Nowhere is silence more valued than in business negotiations. Professor Jared Curhan and his team had published a paper in which they explored two perspectives, "(a) an internal reflection perspective, whereby silence leads to a deliberative mindset, which, in turn, prompts value creation, and (b) a social perception perspective, whereby silence leads to intimidation and value claiming." Business negotiators put Professor Curhan's academic words into a more quotidian maxim, "whoever speaks first loses."

Senior lecturer emeritus John Reilly said that ultimately, proper regulation of corporate climate commitments — including of durable carbon dioxide removal — will fall on governments. Companies "are happy to throw a little money into these things," he said, "but I don't think voluntary guidelines are ever going to get you there."

"There has been a steady progression for years for CIOs to become more strategic leaders. There are a lot of IT leaders who don't get it yet, and they now have to become the strategy leader they should have been all along," said principal research scientist George Westerman. "The CIO needs a vision of what IT needs to be and the ability to execute," said principal research scientist Keri Pearlson.

Young people shouldn't rely on AI for everything. It's a lesson companies are also still learning, said Frank Nagle, a research scientist at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy who also advises start-ups. "That's going to be a big piece of the learning: What can we give AI to do and what do we still need the humans to do?" Nagle asked.

In this excerpt from their book, "There's Got to Be a Better Way," professor Nelson Repenning and senior lecturer Donald Kieffer wrote: "In our research and in the field with clients over the last 25 years, we have seen several companies attempt to fix everything at once. They make significant investments in their underlying processes, only to abandon them when performance begins to degrade."

Associate professor Haoxiang Zhu and co-author wrote: "We support Supplementary Leverage Ratio (SLR) reform that would increase the likelihood that the SLR functions as a backstop rather than as the primary capital standard for banks and bank holding companies. Because the SLR by design is not risk-weighted, it is unduly restrictive for low-risk activities such as Treasury market intermediation when it is binding."

IDE digital fellow Thomas Davenport wrote: "Until now, the AI revolution has been largely measured by size: the bigger the model, the bolder the claims. However, as we move closer to truly autonomous and pervasive AI systems, a new trend is emerging that suggests a surprising shift: smaller may actually be better."

Professor Simon Johnson wrote: "Elected political leaders often express frustration with monetary policymakers. This is the current situation in the United States, where President Trump is determined to subordinate the Federal Reserve to his will. At this stage political leaders' top policy advisers typically point out that undermining (or eliminating) central-bank independence is likely to prove to be entirely self-defeating."

The Copenhagen Declaration, co-authored by seven academics including research scientist Florian Berg, is a direct appeal to European policymakers to ensure that the process initiated by the Omnibus Package does not undermine two fundamental pillars of the European regulatory framework: the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.