President Sally Kornbluth talks with Associate Professor Mai Hassan about public administration in Africa and how people mobilize against repressive regimes.
The major invites students to explore the riches of culture, innovation, thought leadership, and beauty that originate in the continent of Africa and its many diasporas.
A faculty member at MIT Sloan for more than 65 years, Schein was known for his groundbreaking holistic approach to organization change.
Undergraduates selected for the competitive program enjoy a seminar series and conversations over dinners with distinguished faculty.
Replacing rice-bag delivery with digital card vouchers helps recipients get their intended supplies, researchers report.
Research shows doctors and their families are less likely to follow guidelines about medicine. Why do the medically well-informed comply less often?
Associate Professor Mai Hassan documents bureaucratic systems in Eastern Africa set up for coercion, as well as roadblocks to democratic government.
Associate Professor Noah Nathan is generating a body of scholarship on the political impacts of urbanization throughout the global South.
“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.
MIT alumnus and two others honored for research on the role of banks in the economy, including during financial crises.
MIT PhD candidate Jacob Jaffe uses data science to identify and solve problems in election administration.
In a new book, an MIT scholar examines how game-theory logic underpins many of our seemingly odd and irrational decisions.
New collaboration aims to strengthen Egypt’s poverty alleviation policies through rigorous evaluation and innovation.
Thirty-six million people in the U.S. use an energy system developed by a handful of activists in the 1990s. An MIT scholar examines this unusual story.
Low-wage workers, who vote infrequently, gain a participation boost when their salaries increase.