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Training manufacturing technologists to be future shop floor leaders

New curriculum from MIT and collaborating institutions aims to give technicians a ladder to become shop-floor leaders...

When firms drop college-degree requirements, does hiring change? A new study gives stark answers.

Since the height of the pandemic, many employers have committed to dropping college-degree requirements for jobs and...

How can higher ed promote economic mobility? New data from the Strada Education Foundation suggests a path.

For at least the last 40 years, college costs have been rising across the U.S., with tuition...

Does technology help or hurt employment?

Combing through 35,000 job categories in U.S. census data, economists found a new way to quantify technology’s...

GOF discusses AI at Harvard Social Enterprise Conference

Last Sunday (Mar. 24), the founder of the GOF George Westerman took part in the 25th Annual...

MIT launches Working Group on Generative AI and the Work of the Future

The generative AI wave has elicited excitement, anxiety, and plenty of speculation about what’s to come, but...

Have a skills shortage? Consider community college collaborations.

As unemployment rates remain persistently low in many parts of the world, and as a global skills...

Attracting and retaining college interns: Views from three MIT students

As labor shortages continue, many employers are seeking creative ways to build and expand workforce pipelines. While...

How can we improve skilling ecosystems? MIT’s Global Opportunity Forum releases research suggesting a way.

Deliotte predicts that U.S. manufacturing will have a skills shortage as deep as 2.4 million jobs by...

3 Questions: Shaping the future of work in an age of AI

Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Simon Johnson, faculty co-directors of the new MIT Shaping the Future of...