Research
Research
- November 2019
- Case
DeepMap: Charting the Road Ahead for Autonomous Vehicles
By:
Shane Greenstein and Nicole Tempest Keller
| Founded in 2016, DeepMap developed high definition (HD) mapping software and localization services for Level 4+ autonomous vehicles. Traditional navigational maps were accurate to a few meters, which was sufficient for drivers but not for machine-driven vehicles that... |
- October 2019 (Revised February 2020)
- Case
The Predictive Index
By:
Lynda M. Applegate and James Weber
| Mike Zani and Daniel Muzquiz needed to decide next steps to create a new category in the human resources consulting industry and scale their company. Zani and Muzquiz, serial entrepreneurs, acquired Predictive Index in 2014. Previously, as clients of the 65-year-old... |
- October 2019 (Revised March 2020)
- Teaching Material
Modern Automation (B): Robotics
By:
William R. Kerr and James Palano
| Driven largely by advances in perception and situational awareness, robots in the 2010s were gaining functionality that allowed them to be applied to fundamentally new types of work. The expanding range of new tasks that could be completed by machines had significant... |
- 25 Sep 2019
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
"Been” there, learned that: Immersive workplace training with virtual reality
- September 2019 (Revised December 2019)
- Case
Google: To TVC or Not to TVC?
By:
William R. Kerr and Carl Kreitzberg
| In late 2018, evidence emerged that many of Google’s temporary help agency workers, vendors, and independent contractors (“TVCs”) were unhappy with the company. TVCs, who reportedly made up 49.95% of Google’s 170,000-person global workforce, had raised concerns of... |
- September 2019
- Teaching Material
Care Economy in the U.S. (Primer)
By:
Joseph B. Fuller, William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman and Carl Kreitzberg
| This case describes how caregiving responsibilities influence American employees, firms, and the broader economy. It details how sociodemographic trends in the late 20th century transformed the way that Americans balance their personal and professional lives, analyzing... |
- September 2019
- Case
Shell: A Company of Opportunity?
By:
Joseph B. Fuller and Emer Moloney
| The Opportunity Hub was a cloud-based platform that enabled managers to market projects they were working on and associated resourcing needs as “Opportunity Owners” and employees, or “Opportunity Seekers,” to browse these statements of need and engage when they had... |
- 11 Sep 2019
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
How carefully managed career restarts can benefit individuals and employers
- 28 Aug 2019
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
How teaching robots the way the world works changes the world of work
- August 2019 (Revised October 2019)
- Case
Endeavor in 2019: Leading Through Inflections
- 14 Aug 2019
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
Fintech on Main Street: How small businesses are banking on new technology
- August 2019
- Case
Twiggle: E-Commerce with Semantic Search
By:
Shane Greenstein and Danielle Golan
| Four years after being founded, in 2014, by former Google executives Amir Konigsberg (CEO) and Adi Avidor (CTO), Twiggle had developed a search enhancement that plugged into an online merchant’s existing framework. The company utilized advanced structuring and... |
- 02 Aug 2019
- News
- The Hill
Will there be 2020 foresight regarding America's skills dilemma?
By: Joseph Fuller
| The speed-dating events that double as the opening debates of the 2020 presidential campaign are producing some sweeping proposals regarding health care and a green New Deal. But when it comes to helping American workers adapt to the rapidly changing nature of work, we... |
- 31 Jul 2019
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
The energy industry’s cooperative approach to expanding the talent pipeline
- 17 Jul 2019
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
Advanced placement at work: a 21st Century apprenticeship model for the US
- July 2019
- Case
AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow
By:
William R. Kerr, Joseph B. Fuller and Carl Kreitzberg
| By the late 2000s, rapid changes in the telecommunications industry forced AT&T’s management team to take on a task that CEO Randall Stephenson called the “biggest logistical challenge” they had ever seen: retraining 100,000 workers by 2020. In 2012, internal company... |
- 03 Jul 2019
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
Expanding access and conveying competencies: How Western Governors University is rethinking higher education
- July 2019 (Revised November 2019)
- Case
Osaro: Picking the Best Path
By:
William R. Kerr, James Palano and Bastiane Huang
| The founder of Osaro saw the potential of deep reinforcement learning to allow robots to be applied to new applications. Osaro targeted warehousing, already a dynamic industry for robotics and automation, for its initial product—a system which would allow robotic arms... |
- 19 Jun 2019
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
