[Mitworld] New: Sastry on Global Health Delivery, Prelec on Neuroeconomics

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[PROJECTS FOR CHANGE: BRINGING MANAGEMENT TOOLS AND IDEAS,
 COLLABORATION, AND LEARNING-BY-DOING TO THE CHALLENGE OF GLOBAL
 HEALTH DELIVERY]

The Latin motto on the MIT seal, mens et manus -- mind and hand --
encapsulates Anjali Sastry's view of the combined theoretical and
practical education that students gain at the Institute. She cites MIT
founder William Barton Rogers's 1860 exhortation for "the most earnest
cooperation of intelligent culture with industrial pursuits" as the
paradigm of learning by doing, the ideal way to gain and apply
knowledge.

SPEAKER:
Anjali Sastry '86, PhD '95
Senior Lecturer, Management Science, MIT Sloan


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/597/>

[QUOTE]
"Obviously we've got to tackle global warming and carbon emissions, but
we also need to tackle poverty."
-- Anjali Sastry


EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management <http://mitsloan.mit.edu/>

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[NEUROECONOMICS]

A pioneer in a "dangerously hot research area," Drazen Prelec peers into
the human brain while it makes decisions, and shares his insights on the
process.

SPEAKER:
Drazen Prelec
Digital Equipment Corporation LFM Professor of Management Science
Professor, Department of Economics Professor, Department of Brain and
Cognitive Sciences


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/598/>

[QUOTE]
"You almost can't think about human behavior without thinking about what
it ought to be like, and when you see it's not that way, that's when
insight starts to come."
-- Drazen Prelec


EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management <http://mitsloan.mit.edu/>

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MIT Alumni Association
Technology Day 2008 presents

Dave Newman
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems

A New Age of Exploration: From Earth to Mars

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