When Good Jobs Go Bad
In a new interview, MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly shares insights from her forthcoming book, with Phyllis Moen of the University of Minnesota, on overload in the workplace.
In a new interview, MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly shares insights from her forthcoming book, with Phyllis Moen of the University of Minnesota, on overload in the workplace.
Katherine C. Kellogg studies the implementation of narrow AI — AI systems designed to perform specific tasks — as well as generative AI, among frontline knowledge workers. She’s exploring the barriers to AI implementation and the mechanisms for addressing them.
Priya Bhasin, MBA ’23, traces her path from Yahoo and Apple to MIT Sloan, where she built a venture with classmates and pivoted as AI technologies continually advanced.
The MIT Sloan School of Management recently debuted the new event series “Invent the Future: Leading in an AI-Enabled World” to explore how leaders and organizations can harness artificial intelligence while keeping people at the center of the enterprise.
A new article by Adam C. Powell, Ph.D. a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan who co-teaches Healthcare Lab, argues that high U.S. health spending is not a directly fixable problem but rather is a byproduct of the structure of the healthcare system and the economy built around it. America cannot make health...
Fenway Farms is a 5,000-square-foot rooftop garden located on the third-base side of Fenway Park. Established in 2015, the farm supplies the ballpark’s kitchens with fresh produce and grows more than 6,000 pounds of organic vegetables each year.
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
Professor Catherine Wolfram is quoted on the effects of sanctions, sanction relief, and sanction extension for Russia in the wake of the Iran conflict.
Professors Catherine Wolfram, Kimberly Clausing, and Christopher R. Knittel write about the already-felt costs of climate change across the U.S.
Professor Catherine Wolfram provides her expert opinion on energy policy and the role of the U.S.