Innovation & Disruption

Professor Karim Lakhani, co-chair of the 2016 Open and User Innovation Conference, talks with Matt Tucker about how people outside the traditional boundaries of firms are radically changing the innovation process. Tucker: Thanks for taking the time to talk to me about Revolutionizing Innovation. It’s a new book that you’ve edited with Dietmar Harhoff that […]

Written by Mohit Mittal, HBS ’17. This post was originally published on the Digital Initiative’s classroom blogging platform. Introduced as a messaging app in 2011 by Tencent, WeChat has evolved into lifestyle platform for users in China. With ~850 million monthly active users, it now offers to its users what Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, Venmo, Grubhub, […]

musica.ly was one of the hottest apps of 2015 and 2016 — and hasn’t left the App Store Top 40 ever since. Are its 15-second videos a one-hit wonder, or are they here to stay?

Presented at the Digital Initiative 2017 Future Assembly, in this flash talk, Richard Dulude from Underscore VC, explores problems with adopting the technology of VR and possible ways to address these challenges.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On October 5th, 2016 the Digital Seminar series hosted Linus Dahlander from the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT).

Presented at the Digital Initiative 2017 Future Assembly, in this flash talk, Andy Binns of Change Logic explores how firms (like media organizations) can use ambidexterity to ideate, incubate and scale new digital business.