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Institute for Work and Employment Research Healthcare

Using Staffing Platforms to Address Long-Term Care Workforce Shortages During the COVID-19 Outbreak and Beyond

By Kate Kellogg

In this article, MIT Sloan Professor Katherine Kellogg and a team of coauthors describe a project they have been working on involving the use of a specialized online jobs platform to bring new job applicants to open positions at skilled nursing facilities in Massachusetts during the COVID-19 pandemi...

Jul 28, 2020

MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship

Rethinking Innovation Ecosystems in Central Asia

Why are so many founders in Central Asia building companies with one foot out the door? In this provocative piece by Shamil Ibragimov, Beyond the Hype: Rethinking Innovation Ecosystems in Central Asia, Ibragimov challenges the dominant startup narrative in emerging markets. Rather than fueling br...

Apr 17, 2025

Alumni Venture Capital

Noor Sweid, MBA '05

Sloanies Talking with Sloanies podcast with Noor Sweid, MBA '05

Feb 28, 2019

Alumni Sustainability

Ken Pucker, SM ’90

Ken Pucker, SM ’90, joins Christopher Reichert, MOT ’04, on this episode of "Sloanies Talking with Sloanies."

Oct 13, 2021

Action Learning Diversity

Engaging minority-owned and women-owned businesses in Florida

By Kathryn M. O’Neill

The Tallahassee-Leon County Office of Economic Vitality tasked a team of USA Lab students with finding better ways to engage minority-owned and women-owned businesses.

Sep 27, 2021

Institute for Work and Employment Research

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.

Jul 8, 2020

MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship

Systems Change Approach to Rethink Entrepreneurship

To solve the world’s most entrenched challenges, from affordable housing to energy poverty, we must shift from treating symptoms to transforming market systems. This as part of our latest paper and blog series, which introduces a new framework for Systems Change Entrepreneurship, offering entreprene...

Sep 22, 2025

MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship Food Safety

Fertilizer Production & Food Self-Sufficiency in Global Growth Markets

This blog by Dr. Nadia Shalaby explores the critical link between fertilizer production and food self-sufficiency in global growth markets. Tracing the history of the Haber-Bosch process and its outsized impact on modern agriculture, Dr. Shalaby examines why Africa—despite rapid population growth—re...

Apr 5, 2025