The August 2025 newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research is now available online. The title of this issue of the IWER newsletter is "'The Meritocracy Paradox' and More: New Works from IWER Researchers."
Drink. Wash. Repeat. These three simple steps are fueling Manuela's mission at Kadeya to (EMBA ’20, Sustainability Certificate) to rid the world of single-use plastics.
Accenture is a global leader in professional services, with over 700,000 employees and clients across 120 countries. Renowned for its work in strategy, technology, and digital transformation, the firm has recently expanded into the robotics and space technology sectors. As they explore how to use AI...
“Telem” means “safe space” in Sierra Leone. The music collective Telem Uncommon Sounds is trying to create just that, nurturing a more open and experimental creative community in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Working with musicians, government, and other ecosystem stakeholders, Telem works to provide more...
Housing finance policy has been built during and for times of crisis. Just look at the long list of government actions related to the financing of housing [...]
Edward L. Golding, Laura E. Kodres, and Deborah J. Lucas The 2008 financial crisis triggered a wave of new financial regulations, most notably as mandated by the Dodd Frank Act of 2010. That legislation recognized that existing regulations were inadequately designed to protect against systemic ri...
MAY 4 – 2023 “BankThink: No, FHFA is not encouraging a race to the bottom.” Recently, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, acting in its capacity as conservator of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, made some modest changes in the pricing of mortgage risk. These modest changes [...]
Edward Golding and Deborah Lucas discuss a simple policy change that relies primarily on market discipline that would reduce the likelihood of future SVBs.
Johanna Hising DiFabio is Assistant Dean, Executive Degree Programs and Nelson Repenning is Faculty Director of the MIT Leadership Center, and the School of Management Distinguished Professor of System Dynamics and Organization Studies. Both were part of the team that founded the MIT Executive MBA.
MIT Sloan EMBA students partnered with Telem Uncommon Sounds as part of their Global Labs course to build a business plan that would help rebuild Sierra Leone's music scene.
