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The Lab puts together various tools and resources to help uncover the latest insights and industry trends to enable a future-ready workforce across industries. Explore the research and the future of work here.

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HR Has Reached the Executive Mountaintop: How Long Will it Stay?

Work environment and culture

The long hand-wringing debate over whether HR has a seat at the executive table is over. The past two decades have seen a steady rise in HR's prominence and influence; and the profession's oversized role in responding to the pandemic helped place CHROs squarely at the right hand of America's CEOs.
Announcing the Johns Hopkins University Human Capital Development Lab

AI and human teaming

Why it matters: The Johns Hopkins University Human Capital Development Lab collaborates across disciplines to address workforce complexities, foster research on human capital challenges, and bridge the gap between researchers and practitioners in organizational success.
Who should lead organizations’ adaptation to AI?

AI and human teaming

Why it matters: Professor Rick Smith encourages chief human resources officers to take a holistic view of human capital with a focus on strategy execution, including artificial intelligence, to provide value for the future.
How Employees Turn Overseas Experience into Organizational Value

Work environment and culture
AI personality can shape how well humans and AI work together

AI and human teaming
When international experience helps leaders—and when it doesn’t

Human capital and ESG
Multicultural managers may have an edge in global competition

Human capital and ESG
When timing changes how leaders’ emotions land with project teams

Work environment and culture
Stereotypes cloud judgment: Why anti-Asian discrimination goes unrecognized at work

Employee well-being
Impact Report 2026

Inaugural report of Lab's early vision, flagship research initiatives, partnerships, knowledge products, and convenings for advancement of human capital systems
Your first project assignment: How managers may unintentionally set your career trajectory

Education and skill-building
The dignity crisis: How we treat workers during digital transformation matters as much as the technology itself

AI and human teaming