Professor Prithwiraj Choudhury
We are delighted to announce that Organisational Behaviour professor, Prithwiraj Choudhury, will be joining the LSE Department of Management in July 2025.
Professor Choudhury will be joining the department from Harvard Business School, where he is currently Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration.
His research is focused on the Future of Work, especially the changing Geography of Work, and has been published in prestigious journals such as Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Development Economics, The Review of Economics and Statistics, The Review of Financial Studies and Harvard Business Review.
Speaking about his appointment at LSE and what attracted him to the Department of Management, Professor Choudhury remarked: “There is a very vibrant intellectual community there, and I have known some colleagues in the department for a long time and I’ve had the opportunity to meet some other faculty at conferences. I respect the work of many people in the department, and I think I can make a real contribution.”
“LSE is just an amazing institution”, Professor Choudhury continued. “I’ve interacted with faculty from different departments and institutions from across the School in my prior work, and just being in the confluence of amazing people was one of the most attractive things to me.”
Professor Sarah Ashwin, Head of Department of Management, said: “We are delighted that Professor Choudhury is joining us. His research addresses the crucial contemporary topic of the future of work, particularly in the context of rapid developments in AI. I am sure he will make a major contribution to the Department of Management, and LSE more generally.”
Discussing the details of his primary research areas, Professor Choudhury explained: “I study the Future of Work, how technology is changing where and how we work. A large part of my research relates to the ‘geography of work’, where individual workers live and work. For many years I studied migration of workers as a strategy for organisations to access distant talent. But even prior to the pandemic, I was studying distributed work and work-from-anywhere as an alternate strategy for organisations to access distant talent. My other research stream relates to studying how machine learning and AI technologies are changing how we work. I studied Computer Science as an undergrad and it has been rewarding to rediscover AI as an organisational scholar.”
Since the pandemic, ‘work from anywhere’ has become the central piece of my research. So, I study the benefits of ‘work from anywhere’ for workers, organisations and smaller towns, productivity effects of this arrangements, the challenges that ‘work from anywhere’ brings and best practices to mitigate these challenges.”
Most recently, what I’m most excited about is how does AI, automation, sensors and digital twins impact the ability of all workers, including deskless and blue-collar workers to work from anywhere. In one of my ongoing projects, we are studying a personalised form of generative AI - how these personalised AI chat bots impersonate individuals and affect intraorganizational communication.”
Finally, we asked Professor Choudhury about his vision for his time at LSE. “I would love to grow as a scholar and being in a place where I respect so many people in the Department of Management, but also across the wider School will be fantastic place to do so. The micro-geography of LSE is so interesting, and I’m looking forward to sitting in seminars and making new collaborations and learning from people.”
I am also very excited, at this point in my career, to mentor younger scholars. This is going to be one of my key priorities. I’m excited to mentor junior colleagues from the organisational behaviour group and doctoral students.”
Friday 20 June 2025