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