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MIT Climate Policy Center Contributes to New UN Policy Brief on Climate Technologies for the Building Sector

The MIT Climate Policy Center is a coauthor of a new United Nations policy brief providing advice and recommendations about technologies available to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve climate resilience in the buildings sector, as well as the public policies that can accelerate deployment ...

Nov 22, 2025

Work and workplaces are changing rapidly. Learn what's next from MIT Sloan experts.

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MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research

IWER is a multidisciplinary and highly collaborative hub for the study of work and employment

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The Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work

The Stone Center applies economics research to identify innovative ways to move the labor market onto a more equitable trajectory.

Executive Education

Leading the Future of Work

This course prepare you, and your organization, for an evolving workplace as it investigates its impact on social, legal, and economic policy.

MIT hasn’t just prepared me for the future of work—it’s pushed me to study it. As AI systems become more capable, more of our online activity will be carried out by artificial agents. That raises big questions.

Benjamin Manning

PhD Student

I think, at its most generous, AI tools enable us to learn from our collective actions ... What AI tools do is they take all of those solutions, those attempts—whether good or bad—and use them as training data to build models.

Danielle Li

David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology; Professor, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management

To me, the future of work means democracy. It’s hard to have any positive vision of work without meaningfully engaging workers. This is why I research economic democracy—worker voice is pivotal in designing good jobs.

Alex Busch

PhD Student

The rise of generative AI is a real opportunity, but making the most of it will demand a new approach to decision-making, as well as a new focus on worker training, fair transitions, and effective policy.

Thomas Kochan

George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management, Emeritus; Professor of Human Resources and Management, Emeritus

Combinations of humans and AI work best when each party can do the thing they do better than the other.

Thomas W. Malone

Patrick J. McGovern (1959) Professor of Management; Director, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence; Professor, Information Technology

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MIT Work of the Future at the IPC

Growing out of MIT's Work of the Future Task Force (2018-2020), the Work of the Future Initiative at the Industrial Performance Center conducts multidisciplinary research on the ways technology is changing work.

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Workforce development in the age of AI

MIT experts share strategies to transform skills, roles, and human potential across your organization.

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MIT Initiative for New Manufacturing

INM is an MIT-wide effort that drives research, education, and collaborations to transform the future of manufacturing in the United States and beyond.

How artificial intelligence impacts the US labor market

New research from MIT Sloan shows that companies can see substantial gains by putting AI to work — with that growth translating into jobs.

Who benefits from AI? New comic explores technology’s impact on labor

A free comic book adapts MIT Nobel Prize-winning economists’ work on how AI and technological change affect workers and shared prosperity.

For manufacturers, listening to workers pays off in productivity

Companies that act on input from front-line employees pay their workers more and experience a productivity bump that offsets those costs.

Building a quantum workforce

The Quantum Index Report from MIT documents a growing demand for quantum skills and emerging efforts to train a quantum workforce.

Workers need good jobs. The climate sector can help

The U.S. is experiencing a crisis around job quality. Emerging climate jobs can give workers a living wage, health care, and safe working conditions.

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Humanizing AI: Empowering people, not replacing them

AI works best not when it replaces humans, but when it augments them. As professor Thomas W. Malone, director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, puts it: "Combinations of humans and AI work best when each party can do the thing they do better than the other."

Faculty Publications

Accelerating Innovation: Competitive Advantage Through Ecosystem Engagement

Senior lecturer Phil Budden and associate dean for innovation Fiona Murray provide a practical guide to engaging with the five key stakeholders in an innovation ecosystem.

The Meritocracy Paradox: Where Talent Management Strategies Go Wrong and How to…

MIT Sloan professor Emilio J. Castilla offers practical solutions to help organizations build fairer, more effective people management practices.

Power and Progress: Our 1000-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

In their book, “Power and Progress,” Nobel laureates Daron Acemoglu, Institute professor, and Simon Johnson, MIT Sloan professor, ask whether the benefits of AI will be shared widely or feed inequality.