A Community of Work and Employment Scholars
The MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research is home to a highly collaborative mix of thought leaders from MIT Sloan as well as from other departments across the Institute, including Economics, Political Science, Anthropology, and Urban Studies and Planning. Together, we build on and advance MIT’s tradition of intellectual leadership on work and employment topics.
IWER Co-Directors

Emilio J. Castilla
NTU Professor of Management
Emilio J. Castilla is the NTU Professor of Management and a Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Castilla is currently the co-director of the Institute for Work and Employment Research. He joined the MIT…
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Erin Kelly
Sloan Distinguished Professor of Work and Organization Studies
Erin L. Kelly is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research. Kelly’s research has been published in many top…
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Anna Stansbury
Class of 1948 Career Development Assistant Professor
Anna Stansbury is the Class of 1948 Career Development Assistant Professor and an Assistant Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and is in the core faculty of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment…
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Nathan Wilmers
Sarofim Family Career Development Associate Professor
Nathan Wilmers is the Sarofim Family Career Development Associate Professor and an Associate Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is in the core faculty of the Institute for Work and Employment…
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Thomas Kochan
George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management, Emeritus
Thomas A. Kochan is the Post-Tenure George Maverick Bunker Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a faculty member in the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research.Kochan focuses on the need to update America's work and employment…
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Susan Silbey
Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities
Professor Susan S. Silbey is Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, and Professor of Behavioral and Policy Sciences, Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Silbey is…
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Mary Rowe
Adjunct Professor, Work and Organization Studies
Mary P. Rowe is an Adjunct Professor of Negotiation and Conflict Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and taught these topics for twenty years. She served for almost 42 years as an organizational ombuds reporting directly to five…
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Robert B. McKersie
Professor Emeritus, Work and Organization Studies
Robert McKersie is Professor Emeritus of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.McKersie is an expert source on industrial and labor relations with a focus on bargaining. He researches strategies being pursued by different industries to…
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Ben Armstrong
MIT Industrial Performance Center
Research Scientist and Executive Director, MIT Work of the Future Initiative
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Nicholas A. Ashford
Professor of Technology & Policy Director, Technology & Law Program
Nicholas Ashford is Professor of Technology & Policy and Director of the Technology & Law Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he teaches courses in Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics; Law, Technology, and Public Policy;…
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Lotte Bailyn
T Wilson (1953) Professor of Management, Emerita
Lotte Bailyn is the T Wilson (1953) Professor of Management, Emerita at the MIT Sloan School of Management. For the period 1997-99 she was Chair of the MIT faculty, and during 1995-97 she was the Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor…
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Jared R. Curhan
Gordon Kaufman Professor of Management
Jared Curhan is the Gordon Kaufman Professor and a Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management, as well as Faculty Director of MIT’s Behavioral Research Lab.Curhan specializes in the psychology of negotiation and…
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Roberto Fernandez
William F. Pounds Professor in Management
Roberto M. Fernandez is currently the William F. Pounds Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He has over 35 years teaching experience at numerous universities, including six years as a Full Professor at Stanford University’s Graduate…
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Robert Gibbons
Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management
Robert Gibbons is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and he is Professor of Economics in MIT’s Department of Economics. He is also the co-principal investigator…
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Amy Glasmeier
MIT Department of Urban Planning
Professor of Economic Geography and Regional Planning
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Kate Kellogg
Hear name pronounced.David J. McGrath jr (1959) Professor of Management and Innovation
Kate Kellogg is the David J. McGrath Jr Professor of Management and Innovation, a Professor of Business Administration at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Kate's research focuses on helping knowledge workers and organizations develop and implement…
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Frank Levy
MIT Department of Urban Planning
Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Emeritus
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Jackson G. Lu
Sloan School Career Development Associate Professor of Work and Organization Studies
Jackson G. Lu is the Sloan School Career Development Associate Professor and an Associate Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He serves as a senior editor for Organization Science, a senior editor for…
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Wanda Orlikowski
Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management
Wanda Orlikowski is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Information Technology and Organization Studies at MIT's Sloan School of Management. She received her Ph.D. from New York University. Her research examines technologies in the workplace, with a…
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Michael J. Piore
MIT Department of Economics
David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus
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Hazhir Rahmandad
Hear name pronounced.Schussel Family Professor of Management Science
Hazhir Rahmandad is the Schussel Family Professor of Management Science and a Professor of System Dynamics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Hazhir's research shows how complex organizational dynamics can lead to heterogeneity in organizational…
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Ray Reagans
Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Ray Reagans is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management in the Work and Organization Studies Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management.His research focuses on a set of related questions, including how demographic characteristics such as age,…
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Ben Ross Schneider
MIT Department of Political Science
Ford International Professor of Political Science & Director, MIT Brazil program
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J. Phillip Thompson
MIT Department of Urban Planning
Associate Professor of Political Science and Urban Planning
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Zeynep Ton
Professor of the Practice, Operations Management
Zeynep Ton is a Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Zeynep's research focuses on how organizations can design and manage their operations in a way that satisfies employees, customers, and investors simultaneously. Her…
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Barbara Dyer
Research Affiliate
Barbara Dyer is a Research Affiliate of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.In her work with IWER, Dyer focuses her…
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Palak Shah
Senior Fellow
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Postdoctoral Researchers

Yaminette Díaz-Linhart
Postdoctoral Associate, IWER and Work and Organization Studies
Díaz-Linhart's research focuses on worker voice.
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Henry Gomory
Postdoctoral Associate
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Thomas Lyttelton
Postdoctoral Associate
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Alexander Busch
B.A. Sociology; B.Sc. Economics
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Soohyun Roh
B.A. Economics and Sociology; M.A. Sociology
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Di Tong
B.A. English Language and Literature; M.A. Computational Social Science
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Martha E. Mangelsdorf
Director of Strategic Communications, IWER
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Predoctoral Researchers

Michael J. Davies
Technical Associate
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Sophia Scaglioni
Predoctoral Fellow
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Predoctoral Research Fellow
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IWER Alumni
Graduates of the IWER PhD program have gone on to take up faculty positions in universities all over the world.