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AI financial advice can be good — especially with the right questions
Large language models encourage smart financial behavior, but they fall short on the more subtle aspects of saving and investing, according to MIT Sloan’s Taha Choukhmane and co-authors.
These are the most urgent AI risks, according to 272 experts
Which AI risks could cause the most harm in the next five years? New MIT research shows that businesses should be aware of threats like competitive pressure and dangerous AI capabilities.
Remembering Robert McKersie, who reshaped how we understand negotiation
McKersie’s 1965 framework for labor bargaining became one of negotiation theory’s most enduring ideas — and helped guide a life of activism, mentorship, and academic leadership.
5 ways to make agentic AI a competitive advantage
Enterprises looking to make the most of agentic AI will have to rethink how work gets done and how teams are organized, without forgetting the human workers who set their companies apart.
Who will own the AI agent economy?
Here’s what businesses need to know as AI agents move from centralized systems toward a decentralized network of trillions of personal and organizational agents.
5 investments to close the gap between AI wealth and welfare
Transformative technologies like artificial intelligence succeed when societies make parallel social investments to ensure gains are distributed equitably, MIT Sloan researchers find.
Meet the new faculty members joining MIT Sloan in 2026
Debiased machine learning, the currency of invoicing, and training good models with bad data: Meet the new experts bringing their knowledge and skill sets to the MIT Sloan School of Management.
MIT Sloan reflects: 250 years of American business and management
MIT Sloan School of Management faculty members reflect on how innovations and ideas over the past 250 years influence business today.
Data liquidity leads to AI success
Three levers — data architecture, data preparation, and data permissions — determine whether data becomes a reusable strategic asset or stays trapped in silos.
Companies’ use of ‘disposable workers’ is transforming employment
Freelancers, contractors, part-timers, gig workers, adjuncts, and other contingent workers deserve more respect, MIT Sloan professor emeritus Paul Osterman writes in his book “Disposable Workers.”