Raffaella Sadun
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Sep 9, 2026
A Conversation with Raffaella Sadun - Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School
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Raffaella SadunGUEST
Yeah, so this is something that I co-lead with Jorge Tamayo, who is a colleague at HBS.

Raffaella SadunGUEST
And it's clear to me that in many respects, creating skills and especially helping people who might have you know, who might need to develop new skills that are adequate for new technologies or who might be at risk of having their own existing skills become irrelevant.

Raffaella SadunGUEST
I see that as a priority for both, you know, growth as well as social inclusion and frankly, you know, overall sort of social peace.
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9:33Yael PotterHOST
So you talked before, you briefly mentioned how AI can be this thing that if everyone learns it well then they can get ahead in the new economy right so do you see this AI revolution as kind of this great equalizer or something that can exacerbate economic divides even more
How to Lead and Reskill in the Age of AI
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Adi IgnatiusHOST
What kind of incentives or what kind of programs can you set up where you do the training, but you're not simply preparing your employee to go work somewhere else, um, where they'll be in demand?

Raffaella SadunGUEST
Look, that is a risk that always exists, and the organization that we spoke with embraced that risk [laughs].

Raffaella SadunGUEST
And so I wanna say, if you live in fear that training is going to, uh, immediately, um, um, you know, make you lose your talent, that is probably not the best attitude to invest in these training programs.

Raffaella SadunGUEST
I think what we've seen and what seems to, at least from what we heard, seems to work better are training programs that are, first of all, embedded in a company strategy.

Raffaella SadunGUEST
And so if you're able to articulate why, uh, going through a reskilling or even an upskilling program matters for the organization, and what are the rewards that people are going to get out of these, uh, training programs within the firm, that already changes the, uh, the salience of the training program and what people, uh, how people see themselves within the organization.

Raffaella SadunGUEST
Um, the second one is making sure, uh, that the, um, uh, the, the... for people that go through these training programs, they can see the benefits of the, uh, of training on their own skin.
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Adi IgnatiusHOST
So, so Deborah's question is, you know, uh, thinking about the, the, the, you know, deep fakes, hallucinations, you know, the things AI can do, um, that are inaccurate that could set us astray, how do, how do managers, how do we safeguard against some of these downsides that we're, you know, we're already seeing?