Raffaella Sadun is the Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on managerial and organizational drivers of productivity and growth in corporations and the public sectors.
Sadun currently co-leads the Digital Reskilling Lab at HBS, where she studies the effectiveness of large-scale digital training investments made in private and public sector organizations. She also serves as director of the National Bureau of Economic Research Working Group in Organizational Economics, faculty co-chair of the Harvard Project on the Workforce. She is the author of articles published in journals such as “The Quarterly Journal of Economics,” “American Economic Review” and “Journal of Political Economy.”
Sadun served as an economic advisor to the Italian government in 2020 and 2022 and received the honor of Grande Ufficiale dell’Ordine “Al Merito della Repubblica Italiana,” the highest-ranking order of the Republic awarded for “merit acquired by the nation” in 2021. In 2022 she was awarded the Prize “Fondazione de Sanctis per le Scienze Economiche.” Sadun received her Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics.
Jorge Tamayo is an assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy Unit. He teaches the Strategy course in the MBA required curriculum.
Professor Tamayo is an applied microeconomist primarily interested in industrial organization and development economics. His research focuses on theoretical modeling and structural estimation of firm decision-making and productivity. Professor Tamayo examines the market responses to settings in which firms use price discrimination (i.e. subscriptions, or membership fees) for goods and services. His research also focuses on the ways in which managers contribute to the productivity dynamics of their teams.
Professor Tamayo earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Southern California. He has a B.A. in economics and an M.S. in applied mathematics from Eafit University in Medellin, Colombia. Before pursuing his doctoral degree, he worked at the Central Bank of Colombia and as an adjunct professor in the department of economics at Eafit University.
Andrea Neyra-Nazarrett is a fourth-year PhD student in the Political Economy and Government program, in the Economics track. Her research centers on labor and personnel economics. She utilizes company data to delve into these topics and is currently collaborating on various projects with a large Mexican retailer. Before the PhD, Andrea worked at the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. Andrea also has a master's in public policy from Harvard and a BA in economics from ITAM.
Andrés Rengifo Jaramillo holds an M.S. in Economics from Universidad de los Andes (2023) and a B.S. in Economics from Universidad del Valle (2019). He is passionate about econometrics and data science, and at the Digital Reskilling Lab, he applies these tools to understand the role of training, managerial practices, and the relationship between workers and managers.
Brayan Diaz is a quantitative economist specializing in applied and theoretical econometrics, with a focus on Industrial Organization, organizational strategies, and data-driven solutions for firms. I hold a master’s degree in economics from EAFIT University in Medellin and am currently pursuing a PhD in Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University. I have three years of experience as a consultant at Harvard Business School, where I contributed to research on optimizing firm performance and decision-making.
Christina Jarymowycz collaborates with interdisciplinary research teams to spark, develop, and realize impactful projects at the Digital Data Design Institute. Passionate about the intersection of technology, social identities, and global contexts, she is dedicated to advancing equitable academic research that drives positive societal change. Christina works to enhance collaboration between academia and industry, breaking down barriers to transformative innovation.
David Rodriguez Gonzalez is an economist and has been a research assistant for several years. At the Digital Reskilling Lab, he has the pleasure of working in one of the areas that interests him the most: impact evaluation. Most of the time, he tries to understand the behavior of firms and their organization. In his free time, he likes to play volleyball and enjoy time with family and friends.
Diego is a Post-Doc at the Reskilling Lab. Before joining the Lab, he was a researcher at the Growth Lab at Harvard's Center for International Development. Diego also worked as a consultant at the World Bank, the IOM -International Organization of Migration, Princeton University, CAF-Latin American Bank, and Universidad del Rosario.
Diego graduated with a Ph.D. in Economics at Purdue University. In his thesis, he studied the impact of providing information to women to increase female labor participation in Iraq. He received his BA and MA degrees in Economics from Universidad del Rosario, Colombia.
His research interests include development economics, migration, labor, and impact evaluation.
