Sarah Kalloch, Executive Director

Sarah Kalloch is Executive Director of the Good Jobs Institute. She builds partnerships with companies looking to implement the Good Jobs Strategy and creates resources to inspire any organization that wants to move from bad jobs to good jobs.

Sarah previously spent more than a decade in international development. At Oxfam America, she built partnerships to support international development legislation and socially responsible corporate policy. At Physicians for Human Rights, Sarah served on the executive management team, co-founding two health and human rights organizations in Uganda and Kenya and advocating for billions of dollars in HIV/AIDS and global health funding.

Sarah graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Social Studies from Harvard. She received her MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management, where she studied sustainable operations and won the Seley Scholarship for leadership, community contribution, and academic achievement. She was a 2018-2019 Aspen Institute Job Quality Fellow and has guest lectured on good jobs and sustainable operations in MIT Sloan's Executive Education and MBA programs.

Zeynep Ton, Co-founder & President

Zeynep is Professor of the Practice in the Operations Management group at MIT Sloan School of Management and the author of The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost Profits. She had previously spent seven years on the faculty at Harvard Business School.

Zeynep’s research explores how organizations can design and manage their operations in a way that satisfies customers, employees, and investors simultaneously. Her research has been published in managerial and scholarly journals including Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, and Organization Science. Her work has been featured widely in the media, including The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New York Times, PBS, CNN, and NPR.

Zeynep lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and four children. A native of Turkey, she first came to the US on a volleyball scholarship from the Pennsylvania State University. She received her BS in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering there and her DBA from the Harvard Business School.

Amanda Silver, Director

Amanda Silver leads Good Jobs Institute’s work with small businesses and restaurants. She also contributes to Good Jobs Institute’s narrative change efforts through articles and case studies.

Prior to GJI, Amanda managed operations at several early-stage startups, contributing to process and people development. Amanda received a degree in Psychology from Davidson College and completed her MBA at Asia School of Business, in collaboration with MIT Sloan.

 

 

 

José Alvarez

José Alvarez is a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and serves on the board of directors for United Rentals and the TJX Companies. He has nearly 20 years of experience in retail and was President and Chief Executive Officer of Stop & Shop/Giant-Landover from 2006 through 2008.

 

Chris Bierly

Chris Bierly is a senior partner in the Boston office of Bain & Company. He has more than 35 years of management consulting experience, advising leaders across the private, public, and non-profit sectors on their most complex management challenges.

Jamie Bonini

Jamie Bonini is the Vice President of Toyota Production System Support Center, Toyota's nonprofit arm which has helped implement the Toyota Production System in over 300 organizations.

Jan W. Rivkin

Jan W. Rivkin is the Senior Associate Dean for Research and a Professor in the Strategy unit at Harvard Business School. His research, course development, and teaching focus on business strategy and U.S. competitiveness.

Mary-Alice Vuicic

Mary-Alice Vuicic is the Chief People Officer of Thomson Reuters. She has more than 20 years of experience working with large national and international organizations, and family-owned entrepreneurial businesses. Most recently, she was the Chief Human Resources Officer for L Brands.