

How have you prepared for the Future of Work? Do you understand the key trends? Or how your innate skills can transition into the future which will require ever-changing skills ranging from emotional to technological?
How have you prepared for the Future of Work? Do you understand the key trends? Or how your innate skills can transition into the future which will require ever-changing skills ranging from emotional to technological?
Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work pursues research that business and policy leaders can put into action to navigate this complex landscape. The Project’s current research areas focus on six forces that are redefining the nature of work in the United States as well as in many other advanced and emerging economies.
We work with the widest range of clients imaginable but most of them, whatever their background, have great difficulty identifying and evidencing their transferable skills. Career services offered at school, university, with employers, or from other career organisations, do not seem to provide a way to do this.
Managing the Future of Work is thriving at Harvard Business School for students and alumni. A few weeks ago, I attended my 30th MBA reunion, and went to a fascinating class called Managing the Future of Work taught by Professor Joseph Fuller, co chair of the Managing the Future of Work department along with Professor William R. Kerr.
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We are misunderstanding the potential of AI and robotics.Instead of asking “which jobs will be replaced by machines?” we need to learn which elements of work are best automated, and which need human skills, judgment and subtlety.