Research by New York University (NYU) professor Natasha Iskander, who is an alumna of the MIT IWER PhD program, finds that there are companies targeting regions experiencing climate stress when recruiting migrant workers.
To combat the negative effects of climate change, making a transition to green energy is vital. But what will happen to people whose jobs are significantly linked to fossil fuel use? And what policy options are available to mitigate the employment effects of such a transition? That was a question ex...
By harnessing the power of "the gray rhino" and using the crisis as an opportunity, entrepreneurs are uniquely positioned to mitigate the myriad effects of the financial crisis.
Donor Spotlight: Diana J. Mackie, SM ‘70, SM ‘79 (XV)
The book "Overload: How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do About It" by MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly and University of Minnesota Professor Phyllis Moen is one of two winners of the 2021 Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship.
The name Angela Davis has been synonymous with radical activism since the 60s. In the intervening years, Davis has channeled those efforts for change into an equally impactful academic career. Now 76, she is a professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of several in...
A majority of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo lack access to electricity. At Nuru, Juliana Kerrest, MBA ‘18, Chief People and Sustainability Officer, is dedicated to enhancing connectivity. Nuru builds mini solar grids allowing those in remote areas to tap into a power source.
Significant portions of the professional papers donated to the MIT Libraries’ by former MIT ombudsperson Mary P. Rowe (pictured above) have now been digitized, making material about her pioneering work as an ombuds more available to researchers.
MIT Sloan Adjunct Professor Mary P. Rowe, a pioneer in the organizational ombuds profession, has made many of the articles she has written over her career freely available on her personal webpages at MIT Sloan.
In order to heighten PhD student awareness of some of the exciting research opportunities in the area of finance and policy, GCFP co-sponsored an intensive capital markets workshop hosted by the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Foundation for the Advancement of Research in Financial Economics ...
