Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
Florence G. Heller Chair and Professor Brandeis University
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld is Professor and Florence G. Heller Chair in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, where he serves as the Director of the Sillerman Center for Advancing Philanthropy. Joel teaches classes in strategy, operations, negotiations, and AI in healthcare.
Before coming to Brandeis, Joel served as a Professor and Dean in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
He is past president of the Labor and Employment Relations Association and has deep expertise in implementing high performance, high involvement work systems; labor-management partnerships; and multi-stakeholder consortia for addressing broad societal challenges. This includes current work here in Massachusetts helping to advance the partnership between the SHARE union and UMass Memorial, as well as work with Thomas Kochan on the arbitration procedures for newly unionized MA rideshare drivers.
Joel holds a Ph.D. in industrial relations from MIT and a B.S. in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University.