Thomas A. Kochan is a Professor of Work and Employment Relations at MIT's Sloan School of Management and is Co-Director of the MIT Workplace Center. He has done research on a variety of topics related to industrial relations and human resource management in the public and private sector. His most recent book, edited with Richard Schmalensee, Management: Inventing and Delivering Its Future, celebrates the MIT Sloan School of Management’s 50th anniversary and presents papers written for this special convocation prepared by student-faculty teams, speeches by business and world leaders, and summaries of discussions on the principles that should guide business and management. (MIT Press, 2003).

In September 2005, Restoring the American Dream: A Working Families’ Agenda for America will be published by MIT Press. In this, Kochan suggests working families should be catalysts for action and need to raise their voices to reassert the values on which the American dream is based. New, broad-based coalitions need to be built that demand working families be given the tools needed to regain control of their own destinies.

Email: tkochan@mit.edu
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Mona Harrington is the Program Director of the MIT Workplace Center. She is a political scientist and writer who examines connections between American political culture and social policy. Her recent work focuses on the policy implications of profound changes—personal, political, economic, social—produced by the transformed roles of American women. Her latest book, Care and Equality: Inventing a New Family Politics (Routledge, 2000) calls for a national conversation about new ways to connect families, care, women, and work. Her article "Women, the Values Debate, and a New Liberal Politics" (Dissent, Winter 2005) locates these issues in political discussion before and after the presidential election of 2004.
Email: mona@mit.edu

Susan Cass is the Program Manager for The MIT Workplace Center and for MIT's Labor Aerospace Research Agenda. Previously she was the Project Coordinator for the Institute for Work and Employment Research at MIT and has worked on a variety of projects including book manuscripts, meetings, publications, and web sites. Cass served as Congress Coordinator for the International Industrial Relations Association's 10^th World Congress and was Co-Managing and Co-Founding Editor of Perspectives on Work, a publication of the Labor Employment Research Association.
Email: scass@mit.edu

Joanne Batziotegos is an Administrative Assistant at the MIT Workplace Center. She comes to the Center with over thirteen years of MIT experience and job shares with Cicely Dockett.
Email: jtegos@mit.edu

Cicely Dockett is an Administrative Assistant at the MIT Workplace Center. She is a native New Yorker and has worked for several years as an Administrative Assistant for the Healthcare industry. Before leaving New York she worked planning meetings for various pharmaceutical companies.
Email: cicelyd@mit.edu

Marian Baird researches in women and work, industrial relations and human resource management. She was a visiting scholar at the MIT Workplace Center and the Institute for Work and Employment Relations in the summer/fall 2003. She is currently undertaking a major study of the availability, incidence and duration of maternity, paternity and parental leave in Australia. Baird is also engaged in research on greenfield sites and high commitment work systems, the Australian auto industry and the decentralization and deregulation of Australian industrial relations.

Baird teaches at the undergraduate and graduate levels and is co-author of Strategic Human Resource Management, a major Australian HRM text. Marian is also a regular contributor to Worksite. Her short articles have covered topics as diverse as working life in Australia and the USA, future work arrangements, contemporary selection techniques, labor hire arrangements and the changing nature of the contract of employment. For selected publications, visit Baird’s web page.
Email: m.baird@econ.usyd.edu.au
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Matthew J. Bidwell received his Ph.D. from MIT's Sloan School of Management. His research investigates how firms manage their relationships with highly skilled workers both inside and outside formal firm boundaries, in order to create organizational capabilities. Currently, he is studying the use of employees, consultants, and offshore workers in IT in order to understand how different organizational arrangements affect the way that work is managed.
Email: mbidwell@mit.edu

Forrest Briscoe is an assistant professor at The Pennsylvania State University. He received his PhD at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and was a Research Assistant with the MIT Workplace Center. Forrest studies change in organizations and individual careers. His current research examines these issues in professional settings, asking both how organizational structures shape career flexibility, as well as how professional workers decide they can safely pursue career flexibility. He has previously written on the evolution of corporate health benefits, and industrial strategies toward the natural environment.
Email: fbriscoe@psu.edu

M. Diane Burton is an Assistant Professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Her field of interest is employment relations in entrepreneurial companies and human resource management practices. Currently, she is conducting a study of Silicon Valley start-ups, with an emphasis on sources and consequences of different organizational systems, structures and practices. In ongoing research, Burton is studying entrepreneurial teams and executives’ careers.

