Photo courtesy of Orbia Sameer Bharadwaj is CEO of Orbia, a global sustainable solutions company. After earning a doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Bharadwaj worked at Dow Chemical, Boston Consulting Group, and Cabot Corp. He joined Orbia, then known as Mexichem, in 2016 and became CEO in 2021, leading its transformation…
In this episode of Me, Myself, and AI, OpenAI’s chief economist Ronnie Chatterji describes how artificial intelligence is reshaping both the economy and scientific innovation. Ronnie discusses the dual economic impacts of AI — the near-term boost from infrastructure investments like chips and data centers, and the longer-term productivity gains as AI tools integrate into…
Suzanne Muchin rues the day people started referring to their careers as “paths.” “You always talk about a career path, your career journey, your career trajectory. They’re all a vocabulary that suggests you’re supposed to get onto a road and then ride it,” said Muchin, a clinical professor of management and organizations at Kellogg. But…
In any organization, leaders are responsible for making decisions. Some decisions, like where to open a new location or whether to change prices, can largely be decided based on research, rational discussion, and clear lanes of decision-making authority. But other decisions boil down to value-based judgements, bringing out strong opinions and offering no easy answers.…
Foreign-language films offer audiences the opportunity to engage in cross-cultural experiences, however traditional localisation methods risk disrupting immersion. Yangting Li explores her recent research paper showing how artificial intelligence (AI)-driven technology is providing ground-breaking solutions. The Champion is Polish-language film that tells the true story of Tadeusz Pietrzykowski, a Polish boxer who became famous for…
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images “You may feel that this is a time of radical uncertainty, when past patterns no longer reliably predict the future. Uncertainty inherently leads us to a place of emotional discomfort because it signals both potential opportunity and adversity.” — David Tuckett, “Five Traits of Leaders Who Excel at Decision-Making”…
Doval / Ikon Images When one of us, a longtime Spotify user, set up her new Sonos speaker, the Sonos app prompted her to link music services. With a quick login, she was able to connect her Spotify account to Sonos. Suddenly, Sonos became her go-to gateway for music at home. Spotify, once her primary…
We’re finding it difficult to wind down projects that no longer serve our priorities. Team members doing the work feel that we are giving up on something important. How do we lead through these changes and help people refocus their energy on what comes next? Your team has devoted their time, attention, and energy to…
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images Resilience has become one of the most overused words in management. Leaders praise teams for “pushing through” and “bouncing back,” as if the ability to absorb endless strain were proof of strength. But endurance and resilience are not the same. Endurance is about surviving pressure. Resilience is about designing…
For many websites, 2025 has been a rude awakening to the AI era. Retailers, news publications, and marketing agencies saw drops in traffic of 20–40 percent, with much of that decline coming from a loss of organic search traffic. The likely culprit: the new AI-generated summaries appearing at the top of search results, providing many…