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.
In an effort to attract a diverse pool of talented candidates, many contemporary U.S. employers seek to craft gender-neutral job postings by editing language in the postings that may have masculine or feminine connotations. But how much difference do such practices make in reality? Not that much, su...
Tiffany Ferguson is helping Americans overcome financial hardships to secure economic dignity.
The 2023 MIT Sustainability Summit aims to demystify carbon markets on Friday, April 28, at the Samberg Conference Center.
New research by MIT Sloan Professor Paul Osterman finds more than one in ten U.S. workers are contract employees—and that they earn less on average than comparable employees in standard jobs and receive less company-provided training.
A conversation with Deloitte & Touche LLP Managing Director Jonathan Schuldenfrei, panelist at this year's MIT Sustainability Summit
MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Thomas A. Kochan has coauthored “The Labor-Savvy Leader,” a new feature article published in the July-August issue of Harvard Business Review magazine. The article, which Kochan coauthored with venture capitalist Roy Bahat, head of Bloomberg Beta, and Liba Wenig Rubinste...
A summary report from a multistakeholder dialogue on U.S. worker voice and representation held December 1-2, 2022 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
MIT Sloan Professor Nathan Wilmers is one of the winners of the LERA (Labor and Employment Relations Association) 2023 John T. Dunlop Scholar Award. This award recognizes outstanding academic research contributions that address industrial relations and employment problems of national significance, a...
When Rubén Lozano Aguilera, MBA ’13, submitted his MIT Sloan admission application, he stated that his ultimate goal was to work on sustainability at a major corporation—he’s reached that goal in a big way.
