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T. Wilson (1953) Professor of Management, Emerita
Department: Professor of Organization Studies
Contact: (617) 253-6674, lbailyn@mit.edu
Expertise: Career development; Changing work environments; Changing workforce; Family issues; Gender issues, workplace; Public policy, employment relations; Work-life balance
Sarofim Family Career Development Professor
Department: Assistant Professor of Applied Economics
Contact: (617) 253-7190, bonatti@mit.edu
Expertise: Advertising; Applied economics; Auctions; Competition; Economics; Electronic media; Europe; European Union; Game theory; Google; Industrial economics; Industrial organization; Insurance; Internet; Italy; Media; Microeconomics; Online shopping; Optimal control; Political economy; Price fixing; Pricing; Social networks; Teams; Turkey
Department: Senior Lecturer, Communication and Ethics
Contact: (617) 258-0266, lhafrey@mit.edu
Expertise: Business education; Business ethics; Career development; Change management; Changing workforce; China; Communication practices; Conflict management; Conflicts of interest; Cross-cultural awareness; Cultural differences; Diversity; E-mail; Employee motivation; Employment relations; Ethics; Family business; Family issues; Gender issues, workplace; Human resource management; Human rights; International communication; Leadership; Managerial change; Managerial communication; Managing diversity; MBA; Negotiation and conflict resolution; Organizational communication; Organizational communication; Values in the professions; Work / Family issues; Writing and presentation skills
George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management
Department: Professor of Work and Employment Research and Engineering Systems
Contact: (617) 253-6689, tkochan@mit.edu
Expertise: 401K plans; Benefits; Career development; Changing work environments; Changing workforce; Collective bargaining; Compensation; Disrupted work; Diversity; Employee motivation; Employment relations; Family issues; Firing; Flextime; Gender issues, workplace; Harassment; Hiring; Human resource management; Incentives, corporate; Industrial relations; Labor market policy; Labor relations; Labor unions; Management effectiveness, measuring; Managing diversity; Negotiation and conflict resolution; Pensions; Public policy, employment relations; Recruitment; Regulatory policy; Sexual harassment; Stock options; Telecommuting; Training programs; Tri-sector collaboration (business, government, civic sector); Turnover; Unemployment; Work-life balance; Worker / Management relations; Working virtually; Workplace health
Professor Emeritus of Management
Department: Professor of Organization Studies
Contact: (781) 538-5798, wpounds@comcast.net
Expertise: Corporate governance; Corporate strategy and policy; Family business; Operations management
Department: Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Contact: (617) 970-6346, awolk@rootcause.org
Expertise: Bermuda; Breakthrough management; Business education; Business ethics; Competitive strategy; Energy; Environment; Environmental leadership; Ethics; Family business; Global entrepreneurship; Hiring; K-12 education; Leadership; Management effectiveness, measuring; Non-profits; Social entrepreneurship; Sustainability; Transportation; Unemployment
Linda Mason was originally going to make a case study of Bright Horizons, her $1.3 billion, early childhood care business, but reconsidered in light of the current economic crisis -- to the benefit of her audience. Instead, she takes up her own story as a recession-era entrepreneur who built several hugely successful, socially oriented ventures, navigating very real pitfalls and challenges along the way.
Cooperation may be making us "a little bit too nice" when it comes to innovation, suggests Fiona Murray. She believes there's nothing like competition for injecting energy into the process of solving key innovation problems, whether in business or society.
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