In this episode of the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, host Sam Ransbotham speaks with Taylor Stockton, chief innovation officer at the U.S. Department of Labor, about how artificial intelligence is reshaping the workforce. Taylor emphasizes that AI is having an economywide impact, transforming tasks within nearly every job rather than affecting only certain industries…
From the launch of a new car model to the rollout of a pioneering medicine, finding the right price can mean a product’s success or failure. Given years of R&D, the rigors of competitors’ offerings, and the many demands on consumers’ attentions and pocketbooks, this process can be difficult to get right. Here are five…
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images Most advice about leadership communication focuses on presentation skills: Be concise, be clear, tell better stories. But the most consequential leadership communication happens in meetings where tough issues are being discussed and real decisions are being made. Even some of the most skilled leaders find themselves in moments where…
Everyone hates ads on social media. Or do they? New research suggests that, at least on Facebook, users don’t actually mind the steady stream of ads. It’s a bold claim—not only because it cuts against conventional wisdom, but because conducting robust research on the effects of online advertising is very difficult to do. To land…
Aleksandar Savic After World War II, Goldman Sachs ranked 10th among the top 30 U.S. investment banks. Twenty-seven of those once-mighty Wall Street rivals, including Salomon, Lehman, and First Boston, have been relegated to the annals of business history. Goldman, in contrast, is a global powerhouse, employing more than 46,000 people, operating in more than…
AI may be today’s hot topic, but there’s a robust market for old-fashioned products. Board games, vinyl records, and even 1990s-style video game consoles are making a comeback, especially with Generation Z. What does this mean for teams building modern products? In this video, MIT Sloan Management Review senior features editor Kaushik Viswanath explains “retro-innovation”…
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images Today’s workforce spans five generations, with millennials and Generation Z together accounting for over 60% of workers globally — a share projected to reach 74% by 2030. Yet there’s a widening intergenerational gap in business leadership. While age diversity in the workplace is growing, decision-making power increasingly rests with…
Matt Harrison Clough/Ikon Images At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2026, Schneider Electric CEO Olivier Blum accepted awards recognizing the company’s AI solutions as part of the WEF’s MINDS (Meaningful, Intelligent, Novel, Deployable Solutions) program — for the second time. The distinction highlighted two of the company’s AI-enabled applications:…
Is 36 months too long for a new-product cycle? It was for Kraft Heinz. So, starting with a pilot project, it was able to cut time to market to just six months by redesigning how people worked. Today, units throughout the company are applying that model’s step-by-step approach to change and are seeing measurable improvements…
Annalisa Grassano/Ikon Images In early 2025, more than 212,000 women left the U.S. workforce following a rise in return-to-office mandates, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Among mothers with young children, workforce participation dropped nearly three percentage points in just six months, according to the BLS. Behind those numbers is a larger…