Changing the World With Systems Thinking
Alumnae and friends from around the globe gathered online in January to discuss how they could come together to identify global problems and take action.
Alumnae and friends from around the globe gathered online in January to discuss how they could come together to identify global problems and take action.
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.
New Report on U.S. Workers' Organizing Efforts and Collective Actions
Friedemann “Friedi” Pfeiffer, EMBA ’20 is the Head of Finance for North America at WTW in Boston, Massachusetts.
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...
“Even in the same industry, we often see competitors providing very different jobs, MIT Sloan Professor Zeynep Ton told <i>Fast Company</i>. "In fact, pay differences between companies in the same industry tend to be even larger than across industries. ”
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...
Mayor Miro Weinberger of Burlington, VT is showing how the En-ROADS climate solution simulator—a global model—can be useful to decision-makers at the local level.