New research finds that when U.S. companies switched away from standardized pay rates for blue-collar jobs in the late 1970s and 1980s, workers’ real wages declined.
Assistant Professor Manish Raghavan wants to teach his students how to make good business decisions about deploying (or not deploying) AI-based products and services.
The Fall 2024 newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research is available online. The theme is “What Helps—Or Hinders—Career Progress.”
What happens to company profits, wages, and consumer prices when union membership becomes more affordable for employees? That’s a question posed in an interesting working paper by Samuel Dodini, MIT Sloan Professor Anna Stansbury, and Alexander Willén.
Distinguished scholars from across the U.S., Canada, and Europe came together at the MIT Sloan School of Management in early June for a two-day conference in honor of Professor Susan S. Silbey.
Do policies that it easier for employees to juggle work and family needs increase the ability of women to advance in organizations? New research from Eunmi Mun, Shawna Vican, and MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly suggests that was indeed the case with the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) in the U...
MIT Sloan Professor Emerita Lotte Bailyn has published a new book, Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You, that she coauthored with four other scholars: Teresa M. Amabile, Marcy Crary, Douglas T. Hall, and Kathy E. Kram.
MIT Sloan Professor Emilio J. Castilla is the incoming Chair of the Organization and Management Theory (OMT) Division of the Academy of Management (AOM), a leading global professional association for scholars of management and organizations.
MIT Sloan School of Management Associate Professor Nathan Wilmers is one of 23 members of the MIT faculty who recently received MIT’s Committed to Caring award for 2023-25. The Committed to Caring program recognizes MIT faculty members who are exceptional mentors to graduate students.
In this December 2023 working paper, MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Thomas A. Kochan and five additional co-authors from MIT identify ways to bring workers’ voices into the development and use of generative artificial intelligence (AI).
