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In Japan, where workplace practices have been rooted in generations of tradition, pandemic-driven changes feel tectonic. But some of them are welcome and long overdue, says Shihoko Kato, SFMBA ’19, director of the global business office at Japanese telecom giant NTT in Tokyo.
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“I shrug when people lament these changing times. When, in the last 2,000 years, haven’t we been living in changing times?” laughs Costantino Sambuy, SF ’06, CEO of Peugeot Motocycles, the world’s oldest manufacturer of scooters.
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For nearly two decades, Google has been working on technology that helps people collaborate across continents. “We want to connect people all over the world so that they can to do great things together,” says Suzanne Frey, SF ’06, vice president of engineering and product at the global dynamo.
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An old New Yorker cartoon features a man sitting at a desk in his home office. He turns to his wife with evident angst and posits, “I can’t remember, do I work at home or live at work?” It is this conundrum that worries Sebastián Castañeda Arbeláez, SF ’14, Corporate Manager of Financial Planning an...
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MIT Sloan professor Thomas Malone is one of the world’s go-to experts on the way we work—and how we might work smarter.
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As Executive Director of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future, Elisabeth Reynolds coordinates a distinctly “MIT” initiative.
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Thomas J. Allen, SM ’63, PhD ’66, a beloved member of the MIT Sloan community for more than half a century, died November 13 after a brief illness. He was 89.
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As our work lives shrink to the size of laptop screens. As our personal lives contract to the size of a room, an apartment, or—if we’re lucky—a house and garden. Even as our minds are narrowed relentlessly to the immediate necessities of day-to-day life, Célestin Monga, SF ’95, says loud and clear t...
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Co-presidents of the new student club FLI@Sloan talk about the importance of removing the stigma around socio-economic status and creating space for students in an effort to build a more inclusive MIT Sloan.
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The details and implications are complex and barely touched on by the frequent 30 second television spots by both the pro and con groups.
