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IWER Welcomes Rick Locke, Incoming Dean of MIT Sloan, Home
The MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) is delighted to warmly welcome back Richard (Rick) M. Locke, who is the newly announced incoming Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management. Locke earned his doctorate in Political Science from MIT, and he subsequently had a distinguished career at MIT, serving as the Class of 1922 Professor of Political Science and Management, head of MIT’s Political Science Department, and Deputy Dean at MIT Sloan. Locke later was Provost at Brown University and Dean of Apple University, where he has demonstrated exceptional leadership and vision.
During his previous time with the MIT faculty, Locke was an active faculty affiliate and critical contributor to IWER. “We have long admired Rick’s scholarship on labor standards in a global economy, private regulation, and comparative labor politics and employment relations, as well as his ability to bring people together fruitfully to innovate and face new challenges,” said IWER Co-Director Erin L. Kelly, who is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Work and Organization Studies at MIT Sloan.
“We are excited for MIT and for MIT Sloan specifically to have Rick Locke share his vision and his values as our new Dean,” added IWER Co-Director Emilio J. Castilla, who is the NTU Professor of Management and a Professor of Work and Organization Studies at MIT Sloan. “Welcome home, Rick!”