William Kerr is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Bill is co-director of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work initiative and chair of the Launching New Ventures executive education program. Bill is a recipient of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship and Harvard's Distinction in Teaching award. His recent book is The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy, & Society.

Research

• The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society, Stanford Business Books, 2018.
• Vodafone: Managing Advanced Technologies and Artificial Intelligence, Harvard Business School case, 2018. With Emer Moloney.
• Transformation at ING (A): Agile, Transformation at ING (B): Innovation, and Transformation at ING (C): Culture, Harvard Business School cases, 2018. With Federica Gabrieli and Emer Moloney (A and B) and Alexis Brownell (C).
• Autonomous Vehicles: The Rubber Hits the Road...but When?, Harvard Business School case, 2019. With Alilison Ciechanover, Jeff Huizinga, and James Palano.

Joseph Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice in General Management and co-leads the school’s initiative, Managing the Future of Work. A 1981 graduate of the school, Joe was a founder, first employee and long-time CEO of the global consulting firm, Monitor Group, now Monitor-Deloitte. His research interests encompass multiple issues related to the future of work, including the skills gap, the growth of gig work and the care economy. He also studies the evolving role of CEOs.

Research

• Dismissed by Degrees, Harvard Business School, 2017.
• Bridge the Gap: Rebuilding America’s Middle Skills, Harvard Business School, 2014.
• Room to Grow: Identifying New Frontiers for Apprenticeships, Harvard Business School, 2017. With Matthew Sigelman.

Manjari supports co-chairs William R. Kerr and Joseph B. Fuller on all project priorities. Her research efforts focus on location choices by global companies, the role of business in making cities and regions more competitive, shared prosperity, and cross-sector collaboration. She also serves as the Program Director and Senior Researcher for the U.S. U.S. Competitiveness Project, co-chaired by Professor Michael E. Porter and Professor Jan W. Rivkin. In that capacity, she supports the Young American Leaders Program and the HBS worldwide survey on U.S. competitiveness. Previously, she worked as a Senior Editor in Bain & Company’s global marketing team; and, prior to that, she was the Senior Vice President of Programs at the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a national not-for-profit focused on revitalizing America’s inner cities.

Research

• A Recovery Squandered, Alumni Survey Report on U.S. Competitiveness, 2019. With Michael E. Porter, Jan W. Rivkin, Mihir A. Desai, Katherine M. Gehl, and William R. Kerr.
• The Caring Company: How Employers Can Cut Costs And Boost Productivity By Helping Employees Manage Caregiving Needs, Managing the Future of Work Survey Report, 2019. With Joseph B. Fuller.
• Future Positive: How Companies Can Tap Into Employee Optimism to Navigate Tomorrow’s Workplace, Managing the Future of Work Survey Report, 2019. With Joseph B. Fuller, Judith Wallenstein, and Alice de Chalendar.
• Hot Chicken Takeover, Harvard Business School Case, 2019. With Williiam R. Kerr and Olivia Hull.

Lynda M. Applegate is the Baker Foundation Professor at HBS and also serves as the Chair of the Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s Masters’ of Liberal Arts in Extension Studies degrees in finance and management. Lynda also continues to play a leading role in developing the HBS Executive Education Programs for entrepreneurs and business owners. In addition to serving as the head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, Lynda has held a variety of leadership positions at HBS, including serving as the Co-Chair of the MBA program, Chair of Field Based Learning and as a founding member of the HBS Technology Board.

Research

• Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful, HBS Working Knowledge, 2016.
• Tesla in 2015, Harvard Business School case, 2018. With Olivia Hull and Sarah Mehta.
• Virtual Team Learning: Reflecting and Acting, Alone or With Others, Conference Presentation, 2007. With Deborah Soule.
• Sundial Brands: Leading Through Transitions, Harvard Business School case, 2018. With Ashley Parker.

Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. He was an Assistant Professor at Wharton prior to joining HBS. He studies knowledge worker productivity and innovation, with a focus on studying how global R&D, talent flows and AI will shape the future of work. Prior to academia, he worked at McKinsey & Company, Microsoft and IBM.

