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It’s long been held that distant social connections may be the best resources for career advancement—and now there’s data to prove it. According to a new study conducted by researchers from MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and LinkedIn, it is exactly this type of “weak tie” relationship that often yields the most fruitful results for online job […]

Employment is a critical issue impacting the economy and it gained even more attention during the pandemic with the elimination or transformation of tens of millions of jobs around the world. As much of the economy becomes digitized, it is important to consider the effect of social media and social networks on jobs and labor […]

A DECADE OF PLATFORM PROLIFERATION Global platforms have become so ubiquitous we barely take notice: Social media, online shopping, banking and even B2B transactions occur on sprawling ecosystems of partners.  The MIT Platform Strategy Summit has tracked this swift economic transformation for the past 10 years. This year, we looked at the past, present and future […]

Ehsan is a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT Sloan’s initiative on the digital economy. His research interest is at the interface of digitization, strategy, and operations management. He is currently studying the growth of digital firms and the challenges they face in various business areas. AT MIT, he mainly focuses on studying emerging blockchain-based technologies. Continuing […]

Wensu Li is a postdoctoral associate at the MIT Sloan School’s Initiative on the Digital Economy. She is interested in the economic implications of technical change. Currently, she is working on measuring IT’s contribution to economic productivity and how machine learning technologies reshape the economy and the job market. She is also interested in environmental […]

Harang Ju is a postdoctoral associate at MIT’s Sloan School of Management in Professor Sinan Aral’s web3 group. His research is primarily focused on marketing and market design in crypto economies. Previously, he was a PhD student in the Neuroscience Graduate Group at the University of Pennsylvania, studying network models of populations of neurons. He graduated […]