Insights

Presented at the Digital Initiative 2017 Future Assembly, in this flash talk, Professor Ben Edelman from Harvard Business School explored the issue of “spontaneous deregulation” – when a company deregulating itself by ignoring the laws that disallow its planned activity.

On November 16th, 2016 the Digital Seminar series hosted Benjamin (Ben) Shiller from Brandeis University. Ben gave a talk called “Will Ad Blocking Break the Internet?”

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.

Presented at the Digital Initiative 2017 Future Assembly, in this flash talk, Professor Chiara Farronato from Harvard Business School discusses how technology has facilitated the diffusion of online review systems and how online review systems can be an effective way to ensure consumer protection.

In this flash talk from our 2017 Future Assembly, John Deighton discusses how data is becoming a raw material akin to oil and explores which industries will be winners and losers in this digital transformation.

In this flash talk from our 2017 Future Assembly conference, Amy Yu from Viacom shares her learnings from working in the audience science team at Viacom to provide insights on how data science can transform traditional business models and help drive business decisions.

In this flash talk from our 2017 Future Assembly conference, Shane Greenstein the MBA Class of 1957, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, explores how communities work together on platforms, and “why Wikipedia is the best place on the internet.”

In this flash talk from our 2017 Future Assembly conference, David Park from the Faculty of the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University, images how cities may be organized in the future and what will be needed to get there.

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 October 7th, 2015 the Digital Seminar series hosted Ann Majchrzak from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.