2021 Thinkers50 award nominees include MIT Sloan professors and alumni studying social media, intelligent machines, and digital body language.

Artificial intelligence doesn’t have to trigger a loss of jobs and privacy, writes MIT economist Daron Acemoglu. But only if we modify our approach.

In mergers and acquisitions, it takes more than low interest rates and a healthy stock market to get a deal done. New research pinpoints three unapparent behaviors.

Companies like Fidelity Investments are creating data assets that are integrated, easily consumable, and ready to be monetized.

Integrating robots into a manufacturing system is often prohibitively expensive. A new approach could change that.

An ever-growing list of workarounds is weighing on your productivity and profits. Time to get your systems in order.

Chief data officers share advice on how to connect data to organizational culture and develop data professionals who speak the language of business.

The “Me, Myself, and AI” podcast examines the creative ways companies use artificial intelligence, like making faster methods for vaccine experiments.

Kara Penn, MBA ’07, applies insights from ‘smart mistakes’ to her organizational work at Mission Spark, Hustle Fund, and The Listening Challenge.

To support data science teams, start by pointing them toward the right problem.