The Managing the Future of Work project thanks our partners, who play a key role in supporting our research helping business leaders, policy makers, and education and workforce institutions better navigate the unique challenges ahead.

Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With approximately 425,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. For more information, please visit their website.

Grads of Life

Grads of Life is a national initiative that catalyzes market demand for Opportunity Youth by transforming employer perceptions and hiring practices. Their innovative focus on the demand side of the talent marketplace harnesses the power of the private sector to catalyze an employer-led movement to build talent pipelines that are inclusive of Opportunity Youth. For more information, please visit the Grads of Life website.

Burning Glass Technologies

Burning Glass, a Boston-based labor market analytics firm, develops technologies to build detailed awareness of what is happening in the labor market in real time. Burning Glass collects and analyzes job postings from close to 30,000 online sources and then deploys advanced proprietary text mining to “read” each job description, allowing us to analyze the specific jobs, experience, qualifications, and skills employers are seeking. Burning Glass’ tools are playing a growing role in informing the global conversation on education and the workforce by providing researchers, policy makers, educators, and employers with detailed real-time awareness into skill gaps and labor market demand. Burning Glass’s job seeker tools power several government workforce systems and have been shown to have substantive impact on reemployment outcomes and on labor market literacy. Burning Glass is working with HBS to close the middle skills gap to improve America’s workforce development and promote economic growth. For more information on Burning Glass, please visit their website.