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Associate professor Lawrence Schmidt said there are some jobs AI can do. "But, in many instances, it will change what we are doing rather than eliminate the job entirely," he said.

Professor David Thesmar and co-authors wrote: "Investors and executives have often floated the idea that companies can 'do well by doing good.' In a new experimental paper, we show that this story, sometimes referred to as 'instrumental stakeholderism,' is incomplete: stakeholders care not just about what firms do, but why they do it.​"

Research scientist Christian Catalini said: "Everything that's been happening the last few weeks is definitely adding a lot of nervousness in the market. Anything that makes investors risk averse of course affects the price of bitcoin."

Professor Sinan Aral, principal research scientist Andrew McAfee, MIT IDE research fellow Geoffrey Parker, professor of the practice Zeynep Ton, and MIT IDE digital fellow Marshall Van Alstyne (SM '91, PhD '98), have been listed on the Thinkers50 2025 ranking of Top Management Thinkers.

Principal research scientist Andrew McAfee is on the Thinkers50 2025 Future Readiness Award Shortlist, celebrating "a visionary thinker who has profoundly advanced our understanding of what it means to be future ready."

Professor Emilio Castilla is on the Thinkers50 2025 Talent Award Shortlist, recognizing "thought leaders who have illuminated the complexities and opportunities of the dynamic talent marketplace."

Professor Catherine Wolfram said: "The price cap was designed to drive a wedge between the global price and what Russia received for its oil, and keep oil on the market. It succeeded with the latter. With the former, it drove a bit of a wedge, but the Trump administration's actions widened that wedge."

MIT Sloan MBA candidates Adalberto Acuña Girault, Chloe Brown, Isabelle Callaghan, Sara Dugan, Connor Grigg, Claudia Mezey, Subhachote (Shane) Pornprinya, Sreelakshmi Sandeep, and Adi Yehoshua are profiled in this article. "MIT Sloan provides students with skills employers are looking for right now and for the future at the intersection of management and technology," said Maura Herson, assistant dean of the MIT Sloan MBA program.

In this Davos conversation, professor Fiona Murray, associate dean of innovation and chair of the NATO Innovation Fund, brought viewers inside NATO's effort to adapt to a new industrial era.

Professor Kate Kellogg and co-authors wrote: "To understand how companies can truly extract value from human-AI collaboration, we conducted a field experiment with 244 consultants using GPT-4 for a complex business problem-solving task. The experiment analyzed nearly 5,000 human-AI interactions to answer a critical question: When humans collaborate with GenAI, what are they actually doing—and what should they be doing?"