HBS Managing the Future of Work
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HBS Managing the Future of Work
Artificial intelligence. Robotics. The Gig Economy. Globalization. The world is changing at a dizzying pace in ways that will have a profound effect on the economy, jobs and the flow of talent. How will firms cope with the changes ahead and what steps do they need to take today? Each episode feature...
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272 episodes
From the archive: Cal Newport on slow productivity and next-wave AI
We present Joe Fuller’s 2025 conversation with the Georgetown computer scientist, New Yorker contributor, and longtime student of knowledge work.
RBC's Kelly Bradley on Disclosure, Disruption, and Developing Talent
The Royal Bank of Canada CHRO explains how the bank's early AI investments are reshaping talent, leadership, and work. Also: RBC's strategic approach...
Steve Odland on governing AI in an age of uncertainty
The Conference Board's president and CEO sees AI as less a technological challenge than a managerial one, exacerbated by increasing global volatility....
HBS Skydeck: Boosting Community College Outcomes
We present a recent episode of the HBS SkyDeck alumni podcast featuring Aarti Dhupelia (MBA 2005), CEO of One Million Degrees. The nonprofit supports...
Darnell Epps on opening career pathways
Demand for skilled-trades workers remains high, yet many graduates of vocational programs struggle to land jobs. The founder and CEO of Thurgood Indus...
Sal Khan on retooling workforce development and redesigning college
The Khan Academy founder and HBS grad returns to discuss AI disruption—preparing for The Great Reskilling and challenging the status quo in instructio...
Workforce Competitiveness: Business Roundtable's Kristen Silverberg
BRT's president and COO on policy and planning for multiple AI scenarios, work-based learning, skills-based hiring, and the ROI of employer investment...
Siemens' Judith Wiese on engineering a global workforce transformation
The multinational's head of HR and sustainability explains how the firm's investment in continuous skills building positions it to handle AI disrupt...
Units of work: Riipen's Dana Stephenson on experiential learning
The challenge is orchestrating projects that deliver business, educational, and employment value. The Canadian firm's co-founder and CEO breaks down t...
Executive recruiting: Tom Monahan on algorithmic power brokers and adaptability
Corner office churn is up as demands multiply. Heidrick & Struggles' CEO explains what CVs leave out and why flexibility and organizational fit matter...
Bank of America's Josh Bronstein on hiring for the long-term
The bank's head of global talent, an HBS grad, explains the value of cultivating careers, keeping churn low, hiring from within, and focusing on local...
HBS Project on Managing the Future of Work 2025 Year in Review, 2026 Preview
Managing the Future of Work co-chairs and podcast co-hosts, Joe Fuller and Bill Kerr, share highlights and insights from 2025 and look ahead to 2026....
HBS Skydeck: Can tech solve health care’s workforce crisis?
Presenting an episode of the HBS Skydeck alumni podcast highlighting the work of Lissy Hu (MD/MBA). How AI tools and training can help address labor s...
How HubSpot sells and supports its own AI transformation
The CRM vendor's Helen Russell and Jon Dick unpack the organizational and process changes, HR and skills strategy, and cultural shift. Mandates backed...
Fiverr's Micha Kaufman on the post-AI gig economy
The talent platform's co-founder and CEO returns to the MFW podcast with an update on the market for contingent work as AI changes supply and demand a...
Wells Fargo's Bei Ling on culture change and learning agility
The bank's head of HR lays out the talent strategy underpinning its post-regulatory growth push and AI adoption.
Guest Episode: Joseph Fuller on the TechWolf podcast
The Managing the Future of Work co-chair and podcast co-host examines AI's implications for HR, spells out the competitive stakes in early adoption, a...
Reading and riding the AI wave: John Winsor on the value of flexibility
As data center investments, stock prices, and vanishing entry-level jobs grab headlines, businesses are grappling with AI use cases and workforce stra...
How web data is fueling the robot revolution
Bright Data's Or Lenchner on the evolving ground rules for harnessing
the web's data. Charting the boundaries of fair use in training AI systems...
