Glimpsing the Future of Work in Warehouses
While an MIT Sloan doctoral candidate, Alex Kowalski researched practical ways to improve jobs in an increasingly important industry.
While an MIT Sloan doctoral candidate, Alex Kowalski researched practical ways to improve jobs in an increasingly important industry.
USA Lab students conduct fieldwork to deepen their understanding of America’s economic and social struggles and uncover sustainable solutions that work. Host organizations like the Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque see such positive outcomes that they often return to host again.
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Nick Brenner was looking forward to traveling to Leon County, Florida in March to do fieldwork as part of MIT Sloan’s USA Lab class. Then the pandemic hit—and those plans changed.
In a June 2022 CNBC article, MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Thomas Kochan comments on the recent uptick in unionization efforts among US workers, and what managers need to understand about it.
This report by Fei Qin, an Associate Professor in Management at the University of Bath, and Thomas A. Kochan, the George M. Bunker Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, describes what the authors believe to be a state‐of‐the‐art learning system at IBM Corporation and traces the effects of...
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This 2019 MIT Sloan case by Zeynep Ton and Katie Bach describes how the executive team at Mud Bay, a privately held pet store chain based in Olympia, Washington, implemented a good jobs strategy by offering better wages and benefits and seeking to recoup the costs by increasing sales growth and lowe...
Bystanders play an important role in addressing unacceptable behavior in organizations & communities—but may understandably hesitate to intervene. In a new article, longtime MIT ombuds Mary Rowe offers ideas and options for hesitant bystanders and those who counsel them.
Economist Anna Stansbury is joining MIT Sloan’s Work and Organization Studies Group as an Assistant Professor this September, and she will also be part of the faculty of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER).
The MIT Sloan website recently published several brief articles focusing on work by IWER faculty members.
MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Thomas A. Kochan of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) co-leads this executive education Course with MIT Professors David Autor and Sandy Pentland.