Management
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How Big Companies Use Patents to Play Defense
In popular perception, a patent represents innovation—the legal landmark between an inventor’s idea and the next must-have gizmo. With big companies churning out more and more patents, you might think that bodes well for innovation. After all, each of those bright new ideas could eventually show up as new products or features on store shelves,…
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How a Different AI Approach Can Cut the Queue
When a person arrives at the emergency room complaining of shortness of breath, they’ll likely be sent for a chest X-ray. Then they’ll probably need to sit and wait to be seen by a doctor—sometimes for a while. Instead of treating patients on a first-come, first-served basis, the U.S. healthcare system typically relies on a…
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To Spot AI Fakes, a Little Training Goes a Long Way
Earlier this year, Matthew Groh instructed ChatGPT to create images of a man playing guitar with Bruce Springsteen and tennis with Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. At first glance, the two pictures looked pretty convincing. But Groh, an assistant professor of management and organizations at Kellogg, spotted a couple of tell-tale signs that they were…
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How a Healthy Work Culture Helps Trauma Survivors
Donna Grethen/Ikon Images Over the past few decades, there has been burgeoning interest in how leaders and organizations can support employees in the aftermath of traumatic events.1 But there is another pervasive and often hidden source of trauma that originates well before individuals enter the workforce. Childhood adversity, referred to as adverse childhood experiences (ACEs),…
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The Link Between Explicit AI-Generated Images and Offline Crime
Dung Hoang/theispot.com The online revolution enabled frictionless access to virtually every type of content — including adult content. Generative AI has added a whole new, and potentially more dangerous, dimension to the boom in explicit content. In the absence of strong safeguards, AI users can transition from consumers to creators of their own explicit media…
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Take 5: Let’s Get Ethical
An ethical organization isn’t one that avoids scandals; it’s one built so that scandal has nowhere to hide. Ethical behavior in organizations depends on a healthy dynamic among individual self-awareness, company culture, and leadership judgment, each reinforcing the other through accountability. When any link in those connections weakens, the damage propagates across all of them. …
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How America out-deindustrialised Europe
Despite the prevailing narrative of Western deindustrialisation as one of a rigid Europe and a dynamic America, Richard Baldwin, Saul Estrin, and Bob Hancké argue that the comparison of the EU with the US turns this narrative on its head. While both have experienced deindustrialisation, it has been for different reasons and with the US’s running deeper. The familiar story of deindustrialisation says Europe is over-regulated, over-taxed and burdened by ageing factories, while the United States is…
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Robots Are Coming — but Not Everywhere
Getty Images “The ChatGPT moment for robotics is coming,” declared Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2025. It’s a widespread expectation: that humanoid robots will follow the same explosive adoption curve as generative AI. Our research suggests the opposite. Humanoid robotics will be adopted unevenly, across diverging use cases and…
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A New Way to Address Troubled Team Dynamics
Gillian Blease/Ikon Images The Research The authors adapted the Big Five personality test into a tool for illustrating personality preferences among team members. They and their colleagues tested the tool with over 600 ad hoc teams that attended IMD leadership development programs. They confirmed the applicability of this method with 100 senior executive teams in…
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Creating Shared Prosperity With AI: Stanford Digital Economy Lab’s Erik Brynjolfsson
Erik Brynjolfsson has a challenge for anyone worried about artificial intelligence: Stop asking what AI will do to us, and start asking what we will do with AI. In this episode of Me, Myself, and AI, the Stanford University economist explains why technology isn’t the biggest barrier to progress — people, organizations, and institutions are.…