Professor Yasheng Huang says: "In a perfect political world, these are two countries that are made in heaven, exactly because they are complementary. Essentially, these two countries kind of got married without knowing one another's religions."

Professor of the practice Zeynep Ton continues her quest to prove that better, and better-paid, jobs lead to a virtuous circle of improved worker wellbeing, corporate competitiveness and productivity. An important contribution, founded on real-world examples from retailing to fast food, as to how to make capitalism work for everyone.

Principal research scientist Andrew McAfee is the author of the new book, The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset that Drives Extraordinary Results. "The geeks dove in deep on a problem, they experimented and iterated and came up with a set of practices, and as I look across them, they are weirdly consistent and better," he said. The "incumbents of the industrial era" have a lot to learn from the geeks if they want to stay competitive, he said.

Professor David G. Rand says: "When you show people deepfakes and generative AI, a lot of times they come out of the experiment saying, 'I just don't trust anything anymore.'"

Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu says: "Something along the lines of the National Institutes of Health, which has both expertise and funding for new research, could be very necessary for the field of AI with an explicit aim of investing in the things that are falling by the wayside."

"There is a lot of exploration that goes on at Google," said Michael Cusumano, a professor of management and deputy dean at MIT Sloan School of Management. "It just did not have a large impact on its business model."

Professor Pierre Azoulay says: "One reason that immigrants do better is that they locate in places that are growing fast and the earnings potential are high. They do not randomly locate around the United States."

Visiting scholar Thomas H. Davenport and co-authors write: "AI can revolutionize process improvement and dramatically reduce labor-intensive tasks employed in traditional methods. To realize the technology's potential, however, leaders will need to reorient front line workers to these new tools."

Rahul Dhanda (SF: MBA '05) co-founder and CEO of Syntis Bio, a preclinical company developing a new class of therapy, joins the Client Corner podcast.

Carmichael Roberts (MBA '00) says: "This is a program that is built to do good. If someone sees there are some elements of the program that need to be changed for it to exist, I'd rather see it exist than to be canceled."

Pita Limjaroenrat (MBA '11) says: "Despite being ordered to pause my role as a member of parliament, I am still a chief adviser to the MFP leader, and also a Thai citizen who wants to see U.S.-Thai relations become closer. I think I learned things that can be used in rebalancing international relations."

As she approaches 70, an age when so many others plot their retirement, Anh Vu Sawyer (EMBA '20) is just getting started. After a decades-long journey Vu Sawyer plans to spend the rest of her life as an entrepreneur committed to supporting women and the immigrant and refugee communities in a very direct way.

Associate Dean Dimitris Bertsimas says: "The use of AI provides governments with an in-depth understanding of agricultural production on a national scale through satellite images. This enables dynamic crop monitoring, revealing disease-affected areas and facilitating targeted pesticide application. In addition, these tools provide crucial information for the management of water resources, allowing governments to prioritize their allocation."