Jessica Avellaneda is an MSc candidate in Economics from Universidad del Rosario, with experience in economic research and advanced skills in statistical programming. Her areas of interest include leadership, human behavior and decision-making, technology and innovation, and impact evaluation.
Julian Ramirez is an economist and professional in applied mathematics and computer science from Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia, with a master's degree in economics from the same University. He is a researcher in machine learning methods and the use of econometrics tools to solve problems related to retail companies.
Leila Doumi is a PhD Candidate in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. She conducts research on technology adoption, corporate strategy, and the future of work with a focus on how corporations can develop and optimize their strategies to become more digital and implement new technologies.
Prior to joining the Strategy Unit, Leila earned her BA and MA in Sociology from the University of Mannheim, Germany. During her studies, she worked as a research and teaching assistant for the University of Mannheim as well as for the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She also worked for the Daimler Group (currently Daimler Trucks), where she was part of the In-house Consulting unit focused on organizational development, before transitioning to the Strategy and Governance unit of the digitization department.
Luisa Varon Herrera is an economist with a Master's degree in Economics and studies in project management. She has worked in both the public and private sectors, on issues related to the labor market, poverty and inequality, education and foreign trade. She is always delving into data analysis and economic theory.
Maria Paula Neira Ahumada holds an MSc in Economics with complementary studies in Government Affairs from the University of Los Andes. Her expertise lies in econometric modeling, causal inference, and data science, and she is passionate about using data to uncover insights and drive meaningful decisions.
Samay is a Predoctoral Fellow at Harvard Business School working in the Entrepreneurial Management and Strategy units. He recently graduated from Colgate University with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Mathematical Economics.
Dr Stefanos Tyros is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Digital Riskilling Lab of the D^3 Institute, at Harvard Business School. The focus of his research is the Future of Work. More specifically he studies the interaction between workers’ skills and new technology adoption in light of the Green and Automation/AI transitions.
Dr Tyros is a physicist and economist. He holds an undergraduate degree in Theoretical Physics from Durham University, a Research Masters on String Theory from the University of Southampton, a Masters in Economics from the University of Amsterdam, and a PhD in Economics from the University VU Amsterdam and the Tinbergen Institute. Finally, he has undertaken policy work related to the labor market at the CPB Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis in the Netherlands and the OECD in Paris and Istanbul.
Alexia Delfino is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Bocconi University. She is an applied micro-economist with interests in organizational, development and behavioral economics. She received her PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics in 2020. To learn more about Professor Alexia Delfino’s research, teaching and background, visit her website at
https://sites.google.com/view/alexiadelfino/home
Eleonora Brandimarti is passionate about how training and education can improve worker wellbeing and facilitate digital transformations. She is an applied microeconomist focusing on labor, education, and organizational topics. She is an assistant professor of Economics at the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow. Prior to joining the department, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Digital, Data, Design Institute at Harvard Business School and holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Geneva.
Joseph Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice in General Management and co-leads the school’s initiative, Managing the Future of Work. He currently teaches the Becoming a General Manager course in the second year of the MBA program and formerly headed The Entrepreneurial Manager course in the program’s first year. A 1981 graduate of the school, Joe was a founder and first employee of the global consulting firm, Monitor Group, now Monitor-Deloitte. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of its commercial consulting operations until 2006 and remained a Senior Advisor to the firm until its acquisition by Deloitte in 2012. During his three decades in consulting, Fuller worked with senior executives and policymakers on a wide variety of issues related to corporate strategy and national competitiveness. He has particularly deep experience in industries with a heavy reliance on technology, such as life sciences, ICT and the defense and aerospace industries. He is currently researching the evolution of the role of the CEOs and the C-suite in public companies.
Orsolya Kovács-Ondrejkovic is an Associate Director at Boston Consulting Group in Zurich, supporting organizations in preparing their workforces for the future. Orsolya has significant expertise in HR (especially redesigning HR operating models), talent and workforce trends, organizational design, and strategic workforce planning, and supports leading companies around the world in these topics.
