MIT Sloan School of Management

In a post for BetaBoston, Senior Lecturer Steven Spear urges the Boston 2024 committee to use videos and other representations to demonstrate what it would be like to host the Olympics: “Such simulations could help give people a sense of what something that occurs on the scale of the Games will look and feel like in practice.”

Professors Thomas Allen and Rory O’Shea write for Bloomberg Businessweek about the ways in which other institutions can imitate MIT’s success in spurring innovation. At MIT “[s]tudents learn to experiment, take risks, tolerate failure, and strive to overcome obstacles,” they write.