

“… So guess what, you're commuting to be back on Zoom, which is a new circle of hell in an open-plan office.” - Drew Houston, SB ’05, Dropbox co-founder and CEO It’s important to understand that what you’re changing here is value structures, and that doesn’t happen quickly.” - MIT Sloan lecturer Malia Lazu “This isn’t about getting an anti-racism widget to market. “Divesting from a stock doesn’t really change anything about how that company is going to behave.” - Jason Jay, MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative director “If you constantly chase cost reduction, you will ultimately wear the system down into total failure.” - MIT Sloan senior lecturer John Carrier Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, former MIT Sloan professor of the practice It really goes back to the invention of money.” - Gary Gensler, U.S. “ Understand who your customer is, what they care about - that’s the way to think about innovation.” - David Robertson,MIT Sloan senior lecturer in operations management Foerster, Ivey Business School professor of finance “Almost everyone thinks they’re smarter than average.” - Andrew Lo,MIT Sloan professor of finance, and Stephen R. “All I can hope for is that we continue doing more to hire and retain diverse talent, because diversity does bring upon creativity and is simply better for business overall.” - Anita Kibunguchy, MBA ’15, Google product marketing lead Here, in the information ecosystem, you have the virus of lies.” - Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and digital fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy “We need much stronger labor protection laws in order to allow AI researchers to organize against things that they see going really wrong.” - Timnit Gebru, AI researcher American organizations need to diversify the prototype of what a leader should look like.” - Jackson Lu,MIT Sloan assistant professor of work and organization studies “ Assertive leaders are not necessarily the most effective ones. “The next 50 unicorns are going to be technologies that create something related to sustainability.” - Larry Fink, BlackRock CEO “ Machine learning is changing, or will change, every industry, and leaders need to understand the basic principles, the potential, and the limitations.” - Aleksander Madry, MIT computer science professor

Here are 20 other quotes and comments that captured the changes of this year. And 2021 brought a lot of disruption - whether it was shaking up the “normal” 9-5 office schedule, introducing new forms of digital currency into the market, or reprioritizing company values.
