Ideas Made to Matter Innovation

What is algorithmic business thinking?

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Borrowing from computer science, algorithmic business thinking helps people communicate with each other, and with machines.

Sep 30, 2021
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Ideas Made to Matter Research

MIT Sloan researchers named to Thinkers50 shortlist

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

Sep 1, 2021
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Ideas Made to Matter Artificial Intelligence

The AI road not taken

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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.

Aug 31, 2021
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Ideas Made to Matter Robots

How smaller firms can integrate collaborative robots

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

Aug 24, 2021
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Ideas Made to Matter Artificial Intelligence

How Moderna, Home Depot, and others are succeeding with AI

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

Aug 18, 2021
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Ideas Made to Matter Artificial Intelligence

Here comes the AI productivity boom

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Businesses are poised to see big productivity gains from artificial intelligence. Make sure you’re prepared.

Jul 12, 2021
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Ideas Made to Matter Manufacturing

How the future will shift at large manufacturing firms

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A new research brief from MIT examines what digital innovation means for workers, training, and strategy at U.S. firms.

Feb 22, 2021
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Ideas Made to Matter Research

2 from MIT Sloan make Thinkers50 Radar list

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Researchers explore working with intelligent machines and what happens when culture meets globalization.

Feb 3, 2021
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Ideas Made to Matter Labor

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella preps for work of the future

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talks about artificial intelligence, how technology can democratize expertise, and the perils of remote work in an attention economy.

Nov 24, 2020
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Ideas Made to Matter Labor

The case for an 'automation tax'

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Some automation displaces workers and lowers wages. A new report argues that taxing the right technologies could help remedy this.

Oct 28, 2020
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