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Associate professor Jackson G. Lu and co-authors wrote: "As generative AI becomes woven into global workflows, cultivating employees' metacognition will be what separates organizations that are merely adopting AI from those that are truly unlocking its creative power."

Professor John Sterman said: "If oil production goes up, climate change will get worse sooner, and everybody loses, including the people of Venezuela. The climate damages suffered by Venezuela, along with other countries, will almost certainly outweigh any short-term economic benefit of selling a bit more oil."

In this episode of the Talking Strategy podcast, Fiona Murray, associate dean for innovation, discussed how innovation can be an effective strategy against an industrially and economically strong China.

Senior lecturer Steven Spear said the key is identifying problems at the point of care, then finding systemic solutions. "Leaders in institutions have to get out of their offices and stop thinking they can lead by looking at metrics on a dashboard and a spreadsheet," Spear said.

Generative AI uses should be taken on more carefully because they carry greater risks, said professor of the practice Rama Ramakrishnan. "The first mistake is being overly aggressive and essentially deploying the LLM for a task without enough scrutiny," he said. On the other extreme, Ramakrishnan said, are people "who are so apprehensive about the hallucinations and the error rates, they literally are paralyzed. They don't want to do anything."

Senior lecturer John Davis argued that the current wave of technological, economic, and social disruption places family businesses at a critical stage in their evolution. Only those that know how to navigate this evolution will survive.