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

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

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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IWER Faculty

Anna Stansbury

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

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

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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Paul Osterman

Paul Osterman

Nanyang Technological University Professor Emeritus

Paul Osterman is a Professor Emeritus of Human Resources and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management as well as a member of the Department of Urban Planning at MIT.  From July 2003 to June 2007 he also served as Deputy Dean at the MIT Sloan…

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Susan Silbey

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

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

Robert B. McKersie

Professor Emeritus of Management

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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Affiliated Faculty and Researchers

Ben Armstrong, Research Scientist at MIT Industrial Performance Center

Ben Armstrong

MIT Industrial Performance Center

Research Scientist and Executive Director, MIT Work of the Future Initiative

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Nicholas A. Ashford

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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David Autor

MIT Department of Economics

Ford Professor of Economics

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Lotte Bailyn

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

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

Roberto Fernandez

Professor; 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

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…

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Amy Glasmeier

MIT Department of Urban Planning

Professor of Economic Geography and Regional Planning

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Simon Jäger

MIT Department of Economics

Silverman (1968) Family Career Development Chair Assistant Prof. of Economics

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Kate Kellogg

Kate Kellogg

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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

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

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

Hazhir Rahmandad

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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

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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Kathleen Thelen

MIT Department of Political Science

Ford Professor of Political Science

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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

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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Research Affiliates/Senior Fellows

Barbara Dyer

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

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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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IWER PhD Students

Alexander Busch 2

Alexander Busch

B.A. Sociology; B.Sc. Economics

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Current PhD Student, Soohyun Roh

Soohyun Roh

B.A. Economics and Sociology; M.A. Sociology

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K. MacKenzie Scott

B.A. Economics and French; M.P.A.

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Di Tong

B.A. English Language and Literature; M.A. Computational Social Science

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IWER Staff

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Martha E. Mangelsdorf

Director of Strategic Communications, IWER

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Dahye Kim

Dahye Kim

Assistant Director, IWER

Predoctoral Researchers

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Michael J. Davies

Technical Associate

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Sophia Scaglioni

Predoctoral Fellow

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Jiawei Tang

Predoctoral Research Fellow

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Spotlight on IWER Alumni

Find out more about alumni of the IWER doctoral program and their work.

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Climate Change and Migrant Workers

Research by New York University (NYU) professor Natasha Iskander, who is an alumna of the MIT IWER PhD program, finds that there are companies targeting regions experiencing climate stress when recruiting migrant workers.

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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.