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For decades, economists and policymakers have debated how to help workers get better jobs. But what if the more fundamental problem is that employers have systematically redesigned work itself to make a third of the workforce expendable? In his forthcoming book, “Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment,” MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Paul Osterman examines this idea and what it would take to reverse it.

Supporting small business owners in understanding and acting on workers’ perspectives is a promising practice for simultaneously advancing job quality and small business development organizations’ missions to promote economic resilience.

We now have better information on workers’ needs. But as this data gathers into richer digital profiles, the potential for harm increases.

Inspired by Roundtable chair Roy Bahat, a recent graduate of Stanford’s GSB conducted a survey of his fellow classmates – and the results illuminate one reason why business leaders of today are ill equipped to respond constructively to worker organizing. Read full post on LinkedIn by Lucas Levine.

College of Charleston’s Oscar Jerome Stewart award-winning course helps prepare students for a world of responsible business practices.

Arizona State University’s Elizabeth Castillo challenges fundamental assumptions about what can and cannot be measured in business—and where the real drivers of value creation lie.