Ideas Made to Matter Artificial Intelligence

How generative AI can boost highly skilled workers’ productivity

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Generative AI can boost highly skilled worker productivity, if organizations establish a culture of accountability and encourage role reconfiguration.

Oct 19, 2023
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Ideas Made to Matter Public Policy

A Nobel economist’s take on bank behavior, bailouts, and policy

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Robert C. Merton shares his views on Silicon Valley Bank, interest-rate risk, and the need for an accurate assessment of financial policy.

Oct 17, 2023
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Ideas Made to Matter Gender

Why female STEM PhDs are less likely to become new inventors

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New research finds that female STEM PhD students are less likely to be advised by top faculty inventors or become new inventors themselves than male STEM PhD students.

Oct 12, 2023
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Ideas Made to Matter Behavioral Science

To truly boost productivity, focus on consistent worker engagement

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New research explores worker engagement, its impact on job performance, and its connection to a worker’s level of emotional stability.

Oct 11, 2023
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Ideas Made to Matter Artificial Intelligence

Study gauges how people perceive AI-created content

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Companies that intend to use generative artificial intelligence should first consider how people regard work created by AI, humans, or some combination of the two.

Oct 3, 2023
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Ideas Made to Matter Supply Chain

Young firms lose big when new equipment is scarce

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New research reveals that cash-constrained companies suffer the most when supply chain disruptions delay the production and delivery of new equipment.

Oct 2, 2023
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Ideas Made to Matter Data

How to make data ‘everybody’s business’

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Decontextualize data and prepare data assets that can be reused for many purposes. A new book from MIT CISR researchers explains how.

Sep 26, 2023
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Ideas Made to Matter Financial Markets

Is this new forecasting model better than machine learning?

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Relevance-based prediction can be used in finance, politics, and sports for more accurate forecasting.

Sep 19, 2023
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Ideas Made to Matter Platform Strategy

Platforms could power the circular economy

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Platforms excel at connecting disparate buyers and sellers. That model is poised to support the circular economy, which reuses raw materials and finished goods.

Sep 11, 2023
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Ideas Made to Matter Artificial Intelligence

SEC chair Gary Gensler’s 2020 paper details 5 concerns about AI and finance

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Highlights from Gary Gensler and Lily Bailey’s “Deep Learning and Financial Stability” outline five ways AI could lead to future financial crises.

Aug 30, 2023
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