Faculty
The faculty of the Work and Organization Studies Group are highly collaborative thought leaders from across MIT, including experts in sociology, anthropology, management, psychology, economics, and political science. Each member is committed to continuing MIT’s long tradition of leadership in the study of work and organizations.
Since Douglas McGregor’s landmark work on human motivation in the 1940s, research at MIT Sloan has dispelled outdated assumptions about individuals, work and organizations. Faculty research not only chronicles employment practices, it also moves institutions forward towards a more effective and humane workplace.
MIT Sloan faculty pursue groundbreaking research with vital implications for the health of organizations and the well-being of those who work in them. They are pioneers in areas such as social, developmental, and organizational psychology, leadership, team dynamics, organizational learning, root cause analysis, workplace diversity, institutional change, and the impact on organizations of information technology.
STANDING FACULTY
Deborah L. Ancona
Seley Distinguished Professor of Management
Deborah Ancona is the Seley Distinguished Professor of Management, a Professor of Organization Studies, and the Founder of the MIT Leadership Center at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Her pioneering research into how successful teams operate has…
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John S. Carroll
Hear name pronounced.Gordon Kaufman Professor of Management, Emeritus
John Carroll is the Gordon Kaufman Professor of Management, Emeritus and a Professor Post Tenure of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was also Professor of Engineering Systems until 2015 and served as Co…
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Emilio J. Castilla
NTU Professor of Management
Emilio J. Castilla is the NTU Professor of Management and a Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Castilla is currently the co-director of the Institute for Work and Employment Research. He joined the MIT…
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Jared R. Curhan
Gordon Kaufman Professor of Management
Jared Curhan is the Gordon Kaufman Professor and a Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management, as well as Faculty Director of MIT’s Behavioral Research Lab.Curhan specializes in the psychology of negotiation and…
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Roberto Fernandez
William F. Pounds Professor in Management
Roberto M. Fernandez is currently the William F. Pounds Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He has over 35 years teaching experience at numerous universities, including six years as a Full Professor at Stanford University’s Graduate…
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Kate Kellogg
Hear name pronounced.David J. McGrath jr (1959) Professor of Management and Innovation
Kate Kellogg is the David J. McGrath Jr Professor of Management and Innovation, a Professor of Business Administration at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Kate's research focuses on helping knowledge workers and organizations develop and implement…
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Erin Kelly
Sloan Distinguished Professor of Work and Organization Studies
Erin L. Kelly is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research. Kelly’s research has been published in many top…
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Thomas Kochan
George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management, Emeritus
Thomas A. Kochan is the Post-Tenure George Maverick Bunker Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a faculty member in the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research.Kochan focuses on the need to update America's work and employment…
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Chelsea R. Lide
Hear name pronounced.Assistant Professor, Work and Organization Studies
Chelsea Lide is an Assistant Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research broadly explores how employees make sense of, and are influenced by, the social environment within organizations. Chelsea’s…
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Jackson G. Lu
Sloan School Career Development Associate Professor of Work and Organization Studies
Jackson G. Lu is the Sloan School Career Development Associate Professor and an Associate Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He serves as a senior editor for Organization Science, a senior editor for…
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Thomas W. Malone
Patrick J. McGovern (1959) Professor of Management
Thomas W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern (1959) Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. At MIT, he is also a Professor of Information Technology and a…
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Wanda Orlikowski
Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management
Wanda Orlikowski is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Information Technology and Organization Studies at MIT's Sloan School of Management. She received her Ph.D. from New York University. Her research examines technologies in the workplace, with a…
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Paul Osterman
Nanyang Technological University Professor Emeritus
Paul Osterman is a Professor Emeritus of Human Resources and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management as well as a member of the Department of Urban Planning at MIT. From July 2003 to June 2007 he also served as Deputy Dean at the MIT Sloan…
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Ray Reagans
Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Ray Reagans is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management in the Work and Organization Studies Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management.His research focuses on a set of related questions, including how demographic characteristics such as age,…
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Anna Stansbury
Class of 1948 Career Development Assistant Professor
Anna Stansbury is the Class of 1948 Career Development Assistant Professor and an Assistant Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and is in the core faculty of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment…
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Basima Tewfik
Assistant Professor, Work and Organization Studies
Basima Tewfik (pronounced buh-see-ma too-fik) is an Assistant Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her main stream of research examines the psychology of the social self at work. In particular, she seeks…
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Austin van Loon
Assistant Professor, Work and Organization Studies
Austin van Loon is an Assistant Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His primary stream of research investigates the dynamic relationship between culture and identity in the context of intergroup conflict…
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Nathan Wilmers
Sarofim Family Career Development Associate Professor
Nathan Wilmers is the Sarofim Family Career Development Associate Professor and an Associate Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is in the core faculty of the Institute for Work and Employment…
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JoAnne Yates
Hear name pronounced.Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management, Emerita
