http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/topic/business.html Business and management headlines from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology News Office. en-us http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/www/mitlogo-rss.jpg http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/topic/business.html 88 31 Fri, 9 May 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/sloan-board-0509.html Five MIT Sloan School of Management MBAs were honored during an inaugural-year celebration of the school's new MIT Sloan Board Fellows program on Tuesday, May 6. Fri, 9 May 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/sloan-board-0509.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/autor-tt0507.html Do standardized tests that some employers require of job applicants serve as a barrier to equal employment? A pioneering study co-authored by an MIT economist shows that screening helps productivity without hindering minority hiring. Wed, 7 May 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/autor-tt0507.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/cisr-0424.html Jeanne Ross will become director of the MIT Center for Information Systems Research with overall responsibility for the center's activities, MIT Sloan School of Management Dean David Schmittlein announced this month. Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/cisr-0424.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/geox-0418.html Mario Moretti Polegato, chairman of Italian footwear company Geox Group, spoke April 10 to a full house of MBA students at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/geox-0418.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/sloan-green-tt0416.html Once it is completed in 2010, the new MIT Sloan building should be the greenest building on campus. Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/sloan-green-tt0416.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/bp-mit-0410.html A corporation-wide focus on safe, reliable operations has brought BP, one of the world's largest energy companies, to MIT for the new Operations Academy, designed to enhance the culture of continuous improvement. Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/bp-mit-0410.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/ariely-tt0409.html Unexpected and surprising connections are at the heart of research conducted by MIT Professor Dan Ariely, whose studies have demonstrated that people often make decisions that seem to defy logic--but they do so in very predictable, consistent ways. Wed, 9 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/ariely-tt0409.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/itw-ghana-0408.html MIT Senior Lecturer Susan Murcott started a nonprofit enterprise in 2005 to sell a simple, low-cost ceramic water filter system to residents of northern Ghana, home to the country's most contaminated water supplies. Tue, 8 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/itw-ghana-0408.html