HBS Managing the Future of Work

Harvard Business School professors Joe Fuller and Bill Kerr run the Managing the Future of Work project, and this podcast is where they bring the research out of the classroom. Each episode sits them down with a CHRO, CEO, policy researcher, or labor economist to talk about the forces reshaping how companies hire, train, and keep people. Topics rotate through automation, the gig economy, credentialing reform, skills-based hiring, and what AI actually does to middle-management roles. The conversations are measured and data-driven. Fuller and Kerr ask the questions you would expect from two professors who have read every relevant working paper, but they also push guests past the talking points. Recent episodes feature Siemens talking about continuous reskilling, Bank of America on long-horizon hiring pipelines, Fiverr on post-AI freelance work, and EY on rolling out generative AI across a consulting firm. The show sits at 4.6 stars, and the handful of negative reviews pick on the occasional corporate-speak guest, which is fair. Most weeks, though, you get a half hour of evidence, frameworks, and the uncomfortable question of whether your own company is actually ready for what's coming next. Worth a subscription if you manage people, sit on a workforce planning team, or just want to understand why the job market looks the way it does in 2026.