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- 01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that...
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- 26 May 2020
- Podcast
Covid-19 Dispatch: Hayden Brown
Hayden Brown has been Upwork’s CEO since January 2020, just before the coronavirus pandemic shifted much of the workforce to working from home. Upwork is a leading platform connecting freelance workers to businesses who need help. Hayden shares with what changes she...
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- 06 May 2020
- Podcast
Covid-19 Dispatch: Taso Du Val
The pandemic has increased demand for online, remote freelance and contract work. Digital labor platform Toptal provides a market for highly skilled freelancers and contractors working in such fields as software engineering, artificial intelligence, design, and project...
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- 03 Jun 2018
- Podcast
Ep 3: What really worries the AFL-CIO about the future of work?
Damon Silvers, the Policy Director and Special Counsel at the AFL-CIO believes that with the Supreme Court slated to rule on Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees in June-July 2018, financial stability—not technology—is the biggest...
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- 20 Sep 2018
- Podcast
Ep 13: Work without borders: How digital platforms are transforming the way firms get things done
As the world gets smaller, the talent pools available to firms are getting much, much bigger. By bringing employers and workers together and solving key challenges of contracting at a distance, digital labor platforms are changing the way work is done. Professor Chris...
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- 24 Feb 2021
- Podcast
Factoring high-skills freelancers into the enterprise equation
Digital platforms for highly skilled freelancers are set to broker more strategic engagements for businesses needing extra capacity and flexibility. HBS and Managing the Future of Work’s Joe Fuller and Boston Consulting Group’s Allison Bailey, co-authors of the report...
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- 22 May 2020
- Podcast
How Catalant helps align workforce and work
Large firms aiming to innovate or achieve a degree of agility increasingly look for outside help. Catalant has placed itself at the crux of this dynamic by offering a project management software platform and staffing marketplace for harnessing the skills of internal...
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- 13 Apr 2022
- Podcast
Micha Kaufman on the new terms of the talent bargain
The pandemic took remote work mainstream. This gave a boost to online platforms for freelance professionals and highly skilled workers. Micha Kaufman, founder and CEO of Fiverr, explains how businesses have gotten better at leveraging this talent, how freelancers have...
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- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
classmates at Harvard Business School, and became fast friends over their passion for the gig economy and the future of work. They both spent their summer before HBS working with fintech-focused venture...
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- 02 Jun 2021
- Podcast
AI-assisted language translation: Context is king
Translators aren’t headed for obsolescence just yet. Computer-assisted language translation has come a long way, but for many jobs, you’ll still need a human in the loop to avoid inaccuracies, tone-deafness, and cultural insensitivity. Computer scientist Spence Green...
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- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent
grindstone building out Prokanga’s finance practice. “The power of the HBS network when you’re building a business cannot be underestimated,” says Cheney. “It is unbelievable.” The Gig Economy Meets Wall...
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- 24 Jan 2024
- Podcast
Shopify’s Tia Silas on rewiring HR for a remote-first e-commerce company
How do you re-engineer the people function to support a post-Covid virtual organization? Shopify’s CHRO explains.
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- 12 Jan 2022
- Podcast
Contingent to career: Kelly Services’ Peter Quigley on reinventing work and creating good jobs
In its 75 years, Kelly Services has gone from temp agency to skills broker, outsourcing firm, workforce development provider, and source of labor market research. CEO Peter Quigley discusses how employers and workers are approaching contingent work, Covid-19’s role in...
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- 24 Apr 2020
- Podcast
Freelancer.com: On-demand Skills and Ideas
The Covid-19 pandemic appears to be accelerating the global workforce shift toward freelance and contract work, as it makes remote work a more attractive option. For many, the traditional employment model is being replaced by digital labor platforms like...
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Managing the Future of Work - Course Catalog
firms gain a competitive edge by getting out in front of these trends? New labor models. Will remote work and the gig economy lead to fragmentation of the employment relationship? Will it change the...
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- 18 Oct 2023
- Podcast
Defining experience: How micro internships build skills and boost productivity
Can short knowledge-work gigs improve the college-to-career transition? Jeffrey Moss, Founder and CEO of intermediary Parker Dewey explains.
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- 14 Feb 2024
- Podcast
Raízen’s Decarbonization Strategy
The bonus episode of the Climate Rising features an episode of HBR’s Cold Call podcast featuring a discussion on ethanol, a biofuel with a complex history and an uncertain future. Host Brian Kenny is joined by Professor Gunnar Trumbull and Paula Kovarsky from Raízen....
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- 11 Dec 2023
- Podcast
Nien-hê Hsieh on Ethical AI, Decision-Making, and Investing
Harvard Business School Professor Nien-hê Hsieh joins host Chris Linnane in The Parlor Room to discuss preserving work's human element with the proliferation of artificial intelligence and how Theranos' story imparts vital lessons about ethical decision-making and...
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- 04 Mar 2024
- Podcast
Behind the CEO Who Wants to “Keep Commerce Human”
In our increasingly virtual world, it can feel like many of our lives take place remotely. When Josh Silverman took the helm at Etsy in 2017, however, he went against this technological grain, helping to usher in a new, distinctly human-centered purpose at the...
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- 10 Apr 2024
- Podcast
How Insurance Companies are Addressing Climate Risks
This episode in our adaptation series focuses climate change’s implications on the insurance industry. Claudine Blamey, Group Director of Sustainability at Aviva, describes how climate change evokes both transition risks and physical risks for insurance companies, and...
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