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Aiding Gap's move to recycled cotton
Eyeing environmental impact.
Oct 27, 2021
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Rockefeller Foundation President Wants You to Make Big Bets
Rajiv Shah, president of The Rockefeller Foundation and former administrator of USAID, believes in leveraging the passion of individuals to affect large-scale change in society.
Jan 23, 2024
Ideas Made to Matter
Robots
Measuring the actual impact of robots on jobs
Industrial robots do reduce jobs and wages — especially for workers in the automotive industry and certain parts of the country.
Jul 29, 2020
Alumni
Leadership
How This Alumna Is Helping Women Succeed at Fidelity
Kristen Robinson Darcy, EMBA ’13, chief operating officer at Fidelity Charitable, co-chaired the Women’s Leadership Group at Fidelity Investments for two years and endeavored to create an atmosphere of conscious inclusion.
Jul 21, 2021
Institute for Work and Employment Research
Economy
Studying How Low-Wage Women Navigate Unemployment
How do women in low-wage service-sector jobs respond to unemployment? That's a question Claire C. McKenna explored in her recent doctoral dissertation in the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) PhD program.
Nov 13, 2023
Career Development Office Lectures & Workshops
Building Safe Systems While Moving Fast: Navigating Failure, Risk, and Responsibility in High-Stakes Autonomous Products
Shipping autonomous and embodied AI systems forces leaders to confront a hard truth: speed without safety erodes trust, while excessive caution can stall learning and impact.
Action Learning
Finance
Investment solution earns Nobel-level attention
Financial giant seeks rebalancing policy.
Oct 28, 2021
Institute for Work and Employment Research
Artificial Intelligence
The purpose of this paper is to identify ways to bring workers’ voices into the development and use of generative artificial intelligence (AI).
In this December 2023 working paper, MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Thomas A. Kochan and five additional co-authors from MIT identify ways to bring workers’ voices into the development and use of generative artificial intelligence (AI).
Institute for Work and Employment Research
What Will It Take to Improve Retail Jobs
Two big shocks, rapid technological change and COVID-19, have recently rocked retail. But the effects on workers have not been uniform.
Action Learning
Sustainability
Something to smile about: improving the sustainability profile of Colgate’s toothpaste packaging
As part of their 2025 Sustainability and Social Impact Strategy, Colgate is working towards its goal for 100% of its packaging to be recyclable, reusable, or compostable by 2025. As such, Colgate worked with a team of S-Lab students on a project for their French business to develop innovative ways f...
Nov 28, 2022