Research

• Innovation Outcomes in a Distributed Organization: Intrafirm Mobility and Access to Resources, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2017
• Machine Learning and Human Capital: Experimental Evidence on Productivity Complementarities, Working paper, 2018. With Evan Starr and Rajshree Agarwal.
• Work from Anywhere or Co-locate? Autonomy versus Learning Effects at the United States Patent Office, Working paper, 2018. With Cirrus Foroughi and Barbara Larson.

Shane Greenstein is the Martin Marshall Professor of Business Administration and co-chair of the HBS Digital Initiative. He teaches in the Technology, Operations and Management Unit. Professor Greenstein is also co-director of the program on the economics of digitization at The National Bureau of Economic Research.

Research

• How the Internet became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network, Princeton University Press, 2015.
• Do Experts or Collective Intelligence Write with More Bias? Evidence from Encyclopaedia Britannica and Wikipedia, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, 2014. With Feng Zhu.
• Zebra Medical Vision, Harvard Business School case, 2018. With Sarah Gulick.

Daniel Gross is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit. Professor Gross studies the drivers and consequences of innovation, with ongoing research examining the effects of automation on workers, firms, local labor markets, and consumers. His research frequently uses historical examples of industries undergoing significant technological change as a lens into the present and future.

Research

• AT&T: Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century, Harvard Business School case, 2018. With William R. Kerr.
• Teaching Note for AT&T: Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century, Harvard Business School case, 2018. With William R. Kerr.

Nien-hê Hsieh is Professor of Business Administration and Joseph L. Rice, III Faculty Fellow in the General Management Unit. His research concerns ethical issues in business and the responsibilities of global business leaders. He joined the HBS faculty from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was an associate professor of legal studies and business ethics and served as co-director of the Wharton Ethics Program.

Frank Nagle is an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. He studies the economics of IT and digitization with a focus on the value of crowdsourcing, and how these topics relate to the future of work. His research interests include free digital goods, cybersecurity, and generating strategic predictions from unstructured big data. Prior to his academic career, Frank worked at a number of startups and large companies in the cyber security and technology consulting industries.

Research

• Learning by Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods, Organization Science, 2018
• The Digital Commons: Tragedy or Opportunity? A Reflection on the 50th Anniversary of Hardin’s Tragedy of the Commons, Working paper, 2018.
• Innovating Without Information Constraints: Organizations, Communities, and Innovation When Information Costs Approach Zero, The Oxford Handbook of Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, 2015. With Elizabeth J. Altman and Michael Tushman.

Jan Rivkin is a professor and the chair of the MBA Program at Harvard Business School. In the past, he has served as Senior Associate Dean for Research and head of the Strategy Unit. His research, course development, and teaching focus on two topics: business strategy and U.S. competitiveness.

Research

• An Economy Doing Half Its Job, Harvard Business School, 2014. With Michael E. Porter.
• Lasting Impact: A Business Leader’s Playbook for Supporting America’s Schools, Harvard Business School, 2014.
• Amazon’s HQ2 (A) and (B), Harvard Business School case, 2018. With Karen Mills.

Willy Shih is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration. His expertise is in manufacturing and product development, and he has written or co-authored numerous cases and teaching materials in a wide range of industries. His principal research focus is industrial competitiveness and the global trade and policy consequences. He teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs at HBS. Prior to coming to HBS in 2007, he spent 28 years in industry, including 18 years in the computer industry and 10 years in consumer electronics.

Research

• Rethinking Retraining, Harvard Business Review, November 2018. With Howard Rudnick and Colleen Tapen.
• Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs A Manufacturing Renaissance, Harvard Business Review Press, 2012. With Gary P. Pisano.
• Restoring American Competitiveness, Harvard Business Review, July 2009. With Gary P. Pisano.

Christopher Stanton is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. Professor Stanton directs his research at how new technology enables the fragmentation of work and the rise of the gig economy. Technology is also improving measurement of work outcomes inside firms, allowing managers to provide increasingly market-like incentives. Professor Stanton seeks to understand the resulting managerial and policy implications of these trends.

Research

• Landing the First Job: The Value of Intermediaries in Online Hiring, Review of Economic Studies, April 2016. With Catherine Thomas.
• The Value of Bosses, Journal of Labor Economics, October 2015. With Edward P. Lazear and Kathryn L. Shaw.
• The Power (of) Lunch and the Role of Incentives for Fostering Productive Interactions, Working paper, September 2018. With Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma, and Nathan Seegert.

