"How can you better understand employment arrangements that span internal and external boundaries? The answer to that question lies in this highly readable book." Forbes | Elizabeth J. Altman | David Kiron bit.ly/40sH0fQ

Do you remember Blackberry? It's been a while since someone asked me for a perspective as a Motorola exec. Had the great opportunity on Nora Young's CBC show. Young uses the Blackberry film to discuss innovation. (I first appear at ~22min.) Enjoy! cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…

Thank you to everyone who made it out to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 🌺 📘 Spring Books & Plants Sale 🌺 📘 today. It was a lovely day for book browsing and green thumbing. Missed us? MIT Press Bookstore is open tomorrow 10 am - 4 pm. 👏 to MIT's Endicott House for partnering on this event.

Great notes from Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️ on the value of qual research to quant scholars. (I knew I liked Abhishek from our class at MIT Sloan School of Management; he sat in the back coding, raised his head every now and again to contribute an insightful comment, then went back to coding... 😀)

How the workforce of the future will be more like an ecosystem: Elizabeth J. Altman | David Kiron | Fortune fortune.com/2023/05/05/wor…

Register now for the June 21st UMass Lowell Women's Leadership Conference (in person)! Fantastic speakers and sessions. Please join us for an inspiring day of insights, connecting, and fun. gps.uml.edu/wlc/

"It was a day full of empowering stories, wisdom and insight." "The in-person energy was awesome." "Overall, I left feeling re-energized and inspired!"... Will you be in the room this year? Join us for what is sure to be a fun and worthwhile day! eventbrite.com/e/umass-lowell…

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Excited to see this excerpt of our book published in the most recent print & digital editions of MIT Sloan Management Review. This article focuses on #integrationarchitectures or how to coordinate all manner of workforce ecosystem contributors sloanreview.mit.edu/article/manage…

Managers across all levels and functions must reevaluate what it means to lead in a workforce ecosystem structure. This orchestration framework can help. David Kiron Elizabeth J. Altman Jeff Schwartz mitsloan.co/44OZWbH

📍JUST OUT IN MIT Sloan Management Review! Should platforms, gig workers or even customers set the price? Who gains and who loses under the different models and how do power dynamics come into play? Elizabeth J. Altman Carmelo Cennamo #platforms #PricingStrategy #futureofwork 📰 mitsmr.com/47Nxmth

Who should price a #gig?💸 Discover the different possibilities of power distribution in #platformeconomy Would customers set fair prices? What about workers or #platforms? Our Jovana Karanovic with Elizabeth J. Altman & Carmelo Cennamo discussed it in MIT Sloan Management Review here👇 sloanreview.mit.edu/article/who-sh…

To all Strategic Management Society members: our annual Knowledge & Innovation IG Business Meeting is on September 22nd (online). Please register strategicmanagement.net/home/members/i… to hear about the latest happenings and conference highlights! Look forward to seeing you there!

New case alert (now w/ teaching note): Elizabeth J. Altman and I dug into the UNDP Accelerator Labs attempts to address global-scale problems (poverty, hunger, etc.) by using the distributed innovation technique of a "network of ecosystems" to diffuse new ideas across the world. Works well for

Flip to page 62 of MIT Sloan Management Review fall issue! Elizabeth J. Altman , Carmelo Cennamo and myself discuss a crucial strategic question for any platform: who should price a gig? The answer is not always straightforward but there is a way how platform managers can get it right #gigeconomy #platforms

New The Brookings Institution research with UMass Lowell Beth Humberd, Ph.D on the impact of #AI & #AutonomousVehicles on the #gender imbalance of household labor. Can we really reduce the mental load of coordinating, organizing, planning, deciding, etc.? brookings.edu/articles/the-g…

"As companies wean themselves from an employee-centric approach to their workforce, they are often forced to experiment with new management techniques." Big Think excerpts "Workforce Ecosystems" by Elizabeth J. Altman, David Kiron, Jeff Schwartz, & Robin Jones: bigthink.com/business/4-ess…

Banner 18 has been raised to the TD Garden rafters. Boston Celtics, 2024 NBA Champions ☘️🏆

New paper alert: We (w/ Manuel Hoffmann, Sam Boysel, Sida Peng, Kevin Xu) just released the working paper version of our study “Generative AI and the Nature of Work” - papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…. We seek to build upon research on #AI and productivity to better understand how #GenAI

At a recent lab meeting, Frank Nagle (Frank Nagle) presented his paper 'Generative AI and the Nature of Work': "We seek to build upon research on #AI and productivity to better understand how #GenAI changes how people do work. We look at how the release of a GenAI coding tool