Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchUnpacking Amazon’s workforce development strategy
Season 2 Episode 18
Amazon in the summer of 2019 announced a sweeping five-year plan to bolster the skills of a third of its US workforce—close to 100,000 worker-learner…
6 years, 5 months ago
Crisis reporting from the front lines of technology and employment
Art Bilger is sounding the alarm over systemic trends in the world of work—the mismatch of labor force skills and job requirements; automation; under…
6 years, 6 months ago
How AI shifts enterprise decision-making into self-driving mode
Season 2 Episode 16
For decades, enterprise systems vendors have promised legacy businesses virtual omniscience—decision-making informed by real-time, comprehensive view…
6 years, 6 months ago
Prudential’s long position on skills: fostering careers while embracing automation
Season 2 Episode 15
Financial Services giant Prudential is pursuing a hybrid workforce strategy. It’s all-in on automation for underwriting and other data-intensive, but…
6 years, 6 months ago
Rebooting the apprenticeship for tech jobs
The Washington Technology Industry Association’s Apprenti apprenticeship program is a creature of the Seattle tech industry. But since its 2015 found…
6 years, 6 months ago
Factories without walls: How Autodesk is redesigning the work of architecture, construction, and manufacturing
Season 2 Episode 13
Computer-aided design pioneer, Autodesk, is tightening the integration of design and production in everything from architecture to movies. This simpl…
6 years, 7 months ago
Werk-ing the angles: how mapping work to real life can boost productivity
Season 2 Episode 12
Werk Enterprises uses surveys and data analytics to help organize work through a set of predefined, flexible arrangements, rather than the traditiona…
6 years, 7 months ago
How global trade and AI are resetting the terms of white-collar work
Season 2 Episode 11
International trade expert and former presidential advisor, Richard Baldwin, discusses his latest book, The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Roboti…
6 years, 7 months ago
Aspen’s playbook for linking talent ecosystems and the jobs environment
Season 2 Episode 10
The Aspen Institute has spent the past decade deconstructing how top US post-secondary schools bolster their diverse students’ work and life prospect…
6 years, 8 months ago
Handy’s CEO clears up the gig economy
Season 2 Episode 9
Oisin Hanrahan, co-founder and CEO of home services gig platform Handy, has succeeded by finding order and opportunity in chaos. The former HBS stude…
6 years, 8 months ago