IWER

IWER Research Seminar Series

The MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research hosts a weekly Tuesday seminar during the academic year. One of the longest-running seminar series at MIT, it draws faculty and doctoral students from across the Institute and the wider academic community. Seminars are held on Tuesday afternoons from 1 to 2:30 p.m; contact iwer@mit.edu for more information.

Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) Fall 2025 Seminars

  • September 9, 2025

    "Digging into AI Implementation: Questions and Insights from Fieldwork"

    Panelists: Rebecca Karp (Harvard Business School)
    Arvind Karunakaran (Stanford University)
    Kate Kellogg (MIT Sloan School of Management)

    Moderator: Erin Kelly, MIT Sloan School of Management 

    Join MIT IWER for a panel conversation with three researchers in the field sharing key questions, emerging findings, and new directions from their ongoing qualitative studies of AI implementation across diverse organizations and industries.

  • September 16, 2025

    Matt Vidal, Loughborough University London
    "The management contradiction and routine inefficiency in contemporary manufacturing"

  • September 23, 2025

    David Weil (Brandeis University), Daniel Schneider (Harvard Kennedy School), and Goncalo Costa (Harvard Kennedy School)
    "Who Raises their Voice? New Evidence on Worker Complaints on Labor Standards"

  • September 30, 2025

    Mariana Oseguera, Georgetown McDonough School of Business

  • October 7, 2025

    Eunmi Mun,  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    "Egalitarian Workplaces: Organizational Ecology of Gender Wage Gap across High-Income Countries”

  • October 14, 2025

    TBA

  • October 21, 2025

    NO SEMINAR

  • October 28, 2025

    TBA

  • November 4, 2025

    TBA

  • November 11, 2025

    NO SEMINAR

  • November 18, 2025

    Nathan Wilmers, MIT Sloan School of Management 

  • November 25, 2025

    NO SEMINAR

  • December 2, 2025

    TBA

  • December 9, 2025

    TBA

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