2021 Thinkers50 award nominees include MIT Sloan professors and alumni studying social media, intelligent machines, and digital body language.
List of most influential academic research highlights paper by Prof. Sinan Aral
MIT Sloan's Sinan Aral and Paramveer Dhillon published a study in Nature Human Behavior on the power of influencers in social media networks.
The rising energy demands of AI and data centers threaten corporate net zero commitments and worsen climate change. But can AI also help develop climate solutions? MIT Sloan researchers investigate.
Skeptics are more likely to approve of sustainable infrastructure when shown AI-enhanced images of how green cityscapes might look, research finds.
Why film producer Scott Budnick, the New England Patriots’ Devin McCourty, celebrity barber VicBlends, and others are advocating for formerly incarcerated people.
Experts detail how ripple effects are impeding the flow of goods, creating catastrophic food shortages, and fueling dramatic cost increases and product shortages.
Using artificial intelligence to enhance data on clinical trial outcomes can help biomedical firms, investors, and — ultimately — patients.
Stalled projects and workarounds cause chaos in too many organizations. Dynamic work design offers a way to address this through continuous, hands-on problem-solving.
Whether it’s caused by culture clash, cultural inertia, or total toxic collapse, broken culture syndrome can sink an organization. But there’s a way out.