EY's Dan Diasio on consulting's AI challenge
How to get past AI fatigue and anxiety to a more expansive view of the technology's potential—bolstering knowledge work vs commoditizing expertise. As...
JFF's Maria Flynn on getting to good jobs
What will it take to increase opportunity amid mounting economic
uncertainty? The prominent nonprofit's multipronged approach to boosting job qu...
Redefining success: Harrison Keller on the Texas higher-ed model
The Lone Star State’s experiment in outcomes–based funding rewards
schools that produce “credentials of value.” Can focusing the curriculum on
BuildOps' Alok Chanani on rewiring commercial contracting
Admin and logistics can be weak links in HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and mechanical firms. This can limit growth and squander skilled technical labor,...
Cisco's alignment strategy: Coordinating workforce and operations
The benefits of cross-function collaboration, with Francine
Katsoudas, executive vice president and chief people, policy, and purpose
offi...
Designing Equitable Workplaces
The Harvard Kennedy School's Iris Bohnet and Siri Chilazi on the logic behind a systems-level approach to workplace fairness. How A-B testing and targ...
ETS’s Amit Sevak makes the case for continuous assessment
The flagship firm is pushing the boundaries of testing, from K-12 through career. What are the implications for the workforce and society? And how doe...
Vanguard's skills strategy for tech transformation
Can the shareholder-owned discount brokerage giant parlay its investments in enterprise and cloud infrastructure into an AI-enabled expansion into new...
Shake Shack’s test kitchen: Developing a good jobs and automation combo
Shake Shack Chief Growth Officer Steph So and HBS professor Chris Stanton join Bill Kerr to discuss the fast-casual chain’s digital strategy and how t...
Upwork’s Hayden Brown on bridging volatility with contingency
"Freelance by choice" can sound like a rationalization—or putting on a brave face—but has the contract labor market improved for white-collar workers,...
ManpowerGroup’s Jonas Prising on the new global talent equation
The staffing giant’s chairman and CEO lays out the opportunities and risks in the fast-changing and fragmented labor market. Riding the genAI wave, ad...
Redrawing the map to tech careers: Per Scholas CEO Plinio Ayala on skills, mobility, and AI
After decades preparing workers from underserved communities for well-paid tech jobs, the workforce nonprofit is expanding its training, footprint, an...
Erik Brynjolfsson on how AI is rewriting the rules of the economy
The Stanford economist unpacks AI’s impact on work and productivity, its limitations, and wider implications. He also lays out what organizations can...
Cal Newport on slow productivity and next-wave AI
Joe Fuller welcomes back the Georgetown computer scientist and leading observer of knowledge work, who reprises his argument against busyness as the d...
David Deming on workforce shifts and the future of college
AI's early impact on the labor market: Are claims of revolutionary change overblown? The Harvard economist presents the long view on technological dis...
Ed Glaeser on Cities, Work, and Why America Struggles to Build
The Harvard urban economist assesses the post-Covid health of cities, rural development, zoning and the stagnation of the U.S. housing industry, the i...
Positive prompts: Sal Khan on AI in the classroom and beyond
Will the technology democratize access to world-class education or increase inequality? Khan's journey from highly informed skeptic to champion of eth...
OneTen CEO Debbie Dyson: Why "skills-first" builds a better workforce
In taking aim at degree inflation, the corporate-led good jobs coalition looks to boost economic opportunity, address skills gaps, and create a more e...
Nicholas Bloom on the unbundled workplace
The Stanford economist explains the momentum behind the work-from-home trend, how to manage a hybrid staff, and the new workforce geography. Also, the...
Hospitality at work: Bridging opportunity and innovation
How do you foster inclusion, economic mobility, and a sense of purpose across a global organization with both franchise and direct employees? Laura Fu...
Beyond exit interviews: Knowing why workers quit makes for better job matches
Thinking of employees as 'hiring' their jobs opens the way to a detailed analysis of worker motivations, frustrations, and long-term goals, which can...