Digital Reskilling: Challenges and Strategies (Handouts and Video)

Raffaella Sadun is Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Professor Sadun's research focuses on managerial and organizational drivers of productivity and growth in both the private and public sector. She is among the founders of the World Management Survey and the Executive Time Use Study. She also serves as Co-editor for Journal of Law, Economics and Organization and Associate Editor for Management Science. Professor Sadun completed her PhD in Economics at the London School of Economics.

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Yoshimi Shinohara founded the U.S. subsidiary of global staffing firm Persol Holdings, as well as numerous startups focused on talent recruitment, AI, and the future of work. Passionate about fostering innovation in the next generation of business leaders, she feels a particular urgency to expand opportunities for Japanese students and corporate leaders from her home country, Japan, which is experiencing the impacts of a rapidly aging population, declining birth rate, mounting public debt, and natural disasters spurred by climate change.
Shinohara, whose work focuses on using technology to promote innovation and sustainability in the human capital industry, co-founded the D^3 Institute, supporting its efforts to understand and guide the impact of technological changes on business and society.
Through D^3’s multidisciplinary, lab-based model focused on complex topics—including the impact of digitization on the workforce, AI equity and ethics, financial technology and digital currencies, and climate and sustainability —students, faculty, and researchers from across the University generate new knowledge that informs practical applications focused on the social impacts of business.
“I am convinced that the efforts of the D^3 Institute are likely to provide answers, not just for Japan, but for the entire world,” she says.

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