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 convocationprepared 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

Laurie O. Pass is the Program Manager for the MIT Workplace Center. She has worked in the Boston publishing industry for the past twenty years in the areas of business, medicine, and higher education. Previously she was Business Director for the MIT Sloan Management Review, the quarterly business journal published by the MIT Sloan School of Management. She has also served as Marketing Director for the New England Journal of Medicine, the leading weekly journal of medical research published by the Massachusetts Medical Society, and Marketing Manager for Allyn & Bacon, Inc., a publisher of college and reference books. She comes from Pittsburgh, and is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University.
Email: lpass@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.
Email: jtegos@mit.edu

Tammy Buzzell is an Administrative Assistant at the MIT Workplace Center and supports the Massachusetts Work-Family Council Initiative. Prior to coming to MIT, she worked in law school admissions and in a community bank. Tammy was a Chinese Studies major in college and enjoys annual trips to China with her family.
Email: tbuzzell@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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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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Kate Kellogg is an Assistant Professor of Organization Studies at MIT’s Sloan School of Management where she earned her Ph.D. and was a Research Assistant with the MIT Workplace Center. Her research examines the micro-foundations of institutional change. In order to change practices that comprise their work and family lives, organization members need to modify the collective understandings—institutions-- that guide their interactions with other members. But, they often face resistance from members interested in preserving the status quo. Kate studies how the contested micro-level interactions between challengers and defenders around everyday work practices shape new macro-level institutions of work and family in society. Before coming to MIT, Kate spent six years in consulting at Bain & Company and Health Advances, and several years as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Baltimore/Washington Region American Red Cross.
Email: kkellogg@MIT.EDU

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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Claudia Peus received her PhD from the University of Munich, Germany where she was a Research and Teaching Assistant with the Chair of Social- and Organizational Psychology. Her research interests include the impact of leadership style on employee attitudes and performance, work-family balance, and women’s career development. Currently she is working on a project on family-friendly corporate policies in Germany as well as a study that seeks to examine the critical factors for female managers´ career development in the US as well as in Germany. Her work experience includes conducting trainings and coachings for managers of commercial as well as non-profit organizations with regard to leadership, communication, and teamwork.
Email: peus@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

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 international migration, community-based social movements, and the reform of organized labor. Her past research has looked at community-based organizing of Haitian nursing assistants in the Boston area. In her dissertation work, she is examining the reforms undertaken by a service sector union in the U.S. and its efforts to establish durable coalitions with immigrant communities.
Email: khyu@MIT.EDU

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