Formed in 2009 as a professional networking group, Leaders in Experiential Project-based Education (LEPE) meets annually to share insights and best practices on experiential learning, a pedagogy centered on learning by doing. Last year’s meeting, hosted by MIT Sloan Action Learning, brought together...
“Employers must realize that COVID-19 and the racial reckoning in the U.S. have permanently transformed people’s perspectives on work and life,” says Monster CEO Scott Gutz, SF ’08. “From safety protocols and flex schedules to salary protections and diversity, equity, inclusion, and access (DEIA) in...
It is no small vision. Entrepreneurship guru and Juli Founder/CEO Bettina Hein, SF ’08 and her spouse Andreas Goeldi, SF ’08—a venture capital investor and successful serial entrepreneur—have embarked on an ambitious mission to help create 5,000 jobs in new enterprises that thrive on diversity of le...
MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Nathan Wilmers and Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Letian Zhang have won a grant from WorkRise to study how the tasks assigned to low-wage workers affect those workers’ opportunities for wage growth.
Will 2022 be a year that companies take steps toward creating healthier working conditions for their employees? Certainly, the idea is getting attention as the year gets underway.
Research by New York University (NYU) professor Natasha Iskander, who is an alumna of the MIT IWER PhD program, finds that there are companies targeting regions experiencing climate stress when recruiting migrant workers.
Over 1,100 members of the alumni community came together in early June to reconnect and continue learning at the 2021 MIT Sloan Virtual Reunion.
Chi-Won Yoon, SB ’82, SM ’86, recently met with students in China Lab, an Action Learning course, to discuss the future of fintech and cryptocurrencies in China.
For Yannik Birkhahn, MFin ’20, the MIT Sloan Master of Finance program was a watershed moment. Diving into amazing opportunities the program has to offer, Yannik realized that he could help make the world a better place through his role in finance.
Why do people make the decisions they do? How are those decisions influenced by friends and family? And how can we go about getting answers to such questions? MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Abdullah Almaatouq, a computational social scientist who is also affiliated with the MIT Center for Computation...
