Vishal Gupta, engineering manager, machine learning at Reddit, joins the Me, Myself, and AI podcast with host Sam Ransbotham to explain how the social media community uses artificial intelligence to improve user experience and ad relevance. Much of the advertising work relies on increasingly sophisticated recommender systems that have evolved from simple collaborative filtering to… →

Consider a few types of furniture companies: There’s the small artisan firm, where a carpenter builds one-of-a-kind armoires and cabinets. There’s the medium-sized chain like Crate & Barrel, with about 100 stores in North America and a sprinkling of international locations. And then there’s IKEA. Since its founding in 1943, the Swedish furniture behemoth has… →

Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Colin McPherson/Corbis Premium historical via Getty Images When Jane Goodall died in October, the world lost more than a scientist. It lost a moral compass: a woman whose quiet persistence taught humanity to see connection where it once saw hierarchy. Her decades of observing chimpanzees in Tanzania reframed our understanding of… →

We tend to free-associate the word “negotiate” with salary and home buying, but for Kellogg’s Leigh Thompson, the list should be much longer. “If you can’t achieve your goals without the cooperation of somebody else, you’re negotiating,” says Thompson, a professor of management and organizations. All relationships involve this push and pull, she says, and… →