In this video interview, professor of the practice Zeynep Ton discussed what a better future of work could look like, what a "good job" means today, and why stability, career growth, and supportive pay for the jobs that already exist are vital to supporting America's workers.
Astrology, throughout its long history, has been embraced by its believers and treated with bemusement or even ridicule by skeptics. It was the subject of extensive research led by associate professor Jackson Lu. His team determined that there was extensive discrimination in China against Virgos, but that the bias was "irrational" because astrological signs predict neither personality or job performance.
"Sadly, unavoidably, online abuse will change women's sports in fundamental ways," lecturer Shira Springer wrote. "The athlete accessibility that fueled growth cannot be what it was. It's a new reality, where protecting is more important than promoting."
Senior lecturer Steven Spear and co-author wrote: "America's military advantage depends on its ability to out-think and out-innovate its adversaries. That means breaking the bureaucratic chains and putting mission-focused, problem-centric teams at the heart of defense innovation."
Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu said: "Institutions crucially depend on the trust that people place in them. Corruption is the tip of the spear, because once you start suspecting that people in high office are using their position for corrupt ends, it tarnishes the entire set of institutions. And I think that's the situation we're in, and we're getting deeper and deeper."
When asked how she knew she wanted to be a business school professor, Negin (Nikki) Golrezaei said: "I was drawn to the opportunity to conduct rigorous research on practical and impactful problems in digital platforms. The ability to study these systems analytically and share that knowledge with the next generation through teaching made this career feel like a perfect fit."
Associate dean for business analytics Dimitris Bertsimas said: "Education has a social component. If the only thing you do is online education and you have no human experience, no personal relation with your classmates, no personal relationship with your teachers, the data suggests that it is not as satisfying in a somewhat impersonal online experience."
A recent paper by professor Roberto Rigobon and postdoctoral associate Isabella Loaiza-Saa evaluated AI's effects on the U.S. labor force by focusing on humans' capabilities, rather than AI's. "We need to focus on what it is that humans can do so that we can complement machines," said Loaiza-Saa.
The Sloan Fellows MBA program is a great option to consider for those who are ready to explore a different path, and put ideas into action. "The opportunity to step away from the working world for one year allows SFMBA students to fully immerse in a global network of peers to learn from, and experiment with different courses and industry interests, in a supportive environment," said Dawna Levenson, assistant dean of admissions.
The two disciplines of AI and philosophy might seem like polar opposites, but lecturer Michael Schrage and executive director of MIT Sloan Management Review David Kiron, argued that one can't function without the other: "When implementing AI, most organizations obsess over the technology, but our research reveals a surprising truth. Philosophy is what truly determines AI success."
