William F. Pounds
Professor Emeritus of Management, Professor, Work and Organization Studies and Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Professor Emeritus of Management, Professor, Work and Organization Studies and Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
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In 2015, when Dan Schulman became CEO of PayPal, a digital payments company, many people thought of it as the button they clicked when paying for online purchases. In 2015, PayPal embarked on a new mission: using technology to democratize financial services. In Schulman’s words, it would “turn the ...
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This case describes how leaders at Mud Bay, a chain of pet products based in Pacific Northwest, changed the way they operated their business from 2014 to 2017. They adopted a framework that included heavy investment in people with operational choices that leverage that investment by increasing produ...
MIT Sloan’s Global Economics and Management Group is an explicitly interdisciplinary group that includes faculty with backgrounds in economics, political science, sociology, finance, strategy...
Publications and Working Papers.
The Work and Organization Studies group is a hub for the study of work, employment, and organizations, and is host to one of the longest-running seminar series at MIT.