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John C. Grant
Senior Lecturer, International Action Learning Programs (G-Lab, China/India Lab, GO-Lab)
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Updated “Work Design for Health” Toolkit Launched
An updated and expanded version of the “Work Design for Health” employer toolkit—developed by researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the MIT Sloan School of Management—has been launched.
Dec 19, 2024
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Operations Management
PayPal and the Financial Wellness Initiative
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In 2015, when Dan Schulman became CEO of PayPal, a digital payments company, many people thought of it as the button they clicked when paying for online purchases. In 2015, PayPal embarked on a new mission: using technology to democratize financial services. In Schulman’s words, it would “turn the ...
Nov 8, 2022
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Operations Management
Managed by Q
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In July 2015, Managed by Q co-founder and CEO Dan Teran was trying to decide how best to grow the 15-month old on-demand office cleaning and maintenance company. As Teran saw it, Q, which differentiated itself from the competition by leveraging people and technology, could grow by acquiring customer...
May 24, 2016
IWER
Career
Wilmers Becomes Fourth IWER Faculty Member to Receive Award for Mentoring Graduate Students
MIT Sloan School of Management Associate Professor Nathan Wilmers is one of 23 members of the MIT faculty who recently received MIT’s Committed to Caring award for 2023-25. The Committed to Caring program recognizes MIT faculty members who are exceptional mentors to graduate students.
Jul 8, 2024
IWER
Human Resources
Three Steps Managers Can Take to Empower Workers
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A recent MIT Sloan doctoral dissertation sheds light on three steps managers can take to empower workers who have ideas about improving the workplace.
Aug 23, 2024
IWER
Research
Trends in Worker Voice and Worker Activism: An IWER Research Compendium
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The past several years have seen an upsurge of worker activism in the United States and with it, an increasing interest in the concept of worker voice—that is, efforts by workers, either individually or collectively, to have a say on workplace issues that matter to them. This collection of links hi...
IWER
Economy
Studying How Low-Wage Women Navigate Unemployment
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How do women in low-wage service-sector jobs respond to unemployment? That's a question Claire C. McKenna explored in her recent doctoral dissertation in the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) PhD program.
Nov 13, 2023