Data Made to Matter by MIT Sloan School of Management Podcast
1) Principles for Prosperity in an Age of Disruption
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 D...Show More
2) Lessons in Engaging Your Employees to Boost Your Bottom Line
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. W...Show More
3) Big Payoffs from Public Science
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 ...Show More
4) Let's Talk about Race at Work
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 ho...Show More
5) Bonus: Education in the Age of Analytics
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...Show More
6) Personal Finance: Read the Fine Print
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 Consum...Show More
7) Whole Person Healthcare is Here
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...Show More
8) Stopping Climate Catastrophe
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 a...Show More
9) Texting Out of Poverty
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...Show More
10) On a Mission in Medicine: Using Data for Personalized Treatment
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 work...Show More