A goal of the Paris Agreement is to stabilize atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. If this were achieved, global warming would slow to a rate significantly lower than 21st century warming rates, but little is known about how this would occur over time and across geographies. This work investigates this geographic variability and provides the first framework for estimating the end of rapid, anthropogenic warming.
Presenting MIT Startup Exchange Companies: - serviceMob: Making customer service access simple with AI - iQ3Connect: VR platform for collaboration - Plume Labs: Distributed sensing to map air quality - Hosta Labs: Sensing to generate 3D maps of building interiors - AirWorks: Aerial intelligent software that cuts drafting time in half
Presenting Bouygues-incubated startups: - Com'in - Flexy Moov: Electric vehicle sharing platform for companies
How do some companies thrive in an era of constant technological disruption, while others stumble? How can your company excel in using artificial intelligence, chatbots, and future technological innovations to delight your customers and dominate your competitors? Through seven years of research into digital transformation, we have identified five levers digital masters use to outperform their industry peers. They don’t just adopt technology; they build the capabilities to continuously drive technology-powered transformation. Using examples from several industries and countries, we will show you how to turn your company into a digital master.
Building a successful new venture within an existing organization is not easy. Organizations become successful by building optimized, repeatable businesses. Entrepreneurial ventures, on the other hand, require an iterative, experimental mindset, and a completely different set of skills. In this talk, we will explore how leaders can help make their organizations more entrepreneurial via the Disciplined Corporate Entrepreneurship framework. There are three parts to this framework: Strategy, Enablement, and Practice. We will discuss how C-level executives make decisions to invest in innovation, how leaders of innovation labs and initiatives can select and deploy enablement tools, and how corporate entrepreneurs can leverage organizational and entrepreneurial skills to generate net new business value and build successful ventures.
Moderator: Vincent Maret Panelists: Elaine Chen, Marine Gall, Erik Grab, Gilles Zancanaro
This presentation will discuss both the achievements and challenges of China’s growth model and argue that the current model is running into substantial headwinds.
Culture is a potent force in shaping individual and group behavior, yet it has received relatively little attention in the context of financial risk management and the recent financial crisis. In this talk, Professor Lo will present a brief overview of the role of culture and ethics according to psychologists, sociologists, and economists, and then propose a specific framework for analyzing culture in the context of financial practices and institutions in which three questions are addressed: (1) What is culture?; (2) Does it matter?; and (3) Can it be changed?
Want some good news about the environment? In America, we have finally learned to grow our economy while taking less from the Earth year after year: less water, timber, and metal; fewer minerals and resources; even less energy. This talk is a show and tell about this profound change. Andy McAfee will show the evidence that we've started getting more from less and tell how it happened. The unlikely heroes of the tale are the cost pressures that come from intense competition and powerful digital tools that reduce the need for resources. In short, prices and processors are now letting us tread more lightly on the Earth. The story is full of surprises and also insights. In particular, it gives us a playbook for dealing with the major challenges still ahead of us: global warming, pollution, and species loss.