Roger Stein
Professor of Finance | Behavioral Economics & Decision-Making
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Roger Stein is a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he researches behavioral economics and decision-making under uncertainty. His work on investor psychology and risk perception has been published in top academic journals like the Journal of Finance.
Stein's popular TED talk 'Why We Make Irrational Decisions' has reached over 2 million views, offering science-backed strategies to combat cognitive biases. With over 15 years of experience as a professor and expert advisor, his keynotes give business leaders practical tools to improve organizational decision-making.
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A bold new way to fund drug research
Believe it or not, about 20 years' worth of potentially life-saving drugs are sitting in labs right now, untested. Why? Because they can't get the funding to go to trials; the financial risk is too high. Roger Stein is a finance guy, and he thinks deeply about mitigating risk. He and some colleagues at MIT came up with a promising new financial model that could move hundreds of drugs into the testing pipeline.
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