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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.
MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly, who is Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), has received the 2024 Ellen Galinsky Generative Researcher Award from the Work and Family Researchers Network.
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.
Is working from home good for employees? New research finds that the answer depends on the circumstances—and in particular, whether at-home work is replacing time in the office or adding to it.
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 ...
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.
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...
MIT Sloan Associate Professor Nathan Wilmers has been named an incoming Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, a leading foundation supporting social science research. This prestigious ten-month fellowship, which begins in September, is awarded to 15-17 scholars in the social sciences each...
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 Assistant Professor Anna Stansbury has been named to the “40-Under-40 Best MBA Professors” list for 2023 by Poets & Quants, an online publication focused on graduate business education.
