Nicholas Bloom to Deliver the 2023–2024 Raben Lecture on April 8

Nicholas Bloom, the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University, will deliver the John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Fellowship Lecture titled “The Glorious Future of Working From Home” on April 8 at 4:30 p.m. at Yale Law School. 

Bloom has spent the past 20 years studying the phenomenon of working from home. He has advised hundreds of CEOs and managers, and has been featured by international media on working from home, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, BBC, the Financial Times, and The Economist. He has been hailed as the “prophet of remote work” by Fortune Magazine and “America’s best work-from-home expert” by Business Insider and was elected to The Bloomberg 50 for his insights on working from home.

Bloom holds a B.A. from Cambridge University, a M.Phil. from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. from University College London.

The lecture is open to the Yale community. To attend, register by 12:00 p.m. ET on Monday, April 8.

A series of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law, the John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Fellowship Lecture honors the memory of John R. Raben ’39. A partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Raben was counsel to investment banking and accounting firms and associations, including the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and counsel to the industry task force that helped draft the Securities Investor Protection Corporation legislation.

Established in 1999, the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law has a wide-ranging objective to enhance the quality of students’ educational experience and of faculty research in the business law area by increasing exposure to and engagement with contemporary business law issues.