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Phyllis Wallace took part in a landmark 1970s AT&T discrimination case and researched the working lives of young Black women.

Use system dynamics and organizational design to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The toolkit includes steps and resources for enhancing employees’ job control, taming job demands, and improving workplace social relationships.

The framework offers new and viable directions for improving worker health and well-being while maintaining or enhancing employee engagement and productivity.

2021 Thinkers50 award nominees include MIT Sloan professors and alumni studying social media, intelligent machines, and digital body language.

“Unethical pro-organizational behavior" triggers emotional ambivalence by simultaneously inducing both guilt and pride—producing a state of anxiety that can spill over into employees’ personal lives.

Their ‘communication competence’ helps them influence and guide others toward shared goals. They also get better marks from the people they lead.

The five-year agreement with Parthenope University of Naples for a strategic collaboration supports Parthenope’s new Master in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (MEIM).

Research topics include analyzing firm behavior, data-driven sequential decision-making, inequality and worker power, and renewable energy integration.