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The Effects of Worker Voice on Manufacturing Pay and Productivity
What happens when manufacturing companies regularly incorporate worker feedback and ideas into their production processes? New research coauthored by MIT Sloan Professor Nathan Wilmers finds that productivity is generally higher—and so is production worker pay.
Here are the 4 new faculty members joining MIT Sloan in 2023
Faculty joining MIT Sloan in 2023 are experts in energy markets, machine learning, health care economics, and decision-making.
Using Staffing Platforms to Address Long-Term Care Workforce Shortages During the COVID-19 Outbreak and Beyond
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...
Conference at MIT Sloan Honors Professor Susan Silbey
Distinguished scholars from across the U.S., Canada, and Europe came together at the MIT Sloan School of Management in early June for a two-day conference in honor of Professor Susan S. Silbey.
Wilmers Becomes Fourth IWER Faculty Member to Receive Award for Mentoring Graduate Students
MIT Sloan School of Management Associate Professor Nathan Wilmers is one of 23 members of the MIT faculty who recently received MIT’s Committed to Caring award for 2023-25. The Committed to Caring program recognizes MIT faculty members who are exceptional mentors to graduate students.
How Urban Innovation Fund picks and grows companies
To compete, the venture capital fund sticks to its thesis, searches for companies solving urban challenges, and customizes success metrics.
Identifying the U.S. Locations that Most Facilitate Cross-Class Mingling
Hint: They Involve food.
In Nobel Prize lecture, lessons for managing employee incentives
MIT’s newest Nobel laureate, Bengt Holmström, discusses challenges and opportunities offered by contract theory.
How going out can spur outside-the-box thinking
Close intercultural friendships and romantic relationships can boost creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship.