BCG is a consortium member at the MIT Media Lab, an academic department funded by industry members to develop and deploy an incredibly broad range of research. This partnership enables both BCG and our clients to stay competitive in a rapidly changing world fueled by emerging technologies.

For more than 30 years, MIT Media Lab researchers have created technologies to make lives safer, cleaner, healthier, fairer, and more productive. The lab fosters over 600 active projects covering all sectors, from blockchain to civic media.

BCG’s Collaborations with the MIT Media Lab

For four years, we have engaged with the MIT Media Lab by collaborating on projects, publishing reports, and connecting our clients and BCG teams with researchers for insight and inspiration.

Teaming with Artificial Intelligence
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July 14, 2020
Teaming with Artificial Intelligence
How do you measure the quality of relationships between team members? Sandy Pentland of the MIT Media Lab looks to artificial intelligence to quantify the ways in which we communicate with one another.
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Leadership in the Age of AI
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July 14, 2020
Leadership in the Age of AI
In the coming decade, corporate leaders should look to curate unconventional collaboration. Sandy Pentland explores how these leaders have a new role to play as "sense-makers" of data, not dictators of rules.
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Affective Computing: Forecasting Human Mood
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July 14, 2020
Affective Computing: Forecasting Human Mood
Artificial intelligence enables developments in new sciences such as affective computing. Rosalind Picard of the MIT Media Lab demonstrates how the true subtleties of human emotion can be uncovered by computers.
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Pitfalls & Benefits of Affective Computing
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July 14, 2020
Pitfalls & Benefits of Affective Computing
While affective computing can provide great insight on emotions in the workplace, it is important to approach such sensitive data from the right angle. Rosalind Picard shares how companies can best utilize this unbiased map of their workers' daily experience.
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BCG and KLM Deploy Their Airline Support Tools At Virgin Atlantic
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July 14, 2020
Success Through Collective Learning
Companies must seek out innovative knowledge when building better business. César Hidalgo explores how this knowledge moves, and how collective learning provides real action.
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Collective Learning for Leaders
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July 14, 2020
Collective Learning for Leaders
César Hidalgo looks at how leaders can promote collective learning, while also removing common roadblocks as companies grow.
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Digital Currency Initiative

BCG provides directed research funding to MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative (DCI), an interdisciplinary group of MIT Media Lab researchers, member companies, academics, and influencers on the revolutionary technology that is blockchain. As with the internet, blockchain technology has the potential to affect all aspects of business, from supply chains to financial transactions and audit trails.

Through our engagement with DCI, we strive to conduct fundamental research on blockchain and digital currency topics that address questions on security, stability, scalability, privacy, and the internal economics of these systems. To work toward this goal, BCG serves as a collaborator on two DCI working groups: health care applications and digital fiat currencies.

Learn More About BCG’s Projects with MIT Media Lab
DuoSkin Installation: Temporary Tattoo of the Future
BCG Digital Ventures designers marry the physical and digital worlds. The DuoSkin installation, showcasing temporary tattoo technology developed at the MIT Media Lab, serves as an example of how these worlds converge.
  • DuoSkin Installation: Temporary Tattoo of the Future
    DuoSkin Installation: Temporary Tattoo of the Future
    DuoSkin Installation: Temporary Tattoo of the Future
    BCG Digital Ventures designers marry the physical and digital worlds. The DuoSkin installation, showcasing temporary tattoo technology developed at the MIT Media Lab, serves as an example of how these worlds converge.
  • Year Two: Mobility Revolution in the City of Boston
    Year Two: Mobility Revolution in the City of Boston
    Year Two: Mobility Revolution in the City of Boston
    A traffic simulation assesses the societal impact of new mobility models including autonomous vehicles. It was implemented by BCG's advanced analytics group GAMMA in partnership with the Changing Places Group at MIT Media Lab.
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    Neha Narula
    The Future of Money
    Neha Narula
    The Future of Money
    What happens when the way we buy, sell, and pay for things changes, perhaps even removing the need for banks or currency exchange bureaus? That's the radical promise of a world powered by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. We're not there yet, but in this provocative talk, digital currency researcher Neha Narula describes the collective fiction of money—and paints a picture of a very different looking future.