"...even in low-cost service settings, paying higher wages and treating workers with respect and dignity can be profit-maximizing."

"We're beyond just symbolic actions of hiring someone and creating a department of diversity...and thinking that will change the organization."

Dean Schmittlein announced the MIT Sloan Endowment for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with the commitment of $5 million in new endowed funds.

Prof. Emeritus and former MIT Sloan Dean Richard Schmalensee discusses energy policy on "Where We Live" from Connecticut Public Radio. (38:30)

In recent years, we have been heartened to see DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion] being gradually institutionalized within business academia.

Peter Hirst discusses the “hybrid” model of collaboration on Bloomberg Baystate Business. (1:30:25)

The question of whether a middle seat left open would improve a passenger’s odds of not getting sick compelled Arnold Barnett.

The lack of consistency in the rules on the national, state and even city level leads to ambiguity, which leaves room for plausible deniability.

"I offer five principles...EBSA is on track to complete the first principle and I urge them to consider incorporating the four remaining..."

“Automation can explain labor share decline, stagnant median wages and declining real wages at the bottom.”