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The Partnership Imperative: Community Colleges, Employers, & America’s Chronic Skills Gap

By: Joseph B. Fuller & Manjari Raman

Building From the Bottom Up

By: Joseph B. Fuller & Manjari Raman

Hidden Workers: Untapped Talent

By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, Eva Sage-Gavin, & Kristen Hines

Building the On-Demand Workforce

By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, James Palano, Allison Bailey, Nithya Vaduganathan, Elizabeth Kaufman, Renée Laverdière, & Sibley Lovett
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  • January 2023
  • Article
  • Journal of Human Resources

Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship

By: William R. Kerr and Martin Mandorff
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, Koreans are 34 times more concentrated in self-employment for dry cleaning than other...
  • 03 Jun 2022
  • News
  • Built In

Tech and the Gig Economy: Understanding Side Hustles vs. Moonlighting

Re: Joseph Fuller
  • 02 Jun 2022
  • News
  • Forbes

Guild Education Reaches $4.4 Billion Valuation As Labor Market Demands Continue—And A Downturn Threat Rises

Re: Joseph Fuller
Joe Fuller, a professor who co-leads Harvard Business School’s Managing the Future of Work initiative and was a founder of the consulting firm Monitor Group, says such a strategy would make sense for a company that has had a “very significant impact in removing a...
  • 26 May 2022
  • Podcast
  • Managing the Future of Work

Wholesale upskilling: Walmart’s workforce value proposition

Joe Fuller
  • 11 May 2022
  • Podcast
  • Managing the Future of Work

Virtually present: Meta’s vision for the hybrid workplace

Bill Kerr
  • 11 May 2022
  • News
  • The Guardian

Finding It Hard to Get a New Job? Robot Recruiters Might Be to Blame

Re: Joseph Fuller
Yet it is not foolproof. One of the most consequential findings comes from Harvard Business School professor Joe Fuller, whose team surveyed more than 2,250 business leaders in the US, UK and Germany. Their motives for using algorithmic tools were efficiency and saving...
  • 10 May 2022
  • News
  • HBS Working Knowledge

Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay

Re: William Kerr
Working for yourself might bring freedom and autonomy, but it increasingly comes with a major risk: low pay. Research by William Kerr explores the shifting sands of self-employment.
  • 04 May 2022
  • Podcast
  • Managing the Future of Work

Can Handshake’s endless college job fair democratize employment?

Joe Fuller
  • 03 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas
  • Working Knowledge

Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

by Rachel Layne
What would it take to build the skills your company needs in your current workforce? Joseph Fuller and Manjari Raman offer a new playbook for a historic talent crunch with no end in sight.
  • 27 Apr 2022
  • Podcast
  • Managing the Future of Work

Building back a better supported federal workforce

Bill Kerr
  • 27 Apr 2022
  • News
  • Marketplace Business

Rolling Back Degree Requirements Expands the Pipeline for Tech

Re: Joseph Fuller
While many tech companies say they’re loosening up on degree requirements, it’s easier said than done. A Harvard Business School analysis of IT job postings from 2017 to 2021 found some of the biggest tech firms still demanded degrees for upward of 70% of jobs. Joseph...
  • 22 Apr 2022
  • News
  • Yahoo! Money

Why Many Employers Have Ditched Four-Year Degree Requirements

Re: Joseph Fuller
Joseph Fuller, a professor at the Harvard Business School and a co-author of the Burning Glass report, is encouraged by his research with some caveats. “We have a very distinct abatement movement in the United States for employers to say they are removing the degree...
  • 21 Apr 2022
  • News
  • Vox

The Amazonification of the American Workforce

Re: Joseph Fuller
  • 13 Apr 2022
  • Podcast
  • Managing the Future of Work

Micha Kaufman on the new terms of the talent bargain

  • 08 Apr 2022
  • News
  • New York Times

A Four-Year Degree Isn’t Quite the Job Requirement It Used to Be

Re: Joseph Fuller
“Things are coming together that we really haven’t seen before,” said Joseph Fuller, a professor at the Harvard Business School and a co-author of the Burning Glass report, which was published in February.
  • 04 Apr 2022
  • News
  • HBS Working Knowledge

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

Re: William Kerr
Software invention spurred the rapid ascent of six American tech hubs, helping them draw talent from even larger cities. Will the rise of remote work shake the status quo? Research by William Kerr.
  • 03 Apr 2022
  • News
  • Reasons to be Cheerful

I Quit? The Real Story Behind the ‘Great Resignation’

Re: Joseph Fuller
This week we’re going behind the headlines on the so-called Great Resignation—which has seen record numbers of job vacancies advertised as people leave and move roles. Has Covid really revolutionized the world of work? And who is benefiting from the changes? To find...
  • 30 Mar 2022
  • Podcast
  • Managing the Future of Work

Working with software robots

  • 25 Mar 2022
  • News
  • DigiKompetenz

Joseph Fuller: Skill-based Hiring, Harvard Business School, and the Future of Learning

Re: Joseph Fuller
In this truly inspiring and future-oriented conversation, Joseph Fuller gives listeners deep insights into his recently completed research on the future of work, C-level executives, and skill-based hiring and what this means for the future of learning and the...
  • 23 Mar 2022
  • News
  • Harvard Business Review

The Great Resignation Didn’t Start with the Pandemic

By: Joseph Fuller & William Kerr
Covid-19 spurred on the Great Resignation of 2021, during which record numbers of employees voluntarily quit their jobs. But what we are living through is not just short-term turbulence provoked by the pandemic. Instead, it’s the continuation of a trend of rising quit...
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