivering knowledge and advancing careers in finance
Hong Ru MFin ’10, PhD ’15 returns to MIT Sloan to teach the next generation of master of finance students.
Success at the intersection of technology and finance
Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin visits MIT, discusses how technology will continue to transform trading and investing.
MIT announces financial aid and tuition rates for the 2023–24 academic year
Financial aid support remains strong, offsetting a 3.75 percent rise in tuition, and changes to housing, dining, and other costs.
A whole new world of learning via MIT OpenCourseWare videos
“I get the chance to not only watch the future happen, but I can actually be a part of it and create it,” says Ugandan entrepreneur Emmanuel Kasigazi.
Q&A: Global challenges surrounding the deployment of AI
Aleksander Madry, Asu Ozdaglar, and Luis Videgaray, co-chairs of the AI Policy Forum, discuss key issues facing the AI policy landscape today.
Stranded assets could exact steep costs on fossil energy producers and investors
A new study estimates potential losses by 2050 amid low-carbon energy transition.
Investing in a new future with Open Learning
For MIT OpenCourseWare and MITx MicroMasters learner Michael Pilgreen, risk taking and hands-on learning opened new doors in finance.
How the debt crisis of 2008-09 fueled populist politics
Research shows that in Hungary, debt drove voters to the right, as part of a consequential shift.
Fighting discrimination in mortgage lending
A new technique for removing bias in datasets can enable machine-learning models to make loan approval predictions that are both fair and accurate.
MIT announces increase to undergraduate financial aid for 2022–23 academic year
Financial aid support remains strong, and free tuition guarantee is increased.
Investors awaken to the risks of climate change
At the MIT Energy Initiative’s Fall Colloquium, finance executive Poppy Allonby lays out the current state of sustainability thinking among the investor class.
MIT experts test technical research for a hypothetical central bank digital currency
Collaboration with Federal Reserve Bank of Boston yields progress in understanding how a digital currency might be developed in the future.
MIT students explore food sustainability
First-year students visit nonprofit grocer in Central Square providing low-cost, nutritious food; learn about food resources at MIT.
At delta v Demo Day, the MIT community celebrates student entrepreneurs
The 2021 event, held in Kresge Auditorium and streamed live, was an unmistakable sign that MIT’s campus is up and running.