Raffaella Sadun is the Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She serves as Co-Chair of Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work and is co-Principal Investigator of the Digital Reskilling Lab. Her research focuses on the economics of productivity, management, and organisational change, examining the economic and cultural determinants of managerial decisions and their implications for organisational performance across both private and public sectors, including healthcare and education.
Sadun has co-founded several large-scale initiatives to measure management practices and managerial behavior in organisations, including the World Management Survey, the Executive Time Use Study, and MOPS-H, the first large-scale management survey in hospitals, conducted in partnership with the US Census Bureau. Sadun also serves as Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research Working Group on Organisational Economics and Faculty Co-Chair of the Harvard Project on the Workforce.
Her work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Economic Journal, and has been featured in major media outlets such as The New York Times, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times. She is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Faculty Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and Research Associate in the Ariadne Labs Program in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Sadun earned her undergraduate degree in Economics from Università La Sapienza in Rome, Italy, an M.Sc. in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics.
