Ideas Made to Matter Behavioral Science

How to draft a letter to a workplace harasser

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A well-structured letter starts with facts, incorporates feelings, and concludes with a solution, according to MIT Sloan negotiation expert Mary Rowe.

Mar 8, 2023
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Press Education

Legacy preferences are materially beneficial, but counterproductive

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Why do colleges still prefer legacy applicants based on a theoretical framework of the three types of logics found in decision-making strategies: meritocratic, diversity, and material logic?

Mar 1, 2023
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IWER Human Resources

Explore Online Resources on Conflict Management Systems, Workplace Mistreatment, the Organizational Ombuds Profession, and More

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MIT Sloan Adjunct Professor Mary P. Rowe, a pioneer in the organizational ombuds profession, has made many of the articles she has written over her career freely available on her personal webpages at MIT Sloan.

Feb 2, 2023
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Ideas Made to Matter Artificial Intelligence

Employees more likely to second-guess interpretable algorithms

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New research shows that people are more likely to trust complicated machine learning models over models that they’re able to understand and troubleshoot.

Jan 12, 2023
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Alumni Research

An Evening of Discovery at the MIT Museum

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Invited guests attended a special event at the new MIT Museum location in Kendall Square in early December.

Dec 21, 2022
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Ideas Made to Matter Artificial Intelligence

MIT Sloan research on AI and machine learning

An AI productivity boom is coming. Here’s what managers need to know to roll out intelligent technology that’s ethical and worker-centric.

Oct 26, 2022
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Ideas Made to Matter Health Care

New study quantifies occupational distress among physicians

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A new study links physician well-being to the perception that bystanders will intervene when someone is being mistreated in a workplace.

Oct 24, 2022
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IWER Economy

U.S. Earnings Inequality Plateaued in the Past Decade, New Study Finds

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In a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Clem Aeppli and MIT Sloan Associate Professor Nathan Wilmers find that a plateau in U.S. earnings inequality that started around 2012 was primarily due to rapid wage gains by workers at the low end of the labor market,

Oct 12, 2022
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Ideas Made to Matter Strategy

Lessons for growth from MIT Sloan Management Review

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MIT experts on product-led growth, increasing AI buy-in, and more.

Oct 11, 2022
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Press

MIT Sloan research reveals reversal of rising earnings inequality

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A new study has found that U.S earnings inequality has stalled over the last decade. It marks the first sustained reversal of rising earnings inequality in approximately 30 years.

Oct 5, 2022
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