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“Ideally, we want humans to be able to do the human things and machines to do the machine things,” says Grace Quigley ’24. “But automating management can accelerate the process of treating people like...

Will Bitcoin Go Up or Down? �Ӱ�ԭ�� Tech Professor Mines Data for Answers

Buy, sell, or hold? Since its launch in 2009 as the first cryptocurrency, the value of bitcoin has been a financial roller coaster ride with lofty peaks and precipitous drops. Given this history of...

Child’s Play: Fourth Graders Provide Unique Feedback for IPRO Toy Design Course

Jonathan Hodgkins started off his speech in the Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship’s foyer with a statement that somehow kept a couple dozen fourth-graders quiet. “The...

Futures Look Bright as Stuart Team Places Sixth in Worldwide Trading Competition

Best Hawk, a team of students from Stuart School of Business at �Ӱ�ԭ�� Institute of Technology, showed its acumen in futures trading by placing in the top 1.2 percent of teams globally that...

Building Pathways for Small Food Producers to Reach Big Buyers

Community Food Mobilization in Chicago (CFMOB), a group of community organizations, civic partners, and academic researchers led by �Ӱ�ԭ�� Institute of Technology Associate Professor Weslynne Ashton...

Finance Students Advance in Contest to Create Net-Zero Portfolio Strategy

A team of �Ӱ�ԭ�� Institute of Technology finance students has advanced to the semifinals of a prestigious global competition in which students create innovative investment strategies for pension...

Called to Work, Hospital Janitors Responded Despite COVID-19 Risks

The COVID-19 pandemic placed enormous demands and stress on hospitals worldwide, especially when the transmission of the disease spiked, overrunning the capacity of hospital staff to provide care...

Is Big Tech Anticompetitive? Acquiring Minds Want to Know

Are the biggest tech corporations buying up small, innovative tech companies in a heavy-handed play to clear the field of potential competitors? This question has reverberated through the halls of...

Waste Not, Want Not—Solving the Challenge of Food Waste

In the United States, it’s estimated up to 40 percent of food produced is never eaten. Food is being wasted at every step of the food supply chain that connects farms to forks—from production to...

Primed for Success? Maybe Not, and Here’s What Marketers Should Know

Product placement in movies is a big business that keeps getting bigger, as companies pump billions of dollars each year into putting their brands in front of moviegoers—such as, famously, the cars...