Teaching
HRMGT 325
Organizational Strategy, Labor Market Policy, and the Future of Work
List of recent readings for class:
AI and the Labor Market
- Steve Lohr, “Your A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be With You Soon”, New York Times, May 14, 2023.
- Robb Mandelbaum, “The New Requirement for MBAs Seeking Consulting Jobs: AI Proficiency”, Bloomberg, November 19, 2025.
- “Why is AI so slow to spread? Economics can explain”, The Economist, July 17, 2025.
- Deena Mousa, “The Algorithm Will See You Now”, Works in Progress, September 25, 2025.
- Bharat Chandar, “AI and Labor Markets: What We Know and Don’t Know”, October 2025.
- Steve Lohr, “A.I. Is Coming for Lawyers, Again”, New York Times, April 10, 2023.
- Call centers and radiologists
- Pyramid Structures and Training junior employees
- Sarah O’Connor and John Burn-Murdoch, “The AI Shift: If AI is coming for junior lawyers’ jobs, why does their pay keep going up?”, Financial Times, December 18, 2025.
- Jonathan Ferro, Lisa Abramowicz, and Annmarie Hordern, “BNY Triples Hiring of Interns and Analysts to Tap AI Proficiency”, Bloomberg, May 28, 2026.
- Omar El Chmouri, “OpenAI Looks to Replace the Drudgery of Junior Bankers’ Workload”, Bloomberg, October 21, 2025.
- Georgia Hall, “Junior Bankers Are Teaching Their Elders How to Use AI”, Bloomberg, February 9, 2026.
- Ben Glickman, Alexander Saeedy, and Gina Heeb, “Wall Street Hiring Dilemma: AI Can Model but Can’t Make the Next Rainmaker”, Wall Street Journal, June 17, 2026.
The Aging Labor Market
Readings:
- Soobin Kim and Dasl Yoon, “Even a $14,000 Government Handout Can’t Get South Korea’s Singles to Marry”, Wall Street Journal, March 26, 2025
- Motoko Rich, “Can the Government Get People to Have More Babies?”, New York Times, October 14, 2024
- Motoko Rich and Hikari Hida, “As Asian Societies Age, ‘Retirement’ Just Means More Work”, New York Times, January 7, 2023
- Greg Ip and Janet Adamy, “Suddenly There Aren’t Enough Babies. The Whole World Is Alarmed”, Wall Street Journal, May 13, 2024
- Sabrina Tavernise and Jeff Adelson, “The Birthrate Is Plunging. Why Some Say That’s a Good Thing.”, New York Times, February 27, 2026
- John Burn-Murdoch, “Why Birth Rates are Falling Everywhere All at Once”, Financial Times, May 15, 2026
- Jeanna Smialek, “Japan’s Labor Market Has a Lesson for the Fed: Women Can Surprise You”, New York Times, January 7, 2023
- Liyan Qi and Shen Lu, “China Is Pressing Women to Have More Babies. Many Are Saying No”, Wall Street Journal, January 2, 2024
- Janet Adamy, “Why Americans Are Having Fewer Babies”, Wall Street Journal, May 26, 2023
- Paul Kiernan, “Desperate for Workers but Dead Set Against Migrant Labor: The West Virginia Dilemma”, Wall Street Journal, May 8, 2024
- Barclay Bram, “Make America Procreate Again: Among the MAGA Fertility Fanatics”, The Economist, November 6, 2025
- Dean Spears and Michael Geruso, After the Spike, 2025.