The Fall 2024 newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research is available online. The theme is “What Helps—Or Hinders—Career Progress.”
Experts detail how ripple effects are impeding the flow of goods, creating catastrophic food shortages, and fueling dramatic cost increases and product shortages.
Tariffs, sanctions, export controls, and industrial policies now shape how companies hire talent, build supply chains, and choose markets.
Founder and CEO Amanda von Goetz talks about her unconventional education, ignoring perceived projections, and her company’s “organic diversity.”
New research challenges European Union policy that wood bioenergy is carbon neutral
Information Technology PhD students Alice Cai and Peyman Shahidi from MIT Sloan have been named 2026 Rafel Lucea Memorial Research Award recipients, with Cai as winner and Shahidi as honorable mention.
Automation and AI can create good jobs, benefit workers, improve productivity, and grow the economy. Here’s how to roll them out right.
MIT Sloan’s Hal Gregersen and Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull on why leaders must be purpose-driven and long-term oriented to successfully navigate change.
The global shortage of semiconductor chips has upended the car industry. The response, from retrofitting to reshoring, could help guide other sectors.
