Towards a Brighter Future
Explore our interactive annual report, featuring a special section on carbon offsets + markets, our new visual identity, and our moments of joy in 2022!
Explore our interactive annual report, featuring a special section on carbon offsets + markets, our new visual identity, and our moments of joy in 2022!
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The 2023 MIT Sustainability Summit aims to demystify carbon markets on Friday, April 28, at the Samberg Conference Center.
Often criticised, ESG ratings have an important role to play in the ESG ecosystem, but we need regulation that will improve measurement.
In his latest op-ed, Professor Sterman and colleagues urge the EU and UK to correct a historic mistake on the burning of wood for energy.
Sterman outlined what's needed for countries to drastically cut their emissions, citing the power of interactive simulations and how we can multisolve our way through this crisis.
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In an effort to attract a diverse pool of talented candidates, many contemporary U.S. employers seek to craft gender-neutral job postings by editing language in the postings that may have masculine or feminine connotations. But how much difference do such practices make in reality? Not that much, su...
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How can work be improved for both employees and organizations? This question is central to the work of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), which began as the Industrial Relations Section of the MIT Department of Economics and Social Science in 1937.
New research by MIT Sloan Professor Paul Osterman finds more than one in ten U.S. workers are contract employees—and that they earn less on average than comparable employees in standard jobs and receive less company-provided training.
Is working from home good for employees? New research finds that the answer depends on the circumstances—and in particular, whether at-home work is replacing time in the office or adding to it.
A summary report from a multistakeholder dialogue on U.S. worker voice and representation held December 1-2, 2022 in Cambridge, Massachusetts