Zeynep Ton

Author, Speaker & Adjunct Associate Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management

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 Selected Media Mentions (updated June 2015)

  • The Atlantic, Good Wages Are Not Enough (June 11)
  • The New York Times, Escalating Demands at Work Hurt Employees and Companies (June 5)
  • Quartz, Why Cleaners Are Just as Valuable to My Startup as Computer Scientists (May 29)
  • The Washington Post, Gap is Finding out Whether Boosting the Minimum Wage Really Boosts Business (March 31)
  • The Huffington Post, What Costco and Wegmans Have in Common with Google (March 30)
  • The Economist, Pay Rises in America (March 28)
  • Working Capital Review, Is Focus on Low-Wage Workers the New Business Strategy? (March 20)
  • FastCompany, Can Treating Low-Wage Workers Well Become the Hot New Business Strategy? (March 16)
  • The Huffington Post, More Proof That Treating Workers Well Is Straight-Up Good For Business (March 5)
  • The Huffington Post, One Overlooked Reason Walmart Gave Workers Raises (February 26)
  • Chicago Tribune, WalMart’s $1 Billion Bargain: Wage Hike Training a Smart Investment (February 20)
  • BloombergBusiness, Will Investors Put the Lid on the Container Store’s Generous Wages? (February 19)
  • NPR MarketPlace, Wal-Mart’s wage increase isn’t only for good PR(February 19)
  • Aljazeera.com, WalMart Says It Will Raise Wages for 500,000 Employees (February 19)
  • Fortune.com, Why Walmart’s Minimum Wage Hike Makes Business Sense (February 19)
  • The New Yorker, A Fair Day’s Wage (February 9)
  • The Huffington Post, Shake Shack Will Be a Fast-Food Role Model If It Doesn’t Lose Its Way (January 30)

2014

  • strategy + business, The False Dichotomy of Wages vs. Profits (December 22)
  • The New York Times Blogs, Does Your Job Make You Happy? (November 28)
  • The Atlantic,  A New Business Strategy, Treating Employees Well (November 26)
  • The Boston Globe, No Deal on Black Friday Shopping (November 21)
  • The Globe and Mail, The 15-hour workweek: Canada’s part-time problem (October 4)
  • Fast Company, The Most Unusual Strike This Year Shows Why It Pays to Treat Employees Well (September 2)
  • PBS Newshour, Paul Solman InterviewThe High Cost of Labor Efficiency and the Good Jobs Alternative (September 1)
  • The Huffington Post, The Future of Fast-Food Is A Quality Burger Served By A Worker Who Is Paid Well (August 25)
  • The New York Times, As Shifts Vary, Family’s Only Constant Is Chaos (August 13)
  • The Boston Globe, Personal touches won loyalty at Market Basket ; Company’s culture seen as a modern-day rarity (July 25)
  • The New York Times, A Few Fast-Food Chains Find an Edge in Paying Premium Wages (July 5)
  • The New York Times, Paying Employees to Stay Not to Go (July 4)
  • The Huffington Post, The Future of Work:Can We Make Work Better? (July 2)
  • The New York Times, Ikea Plans To Increase Minimum Hourly Pay (June 26)
  • The New York Times Dealbook: Tony Schwatz’s take on my book (March 21, 2014)
  • Fast Company published an excerpt from my book (March 6)
  • The Conference Board Review published an excerpt from my book “No You Can’t Make Your Company Employee-Proof” (March 7)
  • Atlantic Cities published Richard Florida’s Q&A with me about the Good Jobs Strategy (March 3)
  • Fortune.com mentioned my book in the context of Gap’s wage hike (February 20)
  • The Huffington Post had a review of my book (February 20)
  • The Christian Science Monitor mentioned my book (February 20)
  • Huffington Post article mentioned my book (February 6)
  • Financial Times reviewed The Good Jobs Strategy (January 29)
  • For Human Resource Executive, Peter Cappelli reviewed my book (January 28)
  • WGBH had a segment featuring my book (January 27)
  • The Guardian featured my book (January 21)
  • Inc. featured my book (January 17)
  • Fox Business had a segment about my book (January 16)
  • Yahoo! Finance’s The Daily Ticker had a segment about my book (January 16)
  • Boston Globe Magazine featured my book (January 12)
  • AlterNet published an excerpt from my book (January 9)
  • New York Times Magazine featured my book (January 5)

2013

  • Fortune had an article about my forthcoming book (December 12, 2013)
  • The Nation featured my research (December 4, 2013)
  • WBUR’s Cognoscenti featured my blog post (November 27, 2013)
  • AlterNet mentioned my work (September 9, 2013)
  • The American Prospect mentioned my work (August 5,2013)
  • The Atlantic Cities mentioned my work (August 1, 2013)
  • The Daily Beast mentioned my work in an article about fast food jobs (July 31, 2013)
  • The Atlantic mentioned my work in an article about retail jobs (May 24, 2013)
  • WBUR, Boston’s NPR news station, did a segment on my research in their Radio Boston show (May 15, 2013)
  • The Washington Post  mentioned my HBR paper (April 16, 2013)
  • NBC News mentioned my research (April 5, 2013)
  • ABC News featured my research (April 4, 2013)
  • Bloomberg TV‘s Market Makers had a short segment on my research (March 27, 2013)
  • Bloomberg mentioned my work in a story about Walmart (March 26, 2013)
  • The Atlantic featured my work (March 25, 2013)

2012

  • CNBC featured my work (November 30, 2012)
  • The Washington Post mentioned my HBR article (November 27, 2012)
  • MSNBC summarized my views on retail labor in this story (November 19, 2012)
  • The Tech, MIT’s oldest and largest newspaper, and MIT Sloan’s newsroom mentioned my presentation to His Holliness the Dalai Lama on October 15, 2012.
  • Time Business featured my research (June 18, 2012)
  • NPR Marketplace featured my research (June 13, 2012)
  • The New Yorker featured my HBR article (March 26, 2012)
  • Forbes mentioned my research (March 22, 2012)
  • Retail Wire cited my research on retail labor (March 20, 2012)
  • Knowledge@Wharton mentioned my Mercadona case study (March 14, 2012)
  • CBS News featured my research on retail jobs (March 6, 2012)
  • Huffington Post UK had a blog post that mentioned my research (March 3, 2012)

 

2011 and before

  • The Economist mentioned my case study of Mercadona (June 2, 2011)
  • CS News featured my QuikTrip case study (May 25, 2011)
  • Washington Post quoted me in an article about Borders, a book retailer I studied (January 21, 2011)
  • FT.com featured my retail staffing paper (October 2, 2008)
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  • Case for Good Jobs
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