At a time of increased uncertainty throughout our business, I feel that it’s important to be a rock, and to show positivity, for the people on my team. But I know it’s important to show more vulnerability at times like this. How can I do both? It’s easy to equate vulnerability with sharing your own…
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR Recent harsh backlash against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices marks a pivotal moment for organizations worldwide. Once seen as essential to social progress and organizational success, these programs now face intensified scrutiny, with critics challenging their fairness and many seeking to dismantle them entirely. In this contentious climate, organizations must grapple…
Alex Nabaum/theispot.com The United States’ dominance in STEM research and innovation is at a critical crossroads as the country’s STEM research industry faces unprecedented erosion that will be difficult to reverse. At the heart of this challenge lies a growing crisis in human capital: the weakening pipeline of international doctoral talent that has historically powered…
Cigarettes, canned fish, and mortadella raise red flags. But beans, milk, and vinegar salad dressing suggest fiscal responsibility. Those are the findings of a proof-of-concept paper “where we demonstrated that people’s shopping behavior in grocery stores correlated with their repayment of credit-card bills,” says Eric Anderson, a professor of marketing at the Kellogg School, who…
Ever heard of the Rising Pune Supergiants or the Gujarat Lions? Probably not, if you don’t live in India or follow cricket. They’re both former teams in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Brian Uzzi first heard of the teams through Satyam Mukherjee, who worked in Uzzi’s lab as a post-doctoral researcher and is now at…
It’s the question on everyone’s mind these days: Is artificial intelligence going to take my job? The effect of the latest generation of AI tools on the labor market still needs time to play out. But new research by Kellogg’s Bryan Seegmiller and Dimitris Papanikolaou hints at how this might unfold. The researchers, along with…
Leo Acadia/theispot.com The Research The authors created a data set from publicly available information on LinkedIn in 2022 provided by Bright Data. It included all U.S. financial services industry companies on the platform, as well as their employees’ education and work histories over the past 20 years. Based on observations for 5,500 businesses that had…
History was made at the Vatican when the first American-born pope—Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV—was elected as the new head of the Roman Catholic Church. As a devout Catholic, I welcome the election of the 69-year-old cleric as a sign of strength and health for the church and its 1.4 billion communicants around…
Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu challenges the AI revolution narrative with surprising data: AI will likely automate just 5% of tasks and add only 1% to global GDP this decade. And where the internet’s potential was clear early on, AI’s is not, and the technology has yet to deliver applications that can transform production or…
For some of us, the rapid rise of artificial intelligence might not seem the least bit worrisome. We’re learning about it and testing it. And we’re slowly but surely integrating the new technology into our lives and work. In other words, we’re adapting—just as we did with the emergence of the internet and smartphones and…