According to professor Nelson P. Repenning and senior lecturer Donald Kieffer, authors of the upcoming book "There's Got to Be a Better Way: How to Deliver Results and Get Rid of the Stuff That Gets in the Way of Real Work," we should think about two basic ways of "spring cleaning:" organizing your own work and handling requests from bosses or customers.
Meritocracy has become an increasingly popular term. But MIT Sloan Professor Emilio J. Castilla explains in The European Business Review that saying an organization is meritocratic can increase bias.
In this video interview, professor of the practice Zeynep Ton discussed what a better future of work could look like, what a "good job" means today, and why stability, career growth, and supportive pay for the jobs that already exist are vital to supporting America's workers.
The Sloan Fellows MBA program is a great option to consider for those who are ready to explore a different path, and put ideas into action. "The opportunity to step away from the working world for one year allows SFMBA students to fully immerse in a global network of peers to learn from, and experiment with different courses and industry interests, in a supportive environment," said Dawna Levenson, assistant dean of admissions.
In their paper Can ChatGPT Plan Your Retirement?, professor Andrew W. Lo and co-author argued that AI-powered financial advisers could represent the future of financial planning. However, they noted that these tools still require significant improvement before they can truly replace human advisers.
Research going back to the 1940s has linked automation to degraded job quality and opportunities for workers, said MIT IDE digital fellow Matt Beane (SM '14, PhD '17). "Generally, the better we get at automating the humans left in the building, especially at low-paid, entry-level frontline jobs, they are, unless very artfully managed, just going to get quite deskilled," said Beane.
Professor Nemit Shroff and co-author wrote: "Tucked into the latest House reconciliation bill is a stealth proposal to eliminate the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and fold its work into the Securities and Exchange Commission. It may sound at first like bureaucratic belt-tightening. In reality, it's a strategic blunder that could weaken American oversight in China, compromise financial transparency, and undercut the United States's global leadership position."
"Congress is poised to pass a reconciliation bill, politically dubbed the 'One Big, Beautiful Bill,' that could do serious harm to America's economic future," wrote senior lecturer Robert C. Pozen. "If enacted, the bill would not only deepen the country's long-term debt burden but also heighten the risk of a self-reinforcing cycle of higher interest rates and slower economic growth."
Jennifer Graham, senior associate director, MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative, recommends that students start thinking about how they can connect the dots between their current experience and their future climate career interests. "Now is a great time to learn how your skills, whether in finance, operations, policy, or tech, can translate into the work being done to solve the climate crisis," she said.
