Raffaella Sadun
Confidence 0.75 · 3 sources · last confirmed 2026-10-15
Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She co-chairs HBS’s Project on Managing the Future of Work, co-leads its Digital Reskilling Lab, and is a research leader in the Frontier Firm initiative between Microsoft and HBS. She has studied management practices and productivity since the early 2000s, including how executives allocate their time. She co-wrote the HBR article Reskilling in the Age of AI (2023), whose five paradigms she recaps in her WorkLab interview.
Wiki contributions
- 2026-06-12-dellacqua-cybernetic-teammate-field-experiment-genai-teamwork — co-author of the field experiment with 791 Procter & Gamble professionals on generative AI in individual and team product-development work.
- 2025-11-24-sadun-wood-worklab-hard-to-become-ai-first-organization — interviewed by Molly Wood on Microsoft’s WorkLab. A Frontier Firm is one that invests in strategic experimentation within strategic boundaries. Each firm is on its own J-curve, so she expects divergence across firms. Reskilling is “bloody hard” because it asks people to change who they are, with middle managers as the hinge. Experiments should be designed with their own adoption in mind.
- 2026-10-15-hbs-ai-institute-frontier-firm-ai-initiative-about — co-author, with Iavor Bojinov and Shunyuan Zhang, of the forthcoming case behind the HBS AI Institute’s Frontier Firm early insights: structured experimentation, the Skill–Will 2×2, agents as a sharpener of winners and losers.
Why she is an entity (promotion note)
Promoted on her second wiki source-page appearance, per §Author-entity promotion. She was listed dangling as a co-author of the Cybernetic Teammate paper (2026-06-12) and promoted with the 2026-10-15 ingest of her WorkLab interview, where she is the guest rather than a frontmatter author.