Exploring New Ways of Using Emerging Technologies to Help Humans Collaborate and Innovate

The Human Forward Initiative brings together researchers studying how intelligent machines are reshaping human capability and what it will take for humans to continue to collaborate, innovate, and flourish in that new world. Across domains such as AI adoption, organizational design, and collaborative innovation, this initiative explores how digital technologies can augment human cognition and preserve agency while enabling more effective forms of collaboration. The shared ambition is not simply to predict the future, but to shape one in which technological progress expands human capability rather than diminishes it.

With my students (many of whom go on to faculty and postdoctoral positions at leading business schools), I pursue a research programme organized around three mutually reinforcing levels of human capability: Individual, relational, and organisational. Our work unfolds in partnership with public and private organizations across sectors, among them the United Nations, West China Hospital, Novartis, Baylor Biosciences, PwC, and Geely Group.