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Christopher Knittel, associate dean for climate and sustainability, said academic research had found that the Jones Act, a maritime law that restricts the way oil is shipped within the United States, added about 1.5 cents to the cost of gasoline. "It's not a huge number, but adds up given how much gasoline we consume," he said.

Professor of the practice Donald Sull and co-author wrote: "We analyzed how 32,000 employees at 15 financial data companies described their employers in Glassdoor reviews. Morningstar employees spoke about corporate culture more frequently and more positively than their counterparts at peer companies and were particularly positive about how the organization lives its core values."

Senior lecturer Otto Scharmer wrote: "Atrophy is what happens when we outsource all our creative challenges to AI: yes, we do get short-term results (a sugar high) but at the expense of accumulating what a recent MIT study referred to as cognitive debt: the loss of our deeper creative capacities."

"My sense is that it's a word that's useful to describe software that acts a bit more like a person does," said associate professor John Horton. In economics, he noted, the word "agentic" is used when talking about the "principal-agent problem," or the conflict in priorities that arises between one party and another acting on their behalf. Agentic AI is fraught with similar prioritization problems, he said.

Christopher Knittel, associate dean for climate and sustainability, and co-author wrote: "Your electricity bill has become a political lightning rod. As rates climb, politicians and pundits have rushed to assign blame, with renewable energy policies often cast as the culprit. But new research points to a more nuanced story. Clean energy resources that cut emissions are not the reason electricity bills are rising. The problem is not renewables themselves; it is how they are paid for."

In a recent research paper, "Measuring by Executive Order," professor Roberto Rigobon and co-author pointed out multiple distortions in statistics along with the absolute need for reliable data.