Managing in the Digital Economy

In this keynote from our 2017 Digital Transformation Summit, Julie Larson Green (former Chief Experience Office at Microsoft) shares insights into the fascinating (and nuanced) ways that work around the world is evolving in the digital economy. Here is a snapshot of what the modern worker and the future of work looks like.

Presented at the Digital Initiative 2017 Future Assembly, in this flash talk, Keith Hopper a Visiting Entrepreneur in Residence at Olin College of Engineering, explored the way companies set and define their “strategy” and how this is changing (and maybe dying) in the “Age of Agile.”

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.

Seeding a technology while ignoring early adopters’ needs for distinctiveness is counterproductive.

In this flash talk from our 2017 Future Assembly, Professor Andrei Hagiu from MIT Sloan School of Management highlights how companies can tap in to one of the most promising and profitable aspects of business today: the platform economy.

On December 2nd, 2015 the Digital Seminar series hosted Prasanna Tambe from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

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.”

On March 11th, 2015 the Digital Seminar series hosted Ernest Wilson from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.

On March 9th, 2016 the Digital Seminar series hosted Katja Seim from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.