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New Report on U.S. Workers' Organizing Efforts and Collective Actions
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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 ...
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Human Resources
Mud Bay's Good Jobs Journey
This 2019 MIT Sloan case by Zeynep Ton and Katie Bach describes how the executive team at Mud Bay, a privately held pet store chain based in Olympia, Washington, implemented a good jobs strategy by offering better wages and benefits and seeking to recoup the costs by increasing sales growth and lowe...
Institute for Work and Employment Research
Human Resources
Ideas for Hesitant Bystanders to Consider
Bystanders play an important role in addressing unacceptable behavior in organizations & communities—but may understandably hesitate to intervene. In a new article, longtime MIT ombuds Mary Rowe offers ideas and options for hesitant bystanders and those who counsel them.
Alumni
Thomas J. Allen, Beloved Sloanie Professor, Dies at 89
Thomas J. Allen, SM ’63, PhD ’66, a beloved member of the MIT Sloan community for more than half a century, died November 13 after a brief illness. He was 89.
Nov 25, 2020
MIT News | January 6, 2026
3 Questions: Why Meritocracy is Hard to Achieve
MIT Sloan Professor Emilio J. Castilla explains how bias can creep into employers’ talent management processes — and what leaders can do to make their organizations fairer and more meritocratic.
SSRN | December 2025
A Field Guide to Deploying AI Agents in Clinical Practice
In this paper, authors Jack Gallifant, Katherine C. Kellogg, Matt Butler et al. present "a practitioner-oriented field manual for deploying generative agents that use electronic health records."
PLoS ONE | July 18, 2024
The Fulfillment Center Intervention Study: Protocol for a group-randomized control trial of a participatory workplace intervention
This journal article by Erin L. Kelly et al. describes the protocol for the Fulfillment Center Intervention Study.
The European Business Review | May 17, 2025
The Trouble With Meritocracy
Meritocracy has become an increasingly popular term. But MIT Sloan Professor Emilio J. Castilla explains in The European Business Review that saying an organization is meritocratic can increase bias.
MIT News
This Nonprofit Is Proving That Creating Good Jobs Is Good Business
The Good Jobs Institute, founded by Professor of the Practice Zeynep Ton, helps companies improve frontline jobs and company performance.