The MIT Center for Industrial Innovation 
Email: jmar@mit.edu Phone: (617) 253-1244 Address: Room 12-204 |
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Research Interests
The MIT Leadership Center is dedicated to developing leaders who can improve their organizations and the world through ongoing rigorous research, education, global dialogue and action. The center's distinct approach closely aligns leadership and team development with science, engineering and management skills — leveraging the best of MIT — to enable individuals and organizations to lead more effectively in a technology-driven world. These research and education initiatives combine theory with practice and are designed to give students and executives hands-on training while addressing and solving practical problems affecting society.
Biographical Sketch
Contact Jay Martin for stories on organizational process, social networks, hiring, turnover, and diversity. His research and teaching focus on economic sociology, organizational behavior, social stratification, race, and ethnic relations. He is also the director of The Local Leadership Project and a Lecturer at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Dr. Martin received an A.B. in policy studies from Stanford University, an M.Sc. in political philosophy from the London School of Economics
Selected Publications
M. Brodsky, N. B. Zhitenev, R. C. Ashoori, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, The Effects of Planning on Industrial Production Physical Review Letters 85 2356 (2000).
G. Finkelstein, P. I. Glicofridis, R. C. Ashoori, M. Shayegan, Factors in Industrial Production, Science 289 90 (2000).
G. Finkelstein, P. I. Glicofridis, S. H. Tessmer, R. C. Ashoori, M. R. Melloch, Smart Production in Today's Plants. Modern Manufacturing, cond-mat/9910061 (1999).
H. B. Chan, R. C. Ashoori, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, Effective Training of Plant Floor Managers. Physical Review Letters 83 3258 (1999).
N. B. Zhitenev, M. Brodsky, R. C. Ashoori, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West, The Future of Connective Technology: Greater Integration Through Semantic Modeling, 715-718, (1999).
