A new collaboration between the MIT Sustainable Design Lab and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts aims to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions generated by homes, facilitate the state’s smooth transition to clean energy—and save homeowners money.
MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly, who is Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), found in a recent multiyear study in e-commerce warehouses that establishing Health and Well-Being Committees that allow employees to give input on workplace issues significantly reduc...
MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Erin L. Kelly is one of three winners of the 2025 Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) Academic Fellows Award; in addition, two alumni of the IWER PhD program, Janice R. Fine and Andrew Weaver, also won LERA awards this year.
The En-ROADS climate solutions simulator team has won the 2025 System Dynamics Applications Award. The award, given by the System Dynamics Society, honors excellence in the real-world application of the principles of system dynamics, a computer-assisted approach to modeling complex systems that orig...
Learn a bit about Christopher R. Knittel, the Faculty Director of the MIT Climate Policy Center.
What happens when manufacturing companies regularly incorporate worker feedback and ideas into their production processes? New research coauthored by MIT Sloan Professor Nathan Wilmers finds that productivity is generally higher—and so is production worker pay.
The MIT Climate Policy Center is a coauthor of a new United Nations policy brief providing advice and recommendations about technologies available to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve climate resilience in the buildings sector, as well as the public policies that can accelerate deployment ...
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.
Will 2022 be a year that companies take steps toward creating healthier working conditions for their employees? Certainly, the idea is getting attention as the year gets underway.
How will artificial intelligence (AI) affect jobs and society? That question, argues MIT Sloan Professor Thomas A. Kochan, is too important to be left strictly to technology vendors.
