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How AI will impact the enterprise

How can organizations shift from theoretical (and academic) explorations of AI to practical implementations that will generate money for the business? Kathryn Hume from Fast Forward Labs explains in this flash talk.

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Karim Lakhani on mapping the world

In this talk from our 2017 Digital Transformation Summit, Karim Lakhani the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School moderated a panel on how digitization and high resolution imagery is changing the worlds of commerce and government.

Reimagining Management through People Analytics

People analytics (the reflexive use of big data within organizations to drive decision making) has the potential to transform the way we manage and lead from altering hiring practices to workload assessment and collaboration. From our 2017 Digital Transformation Summit, Professor Jeff Polzer leads a panel discussion exploring the state of this new field and what it means for managers — and employees — across the board.

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Mike Tushman on impact of crowds on incumbent firms

In this talk from our 2017 Digital Transformation Summit, Mike Tushman the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration from Harvard Business School digs into the impact of crowds on incumbent firms.

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Tom Eisenmann on the future of product management

In this talk from our 2017 Digital Transformation Summit, Tom Eisenmann the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School explored product development and management.

Beyond Chicken & Egg

In this talk from our 2017 Digital Transformation Summit, Chiara Farronato an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Andrei Hagiu a visiting Associate Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at MIT Sloan School of Management moderated the panel.

DI Talk: Industry 4.0

As retail loses ground and e-commerce gains ever more headway, the ability of warehouses to manage fulfillment becomes more important than ever. Call it the arms race Jeff Bezos started. In this talk from our 2017 Digital Transformation Summit, Bruce Welty of Locus Robotics reveals the ins and outs of the warehouse of the future.

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Lynda Applegate on investing in startups

In this talk from our 2017 Digital Transformation Summit, Lynda Applegate the Baker Foundation Professor and the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Emerita at Harvard Business School moderated a panel on VC and investing in startups.

Mapping the burden of diabetes

Approximately 1.5 to 2 billion people in the world suffer from diabetes, pre-diabetes, or a complication associated with it, and yet more than 90% of them never even get tested. To combat this challenge, Professor Tarun Khanna developed a simple diagnostic device that works with any smartphone in the world. The result is a game-changing innovation that is reshaping the state of diabetes testing, treatment, and data analysis around the globe.

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Monetization in a mobile world

During the 2015 Digital Transformation Summit, HBS Professor Sunil Gupta, Ernst & Young’s Janet Balis, and Twitter’s Glenn Otis Brown shared their thoughts on mobile commerce is effecting markets, business strategy and what people think of as money.

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