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## Segment 6 — agentic

## Article 58 — a058

# Suraj Srinivasan

## Suraj Srinivasan

**Role in the source:** Co-author of the HBR article and one of its two authorial voices ('our research,' 'our observation'). Professor at **Harvard Business School**, specializing in accounting, corporate governance, and capital markets.

**Attributed contributions to this vault:**
- Co-author of the central thesis and every high-confidence claim, including [[claim-lob-ownership]], [[claim-agent-manager-non-technical]], [[claim-obsolete-kpis]], [[claim-sdr-capacity-increase]], and [[claim-agentforce-resolution-rate]].
- Co-voice of the closing thesis quote [[quote-leadership-transformation]] ('technology alone doesn't create transformation—leadership does').
- Frames the [[concept-agent-manager]] as a durable new leadership discipline (with [[entity-vivienne-wei]]).

**Note:** Provides the research/governance lens (HBS faculty) that grounds the article's organizational-design arguments, complementing the Salesforce practitioner accounts of [[entity-zach-stauber]] and [[entity-vanessa-tabbert]].

## Segment 10 — reskilling

## Article 35 — a035

# Suraj Srinivasan

**Role in source:** Primary expert voice and lead co-author whose research the article summarizes. One of the two named speakers in the source (alongside the author, [[entity-ana-elena-azp-rua|Ana Elena Azpúrua]]).

**Profile:** Suraj Srinivasan is the **Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School**. He is co-author of the working paper [[entity-displacement-or-complementarity-paper|"Displacement or Complementarity? The Labor Market Impact of Generative AI"]] and provides the primary expert insights featured in the article.

**Attributed contributions in this vault:**
- [[quote-augmentation-creates-demand]] — generative AI creates new demand in augmentation-prone roles; human-AI collaboration as a key driver.
- [[quote-retraining-essential]] — retraining is essential where AI is reducing skill diversity.
- [[quote-augmentation-tool]] — firms should view AI as an augmentation tool, not merely cost-cutting.
- The empirical findings he voices underpin [[claim-post-chatgpt-demand-shift]], [[claim-sector-specific-reductions]], [[claim-skill-requirement-shifts]], and [[claim-long-term-uncertainty]], and the strategic actions [[action-reskill-automation-roles]], [[action-upskill-augmentation-roles]], and [[action-align-workforce-training]].

**Co-authors:** [[entity-wilbur-xinyuan-chen|Wilbur Xinyuan Chen]] (HKUST) and [[entity-saleh-zakerinia|Saleh Zakerinia]] (Ohio State).

**Canonical reference:** Harvard Business School faculty profile.