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HBS Managing the Future of Work

Harvard Business School

Artificial intelligence. Robotics. The Gig Economy. Globalization. The world is changing at a dizzying pace in ways that will have a profound effect on the economy, jobs and the flow of talent. How will firms cope with the changes ahead and what steps do they need to take today? Each episode features faculty from the world’s leading business school interviewing CEOs, technologists and experts on the bleeding edge discussing how to survive and thrive by managing the future of work.

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37:48

How HubSpot sells and supports its own AI transformation

HBS Managing the Future of Work ·

2025/12/17

The CRM vendor's Helen Russell and Jon Dick unpack the organizational and process changes, HR and skills strategy, and cultural shift. Mandates backed by tools, training, and engagement.

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30:06

Fiverr's Micha Kaufman on the post-AI gig economy

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2025/12/03

The talent platform's co-founder and CEO returns to the MFW podcast with an update on the market for contingent work as AI changes supply and demand and raises the stakes for skills development.

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36:01

Wells Fargo's Bei Ling on culture change and learning...

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2025/11/19

The bank's head of HR lays out the talent strategy underpinning its post-regulatory growth push and AI adoption.

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63:48

Guest Episode: Joseph Fuller on the TechWolf podcast

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2025/10/29

The Managing the Future of Work co-chair and podcast co-host examines AI's implications for HR, spells out the competitive stakes in early adoption, and unpacks the technology's disruptive potential for jobs, organizations, and markets. Also, the rise of the CHRO, skills-based hiring, and more.

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31:36

Reading and riding the AI wave: John Winsor on the...

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2025/10/15

As data center investments, stock prices, and vanishing entry-level jobs grab headlines, businesses are grappling with AI use cases and workforce strategy. The veteran serial entrepreneur and Harvard Business School executive fellow assesses the organizational and talent implications.

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33:14

How web data is fueling the robot revolution

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2025/10/01

Bright Data's Or Lenchner on the evolving ground rules for harnessingthe web's data. Charting the boundaries of fair use in training AI systems and robots. Also, the data gathering and analytics workforce.

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34:39

EY's Dan Diasio on consulting's AI challenge

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2025/09/17

How to get past AI fatigue and anxiety to a more expansive view of the technology's potential—bolstering knowledge work vs commoditizing expertise. As it guides organizations through the experimentation phaseand into redesigning business processes, the professional services giant is undergoing an internal transformation.

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35:13

JFF's Maria Flynn on getting to good jobs

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2025/09/04

What will it take to increase opportunity amid mounting economicuncertainty? The prominent nonprofit's multipronged approach to boosting job quality and promoting equity.

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43:23

Redefining success: Harrison Keller on the Texas...

HBS Managing the Future of Work ·

2025/08/13

The Lone Star State’s experiment in outcomes–based funding rewardsschools that produce “credentials of value.” Can focusing the curriculum on workforce development give Texas an economic advantage and distribute resources equitably?

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37:48

BuildOps' Alok Chanani on rewiring commercial...

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2025/07/30

Admin and logistics can be weak links in HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and mechanical firms. This can limit growth and squander skilled technical labor, to the detriment of employers and workers alike. The BuildOps co-founder and CEO unpacks the benefits of integrated operations apps and the potential of AI-boosted platforms to improve prospects for skilled workers.

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36:13

Cisco's alignment strategy: Coordinating workforce...

HBS Managing the Future of Work ·

2025/07/16

The benefits of cross-function collaboration, with FrancineKatsoudas, executive vice president and chief people, policy, and purpose officer, and Jeetu Patel, president and chief product officer. How better integration within the corporate stack improves flexibility.

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43:08

Designing Equitable Workplaces

HBS Managing the Future of Work ·

2025/07/02

The Harvard Kennedy School's Iris Bohnet and Siri Chilazi on the logic behind a systems-level approach to workplace fairness. How A-B testing and targeted interventions—incorporated in day-to-day workflow—can help organizations tap more of the talent pool.

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37:09

ETS’s Amit Sevak makes the case for continuous...

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2025/06/18

The flagship firm is pushing the boundaries of testing, from K-12 through career. What are the implications for the workforce and society? And how does AI change the future of benchmarking?

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30:17

Vanguard's skills strategy for tech transformation

HBS Managing the Future of Work ·

2025/06/04

Can the shareholder-owned discount brokerage giant parlay its investments in enterprise and cloud infrastructure into an AI-enabled expansion into new markets while improving productivity and service delivery? CIO Nitin Tandon explains the global workforce strategy underpinning the effort.

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39:36

Shake Shack’s test kitchen: Developing a good jobs...

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2025/05/21

Shake Shack Chief Growth Officer Steph So and HBS professor Chris Stanton join Bill Kerr to discuss the fast-casual chain’s digital strategy and how technology is changing the dining experience and restaurant work, from frontline to back office.

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29:05

Upwork’s Hayden Brown on bridging volatility with...

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2025/05/08

"Freelance by choice" can sound like a rationalization—or putting on a brave face—but has the contract labor market improved for white-collar workers, as more, particularly younger professionals, opt in? A look at the benefits for both sides of the bargain and how AI changes the calculus.

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47:24

ManpowerGroup’s Jonas Prising on the new global...

HBS Managing the Future of Work ·

2025/04/23

The staffing giant’s chairman and CEO lays out the opportunities and risks in the fast-changing and fragmented labor market. Riding the genAI wave, addressing workers’ career development needs, RTO and flex-work, international talent flows, and the up-skilling imperative in the face growing polarization.

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34:15

Redrawing the map to tech careers: Per Scholas CEO...

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2025/04/09

After decades preparing workers from underserved communities for well-paid tech jobs, the workforce nonprofit is expanding its training, footprint, and funding strategy for its tuition-free programs. As AI redefines positions across the org chart, can bootcamps plus training top-ups, and a mix of hard and soft skills future-proof the Per Scholas formula?

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36:00

Erik Brynjolfsson on how AI is rewriting the rules of...

HBS Managing the Future of Work ·

2025/03/26

The Stanford economist unpacks AI’s impact on work and productivity, its limitations, and wider implications. He also lays out what organizations can do to get more out of the technology as they invest in the transformation. And he updates his longstanding research into augmenting traditional GDP metrics to capture the value of digital goods and services.

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40:53

Cal Newport on slow productivity and next-wave AI

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2025/03/12

Joe Fuller welcomes back the Georgetown computer scientist and leading observer of knowledge work, who reprises his argument against busyness as the default mode. Also, cracking the productivity code, parsing AI's potential, and better work-life balance.

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