She is the lead author of the Decoding Global Talent series, which studies the changing work and mobility preferences of nearly a million jobseekers worldwide since 2014. Her other research topics include new trends in reskilling (co-authoring an article that won the 2023 HBR prize), skill based hiring, and the future of recruitment.
Sagar Goel is a Managing Director and Partner at Boston Consulting Group, Singapore and leads BCG’s work in digital reskilling and workforce development. He is currently a fellow at BCG’s global think tank, BCG Henderson Institute, writing and speaking on the topic of skilling ecosystems, and how government, industry, academia, and the workforce must come together to solve the global skills crisis.
He is one of the firm’s experts on skill-building culture and behavior change at scale and speed, especially in the context of data, digital, and agile. He has led several large-scale skilling programs for BCG clients, including the recent work with the Singapore government on a national-level digital reskilling program. Since joining the firm, Sagar has worked with clients in banking, infrastructure, technology, consumer goods, public sector, media, agribusiness, health care, insurance, energy, and industrial goods around the world.
Virginia Minni is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She focuses on questions in labor, organizational, and development economics.
Her projects are characterized by research collaborations with organizations to study the overarching question of why some people reach their potential in the labor market while others do not, analyzing which frictions prevent it and how to alleviate them.
Virginia received a Ph.D. in Economics from The London School of Economics (LSE).
Entered the Ministry of International Trade and Industry in 1984. After serving as Director-General of the Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, he became Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary (equivalent to the position of administrative vice-minister) in the Cabinet Secretariat.
In the Abe Cabinet, he was responsible for formulating the concept of a virtuous cycle of growth and distribution, and for formulating the main policies of Abenomics, such as work style reform, equal pay for equal work, free early childhood education, the shift to a cashless society, and the consumption tax hike.
In the Kishida Cabinet, he was responsible for formulating key policies such as the 5-year startup plan, wage increases, and measures to pass on labor costs, as well as formulating new concepts for capitalism, such as public-private partnerships.
He is known as “Mr. Cabinet Bureaucracy” in books and other media (he appears in “Shinzo Abe's Memoirs” by Shinzo Abe (Chuokoron-shinsha) and “The Fateful Child: The Shinzo Abe Administration Chronicle” by Yoichi Funabashi (Bungeishunju)).
Jessica is a rising senior at Gann Academy. She challenges herself academically through advanced and AP courses. Passionate about research and learning, Jessica completed internships at the International Research Institute of North Carolina and the Digital Reskilling Lab at Harvard Business School. Her academic interests include economics, history, psychology, and law.
Beyond academics, Jessica participates in varsity cross-country and varsity tennis every year in high school. She enjoys leading running activities for young children as a team leader at the Needham Running Club during the summer. Additionally, Jessica is finishing a book of poetry for publication.
Peter worked as a Research Associate at the Digital Reskilling Lab from July 2022 to August 2024. Before joining the D^3 Institute, he earned his master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and his bachelor’s from Vanderbilt University. He also worked as an educational consultant for several years in Shanghai. Peter’s research interests include educational testing and measurement, learning analytics, and postsecondary education attainment and transitions. In his free time, he enjoys learning languages, practicing classical guitar, playing bullet chess, and traveling.
Hannah is visiting the Digital Reskilling Lab as a research fellow. Hannah is a third-year PhD student from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, where she works with high-frequency data from Denmark‘s largest job-search platform. Her primary research interests are job search, hiring and the demand for skills. Hannah holds an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford and has previously worked at the OECD Centre for Tax Policy.
Jessica Horn is a final-year PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge and has been a visiting researcher at the lab. She is also a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and has been a Fellow at the World Economic Forum from 2022 to 2024. She researches the management of change processes, technology-driven transformations and up- and reskilling programs and advises international companies and their C-levels on these topics.
