Strategically targeted federal investments in R&D are key to creating good jobs in the future, according to MIT Sloan Professor Simon Johnson.
A distinguished senior officer burst into my waiting room and came right through into my office.[1] He was holding a furled umbrella high over …
Despite a long history of research on training in the fields of organizational psychology, human resources, and labor economics, little is known about the state‐of‐the‐art in training practices offered by employers, use of training opportunities by employees, or the effects of training and upskillin...
In the new briefing, titled "Worker Voice, Representation, and Implications for Public Policies," Kochan "examines the need to rebuild worker voice, power, and representation against the backdrop of building a new social contract at work..."
Does the U.S. tax system incentivize companies to overinvest in automation—at the expense of jobs?
UNMAS tasked A-Lab with developing a machine learning model that could use satellite imagery to detect the presence of buildings and roads—key indicators of development— in areas of Afghanistan that UNMAS had cleared of explosives.
New research shows that group deliberation guided by interaction with the C-ROADS model can positively influence high school and college students’ climate change knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors.
The MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future, an MIT-wide task force recently released its report—and the report includes an extensive focus on improving economic prospects for U.S. workers, particularly those who lack a college education.
The pandemic has affected the type of learning the IBM employees in the study pursued, as this graph shows, but the researchers found that "overall learning consumption remains high."
At a recent virtual panel discussion organized at MIT Sloan, two industry executives and an MIT Sloan professor focused on the important and timely topic of people analytics, including how people analytics techniques can be used to ameliorate bias within organizations.
