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11.383[J] People and Profits: Shaping the Future of Work
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Not offered academic year 2025-2026Graduate (Spring)
(Same subject as 15.662[J])
Prereq: None
Units: 3-1-8
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Examines managing work in the 21st century in the interests of both people and profits through the context of rising inequality, technological change, globalization, and the growth of the gig economy. Students evaluate various business and policy interventions intended to improve work through critical analysis of the evidence, interviews with workers and evaluations of firms, and guest speakers. Guests include business leaders at leading-edge firms and labor leaders experimenting with new ways of providing workers a voice in the workplace. Draws on materials from the MIT Task Force on Work of the Future and the online course Shaping Work of the Future.
A. Stansbury