"Companies that really score highly on agility — NVIDIA, SpaceX, Tesla — tend to strike a deal with their employees," said professor of the practice Donald Sull. Employees are offered generous pay, great career opportunities and other perks. "But the trade-off is the work-life balance tends to be really bad," he added.

Professor Deborah Ancona said: "Sense-making is most often needed when our understanding of the world becomes unintelligible in some way. This occurs when the environment is changing rapidly, presenting us with surprises for which we are unprepared or confronting us with adaptive, rather than technical problems to solve."

China's main concerns about its holdings has long been over the dollar's value and whether the United States will pay its obligations, said professor Yasheng Huang. "The dollar has already depreciated, dragging down the Chinese holdings," he said.

A new trend shaking procurement in tech is the 'reverse acqui-hire' method. In this process, companies like Amazon strategically hire key personnel from start-ups to secure talent and intellectual assets without acquiring the entire entity. Professor Michael Cusumano explained: "To acquire only some employees or the majority, but not all, license technology, leave the company functioning but not really competing, that's a new twist."

A recent study by professor Roberto Rigobon, Isabella Loaiza, and co-authors showed that LLMs consistently suggested that countries have less press freedom than official reports. The study found the LLMs distorting and under-counting the press freedom in nations that actually place relatively few restrictions on journalists. "Access to reliable information on the state and health of the institutions that uphold democracy is critical for civic participation," said Rigobon.

The natural worry for anyone hoping to have a job in five years' time is what AI might do to that job. MIT professor David Autor and research scientist Neil Thompson's research suggests a clarifying question: Does AI look like it is going to do the most highly skilled part of your job or the low-skill rump that you've not been able to get rid of? The answer to that question may help to predict whether your job is about to get more fun or more annoying — and whether your salary is likely to rise, or fall.

Tech companies have long paid top dollar for elite talent, but the recent hiring frenzy has been on an entirely different level. And it seems AI talent can't start soon enough. "They're pressuring them to drop out of school," said professor of the practice Bill Aulet, managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship.

"It's clear that eventually this entire space could be a threat to TradFi providers," said research scientist Christian Catalini. "But credit card networks aren't sitting on the sidelines. The card networks will push to work with many stablecoins, so they retain their central role."

A new study by assistant professor Chloe Xie and co-author challenges the idea that AI is here to simply replace accountants. "If you think about the early adoption of anything, there is generally some trade-off between quantity and quality," Xie said. "Whereas in this instance, perhaps surprisingly, the trade-off is not so sharp. That's probably most related to the fact that the technology is not here to replace the human being — it's here to augment the experts who are already in place."

Professor Catherine Wolfram and co-authors wrote: "The European Union's pending implementation of the world's first large-scale climate and trade policy will benefit the U.S. and expand production in important American industries while potentially boosting U.S. exports to the European Union."

Professor Emeritus Henry D. Jacoby wrote: "Federal resources for managing climate-augmented weather disasters are being wiped out, and crucial information about future risks is being destroyed or degraded. Meanwhile, state leaders stand by while denying the seriousness of climate change as a driver of these events — and the threat this poses to the state economy."

Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu said: "The promise of technology was to create opportunities for all, but what we have is a single system that concentrates power and wealth."

Professor Andrew W. Lo said: "We're working on an AI financial advisor that can satisfy the most important criterion of financial advice that regulators impose, fiduciary duty. A fiduciary is somebody who is appointed to help you further your goals and will look out for your best interests above and beyond their own."

Research scientist Ranjan Pal and co-authors wrote: "The most creative and technically innovative employees choose roles in software development for products whose value is of most importance to venture capitalists and enterprise shareholders. The relatively less innovative and coding-competent employees are put in cybersecurity roles and are paid comparatively less."