An Evening of Discovery at the MIT Museum
For one night only in early December, invited guests gathered at the newly expanded and reopened MIT Museum in Kendall Square for a series of lightning talks by MIT Sloan faculty. The museum—much like MIT Sloan—strives to be a place where science, technology, the humanities, and the arts are all used to frame and reframe problems. Guests had the pleasure of featuring three of our incredible faculty members—Emilio Castilla, Kristin Forbes, and Scott Stern—to hear about their research as an example of how MIT Sloan faculty are making a difference globally.
Featured Speakers
Emilio J. Castilla
Behavioral and Policy Sciences
NTU Professor of Management
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Kristin J. Forbes
Behavioral and Policy Sciences
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management
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Scott Stern
Behavioral and Policy Sciences
David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology
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Emilio J. Castilla, NTU Professor of Management; Professor, Work and Organization Studies
Emilio J. Castilla studies the role that merit, performance evaluations, and other talent-management practices play in shaping the careers of diverse individuals in today’s workplaces. In this talk, he will briefly highlight some of his past projects that shed light on ways leaders can use people analytics to improve organizational processes and foster fairness, diversity, and meritocracy. He will also discuss a new study that offers surprising insights about an AI-based recruiting approach that some employers are using to try to increase gender diversity in their job applicant pool.
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Kristin Forbes, PhD ’98, Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management; Professor, Global Economics and Management
Kristin Forbes will discuss her recent research on how globalization has influenced the inflation process and contributed to high inflation around the world today. She will also discuss how bringing inflation down will increase risks to financial stability—risks that became apparent when the pandemic began in March 2020 and more recently in the UK in October 2022.
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Scott Stern, David Sarnoff Professor of Management; Professor, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Scott Stern will discuss the Startup Cartography Project which combines business registration records with a predictive analytics approach to offer new insights into the origin, nature, dynamics, and impact of entrepreneurship. Leveraging more than 40 million new business registrations over the past thirty years, this research offers insights into how both the quantity and quality of entrepreneurship changes over time, the impact of university research and other policies on the emergence of entrepreneurial ecosystems, and real-time assessments of how COVID-19 not only changed the quantity but also the geography and demography of entrepreneurship across America.
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About the MIT Museum
The MIT Museum turns MIT inside-out, inviting visitors to take part in on-going research and demonstrate how science and innovation will shape the future of society. The opening exhibits are both informative and interactive, allowing visitors to write poetry with artificial intelligence (AI) in one room while considering the impact of AI on the future of work nearby. Highlights throughout the galleries include: a prototype of Nobel winner Rainer Weiss’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), which proved Einstein’s theory of relativity; the NASA-MIT Starshade Rendezvous Mission star-shade petal designed by Sara Seager to allow photography of exoplanets; the 1892 diploma of pioneering architect and professor Robert Robinson Taylor, the first Black graduate of MIT; the Apollo Guidance Computer (Block II), critical to the success of Apollo missions; and selected photography including Edward Weston’s Jiddu Krishnamurti (1935) and Judy Dater’s Lovers (1964).
