December 2025 Issue of IWER Newsletter Now Available Online
The December 2025 issue of the newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research is now available online. The theme is "Insights on Upward Economic Mobility."
The December 2025 issue of the newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research is now available online. The theme is "Insights on Upward Economic Mobility."
Ritesh Ramesh is CEO of MDaudit and a member of the MIT Executive MBA Class of 2017.
Following a long career at Huawei, Hugo Huang, SFMBA ’20, came to MIT Sloan to learn more.
Miriam Pozen Prize Award Ceremony and Lecture by Tharman Shanmugaratnam on Tuesday, December 9, 2025.
Reflections of experiences sourcing talent and scaling ventures on the African continent, including, the challenges in attracting and retaining the right talent for a business and how opportunities often overlook the potential of youth and women.
Cait Haner, MBA ’22, spent eight years in the U.S. Army before she began her journey at MIT Sloan. She shares her experience as a student, veteran, and parent and offers advice for those looking at the program.
Community is everything for Johana Muriel Grajales, MBA ’22. Originally from Colombia, with a background in the nonprofit sector, Johana came to MIT Sloan looking to find a community that would support her ultimate goal of being a more impactful leader.
In 2025, the MIT Sloan alumni community stayed busy finding a cure to pediatric brain cancer, publishing new research on leadership, and more.
MIT hasn’t just prepared me for the future of work—it’s pushed me to study it. As AI systems become more capable, more of our online activity will be carried out by artificial agents. That raises big questions.Benjamin Manning
PhD Student
I think, at its most generous, AI tools enable us to learn from our collective actions ... What AI tools do is they take all of those solutions, those attempts—whether good or bad—and use them as training data to build models.Danielle Li
David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology; Professor, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
To me, the future of work means democracy. It’s hard to have any positive vision of work without meaningfully engaging workers. This is why I research economic democracy—worker voice is pivotal in designing good jobs.Alex Busch
PhD Student
The rise of generative AI is a real opportunity, but making the most of it will demand a new approach to decision-making, as well as a new focus on worker training, fair transitions, and effective policy.Thomas Kochan
George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management, Emeritus; Professor of Human Resources and Management, Emeritus
Combinations of humans and AI work best when each party can do the thing they do better than the other.Thomas W. Malone
Patrick J. McGovern (1959) Professor of Management; Director, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence; Professor, Information Technology
Managers and workers need to collectively develop new expectations and work practices to ensure that any work done in collaboration with generative AI meets the values, goals, and standards of their key stakeholders.Kate Kellogg
David J. McGrath jr (1959) Professor of Management and Innovation
I've gained deep insights into cutting-edge technologies and had the chance to connect and network with industry leaders ... [T]aking courses or working on projects related to deep learning has been a rewarding experience.Anne Castille Buisson
MBAn ’24
This technology’s deepest impact on the world of work will come as it’s used to reimagine entire organizations. This deep reimagination will be a decentralized and distributed phenomenon, carried out by innovators and entrepreneurs.Andrew McAfee
Co-Director, MIT IDE & Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan
You need to be talking about AI along with specific initiatives and the outcomes you want to achieve using it. And those outcomes need to be compelling for your organization.Barbara Wixom
Principal research scientist at the MIT Center for Information Systems Research