
I have spent my career researching novel talent management practices and their effect on employee behavior, collaboration, and performance. Presently, I am the Edward W. Conard Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where I study two such phenomena related to the evolution of the workplace: (1) increased transparency—via greater physical or digital observability of employee activities, routines, behaviors, logic, psychology, output, and/or performance—leading managers to find new ways of ensuring that work gets done; and (2) increased connectivity—via tools that rewire interaction to facilitate collaboration and interaction—giving rise to novel work structures and creative organizational forms. I regularly explore the implications of those "future of work" trends for leadership, collaboration, organization design, and new forms of organizing in my research, writing, teaching, and speaking (see www.hbs.edu/ebernstein for details). At HBS, I teach a second-year MBA course on Managing Human Capital, the Executive Education course on Developing Yourself as a Leader (which I created in 2016), and various custom executive education programs. Previously, I taught the first-year MBA course on Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD), an immersive field course in Tokyo on Innovation and Leadership through the Fusion of Digital and Analog, and a PhD course on the craft of field research. In all of my work and teaching, I draw on creative field research and field experiments, half a decade of consulting experience at BCG, and experience as a C-level senior executive at the newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Originally from Los Angeles, I hold an A.B. in Economics from Amherst College and an MBA, JD, and doctorate from Harvard. I have been a Kauffman Foundation Fellow in Law, Innovation, and Growth, and I remain a member of the New York and Massachusetts Bar Associations. In my spare time, I am an avid cyclist, runner, skier, reader, and "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" listener.
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Edward W. Conard Associate Professor of Business Administration (Organizational Behavior Unit)
Harvard Business School
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Jul 2018 - Present
Greater Boston Area
Assistant Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Harvard Business School
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Jun 2013 - Jun 2018
Greater Boston Area
Director Board Of Directors
Protocol Labs
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Aug 2020 - Present
Director Board of Directors (Chairman from June 2013-August 2014)
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Jun 2013 - Present
San Francisco Bay Area
Strategic Advisor and Acting COO
moduleQ
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Sep 2012 - Jun 2013
San Francisco Bay Area
Associate and Special Assistant to the Directors
Center for Organizational Fitness
Jan 2002 - Dec 2003
Boston, MA
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