New research by MIT Sloan Professor Nathan Wilmers and two coauthors finds that having certain kinds of tasks in a job description allows new employees, including frontline workers, to earn more.

Zach Tan, a first-year doctoral student in the Economic Sociology research group at the MIT Sloan School of Management, has won the 2024 Rafel Lucea Memorial Research Award.

Hong Ru, MFin ’10, PhD ’15, and Juno Wei Chen, MFin ’10, are grateful for the chance to give back to the place where they met and set off on their respective career paths.

In late January, Brazil launched the RendA+ treasury bond instrument, a new retirement security adapted from the work of School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance and Nobel Prize in Economics laureate Robert C. Merton, PhD ’70, and Arun Muralidhar, PhD ’92.

Invited guests attended a special event at the new MIT Museum location in Kendall Square in early December.