From South Carolina, to Appalachia, to Wisconsin, Professor Willy Shih set out across the country to understand the plight of older workers coping with the changing nature of jobs. His conclusion: the challenges are enormous, but finally, a grassroots movement is taking shape to retrain workers across communities in America. Professor Shih, who has a backgro ... Show More
Oct 29
Guest Episode: Joseph Fuller on the TechWolf podcast
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 hi ... Show More
1h 3m
Oct 15
Reading and riding the AI wave: John Winsor on the value of flexibility
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 implicat ... Show More
31m 36s
Mar 2025
How China Killed America’s Middle Class - And How Trump’s Tariffs Will Bring Jobs Back to the U.S.
<p>Patrick Bet-David explains how Nixon’s 1972 visit to China and China’s 2001 entry into the WTO triggered the loss of millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs. From cheap labor costs driving outsourcing to the devastation of states like Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, this video e ... Show More
12m 32s
Feb 2025
Why Tariffs Could Crush Canada’s Economy — ft. Mike Moffatt
Ed and Scott open the show by discussing Apple’s new investment in “American innovation,” Howard Lutnik’s decision to put his sons in charge of Cantor Fitzgerald, and a new Moody’s Analytics report on U.S. consumer spending. Then Mike Moffatt, Founding Director of the University ... Show More
59m 9s
Jan 2025
How Will Trump’s Immigration Raids Affect American Workers?
On this week’s Trumponomics, we look at how Trump's immigration policies will affect the nation’s economy, and especially whether it will be good or bad for American workers. Oren Cass, joins host Stephanie Flanders and Bloomberg Opinion Senior Executive Editor Tim O’Brien. Cass, ... Show More
25m 24s
Jul 2024
Dispatch from Labor Notes & Railroad Workers United Conferences (Chicago, 2024)
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Two months ago, from April 17-21, workers and labor organizers of all stripes convened in Chicago for the bi-annual Labor Notes conference, which overlapped with the Railroad Workers United convention. As the registration website rightly noted, "L ... Show More
1h 29m
Jan 2025
LA Fires, Trump Trades, TikTok, and Legacy Media’s Fate — ft. Andrew Ross Sorkin
Scott and Ed open the show by discussing Kalshi’s decision to appoint Donald Trump Jr. as its new advisor, a decline in tipping across America, and the economic impact of the wildfires in Los Angeles. Then Andrew Ross Sorkin, editor-at-large of DealBook at the New York Times and ... Show More
58m 28s
Dec 2024
Introducing “HBS Managing the Future of Work"
While we’re in-between Dealcraft seasons, we’re sharing an episode of Managing the Future of Work, the chart-topping and critically-acclaimed podcast from Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr and Joe Fuller talk to CEOs, technologists and experts grappl ... Show More
39m 35s