Innovation & Disruption

Technology is rapidly transforming the entire sports industry and revolutionizing how athletes train, perform and heal. This event, co-hosted by the Harvard Innovation Lab, OneTeam Collective, and the Sports Innovation Lab, provides an overview of the quantified athlete and sports technology space, from fitness tracking and predictive performance analytics to real-time analytics and athlete career management.

What if you could create designer probiotics using the gut bacteria of elite athletes, and what if those probiotics could enable consumers to tap into the biological advantages that make those athletes so special? Sound like science fiction? Maybe not…

When you picture a screaming, sold out crowd at Madison Square Garden, esports (AKA professional gaming) might not be the first thing to come to mind. But with a current global audience of 385 million people and annual revenues of nearly $700 million, esports has become a growing and lucrative industry that’s promising enough to have even the owner of the New England Patriots investing.

On May 9th, 2018 the Digital Seminar series and the TOM Seminar jointly hosted Hal Varian from the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley and Chief Economist at Google.

Tim O’Reilly considers the implications for society of an increasingly complex digital ecosystem and highlights the potential of digital transformation to create a better world. O’Reilly envisions a future of work in which humans will increasingly collaborate with machines, software, and algorithms to get things done.

When then relative HBS newcomer Professor Bill Sahlman introduced the idea of an Entrepreneurial Finance course, he received little to no encouragement. Fast forward 30 years, and not only was Sahlman’s course hugely successful and popular among the students, but he succeeded in developing an entirely new framework to think about finance in entrepreneurial ventures that still rings true today.

In the digital landscape, the rules of strategy are changing. In this flash talk, Professor Sunil Gupta shares how to focus on the possibilities of technology – without missing the big picture.

The Internet is anything but boring; as a place it has become edgy, often rude, and infinitely fascinating. Businesses who aim to succeed in the digital economy need to understand this. Here, Professor John Deighton offers a primer on how to play — or else be played — in the Internet era.

Artificial Intelligence is increasingly being deployed in content-related operations such as translation and transcription. Capturing value will depend on four key factors.

Toutiao, the media giant and new aggregator platform, has created a strong competitive advantage by leveraging machine learning to provide customized content to its readers, but that doesn’t mean the company doesn’t still rely on top talent to get the job done.