When Is a Difficult Person not a Difficult Person?
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A distinguished senior officer burst into my waiting room and came right through into my office.[1] He was holding a furled umbrella high over …
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A distinguished senior officer burst into my waiting room and came right through into my office.[1] He was holding a furled umbrella high over …
Despite a long history of research on training in the fields of organizational psychology, human resources, and labor economics, little is known about the state‐of‐the‐art in training practices offered by employers, use of training opportunities by employees, or the effects of training and upskillin...
In the new briefing, titled "Worker Voice, Representation, and Implications for Public Policies," Kochan "examines the need to rebuild worker voice, power, and representation against the backdrop of building a new social contract at work..."
Does the U.S. tax system incentivize companies to overinvest in automation—at the expense of jobs?
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What role can businesspeople play in fostering economic and social justice? That was the topic of an intriguing panel discussion organized at MIT Sloan and held via Zoom.
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If U.S. workers could select the characteristics of a labor organization to represent them, what would they choose? That’s the question explored in an intriguing new journal article by Alexander Hertel-Fernandez of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, William Kimball of ...
Optimax Systems, Inc., located in upstate New York, is a privately held precision optics manufacturer whose mission is to enable both customer success and employee prosperity.
A good job is a way out of poverty. With that idea in mind, Barbara Dyer has for decades been focused on good jobs—and, in particular, how organizations can create more of them for workers.
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Bill Aulet, SF ’94, has been named the inaugural Ethernet Inventors Professor of the Practice of Entrepreneurship, a new endowed chair made possible by Robert Metcalfe, SB ’68.
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Natalia Levina, PhD ’01, and Rumman Chowdhury, SB ’03, spoke at the second annual Social Media Summit@MIT, a virtual gathering hosted by the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, in late March.