The executive director of the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative at the MIT Sloan School of Management explains recent research on what’s gone wrong for U.S. workers — and what can be done about it.

What role can businesspeople play in fostering economic and social justice? That was the topic of an intriguing panel discussion organized at MIT Sloan and held via Zoom.

In this September 2020 statement, the faculty leaders of the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative at MIT Sloan call for significant changes to benefit U.S. workers.

Two big shocks, rapid technological change and COVID-19, have recently rocked retail. But the effects on workers have not been uniform.