But recent research suggests that such wellness programs often have limited effectiveness. To truly build a healthier future of work, employers will need to address how their own management practices contribute to employee ill health—and focus on changing those.
Companies can redesign work to make it healthier for employees and, in the process, help decrease employee turnover.
To outcompete Big Oil, the clean energy industry needs to unionize.
Whispers about unionization in the video game industry go back at least a decade. Despite the furor and conversation that piece kicked off, the industry has largely been resistant to unionization.
WorkRise has published a new report that reviews and synthesizes academic research on employer practices that foster economic mobility for disadvantaged workers. The report, "Employer Practices and Worker Outcomes: A Landscape Report," was coauthored by faculty affiliated with the MIT Institute for ...
Thomas A. Kochan, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Kate Bronfenbrenner, Director of Labor Education Research at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, have been awarded $225,000 in grant funding from the research network WorkRise to conduct a multi-...
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.
CAPT Brian Erickson, SFMBA ‘21, was recently named the United States Coast Guard’s first Chief Data Officer (CDO). Erickson takes this assignment following his time with the MIT Sloan Fellows MBA. Read more of his interview.
ThirdLove CEO Heidi Zak, MBA ’07, told her fellow alumnae at MIT Sloan Reunion 2022 to invest their time and money "because that’s how we will change the dynamic that exists today."
Women founders from MIT Sloan gathered in February to learn how the school and the Institute can help them launch and grow their startups.
