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DI Talk: Industry 4.0

As retail loses ground and e-commerce gains ever more headway, the ability of warehouses to manage fulfillment becomes more important than ever. Call it the arms race Jeff Bezos started. In this talk from our 2017 Digital Transformation Summit, Bruce Welty of Locus Robotics reveals the ins and outs of the warehouse of the future.

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Lynda Applegate on investing in startups

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.

Mapping the burden of diabetes

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.

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Monetization in a mobile world

During the 2015 Digital Transformation Summit, HBS Professor Sunil Gupta, Ernst & Young’s Janet Balis, and Twitter’s Glenn Otis Brown shared their thoughts on mobile commerce is effecting markets, business strategy and what people think of as money.

Gillian Hadfield on rules for a flat world

On November 2nd, 2016 the Digital Seminar series hosted Gillian Hadfield from the Gould School of Law at the University of California.

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Christoph Riedl on design myopia and vicarious learning

On April 6th, 2016 the Digital Seminar series hosted Christoph Riedl from the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University.

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Dongmyun Lee on GiGA infrastructure-based business transformation

In this flash talk from our 2017 Future Assembly conference, Dongmyun Lee from KT Corporation (formerly Korea Telecom) shares KT’s experience moving into and trying to establish a business model in the GiGA-infrastructure commodity market.

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CV Harquail on generative business practice

On November 5th, 2014 the Digital Seminar series hosted CV Harquail from FeministsAtWork. CV gave a talk called “Generative Business Practice: How Digital Technologies, a Network Orientation, and an Ethos of Generosity Combine to Transform How Businesses Work Together.”

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Linus Dahlander on fostering new and better ideas

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

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The role of early adopters in diffusion

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

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