Emilio J. Castilla

Emilio J. Castilla is the NTU Professor of Management and a Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He joined the MIT Sloan faculty in 2005, following a tenure at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Castilla is the co-director of the Institute for Work and Employment Research and a Research Fellow at the Wharton Financial Institutions Center and the Center for Human Resources at the Wharton School. His research focuses on the sociological aspects of work and employment, particularly how social and organizational processes influence key employment processes and outcomes over time. He examines recruitment, hiring, development, and job mobility, as well as the impact of teamwork and social relations on performance and innovation. His work has been published in top academic journals and edited volumes, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, American Journal of Sociology, and American Sociological Review. He has also authored a book on longitudinal methods in social science research. Castilla has taught in various degree programs at MIT Sloan, the Wharton School, and other international universities, with teaching interests in Strategic Human Resource Management, People Analytics, and Organizational Behavior.