The MIT Center for Digital Business is a partnership in research between our corporate sponsors and MIT faculty. Each partnership revolves around research projects that are a one-to-one match between a faculty principal investigator and a single corporate sponsor. In every project, there is an equal value proposition for each participant – the sponsor has an expected economic benefit from the project outcome, and the faculty member has an equal expected academic benefit from the research. This matching approach is unique, and fits well with the mission of MIT – to conduct work that is both academically rigorous but also relevant to industry.