Sandra Sucher is Professor of Management Practice, Joseph L. Rice, III Faculty Fellow, and is a member of the General Management Unit. She joined HBS after 25 years in industry and nonprofit management, including ten years in fashion retailing and twelve years at Fidelity Investments. Her research focuses on organizational trust, moral leadership, and global workforce change. She is currently writing a book on how companies earn trust.

Research

• What Can Businesses Learn From The Present Crisis of Trust in Tech?, Managing the Future of Work podcast, 2018.
• Globalizing Japan's Dream Machine: Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd., Harvard Business School case, 2018. With Shalene Gupta.
• Layoffs That Don’t Break Your Company, Harvard Business Review, May 2018. With Shalene Gupta.

Mitchell Weiss is a Professor of Management Practice in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. He created and teaches the school's course on Public Entrepreneurship—on public leaders and private entrepreneurs who invent a difference in the world. Prior to joining HBS in 2014, he was Chief of Staff to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino.

Research

• Shield AI, Harvard Business School case, 2018. With A.J. Steinlage.

Daniel O'Connor is an Executive in Residence with the HBS Managing the Future of Work project. Prior to this, he served as a Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow in 2017. Daniel O’Connor founded RetailNet Group, an advisory and insights firm for leading retailers and brands worldwide. Mr. O’Connor has been a thought leader in the retail industry, founding a syndicated research firm that he sold to WPP, and working in the CPG and retail group at Deloitte Touche.

James’ current research with the Managing the Future of Work project relates to the effects of machine-learning-enabled technology on the workplace and trends in the use of digitally-enabled contingent working models. He also led production for the first year of the HBS Managing the Future of Work podcast. Previously, James was a Research Associate with the U.S. Competitiveness Project and with Professor David Scharfstein within the finance department.

Research

• Modern Automation (A): Artificial Intelligence, Harvard Business School case, 2018. With William R. Kerr.
• Autonomous Vehicles: The Rubber Hits the Road...but When?, Harvard Business School case, 2018. With William R. Kerr, Allison M. Ciechanover, and Jeff Huizinga.
• Osaro: Picking the Best Path, Harvard Business School case, 2019. With William R. Kerr.
• Modern Automation (B): Robotics, Harvard Business School case, 2019. With William R. Kerr.

Carl Kreitzberg is a Research Associate on the Managing the Future of Work Project. His work covers the interplay of skills, workforce demographics, employment arrangements, and social mobility. Prior to joining HBS in 2017, Carl worked at the Economist Intelligence Unit – Canback, where he consulted on strategy projects for fast-moving consumer goods companies in Africa, South America, and Europe.

Research

• AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow, Harvard Business School Case, 2019. With William R. Kerr and Joseph B. Fuller.
• Google: To TVC or Not to TVC?, Harvard Business School Case, 2019. With William R. Kerr.
• The Gig Economy: Leasing Skills to Pay the Bills, Harvard Business School Case, 2019. With William R. Kerr and Joseph B. Fuller.

Gorick Ng is a Research Associate in the Managing the Future of Work project. He joins the research team after working as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group and graduating from the HBS MBA program. His research focuses on talent management, skills and employability, and aligning higher education with labor market needs. He is currently writing a book on the unwritten rules and unspoken expectations of the workplace.

Bailey McAfee is a Research Associate for the Managing the Future of Work project and the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. Her research focuses on labor market dynamics and the care economy. She graduated from the University of Michigan in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in Statistics, and worked at Morningstar Inc. for two years before joining HBS in 2018.

Kendall Smith is a Research Associate with the Managing the Future of Work project. She joins the research team after graduating with her MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and working as a Human Capital consultant prior to her MBA. Her research focuses on individual and organizational factors related to economic mobility and the organizational behavior dynamics involved with the changing future of work.

Coelin Scibetta joined the Managing the Future of Work Project and the U.S. Competitiveness Project in February 2018. She joined the team after working for a local catering office where she managed all in-coming orders and events, conducted marketing outreach, and completed a cost-benefit analysis of all products. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Coelin is interested in the middle-skills gap, talent pipelines, and cross-sector collaboration.