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Forbes | 01/28/2025 | Fiona Murray, Stefan Raff-Heinen
A critical question is how organizations can unlock the potential of deep tech as a frontier for radical innovation. The challenge, however, lies in the fact that many organizations with limited R&D budgets are often unaccustomed to working with emerging technologies. To address this, associate dean for innovation Fiona Murray, research affiliate Stefan Raff-Heinen and co-author outline three practices to help overcome common barriers such as commercialization risks, high capital investment requirements, and mismatched timelines. |
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Fortune | 02/4/2025 | Andrew W. Lo
Professor Andrew W. Lo, the director of the laboratory for financial engineering, told Fortune that it could be dangerous to seek legal or financial advice from AI due to a lack of domain-specific expertise, trustworthiness, and regulatory knowledge. |
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CNN | 01/31/2025 | Arnold Barnett
A study co-authored by professor Arnold Barnett highlighted aviation safety's substantial improvement over many years. The past half-century has seen major progress, Barnett says. "We're now only about 1/38th as likely to die in a plane accident compared to the levels of the late 1960s and 1970s." |
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Channel NewsAsia (CNA) | 01/30/2025 | John Sterman
Professor John Sterman joined the "Daily Cuts" podcast to discuss the transparency and legitimacy of carbon credit programs. |
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CSO | 01/28/2025 | Keri Pearlson
Keri Pearlson, executive director of Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan (CAMS) said: "As a board member, you have to take the perspective that every company will likely experience a breach or attack of some sort. You also want to know that your company can absorb and recover quickly without downtime." |
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The European Business Review | 01/30/2025 | Peter Weill, Stephanie L. Woerner
Senior research scientist Peter Weill and executive director of the MIT Center for Information Systems Research Stephanie L. Woerner wrote: "Taking a domain orientation is a huge opportunity for your company to be creative. Defining a domain that will best suit your customers is a chance to leverage the knowledge and expertise of all your employees. This is an exciting opportunity to rethink the customer experience, leapfrog competitors, and potentially achieve top performance." |
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Project Syndicate | 02/4/2025 | Daron Acemoglu
Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu wrote: "Even if we do not yet know all the details about how DeepSeek developed its models or what its apparent achievement means for the future of the AI industry, one thing seems clear: a Chinese upstart has punctured the tech industry's obsession with scale and may have even shaken it out of its complacency." |
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MIT Sloan Management Review | 01/28/2025 | Michael Schrage, David Kiron
Visiting scholar Michael Schrage and editorial director David Kiron wrote: "Incorporating AI agents at scale transforms how enterprises define, design, and deploy decision environments. Our research shows that organizations using AI to generate sophisticated choice sets — rather than singular, 'best,' or 'optimal' solutions — achieve superior outcomes across diverse sectors." |
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