Ideas Made to Matter Research

How informed are voters about political news?

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Journalistic truth isn’t dead, a new study has found, but socioeconomic factors affect people’s ability to identify real news.

Oct 23, 2023
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Ideas Made to Matter Artificial Intelligence

How generative AI can boost highly skilled workers’ productivity

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Generative AI can boost highly skilled worker productivity, if organizations establish a culture of accountability and encourage role reconfiguration.

Oct 19, 2023
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Ideas Made to Matter Gender

Why female STEM PhDs are less likely to become new inventors

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New research finds that female STEM PhD students are less likely to be advised by top faculty inventors or become new inventors themselves than male STEM PhD students.

Oct 12, 2023
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Ideas Made to Matter Behavioral Science

To truly boost productivity, focus on consistent worker engagement

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New research explores worker engagement, its impact on job performance, and its connection to a worker’s level of emotional stability.

Oct 11, 2023
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Ideas Made to Matter Artificial Intelligence

Study gauges how people perceive AI-created content

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Companies that intend to use generative artificial intelligence should first consider how people regard work created by AI, humans, or some combination of the two.

Oct 3, 2023
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Ideas Made to Matter Data

How to make data ‘everybody’s business’

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Decontextualize data and prepare data assets that can be reused for many purposes. A new book from MIT CISR researchers explains how.

Sep 26, 2023
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Ideas Made to Matter Platform Strategy

Why B2B platforms struggle to succeed

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New research identifies four types of business-to-business platforms and three ways they can think about success.

Aug 29, 2023
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Ideas Made to Matter Change Management

How to overcome obstacles to digital transformation

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Manage the expectations of the organization, encourage cross-functional collaboration, and prove the value of digital strategy to overcome resistance to change.

Aug 15, 2023
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Ideas Made to Matter Research

Study demonstrates the value of ‘long ties’

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Maintaining relationships with distant contacts takes work but results in a more diverse network and increased access to economic opportunities.

Aug 10, 2023
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Ideas Made to Matter Research

Here are the 4 new faculty members joining MIT Sloan in 2023

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Faculty joining MIT Sloan in 2023 are experts in energy markets, machine learning, health care economics, and decision-making.

Jul 6, 2023
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