Bettina Hein, SF '08, and Andreas Goeldi, SF '08, are fierce advocates for young entrepreneurs.
CAPT Brian Erickson, SFMBA ‘21, was recently named the United States Coast Guard’s first Chief Data Officer (CDO). Erickson takes this assignment following his time with the MIT Sloan Fellows MBA. Read more of his interview.
Reverse mortgages are a financial innovation designed to help retirees free up the savings tied up in home equity without being forced to move. Access to those funds can make a big difference in the quality of life for house-rich, cash-poor, retirees. Yet the product has been slow to catch on. A new...
As the vice president of a large financial services firm, Max Wilson has seen first-hand the value of creating a more diverse workplace. That's why he teamed up with his fellow S-Lab students to help his company successfully hire and retain more people with disabilities.
If U.S. workers could select the characteristics of a labor organization to represent them, what would they choose? That’s the question explored in an intriguing new journal article by Alexander Hertel-Fernandez of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, William Kimball of ...
It is no small vision. Entrepreneurship guru and Juli Founder/CEO Bettina Hein, SF ’08 and her spouse Andreas Goeldi, SF ’08—a venture capital investor and successful serial entrepreneur—have embarked on an ambitious mission to help create 5,000 jobs in new enterprises that thrive on diversity of le...
Involving Workers In Technological Change
Danielle Li studies how AI impacts work and the workplace. “I’m more interested in how businesses put these tools to use, how they impact the productivity of workers, the type of work they are able to do, and what their careers might look like in an AI-intensive world,” she says.
Takeda is a global biopharmaceutical corporation with an ambitious zero-waste-to-landfill goal. BioLife, a subsidiary of Takeda, sought to develop prioritized recycling strategies in support of Takeda’s sustainability pledge and goals. A team of three Sustainable Business Lab (S-Lab) students tackle...
Thomas A. Kochan, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Kate Bronfenbrenner, Director of Labor Education Research at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, have been awarded $225,000 in grant funding from the research network WorkRise to conduct a multi-...
