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Professor Simon Johnson and co-author wrote: "The best way to step back from the brink of global catastrophe is to recognize Iran's economic incentives. Iran needs to export oil and gas in order to pay for essential imports, including food and medicine, as well as for the inputs needed to rebuild and improve its infrastructure."

MIT IDE research fellow Michael Schrage and MIT SMR editorial director David Kiron wrote: "Productivity in an era of generative AI is not output per unit of input. It is also determined by measurable learning per unit of interaction. Organizations that build the machinery to run the cycle — verify, evaluate, capture, apply — will build that capability over time. Those that do not will consume AI without converting it into knowledge."

Professor Stuart Madnick and co-author wrote: "Boards should recognize that their most effective lever is not trying to add technical expertise at the board level or relying on training that quickly becomes outdated in an AI-driven threat environment. Instead, they should focus on having the highest quality cybersecurity leadership and empowering them to maximize their impact."

Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu wrote: "Although the world is much less dependent on oil than it was in the 1970s, a protracted oil price hike will impact inflation and raise the prices of several other products heavily reliant on oil or transport services. It would also slow down hiring, hampering economic growth and nudging up unemployment in the US and in other economies."

A new book by LinkedIn executives draws on senior lecturer Paul Cheek's founder case studies and research, framing AI not as a threat to work but as an accelerant for self‑employment and ownership.

Professor Eric von Hippel has documented a pattern that most executives find counterintuitive: Users, not producers, are often the real source of innovation. The people closest to the work understand their own needs better than anyone else. Thousands of employees experimenting with AI is a learning engine no corporate directive can replicate.