Jonathan Gruber

Jan 18, 2025 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Rena Conti |Patrick C. DeMartino |Jonathan Gruber |Andrew Lo

Cell and gene therapies (CGTs) are highly innovative medicines. There are over two dozen CGTs approved for sale globally, and over the last five years, many clinical trials have progressed toward later stages of development targeting an array of rare genetic disorders and cancers.1, 2 CGTs come with a host of challenges for health care systems, of which perhaps the foremost is affordability.3-5 CGTs are extremely expensive,6 generally in the range of more than $300,000.

Nov 8, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Jonathan Gruber

Developer onboarding boils down to educating a new teammate on your software development life cycle (SDLC) so that they can deliver software. According to the Society for Human Resources Management, about 70% of new employees in the United States stay at a company for more than three years if they have a positive, well-structured onboarding experience. This also boosts their productivity and retention rates to 58% and 60%, respectively.

Jun 13, 2024 | brookings.edu | Jonathan Gruber

The past decade has seen an explosion in the market for “gig” workers who provide a wide variety of services for “platform companies” that contract for their services but do not count them as employees. Most notable is the growth in work at Transportation Network Companies (TNC) for which individuals drive customers from place to place (such as Uber and Lyft) and Delivery Network Companies (DNC) for which individuals drive goods from place to place (such as DoorDash and InstaCart).

Dec 11, 2023 | mitxonline.mit.edu | Jonathan Gruber

This is a CORE course within the MITx MicroMasters program in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy (DEDP), which provides a path toward the Master’s in DEDP at MIT. ** Three CORE courses are needed to complete the MicroMasters Program Credential in DEDP. For more information on DEDP MicroMasters program requirements, please visit our FAQ page**What is produced in an economy? How is it produced? Who gets the product? Microeconomics seeks to answer these fundamental questions about markets.

Apr 24, 2023 | inkl.com | Jonathan Gruber

Secondly, classical works often span several tracks, not self-contained within one "song." By contrast, most streaming sites assume you want to listen to one track and then move on to something new. For today's listeners, a world of great music is, at least in theory, no more than a click away, as pianist and composer Ethan Iverson recently wrote. But recorded music functionally ceases to exist if you can't find it.