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Attracting and retaining college interns: Views from three MIT students
As labor shortages continue, many employers are seeking creative ways to build and expand workforce pipelines. While…
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How can we improve skilling ecosystems? MIT’s Global Opportunity Forum releases research suggesting a way.
Deliotte predicts that U.S. manufacturing will have a skills shortage as deep as 2.4 million jobs by…
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3 Questions: Shaping the future of work in an age of AI
Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Simon Johnson, faculty co-directors of the new MIT Shaping the Future of…
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Is college preparing students for work? Two new studies find nearly half of all college grads aren’t using their degree.
When making decisions about college, many students and families worry about return on investment. Will college costs…
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Facing a skill shortage? It may be time to consider Zeynep Ton’s “good jobs” strategy.
As businesses try to solve skills shortages by focusing on upskilling programs, they look for efficient and…
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Are workforce skills the next sustainability crisis?
Climate change has occupied most public discussions of sustainability, but sustainability means much more. In 2015, United…
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How tech leaders spend their time
A recent research briefing from the MIT Center for Information Systems Research reports that technology executives at…
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Building generative AI skills in your organization: Tips from recent publications co-authored by GOF’s George Westerman
With a daily abundance of new information on generative AI, managers and leaders may be seeking reliable…
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Find the AI Approach That Fits the Problem You’re Trying to Solve
Leaders everywhere are rightly asking about how Generative AI can benefit their businesses. However, as impressive as…
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Shaping the Work of the Future initiative set to bridge research and policy at MIT
With Goldman Sachs predicting that global investment in gen AI will reach $200 billion by 2025 and…
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3 elements to developing and improving a skilled workforce
Training and developing a workforce doesn’t just benefit employees — it helps organizations become transformation-ready. Read more
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Generative AI–productivity boon or bane? Results from a new study are mixed.
Generative AI has been perceived as so revolutionary that some global experts have deemed it the “steam…