A good job is a way out of poverty. With that idea in mind, Barbara Dyer has for decades been focused on good jobs—and, in particular, how organizations can create more of them for workers.
MIT Sloan Professor Thomas A. Kochan will be launching an innovative new online class to help train labor representatives to negotiate about technology and its impact on the future of work.
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If you’re interested in honing your skills at managing people as part of your MBA coursework, you’ve come to the right place: There are great talent management courses to choose from at MIT Sloan.
MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Nathan Wilmers and Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Letian Zhang have won a grant from WorkRise to study how the tasks assigned to low-wage workers affect those workers’ opportunities for wage growth.
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Will 2022 be a year that companies take steps toward creating healthier working conditions for their employees? Certainly, the idea is getting attention as the year gets underway.
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MIT GCFP Blog Series
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This guest blog post, by former Federal Reserve Governor Daniel Tarullo, was prepared while he was recently in residence at the Golub Center as a Distinguished Fellow.
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With the arrival of a new Congress and a new administration, change may be in store for current and former students who have borrowed to pay for higher education expenses. On the campaign trail, Donald Trump indicated a desire to ease the debt burden carried by former students, and Republicans at ti...
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As the keynote speaker at a recent conference of the International Consortium on Government Financial Management held in Washington DC, I had the opportunity to discuss with representatives from over 40 countries one of the primary challenges facing governments around the world – citizen engagement.
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In fragile economic times, the U.S. government occasionally enacts stimulus programs to provide a jolt to consumer spending. This was certainly the case during the Great Recession, when the government utilized both explicit stimulus programs, such as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 200...
