New Book Details History and Future of Kendall Square
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In a new book about the history of Kendall Square from the MIT Press, author Robert Buderi chronicles the area's biggest successes in innovation.
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In a new book about the history of Kendall Square from the MIT Press, author Robert Buderi chronicles the area's biggest successes in innovation.
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How will artificial intelligence (AI) affect jobs and society? That question, argues MIT Sloan Professor Thomas A. Kochan, is too important to be left strictly to technology vendors.
The book "Overload: How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do About It" by MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly and University of Minnesota Professor Phyllis Moen is one of two winners of the 2021 Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship.
MIT Sloan faculty member Nathan Wilmers has won the 2021 ASQ Dissertation Award.
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In this September 2020 statement, the faculty leaders of the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative at MIT Sloan call for significant changes to benefit U.S. workers.
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In an economy with many low-wage jobs, employer-provided training can be an important route to upward economic mobility for workers. But which workers receive training? How do workers obtain new skills?
The MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future, an MIT-wide task force recently released its report—and the report includes an extensive focus on improving economic prospects for U.S. workers, particularly those who lack a college education.
The pandemic has affected the type of learning the IBM employees in the study pursued, as this graph shows, but the researchers found that "overall learning consumption remains high."
At a recent virtual panel discussion organized at MIT Sloan, two industry executives and an MIT Sloan professor focused on the important and timely topic of people analytics, including how people analytics techniques can be used to ameliorate bias within organizations.
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Two big shocks, rapid technological change and COVID-19, have recently rocked retail. But the effects on workers have not been uniform.