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Peter Weill, chairman of the MIT Center for Information Systems Research, and research fellow Elizabeth Van den Berg wrote: "Unprecedented volatility and hypercompetitiveness are current pressures across almost all industries. While generative and agentic AI technologies dominate headlines, the true competitive advantage lies not in the technologies themselves but in fundamentally reimagining how organizations operate."

MIT Sloan ranked first in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings business and economics category. The 2026 Business and Economics ranking assesses performance across three core disciplines: business and management; accounting and finance; and economics and econometrics.

Professor Catherine Tucker said: "AI allows content or format to actually, potentially, really resonate for the person who's seeing the ad."

"The social field has two parts," said senior lecturer Otto Scharmer. "The visible part is what people usually manage. Org charts. Processes. Incentives. Structures. Then there's the social soil: the quality of relationships and the quality of awareness."

Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu wrote: "By granting ICE agents de facto immunity, the Trump administration has given them a green light to ratchet up their violent tactics. If this violence goes unchecked, it could indeed be a turning point, because it will create a template for other security forces more closely aligned with Trump to use force against any manifestation of opposition."

Richard M. Locke, John C Head III Dean of MIT Sloan, wrote: "At MIT Sloan, centering human capabilities in the implementation of AI means that we must all be fluent with these new tools. It means educating not just our students but also our faculty and staff members. We must create a foundation we can build upon so we can all do better work in finance, marketing, strategy, and operations, and throughout organizations."

The key to AI-boosted creativity is the mindfulness of people using the technology, according to a study by associate professor Jackson G. Lu and co-authors. Mindful individuals identified in the study "strategically use AI to expand knowledge, free cognitive capacity, and break fixed mindsets, thereby fueling creative ideas," they wrote.

Principal research scientist Andrew McAfee said: "Nature is much more complex than we can understand. We now have generative AI tools that can do a remarkable job of reconstructing the rules, the structure, and what happens 'under the hood.'"

Principal research scientist Andrew McAfee said: "Nature is much more complex than we can understand. We now have generative AI tools that can do a remarkable job of reconstructing the rules, the structure, and what happens 'under the hood.'"

Professor Kristin J. Forbes said recent research shows early warning signs in US debt markets, even as demand for the dollar remains strong. "There is a growing gap between demand for the dollar and demand for US Treasuries. That divergence can persist, but when it closes, it can do so quickly." Forbes said the key risk to the dollar is not competition from other currencies, but declining confidence in US economic management.