JoAnne Yates is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management, Emerita and Professor Post Tenure of Work and Organization Studies and Managerial Communication at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Yates developed MIT Sloan's Managerial…
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Lotte Bailyn
T Wilson (1953) Professor of Management, Emerita
Lotte Bailyn is the T Wilson (1953) Professor of Management, Emerita at the MIT Sloan School of Management. For the period 1997-99 she was Chair of the MIT faculty, and during 1995-97 she was the Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor…
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Robert B. McKersie
Professor Emeritus, Work and Organization Studies
Robert McKersie is Professor Emeritus of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.McKersie is an expert source on industrial and labor relations with a focus on bargaining. He researches strategies being pursued by different industries to…
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John Van Maanen
Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management Emeritus
John Van Maanen is the Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management, Emeritus and a Professor of Organization Studies, Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management.He works within the fields of organization behavior and theory. Van Maanen is an…
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Pat Bentley
Senior Lecturer, MIT Leadership Center
Pat Bentley is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Leadership Center at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She works with students and executives to improve their leadership acumen, develop additional communication styles, and increase their abilities…
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John A. Davis
Senior Lecturer, Family Enterprise
John A. Davis is a Senior Lecturer in Family Enterprise at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a globally recognized pioneer and authority on issues related to the family enterprise, family wealth, and the family office. Since the 1970s, he…
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Daena Giardella
Senior Lecturer, MIT Leadership Center
Daena Giardella is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Faculty Affiliate of the MIT Leadership Center.She has been an organizational leadership consultant and executive coach as well as a media, communication, and…
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Hal Gregersen
Senior Lecturer, Work and Organization Studies
Hal Gregersen is a senior lecturer in leadership and innovation at MIT's Sloan School of Management, a former executive director of the MIT Leadership Center, a fellow at Innosight, and a cofounder of the Innovator’s DNA consulting group. He has…
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Kate W. Isaacs
Hear name pronounced.Senior Lecturer
Kate Isaacs is a scholar, teacher, and strategy advisor who designs organizations and stakeholder partnerships for people and places to thrive. She draws on design thinking, system dynamics, and developmental psychology to help leaders create…
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John Richardson
Lecturer, Work and Organization Studies
John Richardson is a Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Otto Scharmer
Senior Lecturer, Work and Organization Studies
Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-founder of the Presencing Institute. He chairs the MIT IDEAS program for cross-sector innovation and introduced the concept of “presencing”—learning from the emerging…
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Peter M. Senge
Senior Lecturer, Leadership and Sustainability
Peter M. Senge is the founding chair of SoL (Society of Organizational Learning), a global network of organizations, researchers, and consultants dedicated to the “interdependent development of people and their institutions”, Senior Lecturer, Sloan…
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Dana White
Hear name pronounced.Senior Lecturer
Dana White is a Senior Lecturer, teaching both 15.311 Organizational Processes and 15.281 Advanced Leadership Communications. Student-focused, White brings over three decades of experience in for-profit companies and social impact organizations…
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Mary Rowe
Adjunct Professor, Work and Organization Studies
Mary P. Rowe is an Adjunct Professor of Negotiation and Conflict Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and taught these topics for twenty years. She served for almost 42 years as an organizational ombuds reporting directly to five…
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Robert Gibbons
Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management
Robert Gibbons is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and he is Professor of Economics in MIT’s Department of Economics. He is also the co-principal investigator…
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Office: 9-523; Phone: 617-253-2089; E-mail: flevy@mit.edu
Michael J. Piore
Office: E52-271C; Phone: 617-253-3377; E-mail: mpiore@mit.edu
Nelson P. Repenning
School of Management Distinguished Professor of System Dynamics and Organization Studies
Nelson P. Repenning is the Faculty Director of the MIT Leadership Center, and the School of Management Distinguished Professor of System Dynamics and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His early work focused on understanding…
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Susan Silbey
Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities
Professor Susan S. Silbey is Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, and Professor of Behavioral and Policy Sciences, Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Silbey is…
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John D. Sterman
Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management
John D. Sterman is the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Professor in the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. He is also the Director of the MIT System Dynamics Group and the MIT Sloan…
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Zeynep Ton
Professor of the Practice, Operations Management
Zeynep Ton is a Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Zeynep's research focuses on how organizations can design and manage their operations in a way that satisfies employees, customers, and investors simultaneously. Her…
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Ezra W. Zuckerman Sivan
Alvin J. Siteman (1948) Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy
Ezra Zuckerman Sivan is the Alvin J. Siteman (1948) Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship. He is also cofounder of MIT Sloan's PhD Program in Economic Sociology.Zuckerman Sivan is an economic sociologist whose research focuses on showing how…
Learn MoreResearch Centers, Institutes, and Initiatives
Research centers at MIT and MIT Sloan provide dynamic, collaborative environments for faculty and students to come together to pursue answers to some of the most pressing questions in business and society today. Through their interactions with other top researchers and business leaders, MIT Sloan faculty and students produce work that has a powerful impact on organizations and on the everyday lives of the people who work in them.
Faculty in the Work and Organization Studies Group are affiliated with the following research centers, institutes, and initiatives at MIT: