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Operations Management
PayPal and the Financial Wellness Initiative
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 ...
Aug 1, 2022
MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy Conferences
Miriam Pozen Prize Award Ceremony and Lecture by President Tharman Shanmugaratnam
The 2025 Miriam Pozen Prize is on Dec. 9, 2025. Tharman Shanmugaratnam, president of the Republic of Singapore, was named the prize winner this year.
Institute for Work and Employment Research
Human Resources
The Surprising Potential of Health and Well-Being Committees
MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly, who is Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), found in a recent multiyear study in e-commerce warehouses that establishing Health and Well-Being Committees that allow employees to give input on workplace issues significantly reduc...
May 15, 2025
Institute for Work and Employment Research
Human Resources
Selected Journal Articles by Erin L. Kelly Related to Workplace Well-Being
MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly, who is Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), has coauthored dozens of scholarly articles related to well-being in the workplace, with a particular focus on examining the effects of flexible scheduling initiatives on various measu...
Institute for Work and Employment Research
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
Institute for Work and Employment Research
Economy
Making Sense of Diverging Trends in Personal and Household Income Inequality
During the period between 2010 and 2019, something a bit counterintuitive happened in U.S. economic inequality trends. During that time, personal earnings inequality decreased in the U.S. for the first time in a number of decades. But, in the same period, household income inequality continued to gro...
Apr 14, 2025
Institute for Work and Employment Research
Labor
Trends in Worker Voice and Worker Activism: An IWER Research Compendium
The past several years have seen an upsurge of worker activism in the United States and with it, an increasing interest in the concept of worker voice—that is, efforts by workers, either individually or collectively, to have a say on workplace issues that matter to them. This collection of links hi...