Harvard Business School

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The Crafting Your Life (LIFE) Lab, led by Professor Leslie Perlow, is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow. The mission of the LIFE lab is to use technology to create a life-long learning community that benefits the community through life-long learning and provides academics the opportunity to study both the process of such community building and the content derived from community members’ sharing their life journeys. The lab seeks to explore how HBS alums (a case study of business graduates) craft their lives – exploring questions such as how they spend their time and how that relates to what matters to them, how do life events influence what matters to them, and how do they make decisions both large and small in living out their life journeys.

The LIFE Lab stems from a new MBA course created by Professor Perlow in collaboration with students and alumni to help students better manage their careers, relationships, and lives after graduation. The LIFE Lab seeks to use data analytics as a powerful enabler for further learning about the alumni’s journeys over the course of their lives, and importantly for fostering community among alumni.

The LIFE Lab is part of The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard. D^3 launched in the summer of 2022 with 12 labs working on research at the intersection of academia and practice. For more information on D^3, please visit https://d3.harvard.edu.

Professor Perlow and the LIFE lab are seeking an experienced researcher to help make the most of this opportunity, and especially the quantitative data they are collecting. They seek a candidate to partake in the design and management of multiple quantitative data collection efforts. The successful candidate will be eager to creatively design data collection efforts, analyze, and work with the team to write up the findings. The data collection will involve existing tools that have already been developed for this special project (e.g. LIFE simulation, reflection app, relationship mapping), as well as those that are in development (e.g., LIFE Matrix which explores how alumni spend their time and the value those time allocations bring to them as well as LIFE Connect built to match student and alum and alum with each other around topics of mutual interest).

The ideal candidate has a background in organizational behavior and is naturally drawn to the areas of work-life, designing your work, careers, and happiness.

View qualifications and application details here: https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12062