Good Jobs Institute Team
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.
Dan Ford, Director
Dan Ford directs product development at GJI. Dan previously worked as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group. He has experience contributing to business strategy and investor due diligence projects across a range of industries including industrial and manufacturing, B2B services, consumer, and financial services. Dan graduated from Harvard with a degree in Government and received his MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
Riddhima Sharma, Director
Riddhima Sharma is a fellow at the Good Jobs Institute. Prior to joining the Institute, Riddhima worked at Analysis Group, an economic consulting firm, using survey research methods and statistical analyses to understand customer experience and behavior across a variety of industries.
Riddhima graduated magna cum laude with degrees in Economics and International Relations from Tufts University. During her time at Tufts, she worked in the Tufts Labor Lab, evaluating the impact of improved labor conditions on worker productivity and well-being in apparel factories around the globe. She received her MBA with a Certificate in Sustainability from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Sandhya Mahadevan, Good Jobs Institute Fellow
Sandhya Mahadevan is a fellow at the Good Jobs Institute with a passion for systems change. Previously, she implemented onsite solar and battery storage projects to help companies and public institutions meet their carbon management goals
Sandhya holds a BSFS in Science, Technology, and International Affairs, focused on energy and environmental policy, from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. She received her MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management with Certificates in Sustainability and Business Analytics.
Board of Directors
BJ Hess
BJ Hess was Senior Vice President of Global Operations for Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE) until her retirement in mid-2004. She participated in or directed all of Arrow's system conversions, mergers and acquisitions (Arrow acquired 62 companies over a 20-year period). She served on the Boards of ServiceMaster, Dentsply, and Harvest Power, and currently serves on the Boards of Cott Beverages (NYSE) and Cairn University. BJ is the protagonist in case studies on Arrow Electronics at Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management, instructing on integration strategy and operational excellence in the supply chain.
Roger Martin
Professor Roger Martin is co-founder and Chairman of the Good Jobs Institute. Roger is a writer, strategy advisor, and the former Dean and current Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Roger has published 11 books and was named #1 on the 2017 Thinkers50 list of top global management thinkers.
Zeynep Ton
Zeynep Ton is co-founder and President of the Good Jobs Institute. She is an adjunct associate professor 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. Before MIT Sloan, she spent seven years on the faculty at Harvard Business School.
Advisors
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.