A majority of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo lack access to electricity. At Nuru, Juliana Kerrest, MBA ‘18, Chief People and Sustainability Officer, is dedicated to enhancing connectivity. Nuru builds mini solar grids allowing those in remote areas to tap into a power source.
How do you make and sell products that lead to business profitability—without further damaging the environment? Janelle Heslop, LGO ’19, didn’t just tackle this in her graduate thesis at MIT. She’s planning on making a career out of it.
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...
After serving aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier for four years, Michael Phelan, EMBA ’12, took a very important lesson to heart: learning to trust—and be trusted by—his team members.
In March, Senior Lecturer and MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative Director Jason Jay, PhD ’10, demonstrated the En-ROADS simulation tool at the MIT Better World (Sustainability) virtual event.
In a recent paper, MIT Sloan’s Paul Osterman finds evidence that companies have choices about the wages they pay, and that some companies can be successful through “High Road” employment practices that result in better-quality jobs. But it's not at all clear, he concludes, that such High Road employ...
Club Demonstration Services (CDS), the powerhouse partner behind retail giant Costco, provides product samples and demos in more than 800 Costco warehouses across 12 countries, with a strong focus on food. There’s just one problem: Demonstrations, food especially, appeal to in-person customers. The ...
New research suggests that taking a 30-minute nap during work can increase productivity and prompt more deposits into your savings account.
Furniture giant Wayfair is committed not only to providing customers with a wide variety of quality products, but reevaluating and improving their own processes as well. That’s why they initially tasked a team of MIT Sloan Action Learning Operations Lab (Ops-Lab) students with streamlining their Way...
Join us for a timely discussion around artificial intelligence and the future of management education featuring Dean Richard M. Locke, PhD ’89.
