Harvard's Raffaella Sadun on why it's so hard to become a Frontier Firm

The business school professor shares insights on the human cost of change, making progress without a playbook, and how leaders can turn AI experiments into a competitive advantage.

---

Raffaella Sadun

19 November 2025

---

The WorkLab podcast

---

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/podcast

This work is published under POID and the CEP's Growth programme.

This publication comes under the following CEP theme: Technology adoption and diffusion