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How to add generative AI to your technology strategy
At food service company Sysco, generative artificial intelligence is another tool that optimizes sales, processes, and supply chains.
IT leadership for non-IT executives
Senior-level leaders can’t be experts on every new product, service, or innovation. Here are six steps to setting IT strategy in the age of AI.
Unfunded State and Local Healthcare Benefits, the Elephant in the Room?
Last week Bob Pozen, a Visiting Senior Lecturer here at MIT Sloan with a distinguished background in government, business and education gave an eye-opening lunch talk. The topic was “Other Post-Employment Benefits” or OPEBs—which is accounting jargon for the liabilities governments incur for retiree...
3 things great leaders are doing right now
The current health emergency is laying bare problems of cultural intransigence, narrowmindedness, and inflexibility at organizations around the world.
Brakes or Bans: Protecting Financial Markets during a Pandemic
Amid the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, the movements in equity markets’ around the world have mirrored the spread of the virus and its virulence. Attempts to limit market crashes, volatility, and financial contagion have taken a number of different forms. This column explores [...]
How Massachusetts can address critical ongoing staffing shortages in long-term care
The state must amend state law to provide competitive wages and a path to CNA certification for frontline workers who stepped up to serve as nurse aides during the pandemic.
Moving Beyond Safe vs. Risky Treasury Debt
Deborah Lucas offered her views on “US Treasury Debt and Fiscal Sustainability” at the SFS Cavalcade conference in Charlottesville, VA on May 20.
Embracing a growth mindset
Siddharth Nagarkatti is Senior Vice President, Business and Payment Analytics at Bank of America and a member of the MIT Executive MBA Class of 2017.
A Background Note on "Unskilled" Jobs in the United States - Past, Present, and Future
Since 1917, American jobs have been classified by their skill level. “Unskilled work” was said to, “require no special training, judgment, or manual dexterity, but supply mainly muscular strength for the performance of coarse, heavy work dexterity.” It was the largest category of work and included m...