Research by associate professor Namrata Kala and co-author indicates that employees do not simply become more efficient because a manager watches their every move. Rather, they want clarity, communication, and trust. Remote workers excel when they have well-defined goals, regular feedback, and a sense that the manager is paying attention to their progress in a constructive way, the study suggests.

"The Genius bill will ensure stablecoin reserves will be safe and boring, and that consumers will have a direct legal claim on the underlying assets," said research scientist Christian Catalini. One of the most notable benefits would be "faster, lower-cost, global payments," he added.

Prompt-a-thons are structured, sprint-based sessions for developing prompts for large language models. "Prompt-a-thons aren't just workshops; they're mirrors. They reflect not only what people want AI to do — but how they think, what they value, and what they overlook," said lecturer Michael Schrage. "It's not just about using AI more effectively — it's about thinking and collaborating more intelligently with it," he said.

Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu said: "We need to create what I would like to call a working-class liberalism, a liberalism that actually gets buy-in from the working classes. Not a liberalism that is so centred on the educated, but much more about communities and much more about self-government at the community level."

"Clearly, something broke down in the communication between management and player," said lecturer Shira Springer. "Having covered Alex Cora, he has always struck me as someone who was very good about building relationships. But you wonder how come he couldn't get Devers to switch from third to first. To me, that's a pretty big sign looking from the outside."

Professor of the Practice Gary Gensler, the former chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, spoke to Institutional Investor on the eve of the launch of the new book, "The Economic Consequences of The Second Trump Administration: A Preliminary Assessment." Gensler, Nobel laureate professor Simon Johnson, Ugo Panizza, and Beatrice Weder di Mauro edited the book, which includes essays from more than 50 academics.

"There've been lots of episodes of productivity increase. Most instances in world history when productivity has gone up only a few people have benefited, so it didn't filter down," said professor Simon Johnson. Innovations are more likely to spread prosperity when they create new, specialized tasks for humans or when they assist workers but don't replace them, he said.

MIT Sloan School of Management ranked first in Business Analytics in this international ranking of MBA programs.

Bill Aulet, managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship chuckled to himself when he decided to invite his old friend, famed software programmer, and investor Mitch Kapor (SM '25) to give a speech at MIT Sloan. The funny part was that Kapor, who created the groundbreaking spreadsheet program Lotus 1-2-3, had attended Sloan in the 1970s but left without getting a degree. By the time Kapor gave the lecture in March, Aulet had discovered Kapor was only a few courses short. One 77-page thesis later, Kapor, donning a cap and gown, finally received his master's degree in May.

The bespectacled man who once worked on advanced medical devices is now known as the key figure behind StarkWare, the zk-rollup technology developer that helped Ethereum get out of its transaction-heavy jam. But his story is not that simple. Uri Kolodny's (MBA '00) path to crypto actually started in an unlikely place: the operating room.

A working paper by research scientist Neil Thompson and MIT professor David Autor suggests that the impact of automation depends not only on which and how many tasks are automated, but on the level of expertise of those tasks in relation to all the others that make up a specific profession. Automation is not a monolithic process, but a selective intervention that can raise or lower the bar of the skills required to perform a given job.

The first edition of the Quantum Index Report 2025, co-authored by lecturer Jonathan Ruane in collaboration with Accenture, offers a comprehensive analysis of the current state of quantum technologies. It assesses key aspects such as the number of patents, academic output, investment, public policies, social perception, education, talent development, existing quantum networks, and processor comparisons.