Are U.S. Companies Overinvesting in Automation — And Underinvesting in People?
Does the U.S. tax system incentivize companies to overinvest in automation—at the expense of jobs?
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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This past June, a new crop of 20 teams entered MIT delta v, the educational startup accelerator run by the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. Each had a different problem in its sights, from the difficulties amputees face in controlling prosthetics to wasted space in airplane cargo holds....
In a new podcast, MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Anna Stansbury explains her research on the links between the decline in U.S. workers’ power in recent decades and increasing income inequality.
Lisa, an alumna of the IWER PhD program, is IWER's visiting scholar.
Most executives today understand that if their companies are to thrive in an increasingly competitive and dynamic marketplace, they must hire and retain the most talented employees.