MIT Sloan Future of Work
Searching for expert sources on the future of work? MIT Sloan School of Management faculty have timely insights for global business leaders.
Featured Experts
- Danielle Li’s research illustrates that generative AI helps newer workers broaden their experience and that it improves customer sentiment, increases employee retention and productivity, and can help employees gain new skills.
- Nathan Wilmers can speak to how employers can better facilitate economic mobility for employees, particularly workers of color and those without college degrees, by improving material job quality, increasing access to better jobs, and promoting sustainability of employment.
- Anna Stansbury's recent work has found substantial evidence of minimum wage noncompliance in the US. Currently, the costs violators face upon detection are little more than the money they saved by underpaying. Her work advocates substantially increasing penalties to ensure compliance
Future of Work Experts
Danielle Li
David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology
Danielle Li is the David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology and a Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, as well as a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research interests are in economics…
Learn More
Nathan Wilmers
Erwin H. Schell Associate Professor of Management
Nathan Wilmers is the Erwin H. Schell Associate Professor of Management 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 Research…
Learn More
Anna Stansbury
W. Maurice Young (1961) Career Development Assistant Professor of Management
Anna Stansbury is 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 Research. She is also a nonresident senior fellow at the…
Learn More
Swati Gupta
Class of 1947 Career Development Associate Professor
Swati Gupta is the Class of 1947 Career Development Associate Professor and an Associate Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management in the Operations Research and Statistics Group. Her work focuses on deep theoretical questions in optimization…
Learn More
Thomas W. Malone
Patrick J. McGovern (1959) Professor of Management
Thomas W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern (1959) Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. At MIT, he is also a Professor of Information Technology and a…
Learn More
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…
Learn MoreContact The Media Relations Staff
For help connecting with experts, reach out to the MIT Sloan Media Relations Team.
Future of Work Research
"Algorithmic Challenges in Ensuring Fairness at the Time of Decision."
Salem, Jad, Swati Gupta, and Vijay Kamble. Operations Research. Forthcoming. arXiv Preprint.
"Does Voice Gap Influence Workers’ Job Attitudes and Well-Being? Measuring Voice as a Dimension of Job Quality."
Díaz-Linhart, Yaminette, Thomas Kochan, Arrow Minster, Dongwoo Park, and Duanyi Yang. British Journal of Industrial Relations. Forthcoming.
"Earnings Effects of Direct Worker Voice in Production."
Nelson, Dylan and Nathan Wilmers. ILR Review. Forthcoming.
"Fair and Reliable Reconnections for Temporary Disruptions in Electric Distribution Networks."
Gupta, Swati, Cyrus Hettle, and Daniel Molzahn. INFORMS Journal on Computing. Forthcoming.
"Firms and the Intergenerational Transmission of Labor Market Advantage."
Engzell, Per and Nathan Wilmers. American Journal of Sociology. Forthcoming.
"Hiring as Exploration."
Li, Danielle, Lindsey Raymond, and Peter Bergman. Review of Economic Studies. Forthcoming. Accepted Manuscript.
"Improving Clinical Decision Support through Interpretable Machine Learning and Error Handling in Electronic Health Records."
Arora, Mehak, Hassan Mortagy, Nathan Dwarshuis, Jeffrey Wang, Philip Yang, Andre L Holder, Swati Gupta, and Rishikesan Kamaleswaran. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Forthcoming.
"The Crisis of Care: A Curated Discussion."
Bailyn, Lotte, Julia B. Bear ... Erin L. Kelly et al. Journal of Management Inquiry. Forthcoming.
"Too many Fairness Metrics: Is there a solution? Equity across Demographic Groups for the Facility Location Problem."
Gupta, Swati, Akhil Jalan, Gireeja Ranade, Helen Yang, and Simon Zhuang (Accepted with minor revision). Fields Institute Communication Series. Forthcoming.
"What if NIH had Been 40% Smaller?"
Azoulay, Pierre, Matthew Clancy, Danielle Li, and Bhaven N. Sampat. Science Vol. 389, No. 6767 (2025): 1303-1305. Replication package. Supplementary Online Material.