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The Future of Work

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COVID-19 has forever changed the way we interact with each other, and one of the biggest questions on everyone’s minds is what the new normal of work will be. Join us for an exclusive conversation with Professor William Kerr to learn more about how you can take advantage of this inflection point in how we run our businesses and organize our teams. 

This session will cover how you can prepare for this next wave of innovation, including

  • The opportunities presented by rapid technological/AI development

  • Trends to look out for and capitalize on

  • Tradeoffs between security and opportunity in the face of innovation

  • Insight into globalization and digitalization

About our guest speaker

William Kerr is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Bill is the Unit Head of Entrepreneurial Management, co-director of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work initiative, and the faculty chair of the Launching New Ventures program. Bill is a recipient of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship and Harvard's Distinction in Teaching award.

Bill’s recent book is The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society (2018). It explores the global race for talent and how countries and businesses compete for high-skilled migrants. The book reveals how immigration has transformed U.S. innovation, reshaped the economy through the rise of talent clusters and superstar firms, and influenced society at large in positive and adverse ways. The book argues that America, and the world, can get more out of global talent flows with sensible reforms.

The Managing the Future of Work project considers the unprecedented set of challenges and opportunities presented to businesses, including rapid technological revolutions, shifting global product and labor markets, aging workforces, and growing skills gaps. These forces change the ways that businesses compete with each other and engage workers. This multi-faculty project identifies how companies, schools, workers and the public sector can come together to manage the challenging transitions ahead as the nature of work is radically transformed. The initiative produces leading research on these themes and disseminates to broader audiences through platforms like the MFW podcast series.

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  • General Admission $10

  • Current Harvard Students (school-issued email ID) $5

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