The Good Jobs Imperative
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.
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.
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Natalia Levina, PhD ’01, and Rumman Chowdhury, SB ’03, spoke at the second annual Social Media Summit@MIT, a virtual gathering hosted by the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, in late March.
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.
In a new podcast, MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Anna Stansbury explains her research on the links between the decline in U.S. workers’ power in recent decades and increasing income inequality.
Lisa, an alumna of the IWER PhD program, is IWER's visiting scholar.
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.
Most executives today understand that if their companies are to thrive in an increasingly competitive and dynamic marketplace, they must hire and retain the most talented employees.
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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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Research by New York University (NYU) professor Natasha Iskander, who is an alumna of the MIT IWER PhD program, finds that there are companies targeting regions experiencing climate stress when recruiting migrant workers.