What role can businesspeople play in fostering economic and social justice? That was the topic of an intriguing panel discussion organized at MIT Sloan and held via Zoom.
“Work Lab: Building Better Jobs," a new MIT Sloan class for MBA students and other MIT graduate students, will be offered for the first time in spring 2026. Taught by Ben Armstrong, Director of the MIT Industrial Performance Center, the half-semester course will teach students to model, evaluate, a...
A Health and Well-being Committee, or HaWC, is a new form of participatory program that gives employees a chance to voice concerns and ideas for improving the workplace. Developed by researchers at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, the HaWC model ...
This script is designed to accompany training presentations for the co-leads of a new Health and Well-being Committee (HaWC). A Health and Well-being Committee (HaWC) is a new form of participatory program that gives employees a channel to voice concerns and ideas for improving the workplace. The H...
The December 2025 issue of the newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research is now available online. The theme is "Insights on Upward Economic Mobility."
What factors make it easier—or harder—for workers, particularly those in low-wage jobs, to achieve upward economic mobility and better employment opportunities? The following collection of links highlights some of the research and analysis related to this topic that has been conducted in recent ye...
In an essay for the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly reflects on America's job-quality crisis and how to address it.
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.
In an October 2024 article for Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan School Professor Emeritus Thomas Kochan and UC San Diego Professor John S. Ahlquist explain the steps involved in forming a union.
Here are some simple strategies from the behavioral scientist’s toolbox that you can use to get out the vote in your social circle.
