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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.

"A week ago or certainly two weeks ago, I would have said: If the war stopped that day, the long-term implications would be pretty small," said Christopher Knittel, associate dean for climate and sustainability. "But what we're seeing is infrastructure actually being destroyed, which means the ramifications of this war are going to be long-lived," he said.

Christopher Knittel, associate dean for climate and sustainability, said academic research had found that the Jones Act, a maritime law that restricts the way oil is shipped within the United States, added about 1.5 cents to the cost of gasoline. "It's not a huge number, but adds up given how much gasoline we consume," he said.

Professor of the practice Donald Sull and co-author wrote: "We analyzed how 32,000 employees at 15 financial data companies described their employers in Glassdoor reviews. Morningstar employees spoke about corporate culture more frequently and more positively than their counterparts at peer companies and were particularly positive about how the organization lives its core values."

Assistant professor Taha Choukhmane, co-author of a study on retirement savings, explained that "there are pretty large gains to coordinating your finances," particularly when it comes to retirement savings. "We find that couples leave quite a lot of money on the table every year."