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id: "entity-mit-d9"
type: "entity"
entityType: "organization"
canonicalName: "Massachusetts Institute of Technology"
aliases: ["MIT"]
source_timestamps: ["§ When Empathy Goes"]
tags: ["academic-institution", "survey-data"]
related: ["claim-empathy-drives-innovation", "prereq-psychological-safety"]
sources: ["adoption"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-adoption"
originDay: 9
articleStem: "hbr-edu-42-empathetic-leadership-ai-adoption"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/04/empathetic-leadership-can-make-or-break-ai-adoption"
sourceTitle: "Empathetic Leadership Can Make or Break AI Adoption"
---
# MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

**Role in this source:** Data provider — cited for a survey linking psychological safety to AI outcomes.

**Profile:** MIT is a leading research university. The cited survey of **500 leaders** found **84%** observed a direct connection between [[prereq-psychological-safety-d42]] and tangible AI outcomes — reinforcing the mechanism behind [[claim-empathy-drives-innovation]] and the framework's premise that human factors gate technical results.

**Enrichment / confidence:** MIT is also associated in adjacent literature with studies documenting AI capability growth and FOBO-related worker fears (see [[concept-fobo]]). The 84% figure is a reported survey result. **Canonical reference:** mit.edu.