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Entrepreneurship
Amazon to acquire PillPack
Retail giant reported to pay nearly $1B for the home-delivery pharmacy.
Jun 28, 2018
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Data
What is synthetic data — and how can it help you?
Synthetic data offers the opportunity to test new ideas and develop new products without putting personal or health data at risk.
Jan 23, 2023
Institute for Work and Employment Research
New "Work Design for Health" Framework and Toolkit Available
A new “Work Design for Health” framework and employer toolkit—developed by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Institute for Work and Employment Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management—map how to create work environments that foster worker health and well-being.
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Human Resources
Start-Up Materials for the Health and Well-Being Committee
On this page, you can download sample recruitment materials designed for organizations that are creating a new Health and Well-being Committee (HaWC). A HaWC is a new form of participatory program that gives employees a channel to voice concerns and ideas for improving the workplace. The Health and...
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Computing
MIT’s computing dean on leadership in the AI era
The impact of artificial intelligence is just starting. Great leaders will find new opportunities while positively impacting their customers’ lives.
Jun 24, 2020
Institute for Work and Employment Research
Human Resources
Presentation to Accompany Initial Meetings of a Health and Well-Being Committee
This presentation was designed for use in the initial meetings of a new workplace Health and Well-being Committee (HaWC). A HaWC is a new form of participatory program that gives employees a channel to voice concerns and ideas for improving the workplace.
Institute for Work and Employment Research
Human Resources
Tools and Resources for Running Health and Well-Being Committee Meetings
These materials provide very detailed guidance on running the initial meetings of a Health and Well-being Committee (HaWC), a new form of participatory program that gives employees a channel to voice concerns and ideas for improving the workplace. The HaWC model was developed by researchers at the ...
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Analytics
Tapping the power of unstructured data
There’s competitive advantage buried in text, images, audio, social media, and more — as industries like shipping, retail, legal, and finance are finding.
Feb 1, 2021
Press
Innovation
MIT’s inaugural Inclusive Innovation Competition awards $1 million to organizations harnessing technology to create economic opportunities for low-and middle-wage workers
The MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE) announced the winners of $1 million in prize money in the first-annual Inclusive Innovation Competition.
Sep 27, 2016
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Data
Crowdsourcing to better forecast drug approvals
Researchers launched an in-house Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) challenge to beat MIT’s machine-learning models for predicting clinical trial outcomes. The results are now available.
Jul 20, 2021