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).

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.

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.

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.