Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury is the Lumry Family Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School. He was an Assistant Professor at Wharton prior to joining Harvard. His research is focused on studying the Future of Work, especially the changing Geography of Work. In particular, he studies the productivity effects of geographic mobility of workers, causes of geographic immobility and productivity effects of remote work practices such as ‘Work from anywhere’ and ‘All-remote’. He is an Associate Editor at Management Science and was included in the 2023 Forbes Future of Work-50 list.
His research has been published in Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Development Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Harvard Business Review, and has been cited in Freakonomics, BBC, Bloomberg Businessweek, CNBC, PBS, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, NPR All Things Considered, Forbes, WIRED, Inc., Times of India, Globe and Mail, El Pais, and India Today Television among other outlets. He earned his Doctorate from Harvard, and has Degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Management. Prior to academia, he worked at McKinsey & Company, Microsoft and IBM
Harvard Professor and Forbes Future of Work-30 awardee Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury will share insights on how agentic AI, in the form of ‘codified selves’ will usher a new wave of Work-from-anywhere. Codified selves are AI Bots trained to both replicate the content and style of individual communication. Codified Selves may help individuals communicate asynchronously, participate in meetings, scaling their human capital in unprecedented ways. Raj will share both a conceptual framework around codified selves and will share experimental evidence on this topic. Notably he will share insights from his ‘Wade Bot’ study that is receiving widespread attention globally, where a Bot was trained to mimic Wade Foster, CEO of Zapier. Raj will also launch his new book ‘The World is Your Office’ at the end of this talk. The book can be pre-ordered on Amazon.
Book Your TicketIn recent years, companies in a wide range of industries have adopted radically flexible work policies that allow employees and teams to work from anywhere (WFA), untethered to a physical office. The leaders at these companies understand that geographic flexibility is a competitive advantage: a way to attract and retain high-quality and diverse talent at a global scale. If other companies want to find and keep the very best talent, they must embrace WFA. In this masterclass, Harvard Business School professor Prithwiraj Choudhury shares insights from his new book entitled ‘The World is Your Office’ and takes participants inside the companies at the forefront of this growing phenomenon—from startups to bigger, more traditional organizations—while offering leaders a playbook for implementing a variety of WFA policies they can tailor to their own needs. This includes:
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