Academics to Talk Market Basket at MIT Forum Thursday
Well, we knew this was coming.
MIT will host a forum to talk all things Market Basket Thursday night, as academics prepare to feast on the supermarket story that captivated Massachusetts all summer.
The forum is cosponsored by the nonprofit ideas magazine, Boston Review, and the university, and will “discuss Market Basket’s key lessons, and how to put them to work in teaching and company practices.’’
The free event will run from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the Tang Center’s Wong Auditorium in Cambridge. It will feature a panel including MIT business professors (including Tom Kochan, who contributed to Boston.com during the Market Basket saga), an MIT political science professor, and two Harvard professors.
Also participating in the panel: WBUR reporter Curt Nickisch, the CEO of an employee-ownership consulting company, and a union organizer—whose input will be interesting, considering Market Basket workers spurned union’s advances during the conflict.
It’s not surprising to see academics take up more Market Basket discussion. Several professors followed the summer’s protests closely, with some attending employee rallies and others speaking with the media about the story’s wider implications. Go-betweens of the academic and business worlds, like The Harvard Business Review, also had some coverage of the story during the summer.
The Market Basket saga was often referred to often as “unprecedented,’’ a description that tends to appeal to academics. No word of any professors squeezing the case study into their syllabuses between the time Arthur T. Demoulas reached a deal to buy the company and the school year started, but it will almost certainly make its way into business school courses in the future.
Read Boston.com’s full Market Basket coverage.
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