The Second Machine Age is here. Two MIT economists create a playbook for how businesses can adapt to our new digital future. Erik Brynjolfsson and Andy McAfee are co-founders the Initiative on the Digital Economy at MIT Sloan. Their new book

Lessons in Engaging Your Employees to Boost Your Bottom Line

Jul 12th, 2017 24m 47s

A supply chain expert shows that happy, motivated workers can make big profits for big box companies - that the service and retail industries can provide well-paying jobs, compete on costs, and win. We speak with Zeynep Ton, Professor of Operat

Big Payoffs from Public Science

Jul 5th, 2017 21m 10s

MIT Sloan professor Pierre Azoulay is turning the scientific method back on science. He uses online data from individual scientists and institutions to track research and innovation, and he's finding significant long-term returns on investment

Let's Talk about Race at Work

Jun 26th, 2017 15m 39s

A social psychologist uses data to reframe the conversations around race in corporate America. We speak with Evan Apfelbaum about how we talk about diversity, gender, and race in the workplace, and how it affects whether people stay or leave.

Bonus: Education in the Age of Analytics

Jun 26th, 2017 12m 26s

Big data is flooding the business world. And we need a new generation of business analysts to make sense of it. A report from McKinsey predicts that the US workforce will be short 1.5 million big data managers and analysts by 2018. MIT Sloan is

Personal Finance: Read the Fine Print

Jun 19th, 2017 22m 49s

Antoinette Schoar is using big data to hold the personal finance industry accountable to the people it serves. The finance professor was a founding member of the Consumer Advisory Board for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. We speak wit

Whole Person Healthcare is Here

Jun 12th, 2017 14m 14s

As an applied economist, Joe Doyle uses data to root out the real causes of waste in our healthcare system. He analyzes natural experiments in healthcare to connect cause and effect. We speak with Joe about how healthcare costs can be reined in

Stopping Climate Catastrophe

Jun 6th, 2017 18m 22s

MIT Sloan’s John Sterman took data-based models to the 2015 Paris Climate Conference. The Systems Dynamics professor used data-based models to build consensus around curbing greenhouse gas emissions and limiting global temperature rise. Recentl

Texting Out of Poverty

May 26th, 2017 14m 55s

A developmental economist uses data to track how technology is changing lives in Africa. Tavneet Suri is on the ground in Kenya, collecting data on telecom innovations and their impacts. We spoke with Tavneet about how mobile money is lifting w

On a Mission in Medicine: Using Data for Personalized Treatment

May 25th, 2017 9m 16s

Data-based algorithms are personalizing medicine. A family history with diabetes led MIT Sloan professor Dimitris Bertsimas to make breakthroughs in treatment. We spoke with Dimitris about why he works on diabetes, and how he’s using his expert

Don't Lie to Me Argentina

May 22nd, 2017 29m 33s

MIT Sloan Professors Roberto Rigobon and Alberto Cavallo are leading a revolution in online data. Their goal is to measure every aspect of life accurately…starting with the real rate of inflation in Argentina. They co-founded the Billion Prices

Financial Engineering to Save the World

May 22nd, 2017 13m 38s

Andrew Lo’s insights into how markets work lead him to tackle global issues. The MIT Sloan finance professor is using market levers to fix the problems of the world. Andrew discusses his new adaptive market theory, and how he’s using financial

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