The December 2023 issue of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) newsletter includes a special focus on women and work.
Phyllis Wallace took part in a landmark 1970s AT&T discrimination case and researched the working lives of young Black women.
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From explaining the role happiness plays in achieving success to speculating about possible AI applications, MIT Sloan alumni had much to say this year.
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Bloomer Tech designed a washable bra that uses flexible and washable circuits to continuously read metrics like their ECG, respiration, heart rate, and more.
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Looking for new markets.
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Ambika Singh, MBA ’16, believes that acknowledging and empowering the values of both customers and employees is paramount to what Armoire is trying to accomplish.
The pandemic has affected the type of learning the IBM employees in the study pursued, as this graph shows, but the researchers found that "overall learning consumption remains high."
Does the U.S. tax system incentivize companies to overinvest in automation—at the expense of jobs?
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We are making breakthroughs almost weekly in our understanding of cancer and other deadly diseases, both in how to treat and – in some cases – how to cure them [...]
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How Metron, a scientific consulting firm typically focused on problems of national defense, used Bayesian search theory to find a lost city of gold in Ecuador.
