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IWER Faculty Members Coauthor New Report on Management Practices that Foster Economic Mobility
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 ...
Jun 21, 2022
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Robert Gibbons
Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management, Professor, Applied Economics
Faculty
John D. Sterman
Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management, Professor, System Dynamics and Engineering Systems
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Wanda Orlikowski
Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management, Professor, Information Technology and Work and Organization Studies
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Operations Management
Mud Bay's Good Jobs Journey
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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...
Aug 25, 2022
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Organizational Culture
Silbey and Bailyn Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Susan Silbey and Lotte Bailyn, two MIT faculty members affiliated with the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Apr 28, 2025
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Research
The purpose of this paper is to identify ways to bring workers’ voices into the development and use of generative artificial intelligence (AI).
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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).
Dec 21, 2023