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The Shopper's High: MIT Study Says 'Neural Reward Mechanisms' Trigger Credit Card Spending
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 - 10:50am | 479For years, banks and credit card companies have known customers tend to spend more money when buying with credit cards instead of cash. A new study by MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Drazen Prelec and University of Utah Professor Sachin Banker found that excess credit card...
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Adaptive Value Investing for the Long-Term Investor
Friday, September 13, 2013 - 12:58pm | 1044Andrew Lo is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor, a Professor of Finance, and the Director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at the MIT Sloan School of Management and one of the most prolific and influential researchers of market and economic behavior. Over the years, Lo has...
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College Admissions: There's an App for That
Monday, December 19, 2011 - 1:57pm | 164Cambridge, Mass.-based startup Matchbox announced that its iPad app for evaluating college admission applications will be used by admissions offices at MIT and UCLA. The app is designed to reduce the time it takes to review and process applications up to 75%. Matchbox was founded in May of 2011,...