Innovation & Disruption

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.

How can Maersk, the world’s largest shipping company, embrace IoT, blockchain, and autonomous technology, to remain competitive in the digital world?

Over the last 10 years, advanced manufacturing has blossomed in a rural pocket of Mississippi. Led by Dean Nitin Nohria and Senior Associate Dean for Research Jan Rivkin, sixteen HBS faculty traveled there together last fall for a closer look.

It can be tempting to jump on every next, big transformational idea that comes along, but taking the time to understand your industry, competition, customers, and your company’s organizational structure can provide some much needed context for smart strategic change. This article from the Harvard Professional Development Programs offers advice for how managers and workers can understand disruption in context, build autonomy and trust as a team, and rethink career strategies in the digital economy.