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
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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 ManagementJoin 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.
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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
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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
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October 21, 2025
NO SEMINAR
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October 28, 2025
TBA
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November 4, 2025
TBA
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November 11, 2025
NO SEMINAR
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November 18, 2025
Nathan Wilmers, MIT Sloan School of Management
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November 25, 2025
NO SEMINAR
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December 2, 2025
TBA
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December 9, 2025
TBA