Ethics isn’t the only philosophical issue that organizations need to grapple with when developing and deploying AI. In fact, ethics and “responsible AI” are only a small part of the philosophical perspectives informing and guiding AI’s production, utility, and use. In this insightful video, MIT Sloan’s Michael Schrage and MIT Sloan Management Review’s David Kiron…
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images As generative AI emerges as an easy way to perform computer-generated research, writing, and editing all in one fell swoop, it’s tempting to marvel at how it might improve one of the harder parts of leadership: creating convincing presentations to sell ideas to various constituencies. We’re entering a new…
The suggestions and support offered by AI are helpful only if they’re relevant. On today’s episode, Walter Sun, senior vice president and global head of artificial intelligence at SAP, joins hosts Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh to share how his organization is helping employees get smarter about artificial intelligence through the company’s AI Days. Additionally,…
Jon Krause/theispot.com The Research The researchers conducted multiple studies — with diverse samples of working professionals — to understand how people use their time, what is important to them in life, and what factors lead people to live more fulfilling and satisfying lives. Their samples included over 2,000 Harvard Business School alumni, from fresh graduates…
When Chinese manufacturer Fuyao Glass opened a plant in Moraine, Ohio, it hadn’t anticipated that its newly hired American workforce would be less productive than its Chinese workers. That’s partially because it made a classic mistake, says Cynthia Wang, clinical professor of management and organizations. It forgot to consider the culture of its new workforce—specifically,…
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images It was her dream job — on paper, at least. As the vice president of communications at a global pharmaceutical company, Rushmie Nofsinger expected to step into a challenging role in which she could use her strengths and passions to have a positive impact on issues that really mattered…
CEPDP1770. May 2021.Absent providers of key public services, such as schooling and health, are a major problem in both developed and developing countries. This paper provides the first analysis of a population-wide controlled field experiment for home visits checking on sick leave in the public sector. The experiment was carried out in Italy, a country…
CEPDP1766. May 2021.We study the impact of borrower protection on mortgage and housing demand. We focus on variation in the likelihood that a house is repossessed — conditional on the mortgage being in arrears and taken to court — coming from heterogeneity in preferences of judges that adjudicate on repossession cases in England and Wales.…
CEPDP1767. May 2021.The empirical management literature has found that the education of both managers and the workforce more generally appears to be an important driver of better management practices. This article sets out how such relationships might be conceptualised, and suggests that in a complementarities framework, modern management practices can be thought of as a…
CEPDP1768. May 2021.The second half of the twentieth century saw large-scale suburbanization in the United States, with the median share of residents who work in the same county where they live falling from 87 to 71 percent between 1970 and 2000. We introduce a new methodology for discriminating between the three leading explanations for this…