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- 23 Jul 2020
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
Tightrope: Working-class despair and the seeds of hope
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- 2020
- Book Chapter
The Servicification of the U.S. Economy: The Role of Startups versus Incumbent Firms
By: Mercedes Delgado, J. Daniel Kim and Karen G. Mills
| Over the last few decades, the U.S. economy has exhibited a significant shift from manufacturing towards services. This transition has been particularly prominent in an important subcategory of services industries that drives innovation and employs many high-wage...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
Inventing the Endless Frontier: The Effects of the World War II Research Effort on Post-War Innovation
By: Daniel P. Gross and Bhaven N. Sampat
| During World War II, the U.S. government launched an unprecedented effort to mobilize science for war: a newly-established Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) entered thousands of R&D contracts with industrial and academic contractors, spending one to...
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- 15 Apr 2020
- News
- Harvard Business Review
Bringing Manufacturing Back to the U.S. Is Easier Said Than Done
By: Willy Shih
| The Covid-19 pandemic has raised a critical question: Why does the United States not have the capacity to manufacture many products for which there is a sudden urgent need — everything from critical care ventilators, N95 face masks, and personal protective equipment to...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
How Are Small Businesses Adjusting to COVID-19? Early Evidence From a Survey
By: Alexander Bartik, Marianne Bertrand, Zoë B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca and Christopher Stanton
| To explore the impact of COVID on small businesses, we conducted a survey of more than 5,800 small businesses between March 28 and April 4, 2020. Several themes emerged. First, mass layoffs and closures had already occurred – just a few weeks into the crisis. Second,...
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- 25 Mar 2020
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
Data-centric business: Inside the artificial intelligence factory
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- 26 Feb 2020
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
Richard Florida: the creative class in the age of the superstar city
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- 29 Jan 2020
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
Beyond tax breaks and subsidies: Virginia’s Amazon gambit
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- January 2020
- Case
Freelancer, Ltd.
By: Christopher Stanton, Karim R. Lakhani, Jennifer L. Hoffman, Jin Hyun Paik and Nina Cohodes
| Over the course of the 2010s, the rapid advancement of mobile technologies and the rise of online freelancing platforms seemed to portend a radical transformation of labor markets into on-demand, flexible talent pools. Even though several Fortune 500...
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- 18 Dec 2019
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
Crisis reporting from the front lines of technology and employment
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- 26 Nov 2019
- News
- Business Insider
Apple Has Survived Backlash to the Tech World While Amazon, Google, Facebook and Other Tech Giants Struggle — An Expert on Trust Explains Why
Re: Sandra Sucher
| One defining feature that insulates companies like Apple is “the combination of intentionality and consistency,” according to Sucher. By clearly articulating its values and living up to them, Apple has earned trust where other companies have struggled.
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- 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...
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- 30 Oct 2019
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
How global trade and AI are resetting the terms of white-collar work
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- 23 Oct 2019
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
Aspen’s playbook for linking talent ecosystems and the jobs environment
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- 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...
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