Innovation & Disruption

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.

On April 19th, 2017 the Digital Seminar series hosted Pablo Boczkowski from School of Communication at Northwestern University. Pablo gave a talk called “Social Network News.”

On April 8th, 2015 the Digital Seminar series hosted Susan Athey from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Susan gave a talk called “Aggregators, Social Media & News Consumption.”

How much sex do people really have? Does advertising work? How many Americans are racist? Is America experiencing a hidden back-alley abortion crisis? Can you game the stock market?

On April 22nd, 2015 the Digital Seminar series hosted Riitta Katila from Stanford University School of Engineering. Riitta gave a talk called “Who Takes You to the Dance – How Funding Partners Influence Innovative Activity in Young Firms.”