As co-faculty director of the Shaping the Future of Work initiative at MIT, Simon Johnson works on the economics and politics of AI development and deployment in the US and globally.
High rates of debt growth by local governments are a cause for concern in any country. In China, where recent turmoil in the equity and foreign-exchange markets has put a spotlight on that country’s economy and growth prospects, increasing levels of borrowing by provincial and other lower levels of ...
Given infrastructure’s integral role in enabling high-functioning economies around the world and the concern that the pace of investment is not keeping up with the need for it, I have recently begun to focus my research on the consequences of different approaches to...
While the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the challenges facing women in the workforce, it is only the most recent catalyst to illuminate the ways women’s careers are differentially impacted by homelife.
Although the chief mission of MIT Sloan is to develop principled, innovative leaders who improve the world, entrepreneurship and innovation play a significant part in this equation.
These days, a lot of people are talking about using data to make decisions. However, an often- overlooked aspect of data is that it can’t always be trusted.
Rubén Lozano Aguilera, MBA ’13 identified pollution as a key challenge for the future of transportation in urban areas. With the introduction of eco-friendly routes on Google Maps, Lozano Aguilera and team have prevented an estimated 2.4MM+ metric tons of CO2 emissions—equivalent to removing 500K fu...
Shipping autonomous and embodied AI systems forces leaders to confront a hard truth: speed without safety erodes trust, while excessive caution can stall learning and impact.
Responsibly Financing Africa’s Missing Middle Africa’s SMEs are crucial drivers of economic growth, job creation, and poverty reduction, especially in underserved rural areas. Yet, a $331 billion financing gap leaves them in the “missing middle”—too large for microfinance but too small for traditio...
As the Covid-19 pandemic brings the U.S. economy to a standstill, a severe drop in consumer demand is putting vast numbers of businesses at risk of bankruptcy, and millions of [...]
