Economic detective work
Versatile scholar Jonathan Parker finds new ways to decipher riddles in economics.
Study: Prices of cancer drugs have soared since 1995
Researchers find a 10 percent annual increase, after inflation.
MIT launches three new cybersecurity initiatives
Complementary programs will address cybersecurity from the perspectives of technology, public policy, and organizational management.
MIT Climate CoLab seeks high-impact ideas on how to tackle climate change
Twenty-two contests now open to the global public.
Innovation in the making
Event showcases, solicits feedback on MIT Innovation Initiative’s latest projects.
Making the leap from lab to market
MIT Innovation Initiative aims to foster an even more consistent approach to building bridges from research findings to real world impact.
U.S. News ranks graduate programs in engineering, business highly
MIT is home to No. 1 graduate engineering program; Sloan is No. 5 business school.
Bringing “everyone wins” recycling to Nigeria
Across the slums of Lagos, a startup’s bikes have removed 600 tons of recyclables in return for rewards.
MIT Professional Education and Center for Real Estate announce new Certificate in Real Estate Finance and Development
Enrollment open for a five-course certificate program.
Six keys to sports analytics
Massive MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference reveals state of growing field.
High “return-on-learning”
“Business intelligence” software for schools links classroom technology and strategies to student achievement.
Inventing “civilization 2.0”
Conference explores how wearables and other technologies are changing how we connect and conduct business.
3 Questions: Pierre Azoulay on the value of funding the NIH
New study shows publicly funded research spurs private drug development.
Novel method projects growth potential of new firms
Detailed study by MIT economists shows which tech businesses tend to thrive.