Finance

A recent field experiment by associate professor Jackson Lu and co-authors randomly assigned 250 employees at a technology consulting firm in China to either use ChatGPT to assist with their work or to work without it. The employees with ChatGPT access were judged as significantly more creative by both their supervisors and outside evaluators. But the gains showed up exclusively among employees with strong metacognitive strategies.

Michael Autery (Sloan Fellows: MBA '26), Aditi Ramakrishnan (MBA '26), and Hardi Vajir (MBA '26) were profiled in P&Q's 12th annual Best & Brightest feature story, which spotlighted top full-time MBA graduates at elite business schools across the globe.

Senior lecturer Robert Pozen wrote: "The lesson from the telecom debacle is that financial engineering can obscure, for years, the difference between real customer demand and demand driven by incentives. When AI companies begin to finance their own product distribution, guaranteeing returns to investors and subsidizing sales, it's a signal for investors to dig deeper."

Keeping California's last operating nuclear station, Diablo Canyon, running from 2030 to 2045 could offer net savings of capital and operating costs totaling more than $7.6 billion, or more than $500 million per year of continued operations, according to a new analysis by senior lecturer John Parsons, a research affiliate with the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research.