State Street (NYSE:STT) adds two professors from top Boston-based business schools to advance cryptocurrency and macroeconomic research initiatives. State Street Associates, the academic and data science research arm of State Street (STT), will partner with Antoinette Schoar, a finance professor at MIT, who joins in an effort to see clients through risks and opportunities in blockchain and crypto. "Blockchain has the potential to provide new opportunities and applications for financial markets," Schoar says. Schoar will also help apply research findings directly with State Street Digital, which was created in June to address the industry's evolving shift to digital finance. Robin Greenwood, a finance and banking professor at Harvard Business School, also joins to accelerate research on central bank policy, equity investing, financial crises and behavioral finance. In addition, Greenwood is a member of the Financial Advisory Roundtable of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a research associate at
