Antoinette Schoar is using big data to hold the personal finance industry accountable to the people it serves. The finance professor was a founding member of the Consumer Advisory Board for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. We speak with Antoinette about prolific credit card offers, shoddy financial advisors, and how what’s good for the consumer can also be good for the market.

Personal Finance: Read the Fine Print

Data Made to Matter explores the business breakthroughs that come from applying data-based research to real-world challenges. In this new show from the MIT Sloan School of Management, host Neal Hartman interviews MIT’s innovative thinkers on a range of topics, from the rising costs of healthcare, to global poverty, to addressing climate change.
 
Data Made to Matter showcases how data, a spirit of experimentation, and desire to invent the future can advance management practice and improve the world. Produced by the MIT Sloan Office of Communications. Learn more @MITSloan.

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Data Made to Matter explores the business breakthroughs that come from applying data-based research to real-world challenges. In this new show from the MIT Sloan School of Management, host Neal Hartman interviews MIT’s innovative thinkers on a range of topics, from the rising costs of healthcare, to global poverty, to addressing climate change. Data Made to Matter showcases how data, a spirit of experimentation, and desire to invent the future can advance management practice and improve the world. Produced by the MIT Sloan Office of Communications. Learn more @MITSloan.

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