Email: burton@mit.edu
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John S. Carroll is a Professor of Behavior and Policy Sciences in the Organization Studies Group at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He researches individual and group decision-making in organizational and legal settings, in particular, their relationship to organizational learning and change practices such as self-assessment and root cause analysis. His recent work focuses on industries that manage significant hazards, such as nuclear power, petrochemicals, and healthcare. Carroll has examined the relationships between management philosophies, mental models, safety culture, and human performance improvement. In addition, he has studied negotiation, taxpayer decisions, and decision making in the criminal justice system.

Email: jcarroll@mit.edu
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Roberto Fernandez is a Professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. His expertise lies in organizational process, social networks, hiring, turnover, and diversity. Fernandez’ research and teaching focuses on economic sociology, organizational behavior, social stratification, race, and ethnic relations. Among his current projects are networks and hiring, and Internet-based recruitment.
Email: robertof@mit.edu
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Michele Williams is an Assistant Professor of Organization Studies and Behavioral Policy Sciences at MIT's Sloan School of Management.She specializes in trust, work relationships, and collaboration across boundaries. Williams has examined the conditions under which psychological processes such as trust, interpersonal emotion, and perspective taking influence people's ability to build collaborative, high performing relationships--the type of relationships that provide knowledge-based firms with a competitive advantage. Currently, Williams is conducting a comparative study of management consulting firms that promises to link "soft" relationship-building skills to "hard" performance and career outcomes.
Email: mmw@mit.edu
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Kate Kellogg is a Ph.D. student in Organization Studies at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a Research Assistant with the MIT Workplace Center. Her research examines the relationship between organizational work practices and employee work-family integration. Her work has dealt with the effect of organizational work practices on employee work-family integration and creativity, and with the consequences for workers and organizations of work practices associated with new organizational forms. She has 6 years of strategy consulting experience at Bain & Company and Health Advances, and several years of general management experience from her role as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Baltimore/Washington Region American Red Cross.
Email: kkellogg@MIT.EDU

Maria Alejandra Quijada is a Ph.D candidate in Organization Studies at MIT's Sloan School of Management and a research assistant with the MIT Workplace Center. She graduated with honors as a Systems Engineer in Venezuela and obtained a Masters degree from Stanford University in Engineering Economic Systems and Operations Research. Her work experience includes being a financial forecaster at Procter and Gamble and an IT analyst at the largest cell phone company in Venezuela. Her research interests include organizational change, culture, leadership and work family issues.
Email: marialeq@mit.edu

Brian Rubineau is a Ph.D. student in the Organization Studies Group at MIT's Sloan School of Management and a Research Assistant with the MIT Workplace Center. His research examines the trade-offs individuals make when choosing among multiple job offers. His interests include understanding the social dynamics that allow discriminatory behaviors to persist in organizations.
Email: bribri@MIT.EDU

Adam Seth Litwin is a PhD student in the Institute for Work & Employment Research at MIT. Adam came to MIT from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C. after having done research at the London School of Economics and in the private sector. With an array of multidisciplinary interests in labor markets, labor policy, and strategic human resource management, Adam has recently undertaken work in the work-family sphere. The North American Commission for Labor Cooperation has contracted Adam to write the congressionally-mandated, semi-decadal report on the state of women and work in North America. He is also studying parental leave access and availability in Australia as well the degree to which high-tech firms in the US are strategizing in the realm of work-family.
Email: aslitwin@mit.edu

Heng (Alice) Xu is a Ph.D. student in the Organization Studies Group at MIT's Sloan School of Management and a Research Assistant with the MIT Workplace Center. She has studied coordination and interpersonal negotiation. In a recent study in an environment of constant industry and organizational changes, she is trying to understand the impact of these changes on the organization - its culture and internal dynamics, and the individuals- their work, satisfaction, and life balance.
Email: hengxu@mit.edu

Kyoung-Hee Yu is a Ph.D. student in the “Institute for Work and Employment Research” at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Her research interests include understanding how institutions are transferred through international workers' migration. In a recently launched study, she is exploring how identities are shaped for immigrant workers in the nursing profession.
Email: khyu@MIT.EDU